FESSUD researchers Malcolm Sawyer and Kenneth Hermele recently took part in conference sessions on ’The transformation of money and finance for sustainability’, where they presented the results of the FESSUD research respectively on “The Macroeconomics and Financial System Requirements for a Sustainable Future” and ‘‘Financialisation vs Sustainability: A Polanyian Moment?”. These sessions were part of the International Society of Ecological Economics’ bi-annual conference on “Well-being and Equity within Planetary Boundaries”, organised by the University of Iceland, in Reyjkavik, on 13th and 15th August 2014.
K. Hermele’s speech drew on his FESSUD Working Paper Series No. 32 “Financialisation of the environment: A literature review “, co-written with E. Clark. The PowerPoint presentation is downloadable here.
Malcolm Sawyer’s presentation relied on his FESSUD Working Paper Series No 53 “The Macroeconomics and Financial System Requirements for a Sustainable Future”, co-written with Giuseppe Fontana. The PowerPoint presentation can be consulted here.
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