{"id":4875,"date":"2023-01-19T12:05:27","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T12:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/?p=4875"},"modified":"2023-01-24T09:50:49","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T09:50:49","slug":"economics-everywhere-seeing-and-using-economics-in-your-everyday-and-professional-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/2023\/01\/19\/economics-everywhere-seeing-and-using-economics-in-your-everyday-and-professional-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Economics, everywhere: seeing and using economics in your everyday and professional life.\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">Dr. Jack Meaning <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">is a Senior Economist at the Bank of England and has been the Economic Advisor to two Bank of England Chief Economists. He is also a best-selling author of <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=4794&amp;action=edit\">Can\u2019t We Just Print More Money?<\/a> the Bank of England\u2019s first pop-econ book in its 300 year history.<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/files\/2023\/01\/cant-we-just-print-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4879\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/files\/2023\/01\/cant-we-just-print-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"419\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">Economics is everywhere in the world around us and it shapes all of our lives. From the big things, like global growth, the cost of living and climate change, to those decisions much closer to home, like what job you do, your favourite pick and mix, or which social media platform you choose.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-US\">This is exactly why Kent School of Economics alumnus is going to talk about how economists can use the skills they learn to view and shape the world around them for the better. He\u2019ll speak on how it is possible to use economics to build a variety of careers and why it is so important that economists learn to come out of their bunkers and bring the \u201cdismal science\u201d to life, now more than ever.<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span lang=\"en-US\">Wednesday 25 January <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span lang=\"en-US\">3.30-4.30pm<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span lang=\"en-US\">Sibson lecture Theater 2 (<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">SIBLT2:\u00a0<\/span><a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kent.ac.uk%2Fmaps%2Fcanterbury%2Fcanterbury-campus%2Fbuilding%2Fsibson-building%2Fsiblt2&amp;data=05%7C01%7CG.Shore-Banks%40kent.ac.uk%7Ce62373d4889744314f3708dafa070495%7C51a9fa563f32449aa7213e3f49aa5e9a%7C0%7C0%7C638097205286246029%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=kbXxpy2d%2F%2BWWDsIvHNX2i2HjwVslrK5pZkg%2FiVNkM7w%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"VerificationFailed\" data-linkindex=\"0\"><span lang=\"en-US\">SIBLT2 &#8211; Maps &#8211; University of Kent<\/span><\/a><span lang=\"en-US\">).\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Jack Meaning is a Senior Economist at the Bank of England and has been the Economic Advisor to two Bank of England Chief Economists. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/2023\/01\/19\/economics-everywhere-seeing-and-using-economics-in-your-everyday-and-professional-life\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66395,"featured_media":4878,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[112,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4875"}],"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\/66395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4875"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4889,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4875\/revisions\/4889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}