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Recent Discussions |
Ferraris for all: is economic growth such a good thing?November 2010Daniel Ben-Ami and Clive George will introduce a discussion about the scope for and limits to economic development in the developed and developing world.
People who champion growth are accused of encouraging greed, damaging the environment and widening social inequalities. Daniel Ben-Ami, in his new book Ferraris for all, challenges these notions, arguing that society as a whole benefits from greater affluence and that we should celebrate growth.
Clive will briefly review the arguments presented in his book The Truth About Trade, and go on to explore the actions we can now take to make the twenty first century a golden one and not the calamitous one it threatens to be. Initial background readingsSustainable development, Wikipedia Written Evidence to Select Committee on International Development, House of Commons, November 2005 Really bad ideas: Population Control, by Frank Furedi, spiked-online 11 June 2007 Selling out the 'bottom billion', by Daniel Ben-Ami, spiked review of books, 03 July 2007 Burying Malthus to save Malthusianism, by Brendan O'Neill, spiked review of books, March 2010 The pseudo-radical war on economic growth, by Daniel Ben Ami, spiked review of books, May 2010 Macroeconomics and Growth Research Program, The World Bank website UK will struggle with 'catastrophic' population growth unless changes are made, Mail Online 09 June 2010 Why more really is more, spiked review of books, June 2010 Hitting back at the growth sceptics, by Andrew Milligan, Fund Strategy 23 August 2010 Economic Growth: Bane or Boon?, Video of held at Northumbria University, 19 October 2010 |