The cultural sector is – as everyone knows – chronically underfunded. This creates problems for artists as well as for artists’ organizations, cultural associations and institutions.
In the seminar, we examine why it is so and ask the question whether it could be in a different way.
Peo Hansen is Professor of Political Science at Linköping University and Research Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. He is also a proponent of the modern monetary theory, MMT.
What is money, really?
Every societal problem has a price tag. Therefore, the question is often asked in the public conversation how we should “get the money” to finance healthcare, school, culture, defense or climate change, etc. However, the question is wrongly posed and is due to an unfortunate misunderstanding of what money actually is. The Swedish state cannot run out of the Swedish krona. On the other hand, Sweden may run out of what the money is supposed to pay for, such as artists and cultural workers, teachers, nurses and engineers, etc. Herein lies the real lack of resources and the great societal challenge.
Also participating is Johan Öberg with different angles on Swedish and French cultural policy.
After the meal there will be a concert
Stefan Sundström
Both coffee and cinnamon rolls and food are served. Indicate in the booking if you prefer meat from green pasture animals or a vegetarian version from the fields around here.
Limited number of seats. Book at studio@rorane.se
No entrance fee, everything is included.
Bread and Roses is the first seminar in the series “What is sustainable – for real”, a seminar series on economic and ecological crises, austerity policies and the myths of the government deficit. The seminars include food, music and poetry, perhaps.
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Peo Hansen is professor of political science at Linköping University and Research Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. He conducts research on European integration, with an emphasis on issues of migration, economics and geopolitics. He has, among other things, wrote the books Eurafrica: The Untold History of European Integration and Colonialism (with Stefan Jonsson);A Modern Migration Theory: An Alternative Economic Approach to Failed EU Policy; and The Migration Myth: The Truth About Refugee Immigration and Welfare – A New Economic Paradigm.
Live streaming starts at 2 p.m. https://youtube.com/live/qTrWsgcLtdI?feature=share