Life in the Global Casino

Money, Ecosystems & Emotional Needs

A guided conversation with Ann Pettifor & Steve Peck

What kind of society is created when money moves faster than thought, finance outweighs the real economy, and the systems shaping everyday life begin to resemble a game of chance?

In this special evening at socialbar, leading political economist and author Ann Pettifor opens up questions at the heart of modern life: how financial systems shape the conditions in which we live, how ecological realities are pushed to the edge by economic abstraction, and what all of this means for people trying to build secure, meaningful lives.

Ann and Steve offer distinct lenses through which to view economics and money: not simply as technical or political matters, but as forces that profoundly affect human wellbeing, security and the deeper conditions of life. From there, the evening opens into a live conversation and audience questions.

Rather than treating economics as something remote or specialist, this event brings it back to lived experience. It asks how large systems are felt intimately: in our sense of safety, in our relationships, in our communities, in the health of the ecosystems around us, and in the emotional ground from which social life becomes possible.

For those drawn to ideas, systems, politics, ecology, psychology and the question of how we ought to live, this promises to be a rich and searching evening.

Thursday 9 April
7–9.30 pm

Free entry
Advance booking required — please email to reserve your place: hello@visitsocialbar.com