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Alternatives to Austerity? Schumacher’s Economics in the Great Recession

What is the connection between debt, growth and the price of oil and other commodities?

Are we subsidising the next recession by focusing on a return to growth?

Join us at this one-day conference to explore whether we can update E.F. Schumacher’s economic philosophy to respond to our current economic crisis. How can we create an economic system where people and the planet matter?

Some of the leading economic and environmental thinkers will convene in Bristol to explore austerity, debt, growth and human development in 2013 – particularly in light of environmental and resource stress.

And since we are ‘all in this together’, we want to hear your thoughts on these complex and challenging issues!

Keynote Speaker (Via Video): Richard Heinberg, Author ‘The End of Growth’ and ‘Peak Everything’

Richard is a Senior Fellow of the Post Carbon Institute and is one of the world’s foremost Peak Oil educators. He has written for Nature, The American Prospect, The Ecologist, Resurgence, The Futurist and European Business Review. Richard has been quoted in Time Magazine, and appeared in Leonardo DiCaprio’s documentary Eleventh Hour. He is a recipient of the M King Hubbert Award for Excellence in Energy Education and sits on The King of Bhutan's International Expert Working Group for the New Development Paradigm.

Other speakers include: Molly Scott-Cato, The Green Party; Nafeez Ahmed, The Guardian, Tim Sunderland, Natural England and David Fell, Brook Lyndhurst.

Any enquiries, please contact Emmelie Brownlee (emmelie@schumacherinstitute.org.uk) If financial constraints are preventing you from attending, please contact us.

If you are interested in this event, you may also enjoy Bristol Festival of Economics (Bristol Festival of Ideas) - http://www.ideasfestival.co.uk/2012/events/festival-of-economics/

“We must study an economics of permanence.” E.F Schumacher, Small is Beautiful (1973)