'Entrepreneurship versus Democracy: American Business Culture and the Road to Trump'
Join Erik Baker, lecturer at Harvard University, as he argues how efforts to promote entrepreneurship may have laid the groundwork for our current crisis of democracy.
When and where
Date and time
Thursday, Oct 10, 2024
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Address
Davis Auditorium, Palamountain Hall,
815 North Broadway
Saratoga Springs,
NY
12866
Cost
FREE ADMISSION
About this event
American business culture prizes little else as highly as entrepreneurship, which often serves as a synonym for prosperity, innovation, and even freedom itself. But our celebration of entrepreneurship has a dark side. As Erik Baker, lecturer in the History of Science Program at Harvard University, will argue, efforts to promote entrepreneurship have often encouraged deference to charismatic leadership and suspicion of collective action, laying the groundwork for our current crisis of democracy. Presented in conjunction with Skidmore College's Election 2024 programming.
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