Venue: LUX, Nijmegen
This programme is Dutch spoken.
What role did Western economic ideas play in colonial oppression? In the colonies, Europeans encountered societies that were not based on competition or profit maximization. This led to the belief that the people there were lazy and unwilling to work.
Can we take off our capitalist lenses today, or are we more entangled in them than ever before?
Come and listen to historian Remco Ensel and economist André van Hoorn and explore how colonialism and capitalism are intertwined, and what we can learn from non-Western economic values.
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