What are the Alternatives to Financialisation?

Join us to find new economic discoveries of alternatives to financialisation.

Bring your energy and ideas!

10am Welcome and Registration

10:30am-11:30am MORNING PLENARY

Ann Pettifor (Director of Policy Research in Macroeconomics, Author, Just Money: How Society Can Break the Despotic Power of Finance): Rethinking Recovery


Andrew Gamble (Sheffield Political Economy Institute [SPERI]; Author, Crisis Without End?: The Unraveling of Western Prosperity): Why Recovery is so Elusive?

11:30am Break Away Sessions

1pm LUNCH



2-3:30pm AFTERNOON PLENARY


Steve Keen (Professor and Head of the School of Economics, History and Politics at Kingston University): Why recovery is doomed to fail

Mat Lawrence (Research Fellow, Institute for Public Policy Research): Foreclosure: the case for democratic reformation of finance to restore politics of alternatives

Mick Moran (Professor of Government, Manchester Business School): Rethinking the British economy: the foundational economy and beyond



3:30-4:30pm Break Away Sessions

4:30-5pm Screening: Money Puzzle

5pm Closing Session

DAY 2 - FRIDAY, MARCH 20

** VENUE CHANGE **
ST. JAMES HATCHAM CHURCH, GOLDSMITHS CAMPUS

AGENDA

10am Welcome and Introduction

10:30am-12noon MORNING PLENARY


Ruth Pearson (Emeritus Professor of Development Studies, University of Leeds): Plan-F: a feminist strategy to counter austerity and build a sustainable economy


Englebert Stockhammer (Professor of Economics, Politics and History, Kingston University; Co-Author, Wage-led growth: an equitable strategy for economic recovery): Addicted to debt: Comments on the British growth model


James Meadway (Senior Economist, New Economics Foundation): Austerity, bailouts, neoliberalism: the state-bank nexus in action?

12-1pm Break Away Sessions

1pm LUNCH

2-3:30pm AFTERNOON PLENARY



Andrew McGettigan (Author, The Great University Gamble): The Treasury View of English Higher Education: student loans and fiscal control


Brett Scott(Author, Heretics Guide to Global Finance): Investment is political!

3:30-4:30pm Break Away Sessions


4:30-6pm Closing Session – Forging Economic Discovery in the 21st Century

This event is part of a series of events to launch the Political Economy Research Centre at Goldsmiths University of London. Please visit our webpage at http://www.gold.ac.uk/perc/ for a list of other related events.

ESRC Grant Reference: ES/M003051/1