> Begin forwarded message: > > From: Jostein Løhr Hauge <jlh...@cam.ac.uk> > Subject: Politics of Economics seminar: Measurement of the Sustainable > Development Goals > Date: 13 February 2019 at 13:31:07 GMT > To: ucam-politics-of-econom...@lists.cam.ac.uk > > Dear all > > The next session of The Politics of Economics > <http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/programmes/the-politics-of-economics > <http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/programmes/the-politics-of-economics>> will be > on Tuesday February 19th at 17.15 pm. We will be joined by Professor Mary > Morgan (LSE) who will talk to us on Measurement of the Sustainable > Development Goals (see abstract at the end of this email). Dr Anna > Alexandrova (Cambridge) will offer comments. The session will take place in > SG1, Alison Richard Building, Sidgwick site. > > As for the rest of the term, we are hosting the following sessions: > > - Tuesday Mar 5th, 17:15 - 18:45: Private Equity and the Balance of Twinkie > the Kid, Seminar Room SG1, Daniel Souleles (Copenhagen Business School) > > You can subscribe to our mailing list here > <https://lists.cam.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/ucam-politics-of-economics > <https://lists.cam.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/ucam-politics-of-economics>>, and > find us on twitter @poleconCRASSH <https://twitter.com/poleconCRASSH > <https://twitter.com/poleconCRASSH>>. > > Best wishes, > > Jostein Hauge, Jack Wright, Alice Pearson, and Raffaele Danna > > > Measurement of the Sustainable Development Goals > Mary Morgan (LSE) > > Recipes for creating economic development have changed radically since the > international community first thought to intervene in such historical > processes soon after WWII. During this time, views about how to measure > development have also changed dramatically, moving from relatively simple to > relatively complex measurement systems. This seminar charts these changes > from using GNP per head to the Sustainable Development Goals and analyses the > potential performativity of those numbers in prompting and guiding > development, and for creating accountability. > > This presentation draws on the paper: “Measuring Development - from the UN’s > perspective” by Mary S. Morgan and Maria Bach, recently published in History > of Political Economy, 2018, 50 (S1): 193-210 >
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