Scoop December 2011
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| + | ==Wednesday 7th, Bookluanch, The Courageous State, 3pm The Workshop, 53 Earlham Road== | ||
| + | A new economic story - The Courageous State | ||
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| + | A week after the general strike, the author of The Courageous State. Richard Murphy will be visiting Norwich to promote this timely book. He will be offering a sceptical accountant’s view of the economy, and | ||
| + | signing copies at a launch event to be held at The Workshop on Earlham on Wednesday 7th December at 3pm. | ||
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| + | Murphy has previously spoken at both Occupy St Pauls and Occupy Norwich | ||
| + | He says: | ||
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| + | "We're facing a crisis in our economy, but you wouldn't know it if you listened to most politicians. A little tinkering at the endges will, they suggest, put Humpty Dumpty back on the wall again and the banks will be able to carry on as before. | ||
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| + | My book has three messages. First we don't want to put Humpty Dumpty banks back on the wall again, because it wasn't a lot of fun for most people when he was there. | ||
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| + | Second, we can't put him back again because the old economy was unsustainable, so we've got to change it. | ||
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| + | But most important, and thirdly, we don't need to put him back because there are real alternatives available to us now. We can have a sustainable economy in which we have near full employment, the services we need, the banking we want, the security that's essential and a long term future for our children - but it means reclaiming the state for ordinary people, and not bankers, and putting finance back into an appropriate sized box so that real business and services that meet real need can flourish instead - and us with them. | ||
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| + | It's a big vision. It's a viable vision. It's the politics we need. It's the politics we haven't been offered for thirty years as banking, bankers and their demands suppressed all real political debate. It's a politics, a state, an economy and a world in which we can prosper, and as importantly, survive. It's the Courageous State." | ||
==Weds 7th, Norwich Socialist Talk, General Strike== | ==Weds 7th, Norwich Socialist Talk, General Strike== | ||
