Recovery to Discovery

Q&A with Steve Keen, Mick Moran and Mathew Lawrence at #RethinkRecovery

by Political Economy Research Centre

Recovery to Discovery

Mick Moran speaking at #RethinkRecovery

by Political Economy Research Centre

PERCblog

Happiness beyond the ‘happiness industry’ – discussion & book launch, 24th June

Happiness today has become an object of measurement, management, optimisation and detection via the body. It is something that concerns medics, economists and marketers, to be expertly visualised and mapped. While this agenda is not new, it is experiencing a major technologically-driven acceleration right now, diverting political and ethical hopes into an expanding infrastructure of […]

Debt Community Network

The Debt Bomb

by Carl Packman

Debt Community Network

Debt in the Wider Economy

This group of posters links debt to wider issues in the U.K. economy, demonstrating the complex economic, legislative and socio-cultural dynamics of debt. Poster 1: Know Your Enemy This poster represents the multi-pronged approach of trying to reform high cost credit lenders or legal loan sharks (Payday lending, doorstep catalouge lenders etc,). It outlines some […]

by Carl Packman

Debt Community Network

Examples of Existing Campaigns

  Poster: Jubilee Debt Campaign This poster outlines the overarching demands of the Jubilee Debt campaign including 1) debt cancellation (of unjust/illegitimate debt); 2) control lending and capital flows (regulate finance!!) and: 3) tax justice.  The suggestions to bring this change about include: solidarity with debt activists in developing countries, awareness raising in the UK, […]

by Carl Packman

Debt Community Network

The Power of Debt

by Carl Packman

Debt Community Network

The Politics of Personal Debt

by Carl Packman

Debt Community Network

Poster: Politics of Debt

by Carl Packman

Debt Community Network

Knowledge exchange posters

Posters Throughout the day participants made posters and commented on those made by others. From the very beginning it was clear that there was a high degree of technical and expert knowledge in the room and using posters provided a visual way of representations of the key issues and topics the formed out agenda for the day. […]

by Carl Packman

Debt Community Network

Poster: Borrower as Consumer—standards and practice

by Carl Packman

Debt Community Network

Johnna Montgomerie and Carl Packman on Radio 4’s Thinking Allowed

by Carl Packman