Our Mission
Discuss.
Our goal is to foster healthy discussion in order to challenge each-others’ thinking, building robust opinions. It is easy to live in your echo chamber, we hope to break those walls and get students thinking perspectives they had not thought of before.
Debate.
Anyone reading this is probably a student or working within academia. We all know studying can be incredibly eye-opening. But at times academia can be a bit dry. WESP will provide a safe space for respectful debate of opinions.
Inspire.
It can be daunting taking the next step from an idea to material action. We will pursue strategic partnerships so students can have the infrastructure to build out policy solutions themselves. Like a Think Tank, but with a startup mentality!
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A Final Thought
The neoliberal paradigm has brought about an era of politics and political economy which has privatised the benefits in our societies, while socialising the risks. After decades of this institutional approach in advanced capitalist economies, we have seen over and over again the inherent weakness of prioritising market-driven economic policy which does not balance the ‘needs’ of the very society it conducts.
It is our goal to reassess the models which have driven labour, economic and social policy. An admittedly large task.
The intersection between these three focus areas shapes much of our every day lives. We work to have good living standards, whether we like it or not economic policy plays a large role in shaping the world we live in and social policy serves as the safety net for those who need it, when they need it. If we can better understand how to manage this intersection, embracing the benefits of capitalism and coordinating for it’s pitfalls we can create better living standards for everybody.
We will not find the silver bullet, because there is none. This club will serve to give a platform to those who play a larger role than us, hopefully amplifying their voice.
Importantly, we will endeavour to encourage discussion and debate to inspire future policymakers.
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