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SUMMARY:Waiting for Emancipation:  The Prospects for Liberal Revolution an
 d  a Human Economy in Africa - Professor Keith Hart
DTSTART:20140522T160000Z
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CONTACT:Judith Weik
DESCRIPTION:The informal economy\, a concept Professor Keith Hart helped t
 o coin in the 1970s\, has taken over the world\, largely as a result of ne
 oliberal deregulation in recent decades. This lecture presents the idea of
  a human economy\, in some ways a successor to the concept of the informal
  economy. Building on his early research in West Africa\, Keith Hart refle
 cts in this lecture on how and why Africa has been a symbol of global ineq
 uality.\n\nLong after independence\, Africans are still waiting for emanci
 pation. Even so\, Africa’s development prospects in the twenty-first cen
 tury are brighter than for a while. In the twentieth century\, regional di
 fferences in the forms of African political economy converged on the model
  of agrarian civilization or the Old Regime. The antidote to the Old Regim
 e is liberal revolution. Hart considers the role played by free trade and 
 protection in the revolutions that made modern France\, the United States\
 , Italy and Germany\, with particular reference to the latter’s Zollvere
 in (customs union). He examines the organization of international trade in
  Southern Africa\, which includes the oldest extant customs union in the w
 orld. In conclusion\, he reviews the prospects for greater integration of 
 trade regimes in Africa as one path towards the development of a human eco
 nomy.\n\nProfessor Keith Hart is currently co-director of the Human Econom
 y Programme in the Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship at the Univer
 sity of Pretoria\, and Centennial Professor of Economic Anthropology at th
 e London School of Economics. An anthropologist by training\, he contribut
 ed the concept of the informal economy to development studies and has writ
 ten at length on money\, including the collapse of the twentieth century's
  dominant form\, national capitalism. He has taught in more than a dozen u
 niversities around the world\, especially in Cambridge University where he
  was Director of the African Studies Centre. He runs a blog and website at
  thememorybank.co.uk/ and is a founder and member of the fast-growing Open
  Anthropology Cooperative (OAC). His recent books include The Human Econom
 y: A Citizen's Guide (2010) and Economic Anthropology: History\, Ethnograp
 hy\, Critique (2011).\n\nA reception will be held in the atrium after the 
 lecture\n\nThis event is sponsored by the A G Leventis Foundation\n
LOCATION:Seminar Rooms SG1 &amp\; SG2\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West R
 oad\, Cambridge
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