{"id":812,"date":"2017-03-29T08:05:08","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T08:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/?p=812"},"modified":"2017-03-30T11:22:32","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T11:22:32","slug":"guest-lecture-with-paul-auerbach-social-optimism-an-alternative-political-economy-for-the-21st-century-300317","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2017\/03\/29\/guest-lecture-with-paul-auerbach-social-optimism-an-alternative-political-economy-for-the-21st-century-300317\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest Lecture with Paul Auerbach &#8211; &#8216;Social optimism: an alternative political economy for the 21st century&#8217;, 30\/03\/17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Centre for Critical Thought (CCT)\u00a0talk with Paul Auerbach: Socialist optimism: an alternative political economy for the twenty-first century<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Thursday 30 March 2017 at 17:00 in Grimond LT3<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Centre for Critical Thought invite you to their forthcoming talk with Paul Auerbach. Paul Auerbach, Reader in Economics at Kingston University, offers an alternative political economy for the twenty-first century in Socialist Optimism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). Socialism as human development gives a unity and direction to progressive policies that are otherwise seen to be a form of pragmatic tinkering in the context of a pervasive capitalist reality.<\/p>\n<p>All are welcome to attend this talk, full details can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics\/news-events\/calendar.html?eid=24861\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Centre for Critical Thought (CCT)\u00a0talk with Paul Auerbach: Socialist optimism: an alternative political economy for the twenty-first century Thursday 30 March 2017 at 17:00 in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2017\/03\/29\/guest-lecture-with-paul-auerbach-social-optimism-an-alternative-political-economy-for-the-21st-century-300317\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37326,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[807,131003,131002],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=812"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":815,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions\/815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}