Smart Manitoba: presentation on the economic strategy of the next provincial government
A presentation to the NDP on the role of the creative economy in Manitoba’s future. A briefing document, and a slideshow
The Ignominious Birth, Disastrous Life, Questionable Future and Desirable Death of the Lima Group
Presentation to a policy forum of the Green Party of Canada in support of a resolution for Canada to withdraw from the Lima Group and dissolve it. Includes key background documentation including [...]
From Humanitarian Poster-child to War Criminal: Canadian Foreign Policy towards Venezuela.
Presentation to the 2019 conference of the Society for Socialist Scholars at the Congress of the Humanities, Vancouver 4 June 2019. See also www.nosanctions.org. The parliamentary commission [...]
Regional and Local Social and Economic Development Alternatives: conference in Irkutsk
In September 2018 Sergey Levchenko, the left-wing governor of the region of Irkutsk, organised a conference on Regional and local development, with the assistance of Boris Kakarlitsky. We [...]
The Living Wage and the Minimum Wage – a comparison.
Presentation to International Symposium on ‘China Path toward Poverty Eradication and Comprehensive Well-off Society’, Peking University, October 22-23, 2016. This particular [...]
Brexit, the City, and the crisis of Conservatism
This paper by Radhika Desai and myself was published by the Val Dai club as https://valdaiclub.com/a/reports/report-brexit-the-city-and-the-crisis/. This post also contains a shorter article in [...]
The Economics of Enough: a future for capitalism or a new way of living? Joint paper with Victoria Chick
This paper, originating in the [Harcourt conference], finally materialised in the Dow-Jespersen-Tily volume on ‘Money, Method and Post-Keynesian Economics for the 21st Century’ Cite as: Chick, V. [...]
The Case for Economic Security
Presented at a conference on ‘The Case for Economic Security’, Anti-crisis Expert Forum on ‘State, Business and Regions’, St Petersburg, 18-20 May 2016. Slides and a text
Remembering the Future: Place and narrative in the age of the internet
Keynote presentation to the Association of Manitoba Museums, November 2015. The post includes the text and slides Cite as: Freeman, Alan (2015). ‘Remembering the Future: Place and narrative [...]
Schumpeter’s Business Cycles Revisited: talk to the Kondratieff Institute in St Petersburg
A paper on the illusion of self-restoration and the need for an industrial policy for Russia. This post contains the paper, and two preparatory pieces of interest
