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The UCL Centre for Capitalism Studies integrates research and teaching that examine core facets of the global capitalist economy from diverse economic, historical, sociological, geographical, and anthropological perspectives. We offer a unique space fostering critical intellectual conversations around the possibilities for reform, resistance, and alternatives to capitalism. Some of the questions we seek to answer are:
- How can we understand and reconcile different histories of capitalism?
- How central is the Transatlantic Slave Trade to the development of capitalism?
- How can we understand the expansion of capitalism relative to a myriad of knowledge and belief systems around the globe?
- How is wealth created and distributed in capitalism and how is the relationship between capital and labour understood?
- How can we understand value and create more inclusive forms of value within capitalism?
- How can we rethink the developed and underdeveloped categories within capitalism?
- How does finance alter relations within capitalism?
- How can quality of life be achieved and how do we understand the place of care within capitalism?
- How are hierarchies of race and gender implicated in the production and reproduction of capitalism?
- How do the futures imagined by finance condition liberatory political projects?
- How can we create more just and sustainable forms of capitalism?
- How does capitalism enable and disable modes of communication and collective sense making and deliberation?
