The European Union Chamber of Commerce in China is delighted to welcome Tomas Sedlacek, former economist of Vaclav Havel, to discuss the challenges of today’s economy.

As the virtues of economics have come under attack in the aftermath of the global financial crisis, new perspectives have been explored. Tomas Sedlacek, named as one of the “5 Hot Minds in Economics” by the Yale Economic Review in 2006, quickly captured the stage with a book “Economy of Good and Evil”, which has become a best-selling phenomenon.

Tomas Sedlacek humbly asks fundamental questions: What is economics? What is its meaning? Where does this new religion, as it is sometimes called, come from? What are the possibilities and its limitations and borders, if there are any? Why are we so dependent on constant growth-growth and growth-growth-growth? All of this must occur to a thoughtful person, but only rarely do the answers come from economists themselves.

Tomas Sedlacek will be there to present his book, recently published in Chinese and will give an introduction of his work and the challenges of today’s economy.

Agenda
15.30 Registration
16.00 Welcome remarks, Dr. Ioana Kraft, General Manager, European Chamber
16.05 Speech by Tomas Sedlacek
17.00 Q&A

Registration
Please register through this website (button above)

For any further enquiries, please contact Ms Zhao Yang at yangzhao@europeanchamber.com.cn or 63852023-117, stating name and company, by Friday, 9 November, 4pm.

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Mr. Tomas Sedlacek

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Mr. Tomas Sedlacek

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Tomas Sedlacek has shaken the study of economics as few ever have. Named one of the “young guns” and “five hot minds in economics” by the Yale Economic Review, he serves on the National Economic Council in Prague, where his provocative writing has achieved bestseller status. How has he done it? By arguing a simple, almost heretical proposition: Economics is ultimately about good and evil.

Tomas Sedlacek (35) has excelled in various fields during his short, yet rich and multi-track career, with impressive achievements in the areas of public policy, finance, academics and arts. As a writer, he has touched off a wildfire of debate in his home country about what is really driving economic behavior, not just now, but since the beginning of the human race. See what Tomas did in Davos 2012.

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