How Private Equity Erodes Our Societies With Hettie O'Brien
Date: Tuesday, 3 November
Time: 20:00 (drinks from 19:00)
Location: WORM, Boomgaardsstraat 71
Admission: €12,50 (regular), €7,- (reduced)
Language: English
In recent decades, private equity firms like Blackstone, KKR, and the Carlyle Group have quietly become some of the most powerful companies in the world. They own our hospitals, our nurseries, our schools, our farmland, our wind farms. Their reach stretches from formerly public utilities to the houses we rent and the food we eat. In doing so, they have reshaped capitalism in their own image – all by using debt as a weapon to produce vast returns for the companies that own and control them.
On Tuesday, November 3, we welcome acclaimed Guardian journalist Hettie O’Brien, author of *T[he Asset Class: How Private Equity Turned Capitalism Against Itself](https://www.hettie-obrien.com/)*. In the book, she takes readers on a thrilling, eye-opening investigation into this secretive wing of the finance industry, revealing how it is reshaping our everyday lives and how power and wealth now operate. She follows the money across continents and examines how a hidden group of dealmakers created a weapon of economic mass destruction that might yet blow up our financial system.
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