Spring 2013 | Public lectures and events | Audio and pdf Podcast
1) What should economists and policymakers learn from the financial crisis?
Contributor(s): Dr Ben S Bernanke, Olivier Blanchard, Professor Lawrence H. Summers, Axel A. Weber | Five years on, the global economy continues to come to terms with the impact of the financial crisi...Show More
What should economists and policymakers learn from the financial crisis?
1:32:09 | Mar 25th, 2013
2) Error, Lies and Adventure: The Power of Lies
Contributor(s): Hilary Lawson, Dr Parashkev Nachev, Dr Jaime Whyte | We have seen a gradual erosion of belief in objective truth, but in a world without truth how are we to understand lies? This secon...Show More
3) The Folly of Technological Solutionism
Contributor(s): Evgeny Morozov | Evgeny Morozov will be presenting his latest book To Save Everything, Click Here, which argues that the proliferation of sensors, big data, and social networks have gi...Show More
4) Scarcity, Abundance, Excess: Towards a Social Theory of Too Much
Contributor(s): Professor Andrew Abbott | This lecture argues that since excess and overabundance are central phenomena of modern life, we should refound social theory on the concept of "too much of" ...Show More
5) Book Launch: The Politics of Business in the Middle East After the Arab Spring
Contributor(s): Dr Steffen Hertog, Professor Giacomo Luciani, Dr Marc Valeri, Dr Khalid AlMezaini | Although most Arab countries remain authoritarian, many have undergone a restructuring of state-soci...Show More
Book Launch: The Politics of Business in the Middle East After the Arab Spring
1:30:23 | Mar 21st, 2013
6) China's Growth: The Making of an Economic Superpower
Contributor(s): Dr Linda Yueh | What drives China's impressive growth and will it continue? Parsing the evidence leads to some surprising conclusions and also points to needed reforms to sustain devel...Show More
7) German Europe: Are there Alternatives?
Contributor(s): Professor Ulrich Beck, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Professor Mary Kaldor | The basic rules of European democracy are being subverted or turned into their opposite, bypassing parliaments, gover...Show More
8) Euro-crisis & Greece
Contributor(s): Dr Daniel Gros, Professor Charles Goodhart, Professor Michael Haliassos | Dr Daniel Gros is director of Centre for European Policy Studies, Brussels. Professor Charles Goodhart, Emerit...Show More
9) Divided Nations: Why global governance is failing and what we can do about it?
Contributor(s): Professor Ian Goldin | The growing gap between global problems and solutions reflects a crisis in global governance. Professor Ian Goldin will present ideas from his latest book, Divid...Show More
Divided Nations: Why global governance is failing and what we can do about it?
1:30:15 | Mar 20th, 2013
10) The Human in Politics
Contributor(s): Professor Anne Phillips | In this inaugural lecture, to celebrate her appointment as the Graham Wallas Professor of Political Science, Anne Phillips addresses the status of the human i...Show More