How compatible is democracy with neoliberalism and other phenomena of the modern world?
Thursday, 06. November 2014, 18:30 – 20:00 h
At the University of Zurich, Rämistrasse 71, 8006 Zurich, KOL-G-201 (Aula)
Is democracy compatible with neo-liberalism and the explosive expansion of large amounts of money that can be transferred from one part of the world to another in a nanosecond with a click on a computer? In particular, the question must also be asked whether Swiss direct democracy and the other special features of the political system are still strong enough to successfully defend the Swiss way of politics.
Jonathan Steinberg was born in New York in 1934. He studied history at Harvard University and earned his doctorate at Cambridge University, where he also worked for 33 years as Lecturer and Reader in European History. He subsequently taught as Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. His scholarly work focuses on European history since the beginning of the French Revolution, with particular attention to the history of the Axis powers Germany, Austria and Italy and the fate of the Jewish population in these countries on their way to the Holocaust. Deutsche Bank commissioned Jonathan Steinberg to investigate its gold transactions during the Second World War.