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What are the Alternatives to Financialisation?
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Deptford Town Hall Council Chambers Goldsmiths University of London New Cross Road, Lewisham London SE14 6AF United Kingdom
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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
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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