Dreamtalk: Inclusive Capitalism

Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild is committed to transforming how society sees business. The key, she says, is to take a more inclusive approach to capitalism. As chairman of the Coalition for Inclusive Capitalism, she is campaigning to bring about a change in the nature of business so that it creates broad-based prosperity.The coalition, founded in 2014, was launched in response to the issues raised in the 2008 financial crisis. Its mission is to make capitalism more equitable, sustainable and inclusive through business and investment practices that extend the opportunities and benefits of our economic system to everyone. Lady Lynn believes, like many others, that the financial crisis revealed capitalism's flaws. Not only that, but "its failings," as she wrote for Time magazine in December last year, "are at the root of the social and political dysfunction gripping the world." Wealth has been monopolized by the few, leading to inequality, stagnant wages, and a shrinking middle class. In this Dreamtalk, hear how Inclusive Capitalism will lift up many from poverty and prevent political unrest.