Socio-Economics

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Session Type: Section Pedagogy Programs

Session Capacity: N/A

Hotel: Marriott Marquis Washington, DC

Room: Marquis Salon 2

Floor: Level M2

This panel will ask what the study of history offers for understanding socioeconomics and the present conflicts remaking capitalist societies. It will consider the tension between saving and investment, the history of slavery, and the distribution of capital ownership and decision-making power in determining the structure of capitalist societies.