If It’s Saturday, It Must Be Bradford

School of Management 1 School of Management 2 Professor Arthur Francis kicks us off Kyoko Fukukawa and her husband And their daughter

Travelled by train, via Leeds, to Bradford – to do a lecture at Bradford University’s School of Management. Amazing to see the landscape taken over by the acid yellow colour of rape fields. Read a stack of magazines, including Newsweek, which foresees the end of the euro and a second great depression. Theme of my talk was the Phoenix Economy, the title of our report last year, which plays into the same space, with discussion of the implication of the work of long-dead economists like Nikolai Kondratiev and Joseph Schumpeter on long-wave economic cycles.

Very much liked the School’s new extension, shown in the first two photos, on the back of the old building, shown in the fourth. Was hosted by, among other Kyoko Fukukawa, whose book on CSR in Asia I did a foreword for some time back. Lively discussion with School of Management alumni, and others, after which I took a bus back to Leeds and then headed south, getting home around 21.30.