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Adelaide Writers’ Week — Peddling Doom: the existential threats of capitalism

Has capitalism mutated into a system that poses real risks to human beings, whether those in vulnerable groups – the poor, the remote, those who have suffered a natural or human-made disaster – or as an entire species? Yanis Varoufakis (And the Weak Suffer What They Must?) and Antony Loewenstein (Disaster Capitalism: Making A Killing Out Of Catastrophe) ponder whether our current economic systems now represent an existential threat to our species, and if so, what can be done about it.

Antony Loewenstein is a Jerusalem-based Australian journalist who has written for The New York Times, The Guardian, the BBC, The Washington Post, The Nation, Huffington Post, Haaretz, and many others. He is the author of Disaster Capitalism: making a killing out of catastrophe; the writer/co-producer of the associated documentary, Disaster Capitalism; and the co-director of an Al-Jazeera English film on the opioid drug tramadol. His other books include My Israel Question, The Blogging Revolution, and Profits of Doom, and he is the co-editor of the books Left Turn and After Zionism, and is a contributor to For God’s Sake. His latest book is Pills, Powder, and Smoke: inside the bloody war on drugs.

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Antony Loewenstein

RRP: $35.00 Pub date: 21 Aug 2019 Category: Society & culture: general Cover view

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