Post Growth: Planning After Capitalism 

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In our next session, "Post Growth: Planning After Capitalism," we are pleased to welcome Carolina Alves, an Associate Professor in Economics at the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, UCL, London, and a Fellow in Economics at Girton College, University of Cambridge. Carolina is the author of two forthcoming books Labour, Value and Capitalism: a Study of Karl Marx’s Poverty of Philosophy (1847) by Editora Dialética and Decolonising Economics: An Introduction by Polity Press. With her background in Macroeconomics and Political Economy, Carolina plays a crucial role in exploring alternative economic models and methodologies.

As a co-founder of Diversifying and Decolonising Economics (D-Econ), her commitment to promoting a more inclusive, equitable, and comprehensive understanding of economics is central to challenging entrenched biases and fostering global justice within the field. Carolina will share her insights on heterodox economics, highlighting the necessity to widen the discipline to embrace diverse perspectives and approaches. This dialogue is designed to confront the need of moving beyond traditional economic paradigms, with a focused lens on sustainability, equity and the decolonisation of economic theory. 

Chair

Dr Alessio Kolioulis, Lecturer in Urban Economic Development, The Bartlett Development Planning Unit, UCL

Speakers

Dr Carolina Alves, Associate Professor in Economics at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, UCL

Carolina Alves is an Associate Professor in Economics at the Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, UCL, London; and a Fellow in Economics at Girton College, University of Cambridge, UK.  She specialises in Macroeconomics, Political Economy, Development, Marxian Economics, Philosophy of Economics; on the subfields of Critical Macro-Finance, Structuralist Macroeconomics, Decolonisation of Economics and Heterodox Economics. Carolina is currently part of the Cambridge Social Ontology Group, and the Alternative Approaches to Economics Research Group – Faculty of Economics, Cambridge. She is the co-founder of the initiative  Diversifying and Decolonising Economics, co-founder of the UCL Centre for Capitalism Studies and co-editor of The Developing Economics blog. She sits on the Rebuilding Macroeconomics Advisory Board, the Progressive Economy Forum Council and the Positive Money Advisory Panel. She is the author of the forthcoming Labour, Value and Capitalism: a Study of Karl Marx’s Poverty of Philosophy (1847) by Editora Dialética, and the co-author of forthcoming Decolonising Economics: An Introduction by Polity Press. 

Discussant

Professor Michael Walls, Director of The Bartlett Development Planning Unit, UCL