Who: Raymond Baker, Guest Scholar, Brookings Institution; Senior Fellow, Center for International Policy
What: Meet the Author Program. “Capitalism’s Achilles Heel: Dirty Money and How to Renew the Free-Market System”
Event: For over forty years in more than sixty countries, Raymond Baker has witnessed the free-market system operating illicitly and corruptly, with devastating consequences for scores of fragile nations. Now this businessman turned scholar offers both analysis of the problems besetting the global free-market, and an insider’s look at the way criminals, terrorists, and businesspeople move dirty money around the world.
When: Tues., Oct. 11; check-in: 5:30 PM, program: 6:00 PM
Where: World Affairs Council, 312 Sutter St., 2nd Floor Conference Room, San Francisco
Admission Costs: Members: FREE; Students w/ ID: $5; Non-members: $15; Co-sponsors: $7
Info: (415) 293-4600, http://www.itsyourworld.org