10月22日讲座：Contemporary Developments in the Political Economy of Europe

Contemporary Developments in the Political Economy of Europe

Speaker: Professor Richard Sanders

(Professor of Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Northampton)

Time: 4:10-5:40 p.m.

Date: 22 October 2014 (Wednesday)

Venue: Room 417, English School Building, BFSU

Introduction

The lecture will cover many aspects of recent economic and political change within Europe (with specific reference to the European Union). It will deal with the progress of economic recovery since the recession of 2008, the particular difficulties for members of the Eurozone in sharing a single currency and the economic policies pursued in handling them, to include tight budgetary policies associated with fiscal austerity, and lax monetary policy associated with quantitative easing and negative real rates of interest. The lecture will discuss recent economic progress in specific European countries to include the UK, Germany, Greece and Ireland. The lecture will also explore contemporary political questions within the EU with particular reference to the UK’s demand for revisions to the European treaties and the implications for the EU should the British Government hold a referendum on the UK’s future membership.

About the Speaker

Dr Richard Sanders is Emeritus Professor of Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Northampton, UK, teaching and researching on political economy and Asian globalization. He got his PhD degree in 1998 writing a thesis entitled “Prospects for Sustainable Development in the Chinese Countryside: the Political Economy of Chinese Ecological Agriculture”. From 1991 to 1993 Prof. Sanders was employed by the British Council in Beijing to work as a foreign expert and lecturer in economics in the English Department of Beijing Foreign Studies University, contributing a great deal to the founding and the development of the British Studies MA programme here. He has published richly, including one authored book entitled Prospects for Sustainable Development in the Chinese Countryside: the Political Economy of Chinese Ecological Agriculture (Ashgate, 2000) and 2 edited books, one of which is entitled China’s Post-Reform Economy: Achieving Harmony, Sustaining Growth (Routledge, 2007). He has also published numerous articles in academic journals and chapters in edited books and has presented research papers at many conferences throughout the world.