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As part of the Legatum Institute's latest Salon Series 'Prosperity on the Edge: 1913-14 The Last Year of Peace', Justine Picardie, Editor-in-chief at 'Harper's Bazaar UK' and Coco's most recent biographer, discussed how the designer's entrepreneurial rise to fame in 1913 created an explosive impact that continues to reverberate today. The discussion was moderated by Legatum Institute Senior Adviser Hywel Williams.

Speaking as part of the Legatum Institute's ongoing series with the National Endowment for Democracy's International Forum for Democratic Studies, and 'World Affairs' magazine, Kenya Private Sector Alliance CEO, Carole Kariuki, was optimistic about the role the private sector can play in securing Kenya's democratic progress. The discussion was moderated by Peter Lewis and was hosted at the National Endowment for Democracy in Washington, DC.

Princeton University Professor of Economics and International Affairs, and Legatum Institute Wellbeing Commissioner, Angus Deaton gave a talk on his new book, The Great Escape: Health, Wealth and the Origins of Inequality. Interviewed by Zachary Courser, Senior Fellow at the Legatum Institute

As part of its 'Policy Dialogues' series, the Legatum Institute hosted Laura Sandys MP for a discussion on the policy proposals outlined in her paper 'Consumers at the Heart of Markets'. The paper calls for radical reform to ensure that consumers are centre stage in policy-making. Responding to Laura's view was Richard Lloyd, Executive Director of Which? magazine. The conversation was moderated by Hywel Wiliams, Senior Adviser at the Legatum Institute.

In an event at the Legatum Institute, author, veteran journalist and 'Democracy Lab' Editor, Christian Caryl, discussed his new book which shows how the world we live in today-and the problems that plague it-began to take shape in the pivotal year of 1979. The discussion was moderated by Anne Applebaum, Director of Global Transitions at the Legatum Institute

As part of the Legatum Institute's latest Salon Series 'Prosperity on the Edge: 1913-14 The Last Year of Peace' King's College London Professor Vernon Bogdanor examined the role and contribution of the British Foreign Secretary, Sir Edward Grey, in the last months of peace. Introductory remarks from Hywel Williams, Senior Advisor at the Legatum Institute

As part of its continuing program exploring the moral foundations of capitalism, the Legatum Institute hosted a panel discussion with prominent American and British conservative commentators on the future of free enterprise. Panellists Bill Kristol (editor of The Weekly Standard), Yuval Levin (editor of National Affairs) and Tim Montgomerie (opinion editor and columnist for The Times), engaged in a transatlantic dialogue on the roots of the persistent economic crisis in the US and Europe, and how to formulate a politically durable and innovative conservative reform agenda in response.

How can the Euro-Atlantic community protect democratic development in the new EU states and the Balkans while confronting aggressive authoritarianism further east? In conversation with 'The Economist's' Edward Lucas, representatives from Washington DC-based Freedom House presented their annual publication, 'Nations in Transit'. Includes Q&A.

As part of the Legatum Institute's 'Morality and Capitalism' series, George Mason University professor, Steven Pearlstein, shared his views on why we may need to re-examine the concept of capitalism and markets. Earlier this year, Professor Pearlstein stirred debate and discussion with a Washington Post commentary piece entitled "Is Capitalism Moral?". While establishing that socialism and communism have been thoroughly discredited since the Cold War, he indicated that stagnant incomes, growing economic inequality, and the recent financial crisis is beginning to force us all to re-examine the functioning of capitalism and markets.

The Legatum Institute and its partner think tanks held the third and final workshop of the 'Democracy Consensus', this time in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In this podcast, LI's Anne Applebaum interviews Adrian Wooldridge (The Economist), Ann Bernstein (Centre for Development and Enterprise, South Africa) and Eswaran Sridharan (UPIASI) on their reflections from the workshop.