Blogs and reflections

Review

The Science of Economics: the economic teachings of Leon MacLaren

A New book by Raymond Makewell, Sydney, Australia

Film

One World One Wealth: Economics, Justice and the rights of nature

INTERACTIVE DIALOGUE OF THE 67TH SESSION OF THE UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY ON HARMONY WITH NATURE TO COMMEMORATE INTERNATIONAL MOTHER EARTH DAY UNHQ, New York, 22 April 2013, Conference Room 3 (NLB) 10 am to 1 pm Ian Mason, Principal of the School of Economic Science, was invited to speak at th

Lectures

Money Matters

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

Lectures

Justice in Economics

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

Lectures

The Traumatised Society

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

Essay

Location Theory and the European Union

Article based on a paper originally presented at the Joint Conference of School of Economics Science and Globalisation for the Common Good Initiative at Waterperry House, Oxfordshire September 2012 Peter Holland, London, UK 1.  Introduction Current economic analysis and theory pays little attention

Lectures

No More ‘Business as Usual’

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

Lectures

Small is Beautiful – the ideas of E F Schumacher

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

Lectures

The Path to a just free market economy

A presentation delivered to the joint SES GCGI Conference, September 2012 Dr. Peter Bowman, School of Economics Science We are now almost four years on from the financial crisis of 2008. We are still a long way from the enactment of any fundamental reform. In the ensuing period there has been the sl

Conference

Sharing the Wisdom, Shaping the Dream: Reclaiming the Moral and Spiritual Roots of Economics and Capitalism

Joint Conference of the School and Globalisation for the Common Good Initiative at Waterperry House, Oxfordshire, September 2012

No More ‘Business as Usual’

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

Small is Beautiful – the ideas of E F Schumacher

Economics with Justice Lecture, 6th October, 2012