Philosophy, ethics and Methodology Book ISBN

Call for Papers, Call for Participants
The Green Economics Institute
Philosophical Basis of Green Economics, Reform of
Economics, Methodology of Economics, Creating an Ethic for
the 21st and 22nd centuries
2 Day Conference to be held at
Trinity College, University of Oxford
Friday 24 &Saturday 25 2014 10.00 - 17.00
Www.greeneconomics.org.uk
[email protected]
Are we free to choose our future
Is the current problem between Greece and Germany actually a later day rerun of
Socrates versus Epicurius ?
Find out how ancient thought is influencing your thoughts today and how power elites
construct their ideas to persuade you of their views. Take control back with powerful
unravelling of common persuasive narrative !
Whats happened to Democracy in the seat of its origin?
The Green Economics Institute has found that these issues are occupying many
contemporary minds today as they struggle to come to terms with a changed world view and
a challenge of how the future will be.
Past predictions may no longer be valid and long held assumptions about the nature of
reality, ethics, economics and philosophy may have to change. People report feelings of
alienation from our “globalised village”, despair about global power elites hogging all the
power and all the money and influence and the inequalities get greater and greater.
We revisit ancient philosophy and also contemporary ideas and invite all participants to
contribute with their ideas, papers, perspectives to make a fascinating conference.
Initial Timetable
10.30
Friday 24th January 2014
Conference Format
Saturday 25th January 2014
Workshop Format
Introductory Panel
Classical & Ancient Philosophy
Socrates, Seneca, Plato, Aristotle
Epicurius, Sapho
Micro and Macro Economics
Religion Science God and Nature
Spinoza, Descartes
Equilibrium Theories
Utility Efficiency
Freedom and Democracy
and Humanism
Green Philosophical Literature
Kant- Does the world only exist for us and for humans?
Intrinsic values
Other belief systems
Enlightenment and Reason
The emergence of an Ethic and
Ethics in a Green Economy
Economics Methodology
and mechanics
Adam Smith
Concluding Panel and Debate
Philosophical Debates in a Green
Economy
Post modern ideas
Dr Jeff Turk PHD leading
Methodology
Realism, critical realism
Biographical method
Rawls
Sen
Deep Ecology
Eco Feminism
God, Nature and human spirituality?
Belief, the examined life
shared links and communal life
and decision making
Green Ideas and Literature
Marxism
Revolution
17.30
Limits to Growth
Malthus
The Tragedy of the Commons
Hardin
Existentialist and existence discussions
Rawls
Story telling and the lived lives
Behavioural Economics and
Pshycology
Nudge or regulation ?
Diversity in Green Philosophies and their heredities
Diversity in Economics
Perspectives and their routes
Current philosophical Debates
Intergenerational Equity
Current Economics
Methodological Debates
Green Markets, Green Growth or
lifestyle changes
The philosophy of future predictions will the sun rise tomorrow?
Will climate change cause us more problems ?How far
can humans go with their global dominion Project ?
Black Swan Events?
Taleb
What is the nature of truth?
What is the truth of nature?
are we like the chicken
who trusts the farmer who feeds
her every day ?
Philosophy Jargon Busting!
Find out how ancient thought is
influencing your mind today!
This timetable is suitable for CPD Continuous Professional Development
It will be developed as more speakers come on board
Be one of the influential participants creating the ideas of Green
Economics and making waves of global change
Some speakers and writers in the books include:
Professor Mike Benfield,
Founder and inventor of the Green Movement, author of our recent book on the Philosophical Basis of
the Green Movement
Ruth Madoff
Philosopher
Dr Jeff Turk PhD
Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Slovenia.
