The Next Generation — Economics and Culture of GenZ — An Evening of Discussion in Manhattan

Is GenZ the generation that lost the future, or the one nobody’s bothered to understand? Kyla Scanlon claims that for GenZ predictable progress has ended. Derek Thompson found that GenZ even has a personality profile different from previous generations. Morgan Housel is more hopeful about this much maligned and little understood young generation. 

During our next mini festival, co-hosted by Interintellect and the Foundation for Economic Education, we are bringing together some of our favorite thinkers to get past the headlines. How is GenZ rethinking work, faith, and what it means to get ahead? And are the old rules still working for them at all?

Joining us for this evening in Manhattan are AI engineer and economist Rohit Krishnan, economist and author Allison Schrager, playwright and novelist Matthew Gasda, progress author Abi Olvera, economist Jorge Jraissati, and political columnist Shadi Hamid.

Come with one opinion. Maybe leave with a new one. Every hour, we’ll ask the same question: What are GenZ’s biggest problems? Then we’ll see how the answers shift as the evening unfolds, and talk it through together in a salon after the panels.

Whether you’re GenZ, raising them, hiring them, or just trying to figure them out, you’ll leave with a sharper picture of the generation shaping what comes next.