News
In the new publication Capitalism in a New Geopolitical Order. Conclusions and Summary from the Work of Glasshouse Forum 2007–2011, Kay Glans and Johanna Laurin Gulled of the Glasshouse Forum secretariat summarise our work so far. Download the publication here.
Release of the seventh issue of our newsletter LookingGlass. In this winter issue we have the pleasure of presenting two new Glasshouse Forum publications: Understanding Short-termism: the Role of Corporate Governance, written by Gregory Jackson, Freie Universität Berlin, and Anastasia Petraki, University of Bath, and the anthology Beyond the Consumption Bubble, published by Routledge in cooperation with Glasshouse Forum.
Read more about these new publications in LookingGlass 1/2011.
The anthology Beyond the Consumption Bubble is now being shipped from its publisher Routledge in New York to Europe.
The anthology Beyond the Consumption Bubble will be published in a couple of months by Routledge in New York. The editors are Karin M. Ekström, professor in marketing at the University of Borås, and Kay Glans, ediitorial coordinator at Glasshouse Forum. Read more.
Inequality increased in the West in the years before the financial crisis. How will the crisis and the recession influence inequality? Listen to what the experts said at the conference "Inequality in a Time of Contraction" at Stanford University on 12-13 November.
Inequality in a Time of Contraction - an international conference organised by Glasshouse Forum and Stanford University - took place at Stanford University on 12-13 November.
Speakers included: Anthony Atkinson, Oxford University, Enrico Moretti, University of California Berkeley, Philippe Aghion, Harvard University, Robert Frank, Cornell University, Richard Blundell, University College London, Richard Freeman, Harvard University, Jonas Pontusson, Princeton University, Thomas DiPrete, Columbia University, John Van Reenen, London School of Economics/GSB Stanford University, Kim Weeden, Cornell University. Moderator: Chris Giles, Economics Editor, Financial Times. Read more.
Release of the sixth issue of our newsletter LookingGlass. In this autumn issue we look at what global order will arise when the USA climbs down from its current position of power. We have interviewed the Italian political scientist Giovanni Grevi who argues that the world will become both multipolar and more interdependent. We have also read a number of recent books on deglobalisation and the economic crisis. Read and download LookingGlass 4/2009 here.
Release of the report A China Model? Understanding the Evolution of a "Socialist Market Economy", written by Orion A. Lewis and Jessica C. Teets, Middlebury College, USA. Read more and download the report here.
2009-09-10
Release of the fifth issue of our newsletter LookingGlass. In this issue we continue the debate on the nature of the Chinese system and present a new report which helps us grasp what "socialist market economy" in fact means. We also take a closer look at the origins of the Great Recession in an interview with Thomas I. Palley. Read and download LookingGlass 3/2009 here.
Release of the scenario report Alphabet Soup: The Political Economy of the Great Recession, written by Daniel W. Drezner, Professor of International Politics at The Fletcher School, Tufts University. Read more and download the report here.
Release of the fourth issue of Glasshouse Forum's newsletter LookingGlass. In this summer issue, we take a look at the role of the state in the economy and the rise of protectionism as a response to the global crisis. We have interviewed George Soros, James K Galbraith and Dean Baker. We also have the pleasure of presenting a new scenario report written by Daniel W. Drezner. Read and download LookingGlass 2/2009 here.
Public seminar: The Impact of the Global Crisis on EU-China Relations - a Glasshouse Forum seminar in Stockholm in cooperation with ECFR.
Speakers: Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European studies, Oxford, and ECFR Member, Shaoguang Wang, Professor of Political Science at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, John Fox, ECFR Asia Senior Policy Fellow. Moderated by Mark Leonard, Executive Director of ECFR.
Timothy Garton Ash and Mark Leonard (Photo: Jonatan Kruse)
The seminar started with a screening of the film Is There a China Model?, a video documentation of the China-West Intellectual Summit, produced by Glasshouse Forum.
2009-05-06
Film release: Is There a China Model? A video documentation from Glasshouse Forum's China-West Intellectual Summit. Read more and download the film and the summary.
