The Ballpark

By LSE Film and Audio Team

The Ballpark is the LSE US Centre's regular podcast on the politics and policy of the United States. Through features and interviews with academics from the LSE and elsewhere, The Ballpark looks more ... more

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The podcast currently has 5,855 episodes available.

The Ballpark episodes:

November 29, 2023 The oceans, the blue economy and implications for climate change
Many conversations about sustainability and climate-change focus on activities on land – the green part of our planet. This misses a vital part of the puzzle, the role that our oceans play.
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1h 33min
November 27, 2023 The legacy of Richard Titmuss: social welfare fifty years on
This event discusses Richard Titmuss’s critique of the ‘welfare state’.
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1h 25min
November 27, 2023 Greek foreign policy: future challenges and opportunities
Contemporary politics reveal that the problems humanity is facing are not merely national or regional, but global, eroding and transcending the traditional notion of state sovereignty.
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1h 17min
November 23, 2023 How economics changes the world
Economic ideas are "performative" - meaning that they do change the ways economies work - but not on their own.
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1h 31min
November 22, 2023 Why the racial wealth divide matters
Escalating asset price inflation in recent decades has helped to expose wealth inequality as a major dimension of socio-economic inequality across the world.
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1h 23min
November 21, 2023 Dementia and decision-making
How should we make decisions with – or on behalf of – those with dementia?
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1h 32min
November 20, 2023 Making good law in a time of polycrisis
The Lord Speaker will explain how the House of Lords enables policy-makers to look beyond the five-year electoral cycle, at a time when the UK faces multiple long-term challenges.
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1h 17min
November 16, 2023 Trends and determinants of global child malnutrition: what can we learn from history?
In his inaugural lecture, Eric Schneider explores how child malnutrition, measured through child growth, has changed over the past 150 years around the world.
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1h 25min
November 15, 2023 The elusive plantation: imagining development in Mozambique
Wendy Wolford draws on multi stakeholder archival materials and field research to discuss an ambitious project called ProSavana intended to transform agricultural production in northern Mozambique.
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1h 33min
November 14, 2023 Art, rights and resistance for the 21st century
In conversation with Tanya Harmer, the interdisciplinary feminist collective, LASTESIS, will be reflecting on art, rights and resistance for the 21st century.
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1h 40min

FAQs about The Ballpark:

How many episodes does The Ballpark have?

The podcast currently has 5,855 episodes available.