Globalisation in Crisis?: The Urban and Regional Challenges of the Great Instability Conference
2017-07-13 - 2017-07-14 | McGrath Centre, St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, United Kingdom
The Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society (CJRES) will be running its fourth conference, ‘Globalisation in Crisis? The Urban and Regional Challenges of the Great Instability’ on 13-14 July 2017. The crisis of neoliberal globalisation, in all its manifestations, not only poses a challenge to our existing knowledge and approaches, it also provides an opportunity to take stock and think how we might contribute to the search for a new model of economic growth that is more spatially balanced, sustainable and inclusive. These topics and other related ones will be covered in the conference programme.
This conference will be celebrating 10 years of the Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society.
This conference is also running in conjunction with an ESRC research project, ‘City Evolutions’. For more details regarding the project see: www.cityevolutions.org.uk.
CALL FOR PAPERS
There is a call for papers associated with a special issue on the topic ‘Globalisation in Crisis: The Urban and Regional Challenges of the Great Instability’, in the Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society. Authors interested in contributing to this special issue are invited to submit an abstract of up to 500 words to:
Email Francis Knights: landecon-cjres@lists.cam.ac.uk
Deadline: 1 April 2017 (please note abstracts submitted after this date will not be considered)

Association for Social Economics (ASE) 2017 Summer Workshop
2017-09-15
The forthcoming Association for Social Economics (ASE) 2017 Summer Workshop is titled “Financialisation: what is it and why it matters for social economists”..
All welcome.
Please register your interest in attending the workshop at: https://business.leeds.ac.uk/about-us/article/association-for-social-economics-2017-summer-workshop/
Association for Social Economics (ASE) 2017 Summer Workshop

When: Friday 15 September 2017, 8.30 am – 6.00 pm
Location: Leeds University Business School, TR.03 Meadow Teaching Rooms

Join the Association for Social Economics for their 2017 Summer Workshop at Leeds University Business School.
For more information, please contact Giuseppe Fontana (G.Fontana@lubs.leeds.ac.uk).
The Association for Social Economics was founded in 1941 seeking to promote high quality research in the broadly defined area of social economics. Social economics is the study of the ethical and social causes and consequences of economic behaviour, institutions, theory and policy.

Climate Change and International Development: what needs to be done? by Sam Bickersteth
2017-09-19 08:00 - 17:00 UTC
6 December 2017: Climate Change and International Development: what needs to be done?

December 2015 marked a high point of multilateralism when 190 countries came together in Paris and agreed to take action on climate change. More than ever action on climate change needs to be taken as extreme climate events become the norm and tipping points ever nearer but in 2017 increased political uncertainty has made progress on the Paris Agreement harder to implement. Sam Bickersteth will provide his perspectives on a future agenda for action in the wake of the latest UN climate talks concluding on Bonn on 17th November 2017. Sam will draws on his experiences from a career in international development and leading the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) over the past seven years. The lecture is part of the University of Greenwich Big Picture Lecture Series and it is co-organised by GPERC and FEPS.
Location: room SL101, University of Greenwich, Stephen Lawrence Building
Time: 17:00-19:00.
No booking is required by seating will be allocated in a first-come first-serve basis.

The Complexity Approach to Post Keynesian Macro-modeling
2017-10-05 17:00 - 19:00 | Greenwich University
5 October 2017: The Complexity Approach to Post Keynesian Macro-modeling by Corrado Di Guilmi
Research seminar by Corrado Di Guilmi, University of Technology Sydney, jointly organised by GPERC and FEPS.
Location: Room: QA065, University of Greenwich, Queen Anne Court
Time: 17:00-19:00

