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Event Lectures and Symposia Conversation: The Future of Western Capitalism and the Rise of Asia

Date and Location

  • When: Saturday, August 31, 2019

    12:30 pm - 1:15 pm EDT

  • Where: Walter E. Washington Convention Center - Ballroom A (Level 3, South Building)

    801 Allen Y. Lew Place NW, Washington, DC 20001

  • Stage: Understanding Our World

Part of National Book Festival ; 2019 National Book Festival

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Parag Khanna discusses "The Future Is Asian" (Simon & Schuster) and Steven Pearlstein discusses "Can American Capitalism Survive?: Why Greed Is Not Good, Opportunity Is Not Equal and Fairness Won’t Make Us Poor" (St. Martin’s) in a panel conversation moderated by David M. Rubenstein.

The Understanding Our World Stage is sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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