# Event Details - **Event Name**: Capitalism Reading Group: Escape from Capitalism - **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 02 Jun, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Tue, 02 Jun, 2026 at 09:00 pm (-04:00) - **Event Description**: Capitalism reading group is a book club that wants to understand the system we all live in, led by Austin of Boxing Day Cafe & Dena VerhofAbout this EventCapitalism reading group is a book club that wants to understand the system we all live in. To think about how that system controls our desires, motivations and the world around us. Led by Austin Furnas of Boxing Day Cafe and community member Dena Verhoff in association with Picture Book and HudCo in Dobbs Ferry, New York.ABOUT THE BOOKBy Clara E. Mattei Simon & Schuster, 2020For fans of Bernie Sanders and Thomas Piketty, an urgent intervention against capitalism revealing how economic models serve the extremely wealthy and powerful at the expense of ordinary people—and how we can reclaim our power to make choices about our economic lives.Capitalism isn’t inevitable, scientific, or natural—it's a relatively young system that can be replaced. In this radical rethinking of economics, Clara Mattei argues that enduring problems such as poverty, unemployment, and inflation are not bugs in the economy but core features. They are justified with pseudoscientific models, fabrications built to support a capitalist economy that unfairly rewards people with the most resources.The tools of economic experts—budget cuts, interest rate hikes, and regressive taxes—are sold as apolitical but disguise a bleak reality: they maintain our capitalist system, reinforcing inequality. Central bankers raise interest rates knowing this will cause a recession and pain to working families. Governments slash tax collection jobs in the name of balanced budgets, which actually shields the wealthy from tax enforcement and creates budget shortfalls used to justify cuts in social services. Textbooks teach that unemployment must rise to fix inflation. But this model creates conditions that force people to accept crummy jobs and low pay.In the wake of World War I, when the world’s economy was in turmoil, economics was elevated to a scientific discipline, legitimized through mathematical formulas and new economic institutions considered too sophisticated for the average person to understand. Today’s economic institutions, from the Fed to the IMF, wield immense power over monetary policy yet are shielded from democratic scrutiny. Why should we accept a system that delegates crucial decisions that impact our lives to institutions in which we have no say?All the major problems today—from a healthcare system that prioritizes profits over well-being to the rise of ultranationalism—are rooted in an economic system that fails to serve the common good. In this revelatory manifesto, Mattei sets out a revolutionary vision that may one day allow us to achieve true economic freedom and finally escape from capitalism.ABOUT THE AUTHORClara E. Mattei is a professor of economics at The University of Tulsa. She is the Founding President of FREE—the Forum for Real Economic Emancipation—and the author of The Capital Order (University of Chicago Press), which was praised by The Financial Times as one of the ten best economics books of 2022 and has been translated into over a dozen languages.ABOUT PICTURE BOOKPicture Book is a local independent bookstore founded in 2020 inside the co-working and event space HudCo in Dobbs Ferry, New York.Copies of are available at Picture Book https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events10/banners/9ba7b960-46c8-11f1-9322-8f9002be75f2-rimg-w480-h740-dc6ada2e-gmir.jpg - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/dobbs-ferry/capitalism-reading-group-escape-from-capitalism/100001988194880408 - **Event Categories**: Art, Sports, literary-art, Business, Nonprofit - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Dobbs Ferry - **state**: NY - **country**: United States - **location**: HudCo - **lat**: 41.0167909 - **long**: -73.87801689999998 - **full address**: HudCo, 145 Palisade Street, Dobbs Ferry, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Capitalism Reading Group: Escape from Capitalism - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events6/banners/c0b3cfc188d5d45af60d94340f48f49b37f5299e2dc760176e4693d61f2d37f8-rimg-w1200-h600-dc797b74-gmir.jpg?v=1777796289 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Capitalism Reading Group: Escape from Capitalism being held? - **A:** Capitalism Reading Group: Escape from Capitalism takes place on Tue, 02 Jun, 2026 at 07:00 pm to Tue, 02 Jun, 2026 at 09:00 pm at HudCo, 145 Palisade Street, Dobbs Ferry, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing Capitalism Reading Group: Escape from Capitalism? - **A:** Capitalism Reading Group: Escape from Capitalism is organized by HudCo. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "Capitalism Reading Group: Escape from Capitalism", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events6/banners/c0b3cfc188d5d45af60d94340f48f49b37f5299e2dc760176e4693d61f2d37f8-rimg-w1200-h600-dc797b74-gmir.jpg?v=1777796289", "startDate": "2026-06-02T19:00:00-04:00", "endDate": "2026-06-02T21:00:00-04:00", "url": "https://allevents.in/dobbs-ferry/capitalism-reading-group-escape-from-capitalism/100001988194880408", "eventStatus": "https://schema.org/EventScheduled", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "HudCo", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "145 Palisade Street", "postalCode": "10522", "addressLocality": "Dobbs Ferry", "addressRegion": "NY", "addressCountry": "US" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "41.0167909", "longitude": "-73.87801689999998" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "Capitalism reading group is a book club that wants to understand the system we all live in, led by Austin of Boxing Day Cafe & Dena Verhof", "offers": [ { "@type": "AggregateOffer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-05-03", "availabilityEnds": "2026-06-02T21:00:00-04:00", "validFrom": "2026-05-03", "lowPrice": "0.00", "highPrice": "0.00", "price": "0.00", "url": "https://allevents.in/dobbs-ferry/capitalism-reading-group-escape-from-capitalism/100001988194880408" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-05-03", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-05-03", "url": "https://allevents.in/dobbs-ferry/capitalism-reading-group-escape-from-capitalism/100001988194880408", "price": 0, "name": "General Admission" } ], "organizer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "HudCo", "url": "https://allevents.in/org/hudco/22521532", "description": "HudCo offers thoughtfully designed work spaces, inspiring events, and a supportive community. 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