Responding to the crisis: beyond economics

launch ‘Beyond Economics’ journal

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In the midst of the global financial crisis, what course should economics and development policies take? At the launch of the latest issue of Development (Vol 52 no3) on 29 October at the Church Centre, New York, Stephen Marglin, Professor of Economics at Harvard University, will be
dissembling the current culture of economics. He will be joined by leading development thinkers
such as David Korten, author of Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real
Wealth, and key policy leaders of UN agencies such as Tariq Banuri, leading author of the recent
UNDESA report on ‘Promoting Development, Saving the Planet’. They and leading thinkers from
around the world will analyze the current financial, climate and care crises, in order to devise
sustainable and equitable policy options that will ‘go beyond economics’.

The launch will be followed by a policy seminar on ‘Responding to the Interlocked Financial, Climate and Care Crises’. Held in New York from 29 to 31 October the three days of intense debate will look at alternative visions for development that take us away from the culture of the market
to a culture of economics based on the livelihoods and rights of the poor.

Follow the debates by visiting www.sidint.net. See the table of content here.

The event is organized by the Society for International Development in partnership with the Humanist Institute for Development Cooperation (HIVOS) and is hosted by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA). More on the journal issue can also be found at www.sidint.org/development.

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