BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Talks.cam//talks.cam.ac.uk// X-WR-CALNAME:Talks.cam BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar Series - Speaker: Richard Murphy - Richard Murphy DTSTART:20160420T170000Z DTEND:20160420T183000Z UID:TALK63291@talks.cam.ac.uk CONTACT:Philippa Millerchip DESCRIPTION:Talk Title: ‘Will austerity work?’\n\nSpeaker\nRichard Mur phy is a UK chartered accountant and political economist. He was senior pa rtner of a practicing firm and director of a number of entrepreneurial com panies before becoming one of the founders of the Tax Justice Network in 2 002. He now directs Tax Research UK and writes\, broadcasts and blogs exte nsively\, the latter at http://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/. Richard was appointed as Professor of Practice in International Political Economy at C ity University in September 2015. During the summer of 2015 he was widely credited with creating Corbynomics’ and is the creator of the idea now known as People's Quantitative Easing. Richard’s latest book is ‘The J oy of Tax’ \n(Bantam\, October 2015). Richard created the country-by-cou ntry reporting concept and has been credited with creating much of the deb ate on tax gaps in the UK and Europe. He also defined the term ‘secrecy jurisdictions’\, now widely used in debates on offshore. He has been inv olved in many of the stories on corporate tax abuse that have made headlin es in recent years. Richard is joint author of 'Tax Havens\, The True Stor y of Globalisation'\, Cornell University Press 2010 and sole author of 'Th e Courageous State'\, Searching Finance\, 2011. In 2012 the Association of International Accountants gave Richard their award for an outstanding con tribution to the accountancy profession. He was named the seventh most inf luential person in international tax by the International Tax Review in 20 13. In 2015 the Sheila McKechnie Foundation named him as their Economic Ju stice Campaigner of the Year.\n \nTalk Overview:\nRichard Murphy will talk about issues surrounding austerity\, its perceptions and the potential po litical reactions to it. The talk will build on a paper Richard co-authore d with Prof Ronen Palan of City University in November 2015 in anticipatio n of the Spending Review published that month but will also bring in theme s relating to UK tax reform\, the prospect of raising additional taxation and creating greater social justice by tackling the UK tax gap (a theme th at was created by Richard but adopted by Jeremy Corbyn in the summer of 20 15) and the funding of new infrastructure to get the UK out of economic st agnation (People's Quantitative Easing). The suggestion that will be made is that not only will austerity not succeed in balancing the UK government ’s budget but trying to deliver that goal will lay the foundation for ma jor political upheaval in the UK. \n\nAll are welcome to attend. \nThe sem inar series is supported by the Cambridge Journal of Economics and the Eco nomics and Policy Group at the Judge Business School.\n\nPlease contact th e seminar organisers Philip Arestis (pa267@cam.ac.uk) and Michael Kitson ( m.kitson@jbs.cam.ac.uk) in the event of a query. LOCATION:The Ramsden Room\, St Catharine's College END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR