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SUMMARY:Framing the Austerity Debate - Ha-Joon Chang
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DTEND:20141203T193000Z
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DESCRIPTION:The next St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar in the serie
 s on the Economics of Austerity\, will be held on Wednesday 03 December 20
 14 - Ha-Joon Chang will give a talk on 'Framing the Austerity Debate'. The
  seminar will be held in the McGrath Centre at St Catharine's College from
  6.00-7.30 pm. All are welcome.\n\nHA-JOON CHANG teaches economics at the 
 University of Cambridge. In addition to numerous journal articles and book
  chapters\, he has published 15 authored books (four co-authored) and 10 e
 dited books. His main books include 'The Political Economy of Industrial P
 olicy'\, 'Kicking Away the Ladder'\, 'Bad Samaritans'\, '23 Things They Do
 n’t Tell You About Capitalism'\, and 'Economics: The User’s Guide'. By
  the end of 2014\, his writings will have been translated and published in
  36 languages and 39 countries. Worldwide\, his books have sold around 1.5
  million copies. He is the winner of the 2003 Gunnar Myrdal Prize and the 
 2005 Wassily Leontief Prize. He was ranked no. 9 in the 'Prospect' magazin
 e’s World Thinkers 2014 poll.\n\nIn this seminar\, Ha-Joon Chang will di
 scuss how the coalition government has successfully exploited some mistake
 n popular conceptions about economic issues like debt\, deficit\, welfare\
 , taxation\, regulation\, etc. to create a narrative on the inevitability 
 and the virtue of its austerity drive. He will further argue that the aust
 erity narrative is more importantly hiding a more radical agenda of restru
 cturing the British economy and society\, completing the unfinished Thatch
 erite revolution.\n\nPlease contact the seminar organisers Philip Arestis 
 (pa267@cam.ac.uk) and Michael Kitson (m.kitson@jbs.cam.ac.uk) in the event
  of a query. 
LOCATION:McGrath Centre\, St Catharine's College
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