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Economic with Justice Lecture Saturday 18th October 2014 John De Val, School of Philosophy and Economic Science, London A few days after I accepted the invitation to give this talk, I looked at the poster advertising the event and I was struck by the realisation that the title was absurdly ambitious
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For thousands of years we had an economics that studied what was produced, by whom, and for whom, without the rationality postulate. It was also an economics that was grounded in ethics and moral considerations. We need once again an economics that is not limited in conception and burdened with such
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In March 2014, the Bank of England published two articles in its Quarterly Bulletin that were closely modelled on the contents of the book ‘Where does money come from?’. In it, the central bank clearly acknowledged that individual banks create money out of nothing. This fact had been swept under the
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The annual economics lecture is an opportunity to review what has taken place in the economics faculty of the School over the last year and to reflect on what has been learnt. One of the highlights of the last year was the receipt by the School of an Award from the Globalisation for the Common Good
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“The current global crises are not only economic but also spiritual and moral. Therefore, we should not consider tackling the socio-economic and ecological crises without firstly taking into account the moral and spiritual shortcomings that are afflicting the world today.
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The question Molly sought to address was how to plan for the provisioning of resources in a world of changing climate and declining fossil fuel resources. Her suggestion is to replace the globalised economy with more localised economy. She has borrowed the concept of bio-region from the disciplines
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The recent controversy about companies such as Starbucks, Amazon and Google avoiding UK taxes have made tax havens a high profile subject. Public opinion generally considers their use to avoid taxes as unethical. This note looks at whether such use gives rise to a situation which is unjust. But, fir
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Starting with the nature of money, its facility as a medium of exchange will be emphasised and some important consequences noted. Moving on to money creation, this much misunderstood matter has resulted in very large, perhaps excessive quantities of money, and yet most of us are still short of the s
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School of Economic Science Annual Economics Lecture, 2013 Dr Peter Bowman, Head of Economics, School of Economics Science Introduction This evening I would like to turn our attention to the fundamental issue which has become the basis of everything we do in the Faculty and that is to consider the ro
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The West faces an existentialist crisis which cannot be resolved within the current paradigm of politics and laws. This thesis, advanced by Fred Harrison, traces the pathologies of the 21st century to a culture of cheating that is too deeply embedded to be eliminated by the ruling elites. A Great A
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Economics with Justice Lecture, 24th November, 2012 Ross Ashcroft Ross Ashcroft’s award-winning film ‘Four Horsemen’ reveals the fundamental flaws in the economic system which have brought our civilization to the brink of disaster. 23 leading thinkers – frustrated at the failure of their respective
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Economics with Justice Lecture, 6th October, 2012 Barbara Wood “Economics is not an exact science; it is in fact, or ought to be, a branch of wisdom”. So wrote economic thinker and visionary E. F. Schumacher forty years ago in his remarkable book Small Is Beautiful – A Study of Economics as if Peopl
