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Inequality Hysteresis: how ...

12.01.2022

Contributor(s): Dr Luiz Awazu Pereira da Silva, Dr Deniz Igan, Dr Benoit Mojon | The debate is intensified by deep recessions related to the COVID-19 pandemic and resurgent food and energy inflation increasing cost of living in 2022, which unequally ...

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12.01.2022 Inequality Hysteresis: how can central banks contribute to an equitable society? Contributor(s): Dr Luiz Awazu Pereira da Silva, Dr Deniz Igan, Dr Benoit Mojon \| The debate is intensified by deep recessions related to the COVID-19 pandemic and resurgent food and energy inflation increasing cost of living in 2022, which unequally ...
11.25.2022 Abolishing the Political Class, From Aristotle to Hayek Contributor(s): Lord Sumption, Professor Martin Loughlin, Dr Munira Mirza \| It will examine the desire among some members of the public to have a democracy without parties or professional politicians, an idea which has its roots in the ancient world. ...
11.24.2022 How Do We Eradicate Poverty? Contributor(s): Claire Harding, Dave Hill, Manny Hothi, Stewart Lansley, Professor Baroness Lister \| Join us for this important discussion as our panel each presents their thoughts. Our audience are invited to contribute to the discussion as we unpick this difficult ...
11.24.2022 European Remembrance Contributor(s): Dr Paris Chronakis, Professor Meena Dhanda, Professor James Mark \| At issue is the cultural politics of European politics, and we will be discussing how and what kind of European histories get remembered or memorialised, what and who gets ...
11.23.2022 Sovereignty without Power: Liberia in the age of empires, 1822-1980 Contributor(s): Professor Leigh Gardner \| Leigh Gardner discusses her new book, Sovereignty without Power: Liberia in the Age of Empires, 1822-1980.
11.22.2022 Highly Discriminating: why the City isn't fair and diversity doesn't work Contributor(s): Dr Louise Ashley, David Goodhart, Professor Mark Williams \| Despite a narrative of merit, the City of London is characterised by persistent inequalities in its demographic make-up. Against this backdrop, Ashley asks - how does the City reproduce inequality ...
11.21.2022 If You're So Ethical Why Are You So Highly Paid? Market Failure in Executive Pay Contributor(s): Dr Eva Micheler, Professor Sandy Pepper, Professor Alex Voorhoeve, Katherine Griffiths \| Over the last 30 years senior executive pay in the USA, UK and many other developed countries has increased dramatically, generating enormous debate and, at times, public ...
11.15.2022 China's Global Rise: the Renminbi and the making of an international currency Contributor(s): Dr Gregory T Chin \| This lecture will present why it has become imperative for China to increase the international use of its currency, the Renminbi (RMB), considering the growing reliance of the United States on economic warfare, including ...
11.10.2022 Civil Rights in the Changing World Contributor(s): Iain Anderson, Trevor Phillips \| This is a time where the rights of all protected groups are being eroded – to note just two examples, the overturning of Roe vs Wade and the cancellation of the UK’s Safe to ...
11.10.2022 Doughnut Economics: a new economic vision for cities Contributor(s): Kate Raworth, Maria Carrasco \| Doughnut Economics, a framework coined by Raworth, sets out a 21st-century economic vision of meeting the needs of all people within the means of the living planet, through regenerative and distributive design. Over 40 ...
11.09.2022 Sizing Up the US Midterm Elections Contributor(s): Dr James Morrison, Professor Stephanie J. Rickard, Joseph C Sternberg, Dr Linda Yueh \| A group of leading political analysts size up US national and state elections and what they mean for democratic governance in America.
11.07.2022 Lula and the Latin American Left Contributor(s): Professor André Singer, Professor Claudia Heiss \| Is Latin America experiencing a new pink tide? Can Lula make a dramatic political comeback in Brazil’s closely fought Presidential election? And why has Chile’s new left-wing President failed to secure revision ...
