The newly established Greenwich Political Economy Research Centre (GPERC) is holding its launch conference 'Building an Equitable and Sustainable Society: Four Decades of Political Economy at Greenwich'. The GPERC launch conference will take place at University of Greenwich (Queen Anne Court, Room 080 (Grd Flr) Old Royal Naval College). Pre-registration is required for this event.

Talk Title: Material and non-material objects: an object-oriented ontology for information systems research Drinks available from 7:30 pm, talk starts at 8pm.

The talk by Dr Morten Jerven entitled 'Africa: Why Economists get it Wrong' will take place in Mill Lane Room 9.  

The title for this years conference is “The Evolution of Economic Thought”.  The conference aims to provide a platform for subject specialists to discuss a broad range of issues ranging from how schools of economic thought have developed through time, to exploring links between current economic thinking and policy decisions.