The Windham World Affairs Council of Vermont will present international businessman, scholar, and author, Raymond Baker, who will discuss his newest book Capitalism's Achilles Heel: Dirty Money on how to renew the free-market system, Wednesday, February 15, at 7:30 p.m. in the Brooks Memorial Library meeting room in Brattleboro.
Throughout his career, Raymond Baker—a tough-as-nails businessman turned scholar—has been thoroughly committed to capitalism.
With this talk, Baker provides a fascinating look at the way criminals, terrorists, and businesspeople move dirty money around the world, impoverishing billions and corrupting capitalism’s ideals of fair play. He links banking, commerce, law, economics, and philosophy with passionate advocacy of steps that must be taken to renew capitalism’s mandate for the spread of global prosperity.
Raymond Baker, after a long career in international business, is a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution and a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy, both in Washington DC. He appears often on television and radio in the US and overseas and testifies before House and Senate committees. Baker has an MBA from Harvard, lived in Africa for many years, and has done business across much of the developing world.
The lecture is free and open to the public. A book signing will follow the presentation.The event is partially underwritten by the World Affairs Council of America.
For more see, www.capitalismsachillesheel.com
Chuck Bingaman