St Catharine’s Political Economy Seminar – ‘Neoliberalism, Institutional Blending and the Governance of Rural Land’, Ian Hodge
2017-10-11 18:00 - 19:30 | Ramsden Room, St Catharine’s College, St Catharine's College, Cambridge, cb21rl, United Kingdom
Date: Wednesday 11 October 2017
Time: 18:00 -19:30
Speaker: Ian Hodge
Talk Title: ‘Neoliberalism, Institutional Blending and the Governance of Rural Land’
Location: Ramsden Room, St Catharine’s College
The next St Catharine’s Political Economy Seminar in the series on the Economics of Austerity, will be held on 11 October, 2017 – Ian Hodge will give a talk on ‘Neoliberalism, Institutional Blending and the Governance of Rural Land’. The seminar will be held in the Ramsden Room at St Catharine’s College from 6.00-7.30 pm. All are welcome. The seminar series is supported by the Cambridge Journal of Economics and the Economics and Policy Group at the Cambridge Judge Business School.
Speaker:
Ian Hodge is Professor of Rural Economy in the Department of Land Economy and Fellow of Hughes Hall at the University of Cambridge, where he has worked since 1983. He was Head of Department of Land Economy between 2002-2011. His primary research interests are in rural environmental governance, policy and economics, property institutions and rural development. He has previously worked at the Universities of Queensland in Australia and Newcastle upon Tyne in the UK. He has a PhD in Countryside Planning from Wye College, University of London and a BSc from the University of Reading.
Talk Overview:
There is a large literature on neoliberalism. Over time the literature has expanded to cover a variety of different issues. It is almost universally critical and has become increasingly incoherent and contradictory. One thread within neoliberalism, focusing on property rights, casts the debate in terms of public ownership and intervention versus private enterprise and ‘free’ markets. However, this obscures a more significant trend towards new approaches in governance that fall between these extremes that we term institutional blending. This recognises the major role of civil society, reallocation of property rights, provision of assurance and of public, private and third sector partnerships. It includes a role for an interventionist state that embraces many of the mechanisms that have been developed through neoliberal approaches. These will be illustrated taking examples from rural land management. The discussion questions whether this may represent a post-neoliberal approach to public governance.
Please contact the seminar organisers Philip Arestis (pa267@cam.ac.uk) and Michael Kitson (mk24@cam.ac.uk) in the event of a query

Cambridge Realist Workshop – Tony Lawson - What is wrong with modern economics, and why does it stay wrong?
2017-10-16 19:30 - 21:00 | Latimer Room, Clare College, Clare College, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Speaker: Tony Lawson
Talk Title: ‘What is wrong with modern economics, and why does it stay wrong?’
Drinks available from 7:30 pm, talk starts at 8pm.

Credit Failures by Professor Herakles Polemarchakis
2017-10-18 17:00 - 19:00
18 October 2017: Credit Failures
Research seminar by Professor Herakles Polemarchakis, University of Warwick, jointly organised by GPERC, FEPS and the department of International Business and Economics (IBE).
Location: Room QA065, University of Greenwich, Queen Anne Court
Time: 16:00-18:00

Cambridge Society for Economic Pluralism - Is Economics Predictable?
2017-10-19 17:00 - 18:30 | Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, Silver Street , Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB2 1RL, United Kingdom
19 Oct – Is Economics Predictable? – Prof Tony Lawson & Dr Jochen Runde
Room 2, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms

University of London 'Keynes's Bretton Woods vision, Global Monetary Disorder, and the US Dollar today' Joerg Bibow
2017-10-19 17:00 - 19:00
Joerg Bibow (Skidmore College and Levy Economics Institute) will speak on
”Keynes’s Bretton Woods vision, Global Monetary Disorder, and the US Dollar today’
at the Money and Development Seminar on Thursday 19 October at 17.00
in Room 116, Main Building,
SOAS, University of London
Thornhaugh Street
London WC1H 0XG

St Catharine’s Political Economy Seminar – ‘How corporate governance is central to economic policy’, Ciaran Driver
2017-10-25 18:00 - 19:30 | Ramsden Room, St Catharine’s College, St Catharine's College, Cambridge, cb21rl, United Kingdom
Date: Wednesday 25 October 2017
Time: 18:00 -19:30
Speaker: Ciaran Driver
Talk Title: ‘How corporate governance is central to economic policy’
Location: Ramsden Room, St Catharine’s College
The next St Catharine’s Political Economy Seminar in the series on the Economics of Austerity, will be held on 25 October, 2017 – Ciaran Driver will give a talk on ‘How corporate governance is central to economic policy’. The seminar will be held in the Ramsden Room at St Catharine’s College from 6.00-7.30 pm. All are welcome. The seminar series is supported by the Cambridge Journal of Economics and the Economics and Policy Group at the Judge Business School.
Speaker:
Ciaran Driver is Professor of Economics in the School of Finance and Management at SOAS University of London. His research interests include capital investment, industrial economics, innovation and corporate governance on which he has published widely. He has held visiting posts at the Australian National University and Stellenbosch University, has had attachments to several global business schools, and has advised various national and international public bodies. He co-authored with Paul Temple The Unbalanced Economy: a policy appraisal, Palgrave-Macmillan (2014) Beyond Shareholder Value (2013), with colleagues at the TUC and NPI; and he contributed a chapter on innovation and finance to the Sage Handbook on Corporate Governance (2012). An edited compendium on corporate governance (with Grahame Thompson) will be published by OUP in 2018. Recent journal articles deal with the effects of corporate governance on R&D (Research Policy 2012); the economics of advertising (Journal of Economic Surveys 2015) and the perverse effects of high-powered executive pay (Industrial and Corporate Change 2017). He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and a Trustee of the New Economics Foundation. Full publications and further information can be found on Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ciaran_Driver
Talk Overview:

