Fireside Chat with Anand Giridharadas as Part of Who Owns the World? PCC Conference at The New School 2019

Summary

Fireside Chat with Anand Giridharadas interviewed by Wilma Liebman (Followed by Q&A) at Who Owns the World Conference, convened by the Platform Cooperativism Consortium at The New School in November 2019.

This highlight event of Day 2, will feature award-winning author Anand Giridharadas in conversation with Wilma Liebman, former chair of the National Labor Relations Board under the Obama Administration and current co-chair of the Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy.

Anand Giridharadas’ Winners Take All shines a spotlight on the moral contradictions that capitalism’s wealthy philanthropists present —  between their stated aims to do good and the realities of the social and economic harms that their wealth accumulation may create or worsen.  Nonetheless, he seems optimistic that there are solutions to our social ills, possibilities for positive cultural change. Creating a cooperative digital economy is one hopeful response to the problems he describes, as we will explore with him.

Anand Giridharadas is the author of Winners Take All, The True American, and India Calling. He is an editor-at-large for TIME and was a foreign correspondent and columnist for The New York Times from 2005 to 2016. He has also written for The Atlantic, The New Republic, and The New Yorker. He is an on-air political analyst for MSNBC, a visiting scholar at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University, and a former McKinsey analyst. He has spoken on the main stage of TED. Anand’s writing has been honored by the Society of Publishers in Asia, the Poynter Fellowship at Yale, the 800-CEO-READ Business Book of the Year award, Harvard University’s Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award for Humanism in Culture, and the New York Public Library’s Helen Bernstein Award. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.