The Department of Language, Linguistics and Philosophy hosts a MPhil/ PhD upgrade seminar for Kamau Chionesu on Tuesday, December 16, 2008 at 1:00 pm at UWIDEC. The lecture is titled “Science, Economics and Development: A Critical Analysis of Economics as a Tool for Understanding and Facilitating Development”.

The seminar explores whether or not the methods and concepts of the dominant disciplinary paradigm of economics - neoclassical economics - with its emphasis on mathematical formalism, can provide an adequate, scientific account of development.

The university community is invited.