April 26, 2010 – 9:20 am by Flying Stag
I trained as a professional engineer. However, at an early stage I moved into computer applications, and spent many years using advanced computer modelling techniques in the design of complex structures.
Economists (who I prefer to refer to as ‘econocapitalists’) traditionally deny – usually patronisingly – that economics can learn from models from other technologies. I [...]
October 6, 2009 – 3:34 pm by James
Tagged sustainability
My name is James Bruges but hyphenated with my wife, Marion, as Wells-Bruges at Redland Meeting. I have served on the Quaker Economics Issues Group. I was an architect in Bristol and then took to writing. The Little Earth Book kept me busy through four editions. The Big Earth Book followed. I have just finished [...]
October 5, 2009 – 5:58 pm by Grace
Tagged climate, green
Grace Crookall-Greening was a member of Quaker Peace and Social Witness (QPSW) Economic Issues Group from 2001-2007. She started out as a journalist, and ended her paid employment working in co-operative development; was media secretary and QPS puplications editor in the ’80s. With late husband John she helped start Bedfordshire Climate Change Forum 12 years [...]
October 2, 2009 – 2:16 pm by zenzen
Hello my name is Dick or Richard. Sometimes I’m also called ‘Microphone-steward-number-one’. You’re welcome to call me any of these!!
I am a financial economist / investment strategist, but seem to be becoming a Quaker-writer at the moment. I’ve been seriously interested in something called the ‘moral-economy’ for about eight years now. I’m pretty sure it [...]
September 25, 2009 – 5:23 pm by Sunniva
I am now the programme manager of QPSW’s Sustainability and Peace programme.
September 25, 2009 – 1:20 pm by suzannei
I’m part of the economic justice staff team in Quaker Peace & Social Witness. I’ll be acting as one of the moderators for this blog, but from time to time may also chip in with comments or contributions.
September 22, 2009 – 5:55 pm by Tony Weekes
I am a one-time member of staff of the department of economics in the University of York. Since 1993, I have worked as an independent researcher, writer and lecturer. From 2000 until 2006, I was a guest lecturer in the Faculty of the Built Environment in Dublin Institute of Technology and then Ferguson Fellow at [...]
September 22, 2009 – 5:55 pm by cyn
I’m an ‘almost-retired’ lecturer. I’ve drifted through various academic disciplines. Presently in management, where I have had the opportunity to explore the issues around ‘Globalisation’. My desire to unpack these issues also comes from a few decades of working in local politics, among other things. I suppose a commitment to equality was also why I [...]
