Symposium: Diversity and danger - Part 2
Speaker(s):
Professor Michael Mainelli
Date/Time: 22/04/2009, 3pm
Diversity' is increasingly fashionable; we're told it is a good thing and we should
welcome, indeed encourage it. At the same time, fashionable wisdom maintains that 'cohesion'
important and finding a consensus is desirable. But where there is true diversity in opinions,
beliefs, behaviours and practices, there is no consensus. And it might even adversely affect
social cohesion, and increase hostility or even conflict.
This symposium hosted in association with the Lokahi Foundation will examine these paradoxes
as they apply to religion, ethnicity, political views and economic systems. The final talk of
the Symposium is as follows:
Diversity Rules:
Competition, Liquidity and Equitable Markets
by Professor Michael Mainelli (Gresham College, Z/Yen and London School of Economics and
Political Science)
- Does diversity improve economic decisions?
- Without diversity can we have equity?
- How might global trends affect economic diversity?
Symposium: Diversity
and danger - Part 1
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