‘You Need This’ + Conversation w. Grace Blakely & Rune Lykkeberg

British author and political commentator Grace Blakeley, one of the most prominent voices of modern economic thought, will meet Rune Lykkeberg, editor-in-chief of Dagbladet Information. Together they will talk about the financial elite’s domination of the world economy and her new book ‘Vulture Capitalism’ about multinational corporations’ exploitation of crises to concentrate power and wealth.

The conversation will be preceded by a screening of ‘You Need This’, a satirical, incisive saga about the individual and societal effects of the modern world’s all-consuming consumerism and hyper-capitalism.

Grace Blakeley is a British writer, activist and political commentator who graduated from Oxford University, where she specializes in capitalism, inequality and fiscal policy. She writes for Tribune and The New Statesman and has published several books on global economics, most recently ‘Vulture Capitalism’ (2024), in which she criticizes the financial elite’s domination of the world economy and their exploitation of crises in society to acquire more power and wealth.