29 Dec 2011 | Literary Events

Aye Write! Glasgow's Book Festival 

Baillie Gifford was delighted to sponsor a series of
events at Aye Write! Glasgow’s Book Festival in 2012.
 

Taking place from 9 - 17 March 2012, the festival offered nine days of leading author events, the Scottish Poetry Slam, and activities for all the family including reading and creative writing workshops.

Baillie Gifford was proud to sponsor the following events:
 

Martin Jacques: When China Rules the World
(Sunday 11 March, 5.30-6.30pm)

Soon China will rule the world.  But in doing so, it will not become more ‘Western’.  Martin Jacques’ groundbreaking book When China Rules the World overturns conventional thinking about the ascendancy of China, showing how its impact will not just be economic, but cultural.  As China’s powerful civilization reasserts itself, it will signal the end of the global dominance of the Western nation-state, and the start of a future of ‘contested modernity’.  Martin Jacques provides for the first time the deeper meaning of China’s rise to power.

Margaret Heffernan: Wilful Blindness
(Tuesday 13 March, 6.00-7.00pm)

In Wilful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril, distinguished business women and writer Margaret Heffernan, examines what is it about human nature that makes us so prone to wilful blindness: What makes us prefer ignorance? What are we so afraid of? Why do some people see more than others? And how can we change?  Ranging freely through history and from business to science, government to the family, Heffernan explains why wilful blindness is so dangerous in the globalised, interconnected world in which we live.

Philip Coggan: Paper Promises
(Thursday 15 March, 6.00-7.00pm)

Paper Promises: How Money Works and What Happens When it Doesn’t by award-winning financial journalist Philip Coggan is a fascinating look at money through the ages, including our own unstable future.  He examines the flawed structure of the global finance systems as they exist today, and asks, with the deeper imbalances that the world is currently facing, what is actually at stake.
 

Alistair Darling: Back from the Brink
(Saturday 17 March, 3.30-4.30pm)

Back from the Brink tells the gripping story of 1,000 days of an unprecedented global financial catastrophe.  As Chancellor, Alistair Darling sanctioned the bailouts of RBS and HBoS just before their cash machines would have ceased to function; at the 11th hour he prevented Barclays from acquiring Lehman Brothers; and he used controversial legislation to stop Icelandic banks from withdrawing funds from the UK.  He provides a unique perspective on the events that rocked global capitalism and looks at the record of the Coalition government in dealing with the economy. 

David Erdal: Beyond the Corporation
(Saturday 17 March, 5.00-6.00pm)

Following Local Heroes, his book about the building of Loch Fyne Oysters and its move into employee ownership, David Erdal has written Beyond the Corporation: Humanity Working. He tells the stories of success in many companies owned by their employees, in the UK, the US and several European countries.  On the basis of their consistent and long-lived success, Erdal shows that the traditional corporate model can be radically improved by sharing wealth with the people who create it: the employees.  The result is improved productivity, stronger communities and greater happiness for those involved.

Professor Tom Devine: Scotland’s Global Diaspora
(Saturday 17 March, 8.00-9.00pm)

For centuries, untold numbers of Scottish men, women and children have sought their fortunes in every conceivable walk of life and in every imaginable climate across the British Empire, the United States and elsewhere, from finance to industry, philosophy to politics.  Covering the period from 1750 to 2010, Professor Tom Devine’s latest book, To the Ends of the Earth, puts this extraordinary epic centre stage, removing layers of myth and sentiment to reveal the no less startling truth.

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