Frank Partnoy

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Frank Partnoy

Frank Partnoy is professor of law at BerkeleyLaw, University of California. Before joining Berkeley Law in 2018, Frankwas the George E. Barrett Professor of Law and Finance and founding director of the Center on Corporate and Securities Law at the University of San Diego. Formerly an investment banker at Morgan Stanley and a practicing corporate lawyer, he is one of the world’s leading experts on market regulation and is a frequent commentator for the Financial Times, the New York Times, NPR, and CBS’s 60 Minutes. A consultant to corporations, banks, pension funds, and hedge funds regarding various aspects of financial markets and regulations, Frank is the author of F.I.A.S.C.O., Infectious Greed, The Match King, and WAIT: The Art and Science of Delay.

What would Marx and Engels write today, 170 years after publication of The Communist Manifesto and in a time of more pronounced inequality than ever before? According to the authors of the new Activist Manifesto, Marx and Engels would today be concerned with the phenomenon of activism and with movements that are lending a voice to the unheard.

The first edition of the Manifesto of the Communist Party was a 23-page pamphlet, first published in February 1848. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels updated it repeatedly, in various editions and languages, for decades.

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