Permacrisis – A Plan to Fix a Fractured World
Join former Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Nobel Laureate Michael Spence as they discuss their provocative plan to prevent crises and set the world on a better, fairer course.
Social Sciences Hub
Date: Friday 29 September 2023
Time: 12:15 - 13:15
Venue: Bute Hall
Category: Public lectures
Speaker: Gordon Brown and Michael Spence
They will introduce their new book, Permacrisis: A Plan to Fix a Fractured World, which brings together three of the most internationally respected and experienced thinkers of our time. Gordon Brown, Mohamed A. El-Erian and Michael Spence found their recent conversations increasingly focused on a cascade of crises: sputtering growth, surging inflation, poor policy responses, an escalating climate emergency, worsening inequality, increasing nationalism and a decline in global cooperation. The new book is the result of those conversations. Recognising that past mistakes had set the world on a bumpy course, they realised that a better path leading to a brighter future exists. Permacrisis: A Plan to Fix a Fractured World, written with Reid Lidow, offers achievable solutions to some of the world’s greatest challenges, and sets out how we can prevent crises and create a fairer world for future generations.
Gordon and Michael will be in conversation with Professor Sara Carter OBE FRSE, Vice-Principal and Head of the College of Social Sciences at the University of Glasgow.