Gearty Grillings
Episodes
Wages in the Middle Ages
15 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Waning Globalisation
14 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This lecture discusses the causes and implications of the retreat from globalisation for growth and inequality.
Putting Collective Value Creation at the Heart of Economic Thinking and Practice
13 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Mariana Mazzucato delivers this lecture as part of the Lionel Robbins Lecture Series.
LSE: The Ballpark | The Case for Reparations for Mass Incarceration with Dr Tasseli McKay
09 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In December 2022, the Phelan US Centre’s Chris Gilson and Mohid Malik spoke to Dr Tasseli McKay, National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow in ...
100 years of the Republic of Türkiye: changing ideas of modernity
08 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This event appraises 100 years of the Turkish Republic, taking stock of changing ideas of modernity, progress and Westernisation.
Why be an economist?
08 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 w...
Follow the Money: how much does Britain cost?
07 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
How can we solve the refugee crisis?
07 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 count...
The Productivity Puzzle: can diversity and inclusion unlock the key to growth?
07 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Grace Lordan speaks with a panel of experts about the theory and evidence behind the diversity and productivity link.
The Future of Privacy
06 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Panelists discuss puzzling examples such as user privacy on social media platforms, wearable devices for employees in workplaces, and data processing ...
Series 3 | Episode 5 - The Institute of Economics Justice and the politics of knowledge in pursuit of economic justice
04 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast focuses on the Johannesburg-based Institute of Economic Justice (IEJ), a progressive socio-economic policy think tank established in 2018...
Different Perspectives on Diversity of Thought in Social Science
01 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Low diversity of thought is an important issue that hampers the progress of social sciences and their potential to contribute to society and resolve i...
LSE: The Ballpark | Professor Glenn Loury on Identity Politics and Race in America
28 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In May 2022, The Phelan US Centre’s Mohid Malik spoke to Professor Glenn Loury, Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences and Professor of E...
Will UK debt keep increasing?
27 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
With low interest rates in the past 20 years the UK government has borrowed a lot more increasing public debt, we talk to Ricardo Reis about what affe...
How can we solve the refugee crisis?
24 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 count...
Surrogacy Law Reform
23 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This panel event discusses the process of law reform, and what changes to the law might be likely to follow from the Law Commission's five year surrog...
The Russia-Ukraine War: a challenge to international order
22 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This lecture assesses the implications for international order at large and the operation of international law, including international humanitarian l...
Global Energy Politics and Cost of Living Crisis
20 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Ralph Miliband Programme is joined by Helen Thompson to discuss how many of the defining dislocations of our contemporary world are best understoo...
LSE: The Ballpark | Professor Jessica Chen Weiss on China and the International Order
20 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In November 2022, The Phelan US Centre’s Chris Gilson and Mohid Malik spoke to Professor Jessica Chen Weiss, professor of government at Cornell Univ...
The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism
16 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This event discusses Martin Wolf's new book, The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism.
LSE: The Ballpark | China’s Belt and Road with Professor Taylor Fravel
13 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In November 2022, The Phelan US Centre’s Chris Gilson and Mohid Malik spoke to Professor Taylor Fravel of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...
The New Normal: a dual track approach to health strategy and policy
13 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In LSE Health's Annual Lecture, Hans Kluge, WHO Regional Director for Europe, presents a dual track approach to health strategy and policy.
Series 3 | Episode 4 - Pan African University as a tool for knowledge production about Africa
09 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast examines the contribution of the Pan - African University (PAU) in claiming greater autonomy over knowledge production and development po...
Do we always need to pay our debts?
07 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Exploring the reasons people might find themselves with problematic levels of debt, this month, LSE iQ asks “Do we always need to pay our debts?”
In Conversation with Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
07 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
LSE President and Vice Chancellor Minouche Shafik in conversation with Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director-General of the World Trade Organization.
Inside the Deal: how the EU got Brexit done
06 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In his book, Inside the Deal, which he discusses at this event De Rynck demonstrates how the EU-27’s unity held firm while the UK vacillated through...
LSE: The Ballpark | Professor Rana Mitter on historical analogy in US-China relations
06 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On 27 September 2022, The Phelan US Centre’s Chris Gilson and Mohid Malik spoke to Professor Rana Mitter of the University of Oxford about China’s...
Lessons from the Edge: a memoir
03 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this wide-ranging conversation, Marie Yovanovitch, former US ambassador to Ukraine, discusses her best-selling memoir, Russia’s war on Ukraine, a...
What Should Fiscal and Social Policy in a Sustainable Economy Look Like?
03 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Tribune Group of Members of Parliament is working alongside LSE, and other experts to propose new Labour Party policy in three priority areas: act...
Global Trade Policy Challenges: preparing for the next decade
01 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This event brings together trade policy-makers and academics to discuss the challenges and policy strategies for the next decade.
LSE: The Ballpark | Lessons from the Edge with Marie Yovanovitch
30 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On 25 January 2023, the Phelan US Centre’s Chris Gilson spoke with Marie Yovanovitch, the United States’ Ambassador to Ukraine from 2016 to 2019, ...
