Autumn 2009 | Public lectures and events | Video Podcast
1) Broke: voices from the edge
Contributor(s): Various Speakers | Throughout his long life Professor Peter Townsend - a great friend of the Centre, advocate of human rights, and emeritus professor at LSE - worked hard first to prov...Show More
2) The Financial Crisis: How Europe can save the world
Contributor(s): George Soros, Guy Verhofstadt | This public discussion marks the publication of Guy Verhofstadt's latest book The Financial Crisis: How Europe can Save the World. George Soros is Chair...Show More
3) The End of Lawyers?
Contributor(s): Richard Susskind | Public figures who were once lawyers or law students will speak about how, if at all, their experience of studying, teaching or practising law has been of value to t...Show More
4) Cyprus: The Settlement Process
Contributor(s): Mehmet Ali Talat | Mehmet Ali Talat is the Turkish Cypriot Leader. Mehmet Ali Talat was born in Kyrenia on July 6, 1952. Completing his primary and secondary education in Cyprus, Talat...Show More
5) Scroogenomics: Why You Shouldn't Buy Presents for Christmas
Contributor(s): Professor Joel Waldfogel | Christmas is a time of seasonal cheer, family get-togethers, holiday parties, and-gift giving. BUT - How many of us get gifts we like? How many of us give gi...Show More
6) Happiness around the World: the paradox of happy peasants and miserable millionaires
Contributor(s): Professor Carol Graham | The determinants of happiness are remarkably similar around the world, in countries as different as Afghanistan, the U.S, and Chile. Income matters to happines...Show More
Happiness around the World: the paradox of happy peasants and miserable millionaires
1:25:15 | Dec 3rd, 2009
7) Social Theories of Risk and Economic Life
Contributor(s): Dr Nigel Dodd | In this lunchtime series of lectures, a selection of LSE's academics from across the spectrum of the social sciences explain the latest thinking on how social scientist...Show More
8) The Future of Global Capitalism, Convergence or Divergence Across the World
Contributor(s): Professor Michael Cox, Martin Jacques, Professor Robert Wade | This event brings together Martin Jacques, Professor Michael Cox, and Professor Robert Wade to debate the changing nature...Show More
The Future of Global Capitalism, Convergence or Divergence Across the World
1:30:42 | Dec 2nd, 2009
9) Can Europe Pay its People?: policy options for a continent in transition
Contributor(s): David Willetts | Demographic change, migration and the fiscal crisis threaten a perfect storm. What are the indicators telling us about the choices we need to make? Can we see gain as ...Show More
10) How China Tackles Climate Change in its Wider Development Agenda
Contributor(s): Madam Fu Ying | What is China doing to combat climate change? What challenges are China confronted with in addressing climate change? How China is tackling climate change through inter...Show More