This talk concerns the economic effects of corporate governance systems in advanced countries and how the design of governance interacts with economic policy. It starts off with a reprise of recent trends in corporate governance theory, distinguishing the arguments for shareholder value (including agency theory), from critical stakeholder perspectives such as organization theory; property rights approaches; and externalities. The implications of the governance form for the economy are then discussed in terms of forward commitments such as capital investments and R&D and the time-horizon over which these are assessed; pay-out in the form of dividends and buybacks; and effects on labour and work commitment. The evidence for corporate governance effects on macroeconomic performance is assessed with reference to country studies and the variety of capitalism literature. Changes to the corporate governance system are considered by discussing which particular problems of economic policy are responsive to chosen governance reforms, ranging over: managerial approaches; dual-class shares; engagement of investors; and stakeholder representation.
Please contact the seminar organisers Philip Arestis (pa267@cam.ac.uk) and Michael Kitson (m.kitson@jbs.cam.ac.uk) in the event of a query.

Cambridge Society for Economic Pluralism – Women as Economic Victims
2017-10-26 17:00 - 19:00 | Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, Silver Street , Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB2 1RL, United Kingdom
26 Oct
Speakers: Catherine Hakim & Ben Southwood
Location: Room 4, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms

Cambridge Realist Workshop – Nuno Martins - The Nature of Value: Smith, Marx and Marshall
2017-10-30 19:30 - 21:00 | Latimer Room, Clare College, Clare College, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Speaker: Nuno Martins
Talk Title: ‘The Nature of Value: Smith, Marx and Marshall’
Drinks available from 7:30 pm, talk starts at 8pm.

Growth and Income Distribution Workshop
2017-11-01 16:30 - 19:30 | Greenwich University
There is a workshop on Growth and Income Distribution at the University of Greenwich, Queen Anne Court room QA080, at 16:30 until 19:30, on the 1st of November 2017.
The event is co-organised by the Greenwich Political Economy Research Centre (GPERC) and the Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS).
The Keynote Lecture will be by Professor Marc Lavoie (CEPN, Universite Paris 13).
Speakers also include:

Professor Engelbert Stockhammer (Kingston University)
Professor Ozlem Onaran (GPERC)
Dr Maria Nikolaidi (GPERC)
Dr Rafael Wildauer (GPERC)
Dr Cem Oyvat (GPERC)
Dr Sakir Devrim Yilmaz (Kingston University)

Please find here the programme and RSVP details.

