Oh, of course I support the initiative! It is good that such conferences are held. It is just that I personally find it difficult to sit through that many presentations in such a short time. I hesitated quite a while about whether to go or not, but decided against it.
The workshop in itself was very interesting, and contained a lot of useful stuff I was keen to know about, how to approach it. I have not been at university for a long time, and now there is a lot of new research about "financialization" etc. that is worth looking into. But an enormous amount of material was compressed in a very short time, and it was just impossible to take it all in, and digest it. The scholars did also make a lot of effort to answer questions. But probably it would have been better, if there had been some sort of debate, for example with somebody from the banking industry. Such a debate would have been a useful reality check. It is true that a number of papers are available online, but many papers were not. I wondered about how it would be possible to make the step from very abstract theoretical discussions to narratives useful to activists. Political economy is often a rather abstract topic, and it is often not so easy to see how it could provide real orientation and guidance to activists. J.
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