50: What Slavoj Žižek Would Say About Poker and the Peso
Odd Lots14 Okt 2016

50: What Slavoj Žižek Would Say About Poker and the Peso

What does psychoanalytic philosophy tell us about capitalism? In this edition of Odd Lots, we speak to Ole Bjerg, a professor at the Copenhagen Business School. Bjerg studies the work of Slavoj Žižek, a Slovenian philosopher, and also writes about matters of finance, markets and money. In this episode, Bjerg discusses the game of poker and what it says about capitalism as a whole.

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