The Impending Climate Catastrophe and the Historical Possibilities of the 21st Century

The University of Manitoba Global Political Economy Program Presents

“The Impending Climate Catastrophe and the Historical Possibilities of the 21st Century”

A Free Public Lecture by Dr. Minqi Li, Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Utah, Research Fellow at the Political Economy Research Institute, and author of “The Rise of China and the Demise of the Capitalist World System” (Monthly Review Press).

Arrested in China in 1990 for his political activism and public advocacy of democracy in the late 1980s, Dr. Li has since emerged as one of the world’s foremost experts on the world economy and on the ecological limits of capitalism

The Lecture is made possible with the generous contributions of the University of Manitoba’s Department of Anthropology, Department of Political Studies, Department of Economics, Department of History, Department of Sociology, the Labour Studies Program, and the Faculty of Arts.

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