Digging into Manitoba Premier Brian Palister’s promise to evaluate the return to arts investment, CBC interviewed GERG research director Alan Freeman about the economic impact of creativity. The answer is ‘a billion new dollars over the next five years – if you do it right’. The interview says why. Share and don’t miss! CBC Report …
The Geopolitical Economy Research Group (GERG) and Manchester University Press announce a new book series. It aims, inter alia, to promote ‘fresh inter- and multi-disciplinary perspectives on the most pressing new realities of the 21st century: the multipolar world and the renewed economic centrality of states in it. While multipolarity is beginning to be recognized …
On February 5, 2016 – Super Tuesday – the Geopolitical Economic Research Group hosted a panel discussion on the American elections. With the help of the moderator, Dr. Todd Scarth, the panelists shared their opinions on the election, analyzed the rise of Trump and discussed potential reverberations of the American election around the world. The …
Socialist Studies has a packed programme at the 2016 Congress of the Humanities in Calgary which opens on May 28. Reduced rate registration is open till March 31st. The programme, which includes three GERG panels, features over 50 Socialist Studies panels with 120 speakers.
By Radhika Desai and Alan Freeman Welcome to our second bulletin. This month features a behind-the-scenes look at the world economy, and a heads-up on why Manitoba is not doing too bad at all. Economists are often humbled by the Danish proverb that runs “never predict anything, especially the future”. In the present market turmoil …
By Alan Freeman Welcome to our new column – and thanks to the Chamber for the invitation. Our first post ties together two news items: We are headed into a recession while every level of government is announcing commitments to ‘Creativity and Culture’. To conventional thinking this sounds odd: why spend on luxuries when we …
The website of the International Working Group on Value Theory is back online. www.copejournal.com A new feature is volume 1 of our journal, Critique of Political Economy, available free of charge. Its contents are listed below. =========== Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1 Editors’ Note: Introducing COPE Articles • David E. Kaun, Nature and Significance …
Boris Kagarlitksy PhD is a Marxist and sociologist who lives and works in Moscow. He is the director of the Institute of Globalization and Social Movements and is the author of many books on the world system of globalized capitalism and the history and contemporary politics of Russia and the Soviet Union. Dr. Kagarlitsky will …
The Geopolitical Economy Research Group (GERG) will hold an international multi-disciplinary conference on ‘From the Thirty Years’ Crisis to Multipolarity: the Geopolitical Economy of the 21st Century World’ at the University of Manitoba from September 25 to 27, 2015. With 138 presenters from over 30 countries, preparations for our conference are well under way, and …
Alan Freeman’s op-ed on the value of creativity was featured in the Winnipeg Free Press on Monday 22nd June. Read it here. You can get Alan’s longer background chapter on “The Irresistible Economics of Art for All” available from McNally Robinson (Grant Park Shopping Centre, 1120 Grant Ave,Winnipeg, phone: (204) 485-0483) for $25.