Academic interests include in Economic and social committee Ecosoc. Social security, social
protection, Slovenia, social exclusion, Belgium and sustainability
Jeffrey David Turk earned a PhD in particle physics from Yale (1994). After working as a postdoctoral
researcher with the University of Wisconsin group at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics
(CERN), he earned an MA in Transition Economics from the Central European University in Budapest,
Hungary (1997) and then a DPhil in Contemporary European Studies (2003) from the University of
Sussex, where he helped coordinate a research collaboration studying the buyer-supplier relations of
companies in Slovenia and Hungary. He is now a Research Fellow and coordinator for international
cooperation at the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences. He initiated and is one of the
lead partners in the research project Habitus of the Slovene Entrepreneur between 1960 and 1990. Postcommunist transitions, biographical methods and methodological issues in the social and physical
sciences. Realist biography and European policy.”
Sandy Irvine
Author in our Philosophical Basis of the Green Movement Book and also our Ethics Book
Steven Mandel, UK
After spending more than 20 years as a development economist working both as a civil servant in
Africa and a consultant in Africa, South Asia, Pacific and FSU/Eastern Europe, specialising first in
transport and then in national and sectoral planning, aid management and budget reform, Steve
joined the New Economics Foundation where he worked on Third World Debt, international financial
institutions and reform of the international financial architecture, publishing a series of three papers
on the debt issue. He is a research associate of the Department of International Development at
Birmingham City University.
“The Greening of Finance issues in macro-economics“
Gerhard Jordon
Austrian Green Historian
Peter Barnet
Green Policy Maker
Tom Chance
Author in our Philosophy Books
Professor Jack Reardon Economist, Hamline University USA
Editor Pluralist Education Journal and author of several books
“Principles of Economics in an age of change”
Peter McManners
A Visiting Executive Fellow of Henley Business School and doctoral researcher in economic geography at
Reading University. He has been a member of the Institute of Green Economics since 2004 and a regular
conference speaker. His has written a number of books about sustainability, resilience and
environmentalism.
The financial imbalances in the global economy are huge with unsustainable levels of debt in some
countries counterbalanced by huge reserves in others, but the problems of the global system go much
deeper in terms of concentrated power and inequity. Rebalancing the financial system will be challenging
but what is the counter balance to excess power and inequity? More is required than rebalancing the global
economy; it needs to be redesigned.
“Rebalance or Redesign of the Global Economy?”
Charles Secrett
Charles is former Director of Friends of the Earth
David Flint
Writer in our recent Philosophy Book
David Taylor
Writer in our recent Philosophy book look at questions of the future of green ideas
Bianca Madison - Vuleta
Bianca is highly trained and experienced in the areas of holistic, ecological and sustainable living. For the
last fifteen years, Bianca has been actively involved in the work of numerous national and international
human rights and environmental NGOs as a committed and inspired campaigner, fundraiser and public
speaker. She is the Co- founder of The Sustainable Planet Foundation. A passionate humanitarian and
environmentalist, Bianca works tirelessly to be the change in the world.
Roger Martin
Chair of Population Matters
"Roger Martin was a career diplomat for 22 years, serving ten years in Africa, Asia and the Middle East and
four at the UN before resigning 'in fury' as a Deputy High Commissioner. He became an environmentalist in
the South-West, and has served on, and chaired, numerous official and NGO bodies including Environment
Agency, MAFF/DEFRA, National Park, Regional Assembly, Biodiversity Action Plan, Waste group, Local
Agenda 21, Wildlife Trust Director, Regional Chair CPRE, etc.
“The link between Population/sustainability/resources”
Sofia Amaral
Ec0nonomist, Nova School of Business and Economics. Portugal.
“The Greening of Portugal in a time of crisis and austerity “
Dr Susan Canney Oxford University
Biodiversity and Resilience Feature
Clive Lord
The Citizens Income and the Green Economy moving into the mainstream
Henry Cox
Long time food campaigner and home gardener
and green economist
Don O'Neil, UK
Don has a BSc(Hons) in Mathematics and an MA in Environmentalism and Society.
