Hybrid | Author Talk

The Privateers: How Business Privatizes Profit and Socializes Cost

In his latest book, The Privateers: How Business Privatizes Profit and Socializes Cost, Chris Marquis examines how businesses capture financial rewards while shifting many of their environmental and social costs onto workers, communities, governments, and the planet.

His Substack column, What Caught My Eye This Week, widens the lens, offering timely readings and reflections on regenerative finance, farming, and the forces reshaping sustainability.

CBEY Resident Fellow and Patagonia Director of Philosophy Vincent Stanley will join Marquis for a wide-ranging conversation about the developments attracting his attention today. Together, they will explore:

  • the leading trends reshaping sustainability, business, finance, and agriculture
  • which widely discussed trends are most consequential—and which less-visible developments may be most promising
  • where regenerative ideas and practices are gaining meaningful traction
  • what emerging approaches in China may reveal about the relationship among business, government, and regenerative development
  • how leaders can distinguish genuine progress from ideas that are merely attracting attention

Please join us for a thoughtful look at the forces shaping sustainability today—and the possibilities that could define what comes next.

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Speakers

Vincent Stanley
Director of Philosophy at Patagonia
Resident Fellow at Yale Center for Business and the Environment
Business Leaders, CBEY Resident Fellows
Vincent Stanley