Hosted in conjunction with FESSUD and the British Library:<\/p>\n
The event will take place at the British Library Conference Centre, London on Monday 8h October 2012 between 10am – 4.10pm<\/p>\n
Speakers include: Andrew Brown (Leeds University Business School), Mathew Bond (London South Bank University), Julie Froud (Manchester Business School), Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra (LSE) , Malcolm Sawyer (Leeds University Business School), David Spencer (Leeds University Business School) , Alberto Toscano (Goldsmiths University of London),\u00a0 Zsuzsanna Vargha (LSE).<\/p>\n
The financial crisis of 2008 has been longstanding in its consequences and seemingly intractable in its resolution. It is widely understood to have arisen from the de-regulation of financial institutions and the emergence of increasingly complex financial instruments as well as a culture of risk associated with high rewards. The crisis took the discipline of economics by surprise leading to the Queen\u2019s question of why there had been a failure to predict it. One response from a seminar organised by the British Academy concluded that it was \u201cprincipally a failure of the collective imagination of many bright people, both in this country and internationally, to understand the risks to the system as a whole\u201d (http:\/\/media.ft.com\/cms\/3e3b6ca8-7a08-11de-b86f-00144feabdc0.pdf). The present seminar is an exercise in alternative imaginations, both in accounting for the crisis and in providing alternatives.<\/p>\n
Further information and booking at: http:\/\/www.britsoc.co.uk\/events\/bsa-presidential-event.aspx)
\nDirect link to online at: http:\/\/portal.britsoc.co.uk\/public\/event\/eventBooking.aspx?id=EVT10239).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"