{"id":5123,"date":"2014-03-04T11:02:38","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T16:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/?p=5123"},"modified":"2017-06-12T12:31:36","modified_gmt":"2017-06-12T16:31:36","slug":"profiting-without-producing-how-finance-exploits-us-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/2014\/03\/04\/profiting-without-producing-how-finance-exploits-us-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Event Highlights: Profiting Without Producing &#8211; A Lecture by Costas Lapavitsas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On February 25, 2014, the Center for the Study of Europe, in collaboration with the Center for the Study of Asia and BU&#8217;s Undergraduate Economics Association, hosted Costas Lapavitsas, Professor of Economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and a frequent commentator on recent economic crises. Lapavitsas&#8217; lecture &#8211; moderated by Cornel Ban, Professor of International Relations at Boston University and a specialist in the political economy of crises and transitions &#8211; coincided with the release by Verso Books of <em>Profiting Without Producing<\/em>, an explanation of the historical and structural roots of the current crisis, and in particular, the role of financialized capitalism.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/11054951@N04\/albums\/72157644981783324\" title=\"02.25.14\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/3\/2936\/14144257769_e272f45748_z.jpg\" width=\"710\" height=\"471\" alt=\"02.25.14\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Watch the video on BUniverse:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"550\" height=\"310\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/buniverse\/interface\/embed\/embed.html?v=7r3Em1Q4\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 25, 2014, the Center for the Study of Europe, in collaboration with the Center for the Study of Asia and BU&#8217;s Undergraduate Economics Association, hosted Costas Lapavitsas, Professor of Economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and a frequent commentator on recent economic crises. Lapavitsas&#8217; lecture &#8211; moderated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5329,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[244,213,121],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5123"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5329"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5123"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8625,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5123\/revisions\/8625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}