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Congratulations on receiving an offer to study MSc Economics at Warwick, we can't wait to welcome you to Warwick!

As a top student, we know that all of your university choices will be world-renowned, so the next question is, which university do you choose and why should you come to Warwick? Join our offer holder webinar for a chance to find out more about what studying economics at Warwick can offer and the career paths that will be open to you after graduating.

We will be joined by economics staff and a current MSc EIFE student. During the session, there will also be an opportunity for you to ask any questions that you may have about studying economics at Warwick.

Date: Thursday 16 May

Time: 18:00 - 19:00 CST (11:00 - 12:00 UK Time)

Location: Zoom (link will be sent prior to the meeting)

'The political economy of technocratic economic governance and the conduct of Britain’s Office for Budget Responsibility: politics, public policies, and the state'

This paper focuses on the creation in 2010 and subsequent operation of the independent body created to oversee fiscal rectitude in Britain, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR). It analyses the politics of economic management of the UK’s uncertain trajectory, and of British capitalism’s restructuring in the 2010s and 2020s in the face of the upheavals of the global financial crisis (GFC), Brexit and COVID. A focus on the intersection between expert economic opinion of the OBR as UK’s fiscal watchdog, and the political economy of British capitalism’s evolution through and after Brexit, animates a framework for analysing the politics of technocratic economic governance. The idea of taking the politics out of fiscal policy and bolstering financial market credibility by farming it out to ‘technocrats’ proved to be a chimera. The technocratic vision of independent fiscal councils falls short because it fails to grasp a core political economy insight: that economic knowledge and narratives are political and social constructs. Economic projections and forecasting always involves judgement, and in the background are assumptions about principles of political economy which have been debated for centuries. Economic concepts – used to gauge growth trajectories and frame and pilot economic policy – are always founded upon contestable normative assumptions. even when advanced by technocratic bodies like the OBR.

Registration: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScXa2HcFWFY8gXhOKlDg3pUkpG9aVKwU3TVsKNxuYx1zMgxdg/viewform

Thursday May 16, 2–4pm: Chapter 4: Beyond Comparison

Seminars will take place in R3.25. All colleagues, including undergraduate and postgraduate students, are very welcome.

“Love often seems uncontrollable and irrational, but we just as frequently appear to have reasons for loving the people we do. In Love’s Vision, Troy Jollimore offers a new way of understanding love that accommodates both of these facts, arguing that love is guided by reason even as it resists and sometimes eludes rationality. At the same time, he reconsiders love’s moral status, acknowledging its moral dangers while arguing that it is, at heart, a moral phenomenon—an emotion that demands empathy and calls us away from excessive self-concern. Love is revealed as neither wholly moral nor deeply immoral, neither purely rational nor profoundly irrational. Rather, as Diotima says in Plato’s Symposium, love is “something in between.””