11.03.2022 Viral Justice Contributor(s): Professor Ruha Benjamin \| Long before the pandemic, Ruha Benjamin was doing ground-breaking research on race, technology, and justice, focusing on big, structural changes. But the twin plagues of COVID-19 and anti-Black police violence inspired her to rethink the ...
11.02.2022 The Early History of Humanity: we have never been stupid (until now?) Contributor(s): Professor David Wengrow \| Reflecting on the practices of ancient societies, European or non-European, the Victorian anthropologist Sir James Frazer invited us to suppose that "evidence of superstitious belief and custom" among them should suffice to "disabuse" the modern ...
11.01.2022 Friedrich Hayek and Adam Smith on the Concept of Liberty Contributor(s): Professor Barry R Weingast \| Both Hayek and Smith differ from more recent attempts to define liberty. Indeed, the term, “liberty,” has largely disappeared from traditional economics. As part of a larger study of Adam Smith’s politics, Barry Weingast ...
10.31.2022 Trade and Climate A Negotiating Agenda For The WTO Contributor(s): Ignacio Garcia Bercero, Emily Lydgate \| The talk will discuss issues for a potential trade and climate negotiating agenda such as subsidies, liberalisation of goods and services with a positive climate impact, standards for measuring carbon intensity or the ...
10.31.2022 NATO's Strategic Concept Contributor(s): Dr Benedetta Berti, Professor Christopher Coker, Andy Salmon \| After NATO published its new Strategic Concept in June 2022, in the midst of Russia’s war on Ukraine, and 12 years on from its last Strategic Concept, this event takes ...
10.27.2022 The Multidimensional Politics of Inequality Contributor(s): Professor Leslie McCall \| Questioning widespread notions of US exceptionalism, the lecture critically examines common assumptions about how Americans think about issues of economic inequality (in outcomes and opportunities and across dimensions of race and class) and related policies ...
10.25.2022 Social Media and Hate Contributor(s): Professor Shakuntala Banaji, Dr Ram Bhat \| Social Media and Hate argues that these phenomena, and the extreme violence and discrimination they initiate against targeted groups, are connected to the socio-political contexts, values and behaviours of users of social ...
10.24.2022 Can't Pay, Won't Pay! A Popular History of Taxes Contributor(s): Geoff Tily \| Without taxation there is no government. Taxation is essential, but who is to pay, and for what? For centuries people have fought over these questions, and these fights have been at the heart of the development ...
10.20.2022 In Conversation with Olivia Umurerwa Rutazibwa Contributor(s): Dr Olivia Umurerwa Rutazibwa, Maarya Rabbani \| Olivia Umurerwa Rutazibwa is Assistant Professor in Human Rights and Politics at the Department of Sociology, LSE. She is a Belgian/Rwandan International Relations scholar and former journalist and Senior Research Fellow of ...
10.20.2022 Landscapes of Environmental Racism Contributor(s): Professor Hazel V Carby, Ruby Hembrom \| Indigenous, black and Latinx communities suffer the health consequences of living in the most polluted and toxic environments. Indigenous peoples across the Americas are also at the forefront of opposition to the ...
10.19.2022 The Past, Present, and Future of Global Economic Governance Contributor(s): Professor Abraham L Newman, Dr Jamie Martin, Professor Stephanie J. Rickard \| The war in Ukraine raises questions about whether states must be ‘strategic’ about their national economic policies due to geopolitical risks. The scramble for supplies to tackle ...
10.18.2022 How does class define us? Contributor(s): Professor Neil Cummins, Professor Sam Friedman, Sabrina Daniel \| It examines how we wear and reveal our social class in English society today. Do accents really matter? Is it enough to imitate one supposed ‘social betters’ to achieve social ...
