What happens when toxic waste is buried and forgotten? Why are people in UK towns still getting sick decades later?

In this conversation with Nobel Prize-winner and LSE alumnus Daron Acemoglu he will be talking about his new book, What Happened to Liberal Democracy?

This podcast was originally published in November 2024 and is being republished as part of our Summer archive series of LSE's Public Lectures and Events.

As the popularity of AI grows, this new technology is increasingly being applied to make decisions based on interactions with humans, and their behaviours. But what happens if the way these AI systems have been built mean that they get it wrong?

Lazard CEO and Chairman Peter Orszag sees a new supply-side era taking shape, in which supply shocks that are increasingly geopolitical in origin and rooted in the physical world have displaced demand as the dominant source of macroeconomic variance.

This podcast was originally published in October 2025 and is being republished as part of our Summer archive series of LSE's Public Lectures and Events.

In 2019, the UK became the first major economy to commit in law to reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. But seven years later, the world looks very different.

In this conversation with Francis Fukuyama he will be talking about his new book, In the Realm of the Last Man.

This podcast was originally published in March 2025 and is being republished as part of our Summer archive series of LSE's Public Lectures and Events.

Since the emergence of AI as a highly transformative force for modern society, many have faced challenges in updating their policies to address the potentially harmful effects of unrestricted AI development and integration into everyday life.