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Growth and Consumption - Evening Public Seminar

Sponsored by the Centre for Alternative Economic Policy Research Inc and the Centre for Public Policy

Evening Public Seminar
Thursday 29 July 2004
5.15pm - 8.00pm

Multifunction Room, School of Graduate Studies (the '1888 Building')
(building 198, gate 6 on campus map).

Gold coin-donation

Aims

The purpose of this public seminar is to promote discussion on the relationship between growth, production, consumption and sustainability with a view to stimulating discussion on ecologically sustainable alternatives to the current economic orthodoxy concerning growth and consumption.  In particular, the speakers will be addressing the following questions:
  1. What are the different theoretical approaches to the interrelationships between growth/non-growth and production, consumption and sustainability?
  2. For those approaches that assume economic growth, how do they address ecological sustainability?
  3. For those approaches that do not assume economic growth, how do they address employment?
Program   

5:15pm:     Arrive, light refreshments.

5:45pm:     Welcome, introductions: Professor Mark Considine, CPP Director and Chair.

5:55pm:      Paper 1: 'Consuming Our First Planet': Dr. Graham Dunkley, economist, author (Vic.)

6:30pm:     Questions of clarification

6:45pm:     Paper 2:  'Sustainability: the implications for consumption, employment and growth':
                    Richard Sanders, ecological economist  (Qld.)

7:05pm:     Questions of clarification, and discussion.
   
8:00pm:     Close.                   

Participant Biographies

Dr. Graham Dunkley

Dr. Graham Dunkley is an economist and author, whose interests include policy development work with various environmental organisations, the Australian Labour Party, trade unions and labour research bodies. He has worked with Oxfam/Community Aid Abroad, and is a Research Associate at the Victoria University of Technology. He has written The Greening of the Red: Sustainability, Socialism and the Environmental Crisis, (Pluto Press, 1992), The Free Trade Adventure: The WTO, the Uruguay Round and Globalism - A Critique (Zed Books 2000), and Free Trade: Myth, Reality and Alternatives (Zed Books 2004). He is also President of the Centre for Alternative Economic Policy Research Inc.

Download Dr Dunkley's paper (Word 1.72 Mb)

Richard Sanders

Richard Sanders is an ecological economist and futurist. He is a Senior Policy Officer with the Department of Natural Resources, Mines and Energy in Queensland, a member of Harvard's Network for Science and Technology for Sustainability, and is heavily involved with the Tellus Institute's 'Great Transition Initiative'. His recent meetings with key researchers and policy makers in Canada and the US have strongly supported his approach to clarifying the meaning of sustainability from a systems hierarchy and theoretical perspective.
Download Richard Sanders' paper (Word 97.5 Kb)

Suggested background reading

Thomas Princen, Michael Maniates and Ken Conca (eds.) Confronting Consumption (Cambridge, M.A.:MIT Press, 2002).

Special issue of Global Environmental Politics 1(3) (2001): 1-10 on Consumption.

Marius De Geus, The End of Over-Consumption: Towards a Lifestyle of Moderation and Self-Restraint (International Books, Utrecht, 2003).

Clive Hamilton Growth Fetish (Allen and Unwin, 2003).

Geoff Davies Economia. New economic systems to empower people and support the living world. (ABC Books, Sydney, 2004).
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