What happens to a country’s economy when half its population dies within a few years? Historians have been puzzling over how standards of living and patterns of work changed in the Middle Ages for more than a century.

This lecture discusses the causes and implications of the retreat from globalisation for growth and inequality.

Mariana Mazzucato delivers this lecture as part of the Lionel Robbins Lecture Series.

In December 2022, the Phelan US Centre’s Chris Gilson and Mohid Malik spoke to Dr Tasseli McKay, National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Sociology at Duke University.

This event appraises 100 years of the Turkish Republic, taking stock of changing ideas of modernity, progress and Westernisation.

In this short video to mark International Women’s Day 2023, economists from the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) talk about why they chose to work in economics, their research, and its importance to our society.

Joanna Bale talks to Dr Stuart Gordon, Sveto Muhammad Ishoq and Halima, an Afghan refugee living in a hotel, about what it’s like to flee your country and policy ideas to help resolve the situation.

Grace Lordan speaks with a panel of experts about the theory and evidence behind the diversity and productivity link.

What is the truth about Britain’s finances? Join us for this event with Paul Johnson from the Institute for Fiscal Studies who will be talking about his new book, Follow the Money.

Panelists discuss puzzling examples such as user privacy on social media platforms, wearable devices for employees in workplaces, and data processing in health or migration governance.