MembersNEWNew in the Members’ Room: James Panton gives talks defending freedom in London and in Edinburgh ; Suzy Dean has a blog on youth engagement; Josie Appleton will be debating booze bans at Sussex University; Michele Ledda's petition against banning of a poem from the school curriculum has more than 100 signatures; Dolan Cummings writes on how anti-smokers are stubbing out liberty; Josie Appleton is discussing cities at a conference in Moscow; Manick Govinda has produced a new London exhibition. New on the Vetting Blog: Tenants turfed out for refusing to fill in forms; CRB checking tooth fairy; Children’s authors under suspicion; Flats halted because balconies have ‘view of school’. Read on… |
Emerging Economies ForumSunday 2 March 2008 Michael Savage, Head of Credit Policy, FMD Credit Risk, Lloyds TSB Corporate Markets, will introduce 'The Credit Crunch' The 'credit crunch' has focused attention on the financial markets and brought into relief the imbalances between emerging economies that create more than they consume, and the developed economies that consume more than they create. Is it a problem that developed economies are so reliant on cheap debt from the east? How might balance be restored? And what is the relationship between the financial economy, which is prone to crashes and crises, and the real economy that seems consistently to be producing more and more stuff? For more information contact Stuart Simpson at EmergingEconomies@instituteofideas.com.
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The Manifesto Club supports:Historians campaigning against 'memory laws'... 'Enlightenment is humanity's emergence from self-imposed immaturity. Dare to know! Have courage to use your own understanding!' Immanuel Kant 'What characterises man is his extreme abundance of imagination; therefore, that man is a fantastic animal and that universal history is the gigantic, continuous and insistent effort to go, little by little, putting some order into the crazy fantasy.' José Ortega y Gasset |
