‘Development without Growth?’

Ray Cunningham, Jonathan Essex, Tom Lines

Friday 27th November, 13.00 – 14.30, Room 221, Institute of Development Studies
This seminar is jointly held with the Resource Politics cluster at IDS.

In 2013, the green think tank Green House published ‘The Post-Growth Project’, which argues that economic growth, as conventionally measured, is over for the UK in anything but the very short term. It examines some of the many far-reaching implications of this insight, which contradicts mainstream economic and political assumptions. The focus of the book is the implications for the UK.

In this seminar, as well as outlining the core argument of the book, we want to address the implications of the end of growth in the UK for its role in the global economy. Beyond that, we want to open up the question of what an end to growth more widely in the ‘developed’ world will mean for the global economy and especially for ‘developing’ countries, and indeed for our understanding of development as a concept.

Everyone welcome!

About Ray Cunningham, Jonathan Essex, Tom Lines

Ray Cunningham

Green House Coordinator, joint editor of ‘The Post-Growth Project’, former Director of the Anglo-German Foundation for the Study of Industrial Society.

Jonathan Essex

One of the authors of ‘The Post-Growth Project’, a chartered engineer and environmentalist. He has worked for engineering consultants and contractors in the UK, Bangladesh and Vietnam. He is currently a sustainability consultant at IMC Worldwide, and a borough and county councillor in Surrey.

Tom Lines

IDS graduate with 20 years’ international consultancy experience, specialising in trade and finance as they affect poor countries. Previously a business journalist on commodity markets, and lecturer in international business at Edinburgh University.

This is a locally-sourced event. Jonathan is based in Redhill, while Ray and Tom both live in Brighton.

Please contact Annie Lowden ([email protected]) for further details.