Economic growth, inequality and finance in historical perspective workshop
2017-11-02 09:30 - 17:30 | Kingston University, Penrhyn Road, Kingston, Surrey, , KT1 2EE, United Kingdom
Economic growth, inequality and finance in historical perspective
Thursday, 2 Nov 2017, 9.30-17.20
Kingston University, Penrhyn Road Campus, JG3010
This workshop is part of the INET project ‘Income Distribution, Asset Prices, and Aggregate Demand Formation, 1850-2010: A Post-Keynesian Approach to Historical Macroeconomic Data’ and is organised by the Political Economy Research Group and CResCID. The project utilizes long-run macroeconomic and financial data (100+ years) to explore the interactions of inequality, distribution between capital and labour, growth regimes, asset prices, and debt.
The workshop will take place on Thursday 2nd November at Kingston University, London. The aim is to create an opportunity for thorough discussion on the possibilities of historical data and historical perspectives in macroeconomic analyses of the nexus of inequality, economic growth and the financial sector. This is a growing and promising field and we believe that to gather a small group of researchers active on those themes, will facilitate advances in the field, cross-fertilization of research projects, and branch new research ideas.
Registration is required. Register here http://www.kingston.ac.uk/events/item/2818/02-nov-2017-economic-growth-inequality-and-finance-in-historical-perspective/
9.30-10.00: Registration and coffee (room 3013)
Engelbert Stockhammer & Erik Bengtsson – Introduction to the workshop + project
10.00-12.00: Session I
Erik Bengtsson (Lund University): “Wage-led and profit-led growth in Scandinavia since 1875” (co-authored with Engelbert Stockhammer)
Eoin McLaughlin (St Andrews): “A Sustainable Century?: Genuine Savings in developing and developed countries, 1900-2000” (co-authored with Matthias Blum and Cristián Ducoing)
12.00-13.00: Lunch
13.00-15.00: Session II
Engelbert Stockhammer (Kingston University): The effects of income distribution and private wealth on consumption and investment, 1855-2010 (co-authored with Joel Rabinovich and Niall Reddy)
Lucio Baccaro (Max Planck Institute for Study of Societies), “Unhinged: Industrial Relations Liberalization and Capitalist Instability” (co-authored with Chris Howell)
15.00-15.20: Coffee
15.20-17.20: Session III
Natacha Postel-Vinay (LSE), “The Impact of Fiscal Policy on Interwar British Growth: A Narrative Approach” (co-authored with James Cloyne and Nicholas Dimsdale)
Giorgos Gouzoulis (Kingston University): Testing Minsky’s business cycle theory with historic data: The cases of USA (1929-2015) and UK (1850-2015) (co-authored with Engelbert Stockhammer)

China's shadow banking: New growth model or the next Lehman Brothers? Debate
2017-11-02 16:00 - 17:30
A debate between Christopher Balding and Daniela Gabor, moderated by Jo Michell
Thursday November 2nd, 4-5.30pm
Faculty of Business and Law building Room 2×242 UWE Bristol, Frenchay Campus All welcome, registration not required.
Since the global financial crisis, shadow banking in China has grown rapidly as a result of financial repression, macro policy, and the politics of local-central government relationships. Is this the financial Wild West, the escape valve of a financial system repressed by the long hand of the state or a carefully engineered process to bring market forces into the financial system? How successful are China¹s policies to transform shadow banking into securities-market based finance? Have they really addressed concerns about implicit state guarantees? And how do reforms fit with the need for deep and liquid securities markets if Reminibi internationalisation is to succeed?
Christopher Balding is an Associate Professor in Business and Economics at the HSBC Business School of Peking University Graduate School in Shenzhen, China. One of the leading experts on the Chinese economy and financial markets, he is a Bloomberg View contributor and advises governments, central banks, and investors around the world. He has contributed to Bloomberg, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, BBC, CNBC, and Al-Jazeera. He tweets at @BaldingsWorld
Daniela Gabor is Professor of Economics and Macrofinance at UWE Bristol. Her research project ŒManaging shadow money¹, funded by the Institute for New Economic Thinking since 2015, explores shadow banking in the US, Europe and China. One of the project papers, ŒGoodbye (Chinese) shadow banking, hello market-based finance¹, will be published in Development and Change in December 2017. She is finalising a book manuscript on Shadow Money. She blogs at criticalfinance.org <http://criticalfinance.org/> and tweets at @DanielaGabor <http://twitter.com/danielagabor>
Jo Michell is Associate Professor in Economics at UWE Bristol. He has a PhD in Economics on from SOAS University of London, written about the Chinese banking and financial system. His research interests include macroeconomics, money and banking, and income distribution. He has published on macroeconomics and finance in peer reviewed journals including the Cambridge Journal of Economics and Metroeconomica. He co-edited the Handbook of Critical Issues in Finance with Jan Toporowski (Elgar, 2012).

Cambridge Society for Economic Pluralism – Behavioural Economics: The Final Frontier of Economics
2017-11-02 17:00 - 19:00
2 November
Speakers: Dr Alain Samson & David De Cremer
Location: tbc

The International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy Training Workshop
2017-11-08 10:00 - 17:00
IIPPE Training Workshop SOAS London 8 November 2017
The International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy (IIPPE) announces its next Training Workshop at SOAS (Brunei Gallery, Room B102), London on 8 November 2017 (registration from 9.30am).
The focus of the Workshop will be on *Anglo-Saxon capitalism since the financial crisis*. In the morning session, (10am to 1pm), Trevor Evans will survey economic and financial developments in the *United States*. In the afternoon session (2pm to 5pm) Simon Mohun will consider the performance of the *United Kingdom* economy in historical perspective.
This Workshop will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students, junior academics and activists who have a particular interest in acquainting themselves with the relevance of Marxian political economy to the contemporary world.
*Pre-registration is essential because of room capacity constraints. If you wish to attend, please send a note to that effect as soon as possible to Simon Mohun (s.mohun@qmul.ac.uk)

