The Network Project: INAUGURAL CONFERENCE

“From Ownership into Stewardship”
a conference about our ideas of ownership, the problems we face,
and how those ideas are being changed by new social activities.

Saturday 19th November 2005
London School of Economics • 10.30am-5pm
Coffee, lunch and afternoon tea included in cost: £15 (£5 concessions)

Programme

10.30 Coffee and registration

11.15am: Welcome from The Network Project: The importance of Ownership (Rosamund Stock)

11.25am: First Plenary
The Neo-liberals and how to beat them: Ian Brown (Network Project)
Taming the Corporations:
Prem Sikka: (Prof. Accountancy, Univ Essex)
Tax and Ownership as the root of Inequality:
John Christensen (Tax Justice Network)
Corporate Social Irresponsibility:
Dan Plesch (SOAS)

12.55 pm Lunch

2.00am: Second Plenary
• Chris Cook (Partnerships Consulting)
• Mark Hayes (University of Newcastle)
• James Page (Green Party)

• Asset-based Finance- a new type of property right: Chris Cook (Partnerships Consulting)
• Ownership, risk and profit for whom? The case of Shared Interest:
Mark Hayes (Northumbria University)
• What is happening to the commons?
James Page (Green Economics)
• Social enterprise:
Nicky Stevenson

3.15 Break

3.25pm: Workshops
An Answerable Economy: Rosamund Stock & Albert Rowland
The problem with philosophy: Brian Ragbourne, Fred Day
Community Land Trusts: Jock Coates
Open House: Chair Robert Corfe

4.30pm: Summing up

17.00 Finish

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