Sanders may speak at Ohio conference with public banking advocate Ellen Brown

Hope he can make it--public banking advocates are a great potential constituency

http://us9.campaign-archive1.com/?u=83e3e436e1729a8ada363869b&id=bcaadad48c

PROVISIONING AND PROSPERITY: Sustainable Full Employment and Transformational Technologies

At the Binzagr Institute, our name crystalizes our mission: sustainable prosperity. But “sustainability” has become an overused and under-theorized term, which has had the unintentional impact of constraining policy at every stage of the process, from goal envisioning to implementation.

Our holistic view of sustainable economic provisioning means, first and foremost, employment generation as well as environmental conservation and rehabilitation. Both job creation and ecological sustainability imply technological transformations, but one must be cautious; technology possesses both creative and destructive potentials. Technological unemployment, genetic modification, and nuclear arms are just a few of the direct, harmful effects of technological and organizational innovations. Yet technology, after all, is knowledge, and so it also contains the seeds of liberatory possibilities.

Our inaugural conference gathers together scholars and policy makers from diverse backgrounds, fields, and disciplines to engage one another in examining the crux of the employment and environmental debate, and the many technological linkages therein.

Conference themes include:renewable energy
job guarantee and information technologies
financing sustainable development
appropriate roles for government in guiding development
sustainable agriculture and food policies

Topics dealing with these and other aspects of employment, sustainability and functional finance will be discussed.
Conference Speakers

Jan Kregel*, Advisory Board Member, Binzagr Institute
William A. Darity, Jr.*, Professor of Economics, Duke University
Stephanie Kelton*, Chief Economist, U.S. Senate Budget Committee
Senator Bernie Sanders*, United States Senate
L. Randall Wray*, Economics Professor, University of Missouri - Kansas City
Julianne Malveaux*, Advisory Board Member, Binzagr Institute
Mathew Forstater, Research Director, Binzagr Institute
Fadhel Kaboub, President, Binzagr Institute
Ahmed Soliman, Research Scholar, Binzagr Institute
Scott Fullwiler, Research Scholar, Binzagr Institute
Pavlina Tcherneva, Research Scholar, Binzagr Institute
Ellen Brown, Research Scholar, Binzagr Institute
R. Paul Herman, Founder and CEO, HIP Investor
Robert W. Parenteau, Research Fellow, Binzagr Institute
Marco Vangelisti, Research Fellow, Binzagr Institute
Raúl Carrillo, Research Fellow, Binzagr Institute
Shama Azad, Research Fellow, Binzagr Institute
Natalie Brown, Research Assistant, Binzagr Institute
Aqdas Afzal, Research Assistant, Binzagr Institute

* invited (to be confirmed)