Scotland’s Economics Festival
Scotland’s Economics Festival is coming to Leith, just outside Edinburgh.
The festival brings together ‘leading economists, commentators, campaigners, and curious citizens to explore BIG economic ideas.’
Over three days in March the festival will explore ideas from beyond the straightjacket of economic orthodoxy, the sort of ideas that are needed to generate critical discussion in Scotland in these fast-changing times of deep uncertainty and growing inequality.
Speakers include: Kali Akuno (Co-Founder, Cooperation Jackson); Emma Holten (author of ‘Deficit: How Feminist Economics Can Change Our World); Joe Guinan (President, The Democracy Collaborative); Donnie Maclurcan (Director of Strategy, Post Growth Institute); Sarah Jaffe (author of Work Won’t Love You Back: How Devotion To Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone); Ewan Gibbs, Ben Wray, journalist specialising in the precariat; William Thomson (Founder of Scotonomics); Neil McInroy (Global Lead for Community Wealth Building, The Democracy Collaborative; Adrienne Buller (Director of The Break Down and the author of The Value of a Whale: on the illusions of green capitalism) – and many many more.
The festival is located around a handful of venues near The Shore. Sessions include talks on land and economics, Scotland’s gig economy, Trump’s America and the Crisis: Beyond capitalism to economic democracy, the housing crisis, and much more.
You can book for individual talks or whole day sessions or for the whole weekend.
Go here to get the full programme and book your tickets.
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