St Catharine’s Political Economy Seminar – 'The Political Economy of Brexit' Michael Kitson
2017-11-08 18:00 - 19:30 | Ramsden Room, St Catharine’s College, St Catharine's College, Cambridge, cb21rl, United Kingdom
Date: Wednesday 8 November 2017
Time: 18:00 -19:30
Speaker: Michael Kitson
Talk Title: ‘The Political Economy of Brexit’
Location: Ramsden Room, St Catharine’s College
The next St Catharine’s Political Economy Seminar in the series on the Economics of Austerity, will be held on 8 November 2017 – Michael Kitson will give a talk on ‘The Political Economy of Brexit’. The seminar will be held in the Ramsden Room at St Catharine’s College from 6.00-7.30 pm. All are welcome. The seminar series is supported by the Cambridge Journal of Economics and the Economics and Policy Group at the Judge Business School.
Speaker:
Michael Kitson is a University Senior Lecturer in global macroeconomics at the Judge Business School, Cambridge; Assistant Director of the Centre for Business Research, Cambridge; and Fellow of St Catharine’s College, Cambridge. Michael Kitson’s research interests include: economic policy, regional economics, corporate performance, innovation and the commercialisation of science. His current work is concerned with new developments in innovation policy and assessing the factors that drive regional competiveness and growth.

Please contact the seminar organisers Philip Arestis (pa267@cam.ac.uk) and Michael Kitson (m.kitson@jbs.cam.ac.uk) in the event of a query.

CAMBRIDGE ALLEN & OVERY ANNUAL LAW LECTURE 2017: "THE EVOLUTION OF VICARIOUS LIABILITY", Simon Deakin
2017-11-08 18:00 - 20:00
This year’s Allen & Overy lecture is to be delivered by Professor Simon Deakin on the increasingly topical (and difficult) issue of vicarious liability. His lecture promises a different take on various issues in play.
“THE EVOLUTION OF VICARIOUS LIABILITY”
8 November 2017, Law Faculty, 6.00pm, followed by a drinks reception in the Atrium – all invited
Registration is essential – the link is here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cambridge-allen-overy-annual-law-lecture-2017-tickets-38821888313
Further details: The common law of vicarious liability has evolved rapidly in the past two decades as a result of a greater use by appellate courts across several jurisdictions of functional

Cambridge Realist Workshop – Geoffrey Hodgson - The Pathology of Heterodox Economics and the Limits to Pluralism
2017-11-13 19:30 - 21:00
Speaker: Geoffrey Hodgson
Talk Title: ‘The Pathology of Heterodox Economics and the Limits to Pluralism’
Drinks available from 7:30 pm, talk starts at 8pm.

Goldsmiths Economics Seminars: 'The King was in his counting house counting all his money'
2017-11-15 16:30 - 18:00
Speaker: Mathew Fright, University of Cambridge, UK
Date: 15-–Nov-2017, 16.30 pm
Room: Laurie Grove Baths G3, New Cross, London SE14 6NW
Title: The King was in his counting house counting all his money

Cambridge Society for Economic Pluralism – Colonial Legacies
2017-11-15 17:00 - 19:00
Title: Colonial Legacies: How does Colonialism shape today’s development challenges
Speakers: Dr Shailaja Fennell (University of Cambridge) and Dr Jason Hickel (London School of Economics)
Location: tbc

Goldsmiths Economics Seminars: ‘Preferences over allocation mechanisms’
2017-11-21 16:30 - 18:00
Speaker: Uzi Segal, Boston College, USA
Date: 21-Nov-2017, 16.30 pm
Room: Deptford Town Hall G2
Title: Preferences over allocation mechanisms

