Debt has been very high on the news agenda recently. Greece for example: a country plagued by debt, which decided in early days that rather than taking the default route would take on new loans from German, French and other creditors in return for harsh and predictably ineffective austerity measures, and which has this week […]
In advance of his forthcoming book, The Happiness Industry, Will Davies debated the politics and value of happiness measurement with leading happiness economist, Andrew Oswald, in this Guardian article.
In the days following the publication of the UK budget this workshop aimed to change the terms of debate on the UK economic ‘recovery’. The event forged an important dialogue about the known, as well as barely discovered, spaces, places and people who make up ‘the economy’. This is the first event of an ESRC-sponsored seminar […]
