Past Events

The UoM Post-Crash Economics Society were lucky to have Kate Raworth from the University of Oxford present her work on Ecological Economics. Ecological Economics is perhaps one of the most important ways of thinking alternatively about the economy, and creates a real conversation about sustainability and the economy’s place within the ecosystem. To view the

One of the key motivations for PCES has been a forward-looking desire for us, as graduates of Economics, to understand our social environment and, beyond this, to change  it. Following the economic crisis of 2008 enigmas such as unemployment, debt crises and threats of inter-generational inequality persist. Often as students we are left to accept

From the Vienna University of Economics and Business, last Tuesday, Clive Spash came to Manchester to deliver a talk on the environmental school of economic thought. After the recent, strikingly bizarre bout of flooding across the UK, nothing could really be more relevant than a discussion of how Economics, note capital E, economics as a

The theme of the second reading group was Institutional Economics, which focuses on the role of laws, culture, norms and organisations in determining how economies and populations function. The reading was Herbert Simon’s well-known 1995 paper Organisations and Markets, which argues that in modern capitalist economies, organisations rather than markets are the dominant method through which resources

This Monday, the self-professed heterodox economist, Ha-Joon Chang, came over to Manchester to deliver a speech to an assorted group of students, a speech designed to sketch out the significant, historical threads of economic thought, and to propose a principle solution to our current problem: the ugly bias of mainstream economics, and its suffocating refusal