Saskia Sassen - Stadsleven - Foreign investors in the city: risk or chance?

Tracy Metz interviews Saskia Sassen for her talkshow Stadsleven on the influence on foreign investors in the city. Are they a risk for cities or a chance? Saskia Sassen is Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and co-chair of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University. Her book Expulsions lays bare the extent to which the sheer complexity of the global economy makes it hard to trace lines of responsibility for the displacements, evictions, and eradications it produces—and equally hard for those who benefit from the system to feel responsible for its depredations'.