Release of the third issue of Glasshouse Forum's newsletter LookingGlass. Read and download LookingGlass 1/2009 here.
Glasshouse Forum's China-West Intellectual Summit was held in Paris on 23-24 February 2009. The Summit explored China’s search for a modernity of its own as an alternative to the logic of the Euro-American modernity and capitalism. It discussed whether China is, or has the potential of becoming, a model for such an alternative modernity and which consequences might follow. It also discussed the effects of the financial crisis on the debate about the China model. The summit brought together prominent intellectuals from the West and China for an open exchange on these topics.
The participants were Gideon Rachman, Chief foreign affairs columnist for the Financial Times, will moderate the summit. Other confirmed participants are: Timothy Garton Ash, Oxford University, Daniel A. Bell and Zhiyuan Cui of the Tsinghua University in Beijing, Azar Gat, Tel Aviv University, Simon Long, Asia editor for The Economist, Vivienne Shue, Oxford University, Shaoguang Wang, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Feng Zhang, The Foreign Policy Centre in London, Wei-Wei Zhang, Centre for Asian Studies in Geneva and Fudan University in Shanghai, and Yongnian Zheng, National University of Singapore.
Standing from the left: Zhiyuan Cui, Azar Gat, Yongnian Zheng, Wei-Wei Zhang,
Feng Zhang, Simon Long, Daniel A. Bell. Sitting from the left: Timothy Garton Ash,
Shaoguang Wang, Gideon Rachman, Vivienne Shue. (Photo: Jonatan Kruse)
Read more about the summit on Gideon Rachman's Financial Times blog. Glasshouse Forum will, in cooperation with the production company Edinim, produce a film from the conference. We will also publish a summary of the discussions. Both will be available on this website in May 2009. Read more about the project "The return of the capitalist-authoritarian great powers".
2008-12-16
Release of a new publication from our project "Globalisation and the middle class in the West": Towards an Hourglass Society? Income Differentials and the Fate of the Middle Class, edited by Kay Glans & Johanna Laurin. Read more and download the report.
2008-12-16
Release of a new publication from our project "Short-termism in the long run": An Edited Transcript from a Round-Table Conference on Short-Termism, edited by Kay Glans & Johanna Laurin. Read more and download the transcript.
2008-12-16
Release of the second issue of Glasshouse Forum's newsletter LookingGlass. Read and download here.Seminar in Stockholm based on Sten Widmalm's and Sven Oskarsson's report Tolerance and Democracy in Liberal and Authoritarian Market Economies. In collaboration with Global Challenge. More information (in Swedish) available here.
"Wake up Left, you’ve won!". Article by Kay Glans, editorial coordinator of Glasshouse Forum in the arts and culture section of Sweden's largest daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter. Read an english version here.
2008-09-24
Release of four new publications from our project "The return of the capitalist-authoritarian great powers":
An Edited Transcript from a Round-Table Conference on Authoritarian Capitalism
White Whale or Red Herring? - Assessing Sovereign Wealth Funds, by Daniel W. Drezner
The Limits of the China Model, by Johan Lagerkvist
Tolerance and Democracy in Liberal and Authoritarian Market Economies, by Sten Widmalm & Sven Oskarsson
2008-09-24
First issue of Glasshouse Forum's newsletter LookingGlass published.
2008-09-23
"Swedish development assistance put out of the running by capitalist dictatorships". Opinion piece in Sweden's largest daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter (the debate page "DN Debatt") by Sten Widmalm and Sven Oskarsson, based on the Glasshouse Forum report Tolerance and Democracy in Liberal and Authoritarian Market Economies. Read an english version here.
2008-09-22
Interview with Daniel Sachs, CEO of Proventus and Chairman of the Concerned Capitalists Foundation, about Glasshouse Forum in the business section of Sweden's largest daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter. Read an english version here.
2008-06-16
First round-table conference on Short-termism in the long run took place in Stockholm 16-17 June.
2008-04-23
First round-table conference on The return of the capitalist-authoritarian great powers was held outside Paris 23-24 April.
2008-01-24
First round-table conference on A consumed society? was held in London on 24 January.