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SUMMARY:'Brexit and the Political Economy of ‘Populism’ -Yiannis Kitro
 milides  - Yiannis Kitromilides
DTSTART:20170125T180000Z
DTEND:20170125T193000Z
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CONTACT:Philippa Millerchip
DESCRIPTION:*Talk Title*: 'Brexit and the Political Economy of ‘Populism
 ’\n\nThe next St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar in the series on 
 the Economics of Austerity\, will be held on 25 January\, 2017 - Yiannis K
 itromilides will give a talk on "Brexit and the Political Economy of ‘Po
 pulism'". The seminar will be held in the RAMSDEN Room at St Catharine's C
 ollege from 6.00-7.30 pm. All are welcome. The seminar series is supported
  by the Cambridge Journal of Economics and the Economics and Policy Group 
 at the Judge Business School.\n\n*Speaker*\nYiannis Kitromilides is Associ
 ate Member of the Cambridge Centre of Economic and Public Policy\, Departm
 ent of Land Economy\, University of Cambridge. He has previously taught at
  the University of Greenwich\, the University of Westminster\, the Univers
 ity of Middlesex and the School of Oriental and African Studies\, Universi
 ty of London. His main research interests are in the areas of European Mon
 etary Integration\, Reform of Banking\, Economics of Climate Change and th
 e Political Economy of Economic Policy-making. His most recent publication
 s include papers on the political economy of the austerity strategy\, Gree
 ce and the eurozone crisis\, Technocracy and public policy-making and the 
 EU after ‘Brexit’.\n\n*Talk Overview*\nThe unexpected electoral succes
 s of both the ‘leave’ campaign in the UK referendum and of Donald Trum
 p in the US presidential elections has been widely attributed to the rise 
 of right-wing ‘populism’. It is predicted that this phenomenon is like
 ly to be repeated in other parts of Europe and the World. This is to be co
 ntrasted with left-wing ‘populism’ which produced the recent electoral
  successes of the anti-austerity movements of Syriza in Greece and Podemos
  in Spain. ‘Populism’ appears to provide an explanation for the electo
 ral successes of both left-wing and right-wing movements. The concept of 
 ‘populism’ is subject to many different\, often conflicting\, interpre
 tations and definitions. The paper examines the different varieties of ‘
 populism’ and concludes that given its elusive nature the widespread use
  of the term as an explanation of recent surprising electoral outcomes is 
 of rather limited usefulness. Regarding ‘Brexit’ \nthe paper discusses
  an alternative explanation for the electoral outcome of the UK referendum
  as ‘an accident waiting to happen’.\n\nPlease contact the seminar org
 anisers 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
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