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 “Economics of Good and Evil”, which has become a best-selling phenomenon.
Tomas Sedlacek, former economist of Vaclav Havel 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.