The Un-Economic Summit
Economists, philosophers and artists tackle the blind faith in perpetual economic growth, the all-regulating market price and the neutrality of money. They make proposals for introducing other values and principles into economic reasoning.
Friday 21 January: 14:00>18:00
If not the economics of global growth, then what? Getting an economy the right size for the planet
Christian Arnsperger – Chaire Hoover d’Ethique Economique et Social, UCL, Louvain la Neuve
The guaranteed income as a tool for transition to frugality
Silke Helfrich - author of Who Owns the World? The Rediscovery of the Commons, Jena
The Commons: A New Narrative for Our Times
Geert De Pauw - Community Land Trust, Buurthuis Bonnevie, Brussels
The Community Land Trust as a new model for social housing
Olav Velthuis - Department of Sociology and Anthropology of the University of Amsterdam
Imaginary Economics: art as an alternative source of knowledge on economy
CLOSING LECTURE PERFORMANCE
Pieter De Buysser - author, theatre maker, Brussels
In praise of speculation
The MonNetA Money game
The game is designed to help people understand their own relationship - as well as our collective relationship to money. It is played in small groups of four to six participants.
Roland Spinola – Money Network Alliance, Steyerberg
Money rules the world, but who rules money? Overcoming a conceptual prison
Francesco Bernabei – Cittadellarte’s Economic Office, Biella
The Human Values Bank
Luc Weyn – Netwerk Vlaanderen, Brussels
The Ethics of Investment
Akseli Virtanen – Helsinki School of Economics
Europa, Oikonomia, Oidipus: Economy as production of subjectivity
Alma De Walsche – MO*Magazine
Climate Change Economics – beyond the capitalist market strategies
The Ministry of Trying to Do Something About It - Clare Patey [GB] Ration Me Up – Carbon Ration Book