He has been the Oxfordshire Greens Treasurer from September 2000 to date and is a political columnist for
The News, a St. Vincent and the Grenadines national newspaper
How people in St Vincent can overcome poverty issues using Green Economics
Miriam Kennet
Kennet has just co edited several books on ethics, philosophy and economics and has just visited
Athens to explore further how ideas are all connected. She has taught at many universities
around the world, spoken at several international conferences and published a multitude of
academic papers. She has made speeches and workshops on Green Economics in several
European countries, including Switzerland, Belgium, Germany, Poland, France, United Kingdom
and Spain, and has taught, trained and lectured most recently at Oxford University, Bath
University, Cambridge University, Birkbeck College, London University, Slubice University Poland,
Frankfurt am Oder and European University Germany ,Alicante,Spain among others
She has attended a multitude of important events and conferences as a guest speaker. Kennet
gave a speech at the UK Parliament on Green IT and "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Repair".She teaches
Sustainable Development to UK Government Departments as part of the National Government
School. Kennet also attended the COP 15 Copenhagen Kyoto Conference on Climate Change as
part of her international delegation involved in developing a green economic analysis of climate
change policies.
Kennet has been published in the Harvard School Economics Review, the "International Journal of
Green Economics" Kennet has also been a guest speaker on BBC Radio and has been featured of
programmes including Wake up to Money programme. In 2011, the BBC broadcast a radio
programme on Kennet's life and work
She was named by One World Action Charity, as one of 100 most powerful women in the world
creating change.
and many other exciting speakers from all around the world
A Green Economy, a world of two tonnes of carbon each.
Green Economics for the 21st and 22nd Centuries
Share green ideas and methodologies with international experts in the field, with
academics and green business leaders. Presentations, Panel Discussions, keynote
speeches, workshops, from MPs, Nobel Prize winners, Economics Professors,
engineers, Business Directors, Campaigners and many others.
Creating a global wave of change!
To find out more and reserve a place, offer a workshop, offer a theme or
presentation, please email us:
[email protected]
website: www.greeneconomics.org.uk
Authors' Writing- Book, Proceedings, and Reports
All participants will be given the opportunity to contribute to our new book,
Green Economics Methodology and Ethics
and may invited to also publish in a special issue of our academic double blind peer reviewed journal
International Journal of Green Economics.
All Participants are invited and encouraged to contribute Papers for the Conference Proceedings
which must be submitted in .odt or .doc format and should be between 2-5 sides A4 fully
referenced and may contain up to 4 pictures or diagrams per paper. It should contain a 5 line
biography about your professional interests and experience.
Our Book chapters are highly sought after and encouraged, so please ask if your idea is suitable. They
should be between 1000 and 4000 words.
Timetable for submissions
Abstracts and workshop requests for themes and
individual presentations
December 20th 2013
Booking forms available on our website in
December 2013
Please email now to express interest and to book a
speaking slot
Early bookings discount 10%
November 2013
Completed Papers for Proceedings
January 10th 2013
Speaker bookings
January 15th 2013
2014 Paid up Green Economics Institute Members
bookings
20% discount if membership has been paid for 2014
Conference Takes Place
Friday January 24 th and 25th 2014 10.00 – 17.00
Dinner out in Oxford
Evening of the 24th January 2014
Chapters, writing & ideas for books
February 2014
Papers for academic journal
International Journal of Green Economics
Rolling continuously but for inclusion in 2014
Registration
The conference must be pre booked.. please email us to express your interest. We hope to
create a further book as a result of the conference and look forward to your participation.
Please fill in a registration form. You can then pay via paypal or bank transfer. All places must
be pre paid.
Registration and Fees
Attendance 1 Day
£60
Attendance 2 Days
£50 each -£100 total
Concessions and students
£30 a day
Invoices -paid by Universities and companies
£80 a day for 1 day
£70 a day for 2 days
Exhibition tables
£150 including entry for 2 people
Oxford University students
£20
Trinity Students
£10
Members of the Green Economics Institute
20 % discount off the above rate
Membership if bought with the admission using this Reduced rate of £50 for membership the year 2014
form only
£30 for students
Please send papers to
[email protected]
Send Bookings to [email protected]
and booking forms and general enquiries
Please email now to express interest. Booking forms will be
available in December 2013
Website www.greeneconomics.org.uk