10.18.2022 Ronald Ross and Hilda Hudson: a surprising collaboration on the theory of epidemics Contributor(s): Professor June Barrow-Green \| In 1916 the physician Ronald Ross published the first of three papers on the mathematical study of epidemiology or, as he called it, ‘pathometry’. The second and third of these papers appeared the following year ...
10.17.2022 The Rise and Fall of the Neo-Liberal Order Contributor(s): Professor Gary Gerstle \| As a new progressivism gains steam on the left, and Donald Trump gears up for a second run on the right, we are joined by Gary Gerstle to discuss his new book, The Rise and ...
10.13.2022 Threatening Dystopias: politics of climate change adaptation in Bangladesh Contributor(s): Professor Alpa Shah, Professor Nikhil Anand, Dr Kasia Paprocki \| Bangladesh dominates mainstream narratives of climate disaster. Frequently described as the ‘world’s most vulnerable country to climate change’, the oversimplified spectre of a major country slipping underwater has yielded ...
10.13.2022 Social Science is Explanation or it is Nothing Contributor(s): Professor Julian Go, Professor Noortje Marres, Professor Melinda Mills, Professor Mike Savage \| We bring together four outstanding social scientists with a range of research interests and a range of traditions to discuss whether social science is explanation or ...
10.12.2022 Coping When Life is Hard: can philosophy help? Contributor(s): Professor Luc Bovens, Dr Susanne Burri, Professor Kieran Setiya \| All human lives, even very comfortable ones, involve some degree of suffering and hardship. We face personal losses and traumas, and confront a world that seems full of injustice, ...
10.11.2022 The Strategic Nexus Between Climate Change, Energy and Geopolitics Contributor(s): Professor Robert Falkner, Dr Rita Floyd \| This lecture, part of a series on Strategy: New Voices will explore the strategic nexus between great power conflict, energy independence and climate action, and how to develop effective international strategies that ...
10.10.2022 The New Political Capitalism Contributor(s): Dr Joe Zammit-Lucia \| We are transitioning from the age of financialised capitalism to one of political capitalism. The discussion explores how political issues ranging from geopolitical rivalry to climate and environment to culture wars to wealth inequality to ...
10.06.2022 Play it Again Clem? Lessons from the 1940s for Post-COVID Britain Contributor(s): Professor Nick Crafts \| After World War 2, Britain faced issues which are familiar today: strengthening the welfare state, dealing with an inflated public debt, improving productivity performance, underpinning support for the market economy, and credibly promising a better ...
10.05.2022 Unfree: migrant domestic labour in the Middle East Contributor(s): Professor Rhacel Salazar Parreñas, Lina Abou Habib, Dr Steffen Hertog \| The Kafala System, an employment scheme in the Middle East, has attracted much academic scrutiny and criticism over the decades. Human rights activists align the system with slavery, ...
10.04.2022 Hijacking Women's Health Contributor(s): Professor Sophie Harman, Dr Marsha Henry \| In this year’s Fred Halliday lecture, Sophie Harman seeks to answer two fundamental questions: first, why do women die when they don’t have to? and second, what happens when we take the ...
10.04.2022 What is the Future of the US Supreme Court? Contributor(s): Professor Emily Jackson, Professor Theda Skocpol, Professor Jeffrey K Tulis \| This panel of leading experts on US history and politics consider where the Court is headed and what this means for American democracy.
10.03.2022 From Annexation to War: Russia's aggression in Ukraine Contributor(s): Dr Rory Finnin \| “If Russia stops fighting, there will be no war. If Ukraine stops fighting, there will be no Ukraine” is the sentiment used by many Ukrainian protesters mobilising against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. In this talk, ...
09.29.2022 The Connections World: the future of Asian capitalism Contributor(s): Simon Commander, Emeritus Professor Saul Estrin \| Although the connections world has not yet seriously impeded Asia’s economic renaissance, it comes with significant costs and fallibilities. In their new book, which they will talk about at this event, Saul ...
