Luigi Zingales: Capitalism for the People

Twenty years later, we are back to "It's the economy, stupid" this election year. From the personal to the political—America's struggling middle class to the Occupy movement and the Tea Party—capitalism in the United States is perceived as a fraught and frustrated system. Luigi Zingales's new book A Capitalism for the People: Recapturing the Lost Genius of American Prosperity is a blueprint for recovery. In a conversation with Crain's Chicago Business managing editor Stephen Reiss, Zingales, an Italian-born economist and professor at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business, uses his firsthand knowledge of Italy's crony-capitalist system and his years researching entrepreneurship and finance to outline pragmatic solutions to restore the American version of capitalism.

Luigi Zingales is the Robert C. McCormack Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance and the David G. Booth Faculty Fellow at the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business. He is the author, most recently, of A Capitalism for the People.

This program is presented as part of the annual Karla Scherer Endowed Lecture Series for the University of Chicago.