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Re-Inventing Our Economy For People and the Planet
September 11, 2014 @ 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
A conference about alternative sustainable economic policy.
How do we steer our economy so it ensures wellbeing for all and care for the environment on which we depend? A powerful partnership of civic organisations in Scotland has assembled a panel of top economic thinkers to help us understand the big questions and to give their answers.
Join us at this conference to see how we can steer our economy in a bold new direction.
Speakers include:
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Professor Malcolm Sawyer (Leeds University)
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Ann Pettifor (ex Jubilee 2000)
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Richard Murphy (Tax Justice Network)
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Professor Richard Werner (Southampton University)
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Professor David Bell (Stirling University)
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Professor Molly Scott-Cato MEP (Roehampton University)
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Professor Andrew Cumbers (Glasgow University)
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Tim Jenkins (New Economics Foundation)
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Professor Robert McMaster (Glasgow University)
Workshops include:
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Controlling money and the banks
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Latin America’s Economic Alternatives
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Democratising pension investments
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Beyond carbon pricing
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Circular Economy
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Runaway Consumption