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 atTrinity College, University of Oxford

Friday 24 &Saturday 25 2014 10.00 - 17.00

Www.greeneconomics.org.uk greeneconomicsinstitute@yahoo.com

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 FormatSaturday 25th January 2014

Workshop Format

Introductory Panel Classical & Ancient Philosophy

Socrates, Seneca, Plato, AristotleEpicurius, Sapho

Micro and Macro Economics

Religion Science God and Nature Spinoza, Descartes

Equilibrium Theories Utility Efficiency

Freedom and Democracyand 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 Methodologyand mechanics

Adam Smith

Concluding Panel and DebatePhilosophical 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 lifeshared links and communal life

and decision making

Green Ideas and Literature Marxism

Revolution

Limits to Growth Malthus

The Tragedy of the CommonsHardin

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 DebatesIntergenerational 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

are we like the chicken who trusts the farmer who feeds

her every day ?

17.30 What is the nature of truth?What is the truth of nature?

Philosophy Jargon Busting! Find out how ancient thought is

influencing your mind today!

This timetable is suitable for CPD Continuous Professional DevelopmentIt 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. Post-

communist 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, UKAfter 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 BarnetGreen Policy Maker

Tom Chance Author in our Philosophy Books

Professor Jack Reardon Economist, Hamline University USAEditor 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 - VuletaBianca 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 AmaralEc0nonomist, Nova School of Business and Economics. Portugal.

“The Greening of Portugal in a time of crisis and austerity “

Dr Susan Canney Oxford UniversityBiodiversity 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, UKDon 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 KennetKennet 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.

Authors' Writing- Book, Proceedings, and Reports

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:

greeneconomicsinstitute@yahoo.com

website: www.greeneconomics.org.uk

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 submissionsAbstracts 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 form only

Reduced rate of £50 for membership the year 2014£30 for students

Please send papers to GEIBooksandjournal@yahoo.co.uk

Send Bookings to greeneconomicsevents1@yahoo.co.uk 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