Free markets are, in mainstream economics, supposed to optimize supply and demand by the “invisible hand” of self-interested individuals, but in practice that free market is supported by policies and laws that favor corporations over workers.
Even in theory, economists studying this optimization of supply and demand often omit life satisfaction, environmental impacts, and who gets to demand.
Dr. Cynthia Wood, PhD in Economics and longtime Professor of Sustainable Development & Global Studies at Appalachian State, will be speaking to these tensions, and more, in modern economics.