What can we do to change the minds of decision makers and people in general to actually do something about preparing for the forthcoming economic/energy crises (the ones after this one!)?
Vince Cable MP, Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats, visits the Google London office to speak about his recent book: "The Storm: The World Economic Crisis and what it means". This talk took place on 29th August 2009, as part of the Authors@Google series.
Dr Cable read Natural Science and Economics at Cambridge University, followed by a PhD at Glasgow University. From 1990 he worked for Shell International and from 1995 was Shell's Chief Economist. He has also been head of the economics programme at Chatham House and since becoming an MP, has been appointed a fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford and at the LSE. Dr Cable is credited by many as having predicted, to a certain extent, the current global financial crisis. He is coming in to talk about the causes, effects and way out of the current crisis.
I personally found the book difficult to grasp, and it left me feeling he didn't really understand the situation. Though this may be to do with my own lack of comparitive mental capacity!!
Very interesting and insightful Q&A session at the end, particularly in light of last week's election and the positions in government now held by Lib Dems and Cable himself.
