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Ferraris For All - In Defence of Economic Progress with Daniel Ben-Ami

Image Above: Front cover of Daniel Ben-Ami book, Ferraris For All - In Defence of Economic Progress.
Tuesday, 20 July 2010 - 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Waterstones
71-74 North Street
Brighton

The growth of the economy and the spread of prosperity are increasingly seen as problematic rather than positive. They are accused of encouraging greed, damaging the environment, causing unhappiness and widening social inequalities. The mainstream acceptance of these views is a trend Daniel Ben-Ami has termed ‘growth scepticism’.

Ferraris for all is a rejoinder to the growth sceptics. Using examples from a range of countries, the author argues that society as a whole benefits from greater affluence. Action is needed – not to limit prosperity, but to encourage creativity and growth in resolving the problems of poverty, inequality and the environment, to increase abundance and to spread it worldwide.

Speaker

Daniel has worked as a journalist for over 20 years. He is a regular contributor to spiked and his work has appeared in publications including the Financial Times, The Guardian, The Independent, Novo (Germany), Prospect, The Sunday Telegraph and The Sunday Times.

He has appeared on numerous radio stations including Australia’s ABC Radio National (Counterpoint programme), Air America Radio (Al Franken Show), BBC Radio 2 (Jeremy Vine Show), BBC Radio 4 (the Today programme and the Moral Maze), BBC Radio 5 Live and Hungarian public radio. His television appearances include Al Jazeera English language television, BBC News 24, BBC World, Bloomberg TV, CNBC, CNN and Sky News.

Chair

Sean is a founder member of The Brighton Salon and a journalist who formerly worked in the local press industry and on the magazines Computing and Campaign. Sean has written dozens of reviews of salon events and occasionally contributes to other publications. He has been involved with many and various political and cultural campaigns for many years.

Sean writes freelance about the relationship between journalism the public and runs an editing and proofing company. He also organises activities for The Brighton Salon as its secretary.