Eurozone Crisis: How will it affect the rest of the world?

Tuesday, 11 October 2011

6.30 pm, Houses of Parliament
While our leaders are happy to foster the illusion that they are in control of our economic destinies by setting strategies to address budget deficits, curbing government spending and attempting to provide opportunities, is the UK economy being bent, twisted and warped by economic forces beyond our control? Stephen King argues that the fundamental shift in global economic realities will have a massive impact on income wealth distribution, economic stability and market forces. He offers bleak predictions for the future and suggests our long-held assumptions about the world economy are fast breaking down.

Taimur Ahmad (Editor, Emerging Markets) will chair the event. He and Stephen King will be joined by Athar Hussain (Director, Asia Reearch Centre, London School of Economics) for a discussion afterwards.

Stephen will be signing copies of his book at the event.

Time: 6.30pm
Venue: Commonwealth Parliamentary Room, Westminster Hall, Houses of Parliament, London SW1A 0AA (Please allow at least 30 minutes to pass through security)
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About the author
Stephen D King studied economics and philosophy at Oxford and is now HSBC's group chief economist and the Bank's global head of economics and asset allocation research. He is directly responsible for HSBC's global economic coverage and co-ordinates the research of HSBC economists all over the world. Since 2001, Stephen has been writing a weekly column for The Independent. His first book, Losing Control, was published by Yale University Press in 2010. The book examines the impact of the emerging nations on western economic prosperity.