{"id":1522,"date":"2019-02-20T12:03:39","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T12:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/?p=1522"},"modified":"2020-05-07T14:29:04","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T13:29:04","slug":"kent-economics-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/2019\/02\/20\/kent-economics-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"First Kent Economics Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first Kent Economics Summit &#8211; &#8216;Economics in Today&#8217;s World&#8217; &#8211; will take place on Saturday 2 March in Templeman Lecture Theatre (11am &#8211;\u00a05pm).<\/p>\n<p>This student-led initiative, involving both the Kent Economics Society and Kent Invest will include inspiring talks from:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lindayueh.com\/\">Dr Linda Yueh<\/a>,\u00a0economist, broadcaster and writer<\/li>\n<li>Dr James Warren, research economist\u00a0and School of Economics alumnus<\/li>\n<li>Iria Camba Florez de Losada, Senior Analyst at Compass Lexecon and School of Economics\u00a0alumna<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The day will also include an entertaining debate on the topic &#8216;Is Economics Useless?&#8217;, featuring Economics lecturers, Drs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/staff\/profiles\/alfred-duncan.html\">Alfred Duncan<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/staff\/profiles\/amrit-amirapu.html\">Amrit Amirapu<\/a>. Plus there will be a chance to network with speakers and other students over lunch and refreshments.<\/p>\n<p>It promises to be an interesting and\u00a0fun\u00a0day &#8211; so make sure you book your place <a href=\"https:\/\/store.kent.ac.uk\/product-catalogue\/faculty-of-social-sciences\/school-of-economics\/economics-summit-delegate-ticket?fbclid=IwAR0gAdDV4NOsYrngWk2rmtB7tDBGfOefYyBwjQv5mQLzufdQPhelhPGC6H8\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The summit is open to all Kent students and is\u00a0sponsored by\u00a0the Kent Opportunity Fund.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/files\/2019\/02\/kent-economics-summit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1523 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/files\/2019\/02\/kent-economics-summit-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/files\/2019\/02\/kent-economics-summit-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/files\/2019\/02\/kent-economics-summit-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/files\/2019\/02\/kent-economics-summit-624x832.jpg 624w, https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/files\/2019\/02\/kent-economics-summit.jpg 1008w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first Kent Economics Summit &#8211; &#8216;Economics in Today&#8217;s World&#8217; &#8211; will take place on Saturday 2 March in Templeman Lecture Theatre (11am &#8211;\u00a05pm). This &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/2019\/02\/20\/kent-economics-summit\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37654,"featured_media":1907,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[112,94122,9871],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37654"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1522"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2081,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522\/revisions\/2081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}