Copyright: Life After the Gowers Review

Dates: Thursday 25 September 2008 1.30 PM TO 4.30 PM

Location: Birmingham Central Library

The Gowers review was the most far-reaching review of copyright since the current Act was passed twenty years ago - before the digital revolution. It attempted to address the issues raised by the changes in how we can create, store, copy and publish information. read more...

Economics for the Real World: Understanding Economic Data - NEW

Dates: 30 September 2008, 09.30 - 16.30

Programme Features:

• A skeleton key to common economic concepts
  • * volume and value measures, nominal and real rates of change, weighted indices, seasonally adjusted indicators, trends and cycles, stocks and flows, current and capital expenditures
• How big's the nation’s cake?
  • * measuring the national income: GDP versus GNP; income, output and expenditure measures; per capital income, real GDP, other ways of assessing relative economic prosperity, purchasing power parities
• Baking and cutting the cake
  • * components of national income: government spending, private consumption, fixed investment, imports and exports; sectoral composition – services, industry, manufacturing and agriculture; distribution of income – wages, profits, rents, measures of income/wealth inequality
• Public finances
  • * public expenditure – programme and outcome spending, spending by central government, local authorities and public corporations; taxation – principal types of revenue raising; budget balance, the National Debt
• Personal sector
  • * disposable income, consumer spending, savings ratio, personal indebtedness, consumer confidence
• Corporate sector
  • * profits, dividends, sectoral analysis – industrial & commercial companies, financial institutions, company formations and failures, business confidence
• Prices
  • * retail prices – the various measures, EU’s Harmonised Price Index, producer prices, commodity prices, price deflators
• Labour market
  • * employment, unemployment, vacancies, hours worked, wages & earnings, unit labour costs
• Foreign trade and payments
  • * imports, exports, trade balances, terms of trade balance of payments – current & capital accounts, official reserves, external debts and assets
• Money and financial markets
  • * interest rates, money supply – narrow & broad measures, exchange rates – nominal & effective, bond & equity markets – prices & yields

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