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SUMMARY:Michaelmas Debate: This House Believes Austerity Economics Has Fai
 led - Jonathan Portes\, Sue Konzelmann\, Steve Baker\, Kevin Dowd
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CONTACT:Akanksha Bhat
DESCRIPTION:No introduction is needed\; there is no more contentious topic
  in the domain of economics at this moment in time. This debate promises t
 o be exciting\, informative and hugely engaging.\n\nSpeakers to include:\n
 \nProposition\n\nJonathan Portes: Jonathan Portes is the Director of the N
 ational Institute of Economic and Social Research\, Previously\, he was Ch
 ief Economist at the Cabinet Office\, where he advised the Cabinet Secreta
 ry\, Gus O'Donnell\, and Number 10 Downing Street on economic and financia
 l issues. Before that he held a number of other senior economic policy pos
 ts in the UK government\, immigration labour markets and poverty.\nSue Kon
 zelmann: Sue Konzelmann is Director of the London Centre for Corporate Gov
 ernance and Ethics and a Reader in Management at Birkbeck\, University of 
 London. She is also a Research Associate at the Centre for Business Resear
 ch (CBR)\, University of Cambridge\, and a Research Fellow at the Higgins 
 Labor Research Centre\, University of Notre Dame.\nOpposition\n\nSteve Bak
 er: Steve Baker is a British Conservative Party Politician. He is the Memb
 er of Parliament for Wycombe\, having been elected in the 2010 general ele
 ction. He has been a member of the executive of the 1922 Committee since M
 ay 2012. He co-founded the Cobden Centre\, on which he sits on the advisor
 y board. He established and chairs the all-party parliamentary group on Ec
 onomics\, Money and Banking and is vice-chair of the APPG for Aerospace. H
 e sits on the Transport Select Committee.\n\nKevin Dowd: Kevin Dowd is an 
 Emeritus Professor at the Nottingham University Business School and a visi
 ting professor at the Pensions Institute. Dowd has authored many books on 
 free banking\, monetary economics and the current financial crisis. Dowd i
 s an adjunct Scholar at the Cato Institute\, a research fellow at the Inde
 pendent Institute\, a senior fellow at the Cobden Centre\, and a member of
  the academic advisory council at the Institute of Economic Affairs. He se
 rves as associate editor of The Journal of Risk and The Journal of Risk Mo
 del Validation and serves on the editorial board of the Cato Journal.\n\nD
 r Andrew Lilico is a Director and Principal of Europe Economics. At Europe
  Economics\, Andrew has directed major projects on financial services regu
 lation\, the cost of capital\, pharmaceuticals\, competition\, and impact 
 assessment. His doctorate was in bounded rationality\, he is an acknowledg
 ed authority on the application of real options to price regulation\, and 
 has also done working papers on short selling\, risk-sharing contracts in 
 pharmaceuticals\, housing\, debt\, and the regulation of markets with shor
 t-sighted agents. He has lectured at UCL in Money & Banking\, in Macroecon
 omics\, and in Corporate Finance\, and is a member of the IEA/Sunday Times
  Shadow Monetary Policy Committee. Andrew received his first degree from S
 t. John's College\, Oxford\, and his PhD from University College\, London.
LOCATION:Main Lecture Theatre\, Divinity School\, St John's College
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