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CATEGORIES:St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar Series
SUMMARY:St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar Series - 
 Speaker: Richard Murphy  - Richard Murphy
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20160420T180000
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DESCRIPTION:Talk Title: ‘Will austerity work?’\n\nSpeaker\nRic
 hard Murphy is a UK chartered accountant and polit
 ical economist. He was senior partner of a practic
 ing firm and director of a number of entrepreneuri
 al companies before becoming one of the founders o
 f the Tax Justice Network in 2002. He now directs 
 Tax Research UK and writes\, broadcasts and blogs 
 extensively\, the latter at http://www.taxresearch
 .org.uk/Blog/.  Richard was appointed as Professor
  of Practice in International Political Economy at
  City University in September 2015. During the sum
 mer of 2015 he was widely credited with creating  
 Corbynomics’ and is the creator of the idea now kn
 own as People's Quantitative Easing. Richard’s lat
 est book is ‘The Joy of Tax’ \n(Bantam\, October 2
 015). Richard created the country-by-country repor
 ting concept and has been credited with creating m
 uch of the debate on tax gaps in the UK and Europe
 . He also defined the term ‘secrecy jurisdictions’
 \, now widely used in debates on offshore. He has 
 been involved in many of the stories on corporate 
 tax abuse that have made headlines in recent years
 . Richard is joint author of 'Tax Havens\, The Tru
 e Story of Globalisation'\, Cornell University Pre
 ss 2010 and sole author of 'The Courageous State'\
 , Searching Finance\, 2011. In 2012 the Associatio
 n of International Accountants gave Richard their 
 award for an outstanding contribution to the accou
 ntancy profession. He was named the seventh most i
 nfluential person in international tax by the Inte
 rnational Tax Review in 2013. In 2015 the Sheila M
 cKechnie Foundation named him as their Economic Ju
 stice Campaigner of the Year.\n \nTalk Overview:\n
 Richard Murphy will talk about issues surrounding 
 austerity\, its perceptions and the potential poli
 tical reactions to it. The talk will build on a pa
 per Richard co-authored with Prof Ronen Palan of C
 ity University in November 2015 in anticipation of
  the Spending Review published that month but will
  also bring in themes relating to UK tax reform\, 
 the prospect of raising additional taxation and cr
 eating greater social justice by tackling the UK t
 ax gap (a theme that was created by Richard but ad
 opted by Jeremy Corbyn in the summer of 2015) and 
 the funding of new infrastructure to get the UK ou
 t of economic stagnation (People's Quantitative Ea
 sing). The suggestion that will be made is that no
 t only will austerity not succeed in balancing the
  UK government’s budget but trying to deliver that
  goal will lay the foundation for major political 
 upheaval in the UK. \n\nAll are welcome to attend.
  \nThe seminar series is supported by the Cambridg
 e Journal of Economics and the Economics and Polic
 y Group at the Judge Business School.\n\nPlease co
 ntact the seminar organisers Philip Arestis (pa267
 @cam.ac.uk) and Michael Kitson (m.kitson@jbs.cam.a
 c.uk) in the event of a query.
LOCATION:The Ramsden Room\, St Catharine's College
CONTACT:Philippa Millerchip
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