Ken Costa & Yuan Yang: Capital Ideas

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We continue our Future Tense series exploring two very different perspectives on how the future might play out. In The 100 Trillion Dollar Wealth Transfer, banker and philanthropist Ken Costa imagines how generational transfer of economic control might create a more transformative, inclusive form of capitalism. He speaks with Yuan Yang, the Financial Times’ Europe-China correspondent who co-founded Rethink Economics: a campaign to call for a relevant curriculum. Chaired by Alisha Miranda.

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