St Catharine’s Political Economy Seminar – "From austerity to immigrants as ‘significant others’, Liliana Harding
2017-11-22 18:00 - 19:30 | Ramsden Room, St Catharine’s College, St Catharine's College, Cambridge, cb21rl, United Kingdom
Date: Wednesday 22 November 2017
Time: 18:00 -19:30
Speaker: Liliana Harding
Talk Title: ‘From austerity to immigrants as ‘significant others’ in economic policy changes’
Location: Ramsden Room, St Catharine’s College
The next St Catharine’s Political Economy Seminar in the series on the Economics of Austerity, will be held on 22 November, 2017 – Liliana Harding will give a talk on “From austerity to immigrants as ‘significant others’ in economic policy changes”. The seminar will be held in the Ramsden Room at St Catharine’s College from 6.00-7.30 pm. All are welcome. The seminar series is supported by the Cambridge Journal of Economics and the Economics and Policy Group at the Judge Business School.
Speaker:
Liliana Harding is a lecturer in Economics at the University of East Anglia (UEA), in Norwich. Dr Liliana Harding has a long-standing research interest in the political economy of migration, while her teaching is focussed in the areas of labour economics and European economies. She is currently the convenor of the East Anglia Research Migration Network, an interdisciplinary research group at the UEA designed to facilitate participatory action research in topics related to international migration. Her research interests further extend to the development of economic systems, regional economies and the implications of public arts and culture for wellbeing and urban economies.
Talk Overview:
In the same way as the resolution of the financial crisis has been sought through austerity across the board, migration policy beyond the Great Recession has focused on downward revisions of ‘acceptable levels’ of immigration. And as concerns about the implications of austerity on rising inequalities and general access to public services are rising, limitations to migrants’ access to the labour market and the welfare system are now sold as localised patches to society-wide challenges. In this context, this talk proposes to explore the extent to which a long period of austerity has warranted the call for more restrictive immigration policies, and explores the significance of distributional effects of immigration. It reviews the economic effects estimated for the UK from migration and its expected restriction linked to Brexit, and stresses the role of skill in the economic migration debate. Finally, the talk reflects on the significance of mass migration flows for economies experiencing it at various points in time, and makes a brief reference to the recent refugee crisis in Europe.

Please contact the seminar organisers Philip Arestis (pa267@cam.ac.uk) and Michael Kitson (mk24@cam.ac.uk) in the event of a query.

Goldsmiths Economics Seminars: ‘The Impact of Financialisation on the Everyday Life of UK households’
2017-11-29 16:30 - 18:00
Speaker: Ariane Hillig, Open University, UK
Date: 29-Nov- 2017, 16.30 pm
Room: Laurie Grove Baths G3
Title: The Impact of Financialisation on the Everyday Life of UK households

A European Future for Brexit Britain? by Lord Roger Liddle
2017-11-29 17:00 - 19:00 | Greenwich University
29 November 2017: A European Future for Brexit Britain?
Lord Roger Liddle will discuss the current state of the Brexit negotiations; whether it is clear what Britain really wants from Brexit; a realistic set of Brexit options for Britain and Britain’s European future. The lecture is part of the University of Greenwich Big Picture Lecture Series and it is co-organised by GPERC and FEPS.
Location: University of Greenwich, King William Court room KW303.
Time: 17:00-19:00.

CBR seminar: “Japan’s corporate governance and value creation via equity spread”, Dr. Ryohei Yanagi
2017-12-05 12:00 - 14:00
Date: Tuesday 5th December 2017
Time: 12:00 noon
Venue: Ground Floor Meeting Room, 10 Trumpington Street, Cambridge, CB2 1QA
Speaker: Dr. Ryohei Yanagi
Dr. Ryohei Yanagi will give a presentation entitled “Japan’s corporate governance and value creation via equity spread”. The focus of this presentation will be the urgent need for Japanese businesses to have greater awareness of cost of capital, which traditionally has been overlooked in favour of simple operational profitability. His view is that lack of understanding of this key principle is damaging the whole Japanese economy and hindering the revival that the Abe administration seeks.
Dr. Yanagi is the CFO of Eisai, one of Japan’s leading pharmaceutical companies, which has established a reputation for its innovative corporate governance. While working as Eisai’s CFO, Dr. Yanagi holds posts at two Japanese universities as a visiting lecturer and has been campaigning for greater financial awareness among Japanese management for many years. His work as a member of various expert committees gives him a special insight into the debates underlying current efforts to refocus Japanese corporate governance practices.
Space is limited so to secure a place please email Rachel Wagstaff at r.wagstaff@cbr.cam.ac.uk

"The Economic Impact and Causes of Income Inequality- the shifting views of the international financial institutions" by John Evans
2017-12-06 17:00 - 19:00 | Greenwich University
Lecture by John Evans (Secretary General, TUAC) on “The Economic Impact and Causes of Income Inequality- the shifting views of the international financial institutions“, on the 6th of December, at 17:00-19:00 at 2017 at the University of Greenwich, King William Court, room KW303.
To find out more about our events, please visit our events page.

