Seth Levine & Elizabeth MacBride — Capital Evolution: The New American Economy
A Boulder VC and a finance journalist argue for a new model of capitalism that balances profit with purpose and empowers the middle class.
Why we picked this
A VC who manages $4 billion and a journalist who covers inequality team up to ask whether capitalism can evolve before it breaks.
Seth Levine is a Boulder-based venture capitalist with $4 billion under management. Elizabeth MacBride is a journalist who covers finance, technology, and women’s economic empowerment. Together they’ve written a book arguing that American capitalism needs a fundamental upgrade — what they call “Dynamic Capitalism” — that balances profit with purpose, addresses inequality and climate change, and rebuilds the middle class.
At Tattered Cover Colfax, they’ll make the case that the current system isn’t just unfair but unstable, and that the fix doesn’t require abandoning markets — it requires redesigning them. Whether you’re a free-market true believer or a skeptic, this is the kind of economic argument worth engaging with in person.