Upcoming events
Financialisation and the Commercial Determinants of Health
14 June 2024 | 13:30 - 15:00 | School of Law and Social Justice Building
Hosted in collaboration with the Law & NCD Unit.
In this presentation, we will critically examine two interrelated aspects of 'financialisation' and their relationship with the commercial determinants of health, i.e., the systems, practices, and pathways through which commercial actors drive health and equity. To start with, we will investigate the ‘maximising shareholder value’ form of corporate governance, which, since the 1970s, has reportedly emerged to become the most dominant principle of corporate governance worldwide. Following this, we will look at how a relatively small number of asset managers – financial intermediaries that invest capital in a range of assets, such as publicly listed shares, private equity, ‘real assets’ (e.g., housing, hospitals, farmland), and commodities – have emerged in recent decades to become some of the most influential commercial actors in the global political economy. The presentation will conclude with a discussion on important considerations for policymakers and advocates seeking to address the commercial determinants of ill-health and inequity.
Speakers: Dr Ben Wood, Global Centre for Preventive Health and Nutrition, Deakin University, Australia and Dr Safura Abdool Karim, Berman Institute, Johns Hopkins University.
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Past event highlights
The East India Company, Colonialism, Law, and Art 1600-1790
9 May 2024 | Seminar Room 2, University of Liverpool Management School
Professor Talbot approaches company law and corporate governance from a law in context position, with particular emphasis the corporation as a social, economic, cultural, moral and aesthetic phenomenon, and the dehumanising consequences of an identity which is distinct from the living actors. Her current research is concerned with two distinct areas; one, the company’s legal architecture and its relationship with growth and sustainability in a capitalist economy; and, two, how the visual arts shape the company’s identity and promote an understanding of the historical development of the company and company law. Professor Talbot discussed her recently published article, ‘Revealing the Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies through law and the Painted Moment’, Business History (2024).
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