Wednesdays 12noon-2pm at the School of Economic Science, 11-13 Mandeville Place, W1U 3AJ. From Bond Street tube, turn left/west into Oxford Street, when you see GAP, go right/north along James Street straight into Mandeville Place – No. 11 is the building with pillars last on the left.
‘MATTERS IN THE AIR’ which participants could choose to develop…..
1. IMMEDIATE SUPPORT FOR ACTIVISTS
a] QUILLIGAN SEMINARS ROUND 2 + Greco Visit + Harrison book launch – Oct 22-28th – latest details second attachment Registrations and/or donations are invited. a s a p in support of this second experiment in proto-typing systemic change.
b] Challenges set by
– FRANK TAYLOR [Runnymede Project], helping on Oct 26th
– MARIO MOLINARI [Food as common basis and entry point for a new economy]
– JASPER TOMLINSON [ future thrust of CCMJ & of Molton Salt Reactors]
– PAUL MOORE New Wilberforce Alliance – http://www.thetablet.co.uk/article/162939 – Paul Moore, helping on Oct 26th
– CHARLES SECRETT Developing a ‘critical mass’ capable of moving the political economy significantly – charting ‘a matrix of critical mass’
– Oct 28th – FRED HARRISON – Book Launch Oct 28th see attachment
– ROBERT SEARLE – keeping a close eye on Heterodox Economics – We’d value comment on anything identified as helpful to our cause.
c] Sesto Castagnoli joined us last week and introduced us to an inspiring initiative ‘GRADIDO – Natural Economy of Life – a way to world-wide prosperity and peace in harmony with nature’ – please retain this for future reference: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1n9WBYRxQQ_lqnNUj0k13LD330ARB5TfwIMQn4YWLRiM/edit
d] Request for accommodation night of Oct 25 and 26 for an associate of the Table coming to the Seminar on Building a Movement.Contact Peter if you can help.
3. AREAS FOR DEEPER INVESTIGATION
a] Rodney Shakespeare, Public Banking in America – YouTube
Rodney Shakespeare speaking at the Public Banking Institute’s inaugural conference in …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zs0ulvqF9Kw
b] Theos Annual Lecture 2012 with the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams – The person and the individual: human dignity, human relationships and human limits
Westminster Central Hall, Monday 1st October at 6.30 for 7pm.
c] Church of Scotland’s 49 page Special Commission on the Purpose of the Economy – A Right Relationship with Money : May 2012 http://www.churchofscotland.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0009/9765/Economics_Commission_email_and_web_version.pdf Comments wanted please from anyone able to examine this.
e] JustShareUK: https://twitter.com/intent/user?screen_name=JustShareUK – If you missed Molly Scott Cato’s ‘s lecture@JustShareUK last night, watch it on our website soon and try her blog meanwhile: http://gaianeconomics.blogspot.co.uk
f] New economic model from Michael Hudson and Dirk Bezemer :
Incorporating the Rentier Sectors into a Financial Model
http://michael-hudson.com/2012/09/incorporating-the-rentier-sectors-into-a-financial-model-3/ Sat Sep 15, 2012 This new posting from Michael Hudson seems to pull all the monetary aspects of the economy together by building on the work of Henry George, Steve Keen and the MMT Group. Well worth a look. I particularly like Figure 4 which shows all the monetary flows which arise in an economy in a nice diagram.
4. YOUR INPUT ON THE ‘MATTERS IN THE AIR’ YOU WISH TO SHARE
a] SABINE MCNEILL’S detailed submission to the CBS
b] ROBIN SMITH’S The Economic Rent Circle (TERC) – 530pm, Every Friday, The Brewmaster pub, Leicester Square
c] Mark Horler posted in Simpol-UK
http://simpoluk.wordpress.com/2012/09/10/regarding-democracy-2015/
Regarding Democracy 2015 simpoluk.wordpress.com
Last week, Andreas Whittam Smith (AWS), the founder of The Independent newspaper launched a new poli…?
d] ‘ELEMENTAL:Three Stories, Three Continents, One Commitments to Change’ http://www.elementalthefilm.com/
QUILLIGAN SEMINARS 2
Away with straight-edged rulers
to save a fractal universe.
In nature’s persistent emergence
treat money and land as social commons,
like air and oceans,
the bio-sphere and deep deposits
of past storing centuries,
to serve all generations ahead.
Join our proto-typing of
systemic recovery and renewal
at the Quilligan Seminars
in ten days, 22-28 of October, 2012
Yours along the pilgrims’ costly way, Peter
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7 ISSUES recently restated by Charles Eisenstein
but identified in the work of CCMJ, Global Table, CEJ and Commons Rising,
….each issue with its…
1. Motivation:
2. Transition and Policy: and
3. Replenishing Effect on Economic life:
a. Negative-Interest Currency
b. Elimination of Economic Rents, and Compensation for Depletion of the Commons
c. Internalization of Social and Environmental Costs
d. Economic and Monetary Localization
e. The Social Dividend
