G20

Monday 20th April

The economics of turning people into things

Nitasha Kaul, 20 April 2009
Economics does violence when it forgets that social science must also be moral science
Tuesday 7th April

The G20's sins of commission

Tony Curzon Price, 7 April 2009
The lack of domestic credibility in economic policy-making undermines the G20 agreement
Friday 3rd April

G20 Communique, full text

3 April 2009
Full text of the G20 communique for Diigo annotation. Tag your notes "G20"
Thursday 2nd April

Monopoly powers

Tony Curzon Price, 2 April 2009

From the FT on what's happening at the G20:

"A large police presence kept under control a small group of protesters playing a game of Monopoly outside the London Stock Exchange on Thursday morning."

I hope no one cheated and that the police kept an eye on that, too.

Wednesday 1st April

Too big to save: the end of financial capitalism

Saskia Sassen, 1 April 2009
The global financial system has indebted the world and exhausted itself. It has to go

The G20 summit: a transition moment

Stephen Browne, 1 April 2009
A global crisis rooted in the north's failures has its worst effects in the south. There must be change
Tuesday 31st March

Join the Avaaz poll on the world economy

Tony Curzon Price, 31 March 2009

Paul Hilder from Avaaz will give us a write-up of what the poll tells the G20 leaders.

A new world order

Krzysztof Rybinski, 31 March 2009
The G20 is so 20th century. It's time for a Global Strategic Council

University: a place of freedom?

31 March 2009
The University of East London shuts its doors at the very time access and dialogue are needed 

Voices from the Crowd visits the Put People First march

Ollie Brock, Lucy Burns, and Oliver Lamford, 31 March 2009

The G20 ought to be increased to 6 Billion

Daniele Archibugi, 31 March 2009
The legitimacy deficit of international institutions will hamper their effectiveness

China's price: IMF reform

John Springford, 31 March 2009
China's foreign reserves give it an unusual degree of power in the G20 negotiations. It wants real IMF reform
Wednesday 25th March

The G20’s missing voice

Sue Branford, 25 March 2009
A fusion of land and climate crises is consuming the planet. The G20 summit in London won't help
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