RSA / Encyclopaedia Britannica Debate II - The Economic Crisis and the Age of Uncertainty March 26, 2009

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In the second event in the RSA/Britannica Confidence in Knowledge series our speakers ask:
To
what extent has the global economic crisis triggered a crisis of
confidence in our previously trusted repositories of knowledge?
What do the failures of the financial system tell us about the dangers
of a hierarchal system of knowledge where power lies in the hands of
aprofessional elite? Can we continue to have confidence in the
professional authority of bankers, financiers and economists, when they
seem to have so grossly failed us? Has economics as a
discipline failed? Dothese failures further case fornew
organisational models,based on more open, more transparentcultures of
collaboration (the "wikinomics" model)? Does the democratisation of
knowledge and wealth of information offered by the internet open up the
possibility of taking economic decision-making out of the academy and
institutions, and into the hands of individual citizens? Or should we be wary of blurring the expert/amateur divide and trusting too much in the wisdom of crowds?
Don Tapscott, business strategist, consultant and author of Wikinomics,will join a panel of discussants to include: Andrew Keen, writer, entrepreneur and author of The Cult of the Amateur: how the internet is killing our culture; Dan Hind, editorial director, The Bodley Head and author of The Threat to Reason: how the enlightenment was hijacked and how we can reclaim it; Professor Lord Eatwell, economist and President, Queens College, Cambridge.

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