Professor Olivier Blanchard, former Chief Economist at the IMF, explores how current global instability poses a challenge to economic wellbeing.

On the first day of voting in the elections, our panel discuss Eurosceptic parties, climate change, migration and the wars in Gaza and Ukraine and more.

Baroness Beeban Kidron explores the issues around AI and why it must not be left to tech experts and unaccountable corporations.

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Our panel explore how we can overcome social division and create a more cohesive society.

In the recent years, more and more right-wing parties have appeared in politics in European countries and across the world.

Our panel seeks to answer the central economic question of our time: what is the alternative to neoliberalism?

Branko Milanovic discusses his latest book, Visions of Inequality: from the French Revolution to the end of the Cold War.

Paul Seabright discusses his latest book, The Divine Economy: How Religions Compete for Wealth, Power, and People.

In May 2024 the Phelan US Centre spoke to author and journalist for Slate magazine and Phelan US Centre Visiting Senior Fellow, Fred Kaplan about his 2020 book, The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War.