As Britain gets ready to go to the polls, join our ten day occupation of Parliament Square to continue building a movement for real democracy: free from corporate control, working for people and planet! We will return to Parliament Square to expose our broken democracy and work towards real democratic solutions through engaging workshops, lively discussions and creative direct action. Check out the programme here. Because democracy is more than an X in a box! Because the super-rich keep winning whoever gets into power! Join us to fight for a Real Democracy Now! more info http://occupydemocracy.org.uk/ ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f25SGlMF3Dk

Mick Moran (Professor of Government, Manchester Business School) Rethinking the British economy:the foundational economy and beyond. PERC 19/3/2015 Speaking at the inaugural event of PERC. Political Economy Research Centre seeks to refresh ‘political economy’, in the original sense of the term, as a pluralist and critical approach to the study of capitalism. In doing so it challenges the sense of economics as a discipline, separate from the other social sciences, aiming instead to combine economic knowledge with various other disciplinary approaches. This is a response to recent critiques of orthodox economics, as immune to interdisciplinarity and cut off from historical and political events. At the same time, PERC engages with innovative cultural approaches to economy, as manifest in the ‘social studies of finance’, which reflect on the dynamic interaction between economic knowledge and economic practice. Questions of the ‘performativity’ of economics, the authority of economic experts and the relationship between academic research and the public (including, but not only, public policy-makers) are constant concerns running through PERC’s work. More info gold.ac.uk/perc ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvEXO2yHe0I