18.00 - Festival of Economics: Full Season Ticket (All 4 Events)

Event information

Please note this is a special Season Ticket for all four of the Festival of Economics sessions on the 23rd and 24th November 2012.

This ticket includes all four sessions in the series over two days.
All events take place in At-Bristol. A ticket for all four events is £20 (full) £18 (concessions).

Tickets for the individual sessions are also available separately. Each separate session is charged at £7 (full) / £6 (concessions). Individual event tickets are offered on a separate page.

23 November 2012, 18.00-19.30
The Future of Capitalism

24 November 2012, 11.30-13.00
People, Places and Poverty (with Joseph Rowntree Foundation)

24 November 2012,14.00-15.30
What Next for Britain's Economy?

24 November 2012, 16.30-18.00
Economics in Crisis


Festival of Economics-Summary of Sessions:
Guest Programmer: Diane Coyle
Supported by: Business West, Bristol Chamber, Joseph Rowntree Foundation; Royal Economic Society, the Government Economic Service, Princeton University Press and Wiley

We remain in a deep financial and economic crisis. Both the economy and economics will be irrevocably changed by the crisis. The Festival of Economics will confront the economists with their critics, bringing together academic economists, practitioners of economics, and challengers from both inside and outside the subject. It will celebrate economics, an intellectually powerful discipline with a rich history, and also look at its recent failures. Economics has a profound influence on politics and public policy: it is too important to be left to economists.


23 November 2012
18.00-19.30
The Future of Capitalism
The panel will debate the nature of the economic system itself. Does the crisis reveal fundamental flaws in capitalist economies? Or is this just the end of the road for the 'neo-liberal' project that has been implemented in government policies on both sides of the Atlantic since the 1980s? How do politics and economics entwine to shape the nature of the economy?

Chair: David Smith, Economics Editor, Sunday Times
Larry Elliott, Economics Editor, Guardian; author of Going South: Why Britain Will Have a Third World Economy by 2014.
John Kay, founding Director of the Said Business School, Oxford University; writer, most recently Obliquity: Why Our Goals Are Best Achieved Indirectly
Rachel Lomax, Deputy Governor of the Bank of England 2003-2008
Daniel Stedman Jones, barrister, author of Masters of the Universe: Hayek, Friedman, and the Birth of Neoliberal Politics.

24 November 2012
11.30-13.00
People, Places and Poverty (with Joseph Rowntree Foundation)
The panel will discuss how an individual person's characteristics (skills, experience, family background) and their social context combine to shape their economic opportunities. Is poverty best addressed by policies for people or policies for places? Why do 'poverty traps' have postcodes? And in the context of an economic downturn, is there any hope for progress on reducing poverty?

Chair: Julia Unwin, Chief Executive of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust.
Geoff Andrews, senior lecturer in politics, Open University and author of The Slow Food Story: Politics and Pleasure
Paul Gregg, Professor of Economic and Social Policy, and Director of the Centre for Analysis and Social Policy at Bath.
Lynsey Hanley, writer, author of Estates: An Intimate History
Paul Johnson, Director, Institute of Fiscal Studies.

14.00-15.30
What Next for Britain's Economy?
There is a fierce debate between advocates of a government stimulus for the economy and those who say the longer-term cost of more stimulus is too high, and this economic debate maps onto party politics too. And what about the underlying strength or weakness of the UK economy? Is British industry ready to take advantage of a return to growth? Is there any prospect of this while the Euro crisis continues?

Chair: Heather Stewart, Economics Editor, Observer
Peter Marsh, Financial Times' manufacturing editor, author, The New Industrial Revolution: Consumers, Globalization and the End of Mass Production.
Jonathan Portes, Director, National Institute of Economic and Social Research
Vicky Pryce, Senior Managing Director, FTI Consulting Inc.; Formerly Joint Head, UK Government Economic Service, 2007-2010
Andrew Sentance, member, Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee October 2006 - May 2011; now senior economics adviser Pricewaterhouse Coopers


16.30-18.00
Economics in Crisis
This session turns the spotlight on the subject of economics itself. Economists will try to debate honestly the weaknesses as well as the strengths of the subject, and respond to some of the challenges from critics. What is the status of economic knowledge, and how much does the subject need to change because of the crisis?

Chair: Richard Marshall, 3am
Aditya Chakrabortty, economics leader writer at the Guardian
Diane Coyle, Enlightenment Economics, author of The Economics of Enough: How to Run the Economy as If the Future Matters.
Paul Ormerod, Volterra Partners, author of Positive Linking: How Networks and Incentives Can Revolutionise the World and Why Most Things Fail
Carol Propper, Professor, Economics of Public Policy, University of Bristol

All events take place in At-Bristol. This Season Ticket is for all four events.