Another world is possible …but what would
it look like?
You could help us find out.
Are you a radical economist, with a good knowledge of development and
the international financial system? Would you like to make a real difference
in promoting a global economy run for people and the planet? Are you an
innovative and original thinker, as keen to listen to the views of others
as to present your own? If so, you might be just the person we are looking
for to help take our Jubilee Research programme forward to a broader global
finance agenda.
This appointment may be made at junior level (minimum 3–5 years experience)
or senior level.
Deadline for applications: 6 June 2005
Interviews: 15 June 2005
For an application form (no CVs please) and more details see our website
www.neweconomics.org or write to Sue Carter, nef (the new economics foundation),
3 Jonathan St, London SE11 5NH or email her at sue.carter@neweconomics.org
We will also be advertising positions on agricultural trade/ commodity
markets and on development/environment in the coming months. Please email
to express interest.
nef is an independent 'think-and-do' tank that inspires and demonstrates
real economic well-being.
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About nef
nef (the New Economics Foundation) is a radical "think-and-do"
tank, founded in 1986 by the people who led the first "Other Economic
Summit" – a fore-runner to the World Social Forum. It is based on
the principles of new economics, working on the UK and international economies
and the environment, and seeks to promote well-being, rights and environmental
sustainability, and to resolve tensions between these objectives. It was
Prospect Magazine's UK Think Tank of the Year in 2002/3.
We see nef's comparative advantage as being threefold.
• We are more values-driven than most academic institutions in economics,
our work being directed by the concept of alternative economic approaches
which put rights, well-being and sustainability ahead of ideology, commercial
interests and macroeconomic preoccupations;
• Our role as a think tank allows us to undertake more concentrated and
extensive research than is often possible for NGOs, and to focus on the
fundamental roots of social and environmental problems – particularly
in the intellectual climate and sociopolitical culture – as well as their
manifestations and proximate causes; and
• Our commitment equally to sustainability, rights (social and economic
as well as political and cultural) and well-being, our engagement and
expertise on both development and environmental issues, our status as
a think tank rather than an NGO, and our strong commitment to collaborative
approaches mean that we are ideally placed to act as a neutral party between
NGOs in discussions on economic issues.
The programme set out here is designed to maximise our contribution to
the achievement of our objectives in the light of these considerations.