Wednesday 7th, 3pm The Workshop, 53 Earlham Road
\nA new economic story – The Courageous State
\nA week after the general strike, the author of The Courageous State. Richard Murphy will be visiting Norwich
\nto promote this timely book. He will be offering a sceptical accountant?s view of the economy, and signing
\ncopies at a launch event,<\/p>\n
Murphy has previously spoken at both Occupy St Pauls and Occupy Norwich He says:
\n“We’re facing a crisis in our economy, but you wouldn’t know it if you listened to most politicians. A little
\ntinkering at the endges will, they suggest, put Humpty Dumpty back on the wall again and the banks will be
\nable to carry on as before.
\nMy book has three messages. First we don’t want to put Humpty Dumpty banks back on the wall again,
\nbecause it wasn’t a lot of fun for most people when he was there.
\nSecond, we can’t put him back again because the old economy was unsustainable, so we’ve got to change it.
\nBut most important, and thirdly, we don’t need to put him back because there are real alternatives available to
\nus now. We can have a sustainable economy in which we have near full employment, the services we need,
\nthe banking we want, the security that’s essential and a long term future for our children – but it means
\nreclaiming the state for ordinary people, and not bankers, and putting finance back into an appropriate sized
\nbox so that real business and services that meet real need can flourish instead – and us with them.
\nIt’s a big vision. It’s a viable vision. It’s the politics we need. It’s the politics we haven’t been offered for thirty
\nyears as banking, bankers and their demands suppressed all real political debate. It’s a politics, a state, an
\neconomy and a world in which we can prosper, and as importantly, survive. It’s the Courageous State.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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