The CWB Summit is the only UK-wide event dedicated to examining and expanding progressive place economics.
This year the Summit is focussed on examining the questions of how we build wealth for our places and how we ensure that, when we get it, that wealth works hard for our communities. Our keynote speaker, Ann Pettfor has provided her address by video: a thought-provoking challenge to attendees about their role, as local economists within a global economy. She argues that local economic changemakers - communities and public servants alike - are often crippled by inertias and resistance generated by the global economic system but that they are the key to delivery of a green new deal.
Ann Pettifor is a political economist and is best known for predicting the Global Financial Crisis of 2007-9 with her book: The Coming First World Debt Crisis (Palgrave, 2006). In 2008 she (together with colleagues from the economics and environmental sectors) co-wrote the original Green New Deal (GND). Later US Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortez adopted the Green New Deal during her successful 2018 Primary campaign. In 2019 Pettifor published The Case for The Green New Deal. She has been awarded honorary doctorates by Newcastle University, Helsinki University and the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).
4 окт 2024
