Visiting Scholars Program Lecture Series: How Finance Wrecked Democracy and a Radical Plan to Rebuild It
A lecture by Michael A. McCarthy, University of California, Santa Cruz
Event Details
Date
Wednesday, October 8, 2025
Time
12:30-2 p.m.
Location
Description
Michael A. McCarthy is an Associate Professor of Sociology & the Director of Community Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His first book is Dismantling Solidarity: Capitalist Politics and American Pensions since the New Deal, was awarded the Paul Sweezy Book Award as well as an honorable mention for the Labor and Labor Movements Book Award. His most recent book is The Master’s Tools: How Finance Wrecked Democracy (And a Radical Plan to Rebuild It).
Cost
Free
Contact
Accessibility
We value inclusion and access for all participants and are pleased to provide reasonable accommodations for this event. Please call 608-772-4103 or email pagac@wisc.edu to make a disability-related accommodation request. Requests should be made by Wednesday, September 24, 2025, though reasonable effort will be made to support late accommodation requests.