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by | 25/05/2011 · 11:00

Announcement: Lecture on City Branding & Creative Cities

GSZBy Renard Teipelke

On the upcoming Saturday, May 28th, four experts for creative cities and industries are going to give lectures at the Georg Simmel Center for Metropolitan Studies / Humboldt University in Berlin (7pm-11pm; Unter den Linden 6, 10117 Berlin). The lecture section is titled “Poor but Sexy? – Creative Economy and Creative Industries in Berlin” and is part of the 11th Long Night of the Sciences – an event that attracts thousands of people to experience science and research in open lectures, workshops, experiments, tours, and exhibitions at 68 academic institutions in Berlin, Potsdam, and Wildau.

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by | 16/05/2011 · 10:19

11th Symposium of the Humboldt Economics Forum: Growth and/or Sustainability!? – Part III

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by Renard Teipelke

Part III

The dilemma between growth and sustainability was supposed to be ‘solved’ by the last panel on which Professor Meyer (University of Osnabrück) underscored that all the well-intentioned objectives of a ecologically and socially more friendly development needs to be made the central element of the current political agenda. Oddly enough for economists, Professor Meyer and Professor Burda (Humboldt University Berlin) saw the state as the sole capable actor to force market players into the right direction (a.k.a. ‘offer the right incentives’ – since any notion of socialist methods is to be avoided).

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11th Symposium of the Humboldt Economics Forum: Growth and/or Sustainability!? – Part II

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by Renard Teipelke

Part II

Addressing the relationship between developed and developing coutnries, Professor Irmen (University of Luxemburg) reminded the audience that the highly developed countries will not be capable of dictating the emerging countries how to grow. London-based development expert Sanou Mbaye furthered this idea for the African case when remarking that we cannot rule out 400 years of European-African history. Despite China’s efforts on the African continent, Mbaye emphasized that the clear strategy of the rising world power has nothing to do with a sustainable development but that this evidently leads to a future relationship between China as the economic heavy weight and the African continent as her extended workbench.

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11th Symposium of the Humboldt Economics Forum: Growth and/or Sustainability!? – Part I

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by Renard Teipelke

Part I

The world struggles with major challenges ranging from the global economic crisis to terrorism and in Germany, intellectuals come together to discuss issues often pejoratively ascribed to rich countries’ ‘green agenda.’ The opposite understanding of a symposium about the relationship between growth and sustainability would be that this is the topic that needs to be addressed right now – in a time of crisis or better to say: a time of crises (economic, political, social, financial, ecological crisis). Therefore, I have to thank the students of Berlin’s Humboldt University for professionally organizing this conference for the 11th time and, once again, bringing together a distinctive group of economic, social, and political thinkers to discuss where our society is standing right now, where we came from, and in which direction we’re heading.

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