SOAS Money and Development Seminar: 2 papers on The International Role of the Euro
2018-01-18 17:00 - 18:30
SOAS Money and Development Seminars
Thursday 18 January at 17.00
The International Role of the Euro papers by
John Grahl (Middlesex) ‘Financial Policies: Dollar Hegemony and the Subordination of European Finance’
and
Costas Lapavitsas (SOAS) ‘Estimating the cost of currency redenomination in the EMU’.
in the Brunei Gallery Room B102
SOAS University of London
Thornhaugh Street,
London WC1H 0XG

nearest underground station: Russell Square

St Catharine’s Political Economy Seminar – ‘How Did the Economics Profession Get it Wrong on Brexit?’, Graham Gudgin & Ken Coutts
2018-01-31 18:00 - 19:30
Date: Wednesday, 31 January 2018
Time: 18:00 -19:30
Speakers: Graham Gudgin and Ken Coutts
Talk Title: ‘How Did the Economics Profession Get it Wrong on Brexit?’
Location: Ramsden Room, St Catharine’s College
The next St Catharine’s Political Economy Seminar in the series on the Economics of Austerity, will be held on 31 January, 2018 – Graham Gudgin and Ken Coutts will give a talk on “How Did the Economics Profession Get it Wrong on Brexit?”.The seminar will be held in the Ramsden Room at St Catharine’s College from 6.00-7.30 pm. All are welcome. The seminar series is supported by the Cambridge Journal of Economics and the Economics and Policy Group at the Judge Business School.
Speakers:
Graham Gudgin is currently Honorary Research Associate at the Centre For Business Research (CBR) in the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge. He is also Chief Economic Advisor at Policy Exchange, London, visiting Professor at the University of Ulster and Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Ulster University Economic Policy Centre. He was senior Economic Advisor at Oxford Economics from 2007 to 2015 and was director of the Northern Ireland Economic Research Centre from 1985 to 1998 when he became Special Adviser to the First Minister in the Northern Ireland Assembly until 2002. Prior to this he was economics fellow at Selwyn College, Cambridge and a member of the Cambridge Economic Policy Group under Wynne Godley. He is the author of a large number of books, reports and journal articles on regional economic growth in the UK, the growth of small firms and electoral systems. He is currently working with Ken Coutts on a macro-economic model and forecasts for the UK economy and on the economic impact of Brexit.
Ken Coutts is Honorary Research Associate at the Centre For Business Research (CBR) in the Judge Business School , Emeritus Assistant Director of Studies in the Faculty of Economics, and Life Fellow in Economics, Selwyn College, at the University of Cambridge. A member of the Cambridge Economic Policy Group in his younger career, led by the late Wynne Godley, his main interests are in macroeconomics, monetary and fiscal policy, trade, capital flows and balance of payments. He has published widely in these areas. He has also written extensively on the pricing behaviour of manufacturing industries in the UK and Australia. He is currently working with Graham Gudgin a macro-economic model and forecasts for the UK economy and on the economic impact of Brexit.
Talk Overview:
This contribution examines in detail the predictions of professional economic forecasters on the economic impact of Brexit. It shows how these were flawed, and speculates on why they are no longer quoted. It begins with the frequently repeated claim, that membership of the EEC/EU has been good for economic growth in the UK. This is followed by a brief reprise of our critique of the gravity model work of HMT and OECD. The approach of the Centre for Economic Performance at the LSE, uses a different approach, but again, in our view, is flawed. All of this work predicts that the volume of UK trade with the EU will fall substantially after Brexit, with no offsetting gains in trade with non-EU countries. Around half of the predicted declines in GDP, come from a calculation that trade losses will have a major negative knock-on impact on productivity. Our update of their evidence suggests that for advanced economies no such link exists between trade and productivity.
This is not an argument in favour of Brexit. It is instead to question the ability of the economics profession to provide high quality policy analysis on issues of national importance.
Please contact the seminar organisers Philip Arestis (pa267@cam.ac.uk) and Michael Kitson (mk24@cam.ac.uk) in the event of a query.