09.26.2022 In Conversation with Ray Dalio Contributor(s): Ray Dalio \| Expertly putting into perspective the “Big Cycle” that has driven the successes and failures of all the world’s major empires and countries —including the Dutch, the British, and the American— throughout history. The discussion will follow ...
09.26.2022 The Impacts of Climate Change on Human Wellbeing in Developing Countries Contributor(s): Dr Tamma Carleton, Dr Asad Gilani, Professor Michael Greenstone, Dr Eric Obutey \| Climate change is already increasing global temperatures, changing rainfall patterns, and resulting in more frequent and severe floods and droughts. Developing countries are most vulnerable to ...
09.25.2022 How can we survive the next mass extinction? Contributor(s): Dr Ganga Shreedhar, David Shukman \| Sea levels are rising, carbon emissions are increasing and deforestation is continuing at an alarming rate. Human created climate change is drastically reshaping life on earth, with up to 75% of the diversity ...
09.21.2022 Ray of Hope? Innovation and the Climate Crisis Contributor(s): Professor Robin Burgess, Professor John Van Reenen, Professor Mar Reguant, Pol Simpson \| The panel discusses new thinking and evidence from leading thinkers and practitioners on this vital subject, including detailed studies of one of the possible success stories ...
09.21.2022 Whatever It Takes – Is There A Plan B For Climate Change? Contributor(s): Dr Clare Balboni, Lord Deben, Dr Shaun D Fitzgerald, Professor David Keith, Dr Anna Valero \| Should we also consider a Plan B of encouraging new technological solutions? And if so, what kind of solutions are there and how ...
09.15.2022 The Power of Regret Contributor(s): Daniel Pink \| Too often, people brush off their regrets, chosing always to stay positive and look forward. In his latest book, which he will talk about in this event, Daniel Pink points to regrets as a beacon of ...
08.15.2022 What’s the future of capitalism? Contributor(s): Lea Ypi, David Hope, Julian Limberg, Tomila Lankina \| Joanna Bale talks to Lea Ypi, David Hope, Julian Limberg and Tomila Lankina about defining freedom, debunking trickle-down economics and defying the Bolsheviks.
06.30.2022 Global Trends in Climate Litigation Contributor(s): Lord Carnwath, Dr Joana Setzer, Dr Roda Verheyen, Kate Higham, Mark Odaga, Ana Carolina Haliuc, Anne Corrigan, Michael Burger \| This annual report – which has been published regularly since 2017 – provides an overview of the state of ...
06.29.2022 Threats to the Women's Rights Movement: a conversation with Ann Olivarius Contributor(s): Dr Ann Olivarius \| Ann Olivarius is a pioneer of the women’s rights movement, instigating change politically, legally, and in the workplace, creating a world where women are safer and more equal in the UK and the USA. She ...
06.27.2022 Ukraine's Wartime Economy and Financial Challenges Contributor(s): Valeria Gontareva \| Her remarks also include observations on the Ukrainian banking sector, financial needs, global implications and worldwide economic shocks.
06.21.2022 Old and New Challenges for Central Banking in West Africa Contributor(s): Piroska Nagy Mohacsi, Dr Angela Lusigi, Dr Ernest Addison \| This event explores the financial and economic prospects for the region’s emerging economies, the impact of COVID-19 on development prospects, and more.
06.18.2022 The Future of the United Nations Contributor(s): Dr Mathias Koenig-Archibugi, Dr Devika Hovell, Dr Martin Binder \| Multilateralism seems in crisis precisely when it is needed most. Challenges are multifaceted and originate from established, emerging and declining powers. In his address to the UN Security Council ...
06.18.2022 The Age of Refugees Contributor(s): Rob Sharp, Dr Eva Polonska-Kimunguyi, Professor Myria Georgiou, Abdulrahman Bdiwi \| Over the past decades, and across continents, numerous refugee “crises” have led to the explosion of the global refugee population, which has more than doubled in the last ...

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