About this Event
Join UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose for the screening of the movie "Finding the Money" followed by a panel discussion on Thursday 3rd October 2024 at 18:15-20:45 (BST) at the Sir Ambrose Fleming Lecture Theatre at University College London (UCL).
Attendance is free for students and people on low incomes. For those who can afford it, a donation of £6.50 per ticket (or more if you're able to donate in solidarity) would be greatly appreciated so that we can cover the filmmaker's costs.
About this movie:
FINDING THE MONEY follows American economist Stephanie Kelton on a journey through Modern Money Theory or “MMT”.
Kelton provocatively asserts the National Debt Clock that ticks ominously upwards in New York City is not actually a debt for us taxpayers at all, nor a burden for our grandchildren to pay back. Instead, Kelton describes the national debt as simply a historical record of the number of dollars created by the US federal government currently being held in pockets, as assets, by the rest of us. MMT bursts into the mainstream media, with journalists asking, “Have we been thinking about how the government spends money, all wrong?”. But top economists and politicians from across the political spectrum condemn the theory as “voodoo economics”, “crazy” and “a crackpot theory”.
FINDING THE MONEY traces the conflict all the way back to the story we tell about money, injecting new hope and empowering countries around the world to tackle the biggest challenges of the 21st century: from climate change to inequality.
Meet the panel:
- Speaker: Patricia Pino | PhD candidate at the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose
- Speaker: Zack Polanski | Deputy Leader of the Green Party for England and Wales. Zack is also a member of the London Assembly and chairs London's Environment committee. In these two roles, his work recently has ranged from intersectional work with women around the globe on the front line of the crisis to campaigning around the country resulting in the Green Party's most successful elections yet.
- Speaker: Josh Ryan-Collins | Associate Professor in Economics and Finance at UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose
- Chair: William Thomson | Founder, Scotonomics
More details on UCL's website.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Sir Ambrose Fleming Lecture Theatre, Gower Street, London, United Kingdom
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