Date: Tuesday 22 May
Time: 12:30-13:30
Venue: HB 7-14

Presented by Keith Hart, Co-director, Human Economy Programme and Visiting Professor, Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, UP. This talk will sketch the principles animating the Human Economy Programme; discuss its place in the Faculty of Humanities and elsewhere at UP; and suggest how it begins to address the current crisis in the world political economy.

The Human Economy programme is now in its second year at UP, with nine postdocs and a new interdisciplinary PhD just starting. The programme came out of an international project to explore alternative approaches to economic development which was initially Latin American and Francophone. The publication of The Human Economy: A Citizen’s Guide (Polity, 2010) brought this project to the English-speaking world. The programme seeks to extend its reach by involving participants from Africa and Asia, and establishing a dedicated research program on human economic possibilities, although dialogue between researchers and activists has long been a feature of the international project.

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