Money and Politics: analysing donations to UK political parties, 2000-2021
25 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How is British politics funded, and by whom? How can the financial landscape of party politics change to enhance democratic accountability?
Follow the Science? Data, Models and Decisions in the 21st Century
24 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Decision makers, policymakers and activists often urge us to "Follow The Science". However, the science is highly contested, from the data to the mode...
Growth for Good: reshaping capitalism to save humanity from climate catastrophe
24 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This event discusses Alessio Terzi's new book Growth For Good which deals with climate change and sustainable development..
LSE: The Ballpark | England's Cross of Gold with Professor James Morrison
23 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In June 2022, the Phelan US Centre’s Chris Gilson spoke to Centre Affiliate Professor James Morrison about his new book, England's Cross of Gold Key...
Inflation: how is the housing market being affected?
19 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
With interest rates going up, and cost of living increasing, we talk to Cornelia Agyenim-Boateng about how the housing market has been affected.
Is African trade underperforming?
19 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Trade is central to development in Africa, this film explores the recent history of African trade and what needs to change.
Global Discord: values and power in a fractured world order
17 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Harvard research fellow and former central banker Paul Tucker presents his views about how the international security, economic and legal system can s...
LSE: The Ballpark | Professor Mary Kaldor on Long-term Solutions to the War in Ukraine
16 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Mary Kaldor is Professor Emeritus of Global Governance and Director of the Conflict Research Programme at The London School of Economics and Political...
Philosophy Live: time's arrow
16 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What can reflecting on the difference between the past and the future tell us about our place in the post-pandemic world?
Beveridge 2.0: tax justice
09 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This event discusses the new issue of the LSE Public Policy Review, Beveridge 2.0: Tax Justice.
The Paradox of Vocational Education
07 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Why is academic education triumphant in a skills-hungry labour market?
Can gaming make us happier?
06 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This month, LSE iQ asks: Can gaming make us happier?
Everyone and No One: moral solicitude and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
06 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this year’s Annual Human Rights Day Talk, Siba N'Zatioula Grovogui invites us to revisit the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).
Imagining Information and Communications Technologies for a Fairer World
05 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Speakers discuss information and communications technologies for a fairer world.
Inequality Hysteresis: how can central banks contribute to an equitable society?
01 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Growing economic inequality has become a matter of increasing public and policymaking concern in recent years. Some have argued that unconventional mo...
Rituals and the Making of International Society
01 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What criteria do scholars employ to say that an action or an event is a ritual, and what difference (if any) does it make to its character as well as ...
First Lady of Ukraine speaks to students at LSE
30 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Olena Zelenska, First Lady of Ukraine, visited LSE in December 2022 to speak to students of LSE and other universities about the challenges Ukrainian'...
The Autumn Tax Plan
30 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jeremy Hunt announced an Autumn Statement to tackle inflation, we talked to LSE academic Andy Summers about the tax plan.
Can gaming make us happier?
29 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This month, LSE iQ asks: Can gaming make us happier?
Evidence Week
29 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
LSE are partners for Evidence Week in Parliament 2022, along with the Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology (POST), which is organised by Se...
Greece – the Way Forward: in conversation with Kyriakos Mitsotakis
28 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Celebrating 25 years of the Hellenic Observatory at LSE, the Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and LSE’s Kevin Featherstone discuss the chall...
Abolishing the Political Class, From Aristotle to Hayek
25 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This event formally launches the Hayek Programme in Economics and Liberal Political Economy at LSE and picks up on themes in Hayek’s writings and th...
How Do We Eradicate Poverty?
24 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Can poverty be eradicated? If so, why haven't we managed it yet?
European Remembrance
24 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As part of the European Institute’s 30th Anniversary celebrations, celebrations through which we memorialise our own institutional history, this eve...
Implementing Child Rights Online: new cross-national evidence to guide policy
23 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our panel explores the global evidence on children’s internet-related risks and opportunities to inform policymakers internationally.
Sovereignty without Power: Liberia in the age of empires, 1822-1980
23 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This inaugural lecture is timed to tie-in with the publication of Leigh Gardner’s new book, Sovereignty without Power: Liberia in the Age of Empires...
Highly Discriminating: why the City isn't fair and diversity doesn't work
22 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This talk from Louise Ashley looks at her new book; Highly Discriminating: Why the City isn’t Fair and Diversity Doesn’t Work.
If You're So Ethical Why Are You So Highly Paid? Market Failure in Executive Pay
21 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This event is relevant for anyone concerned to understand and tackle business’s role in the growing social inequality of advanced economies in an in...
China's Global Rise: the Renminbi and the making of an international currency
15 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This lecture presents why it has become imperative for China to increase the international use of its currency.
The Iran protests: sisterhood beyond borders
15 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The death of Mahsa Jîna Amini sparked nationwide protests in Iran. The protests have created a space for sisterhood, crossing class and ethnic boun...
Civil Rights in the Changing World
10 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This event discusses the change in human rights policies overtime and the impact of these changes on the workforce.
Doughnut Economics: a new economic vision for cities
10 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the AFSEE Keynote Lecture, economist Kate Raworth discusses how we can create equal and just cities without overburdening the environment.
Making Space for Girls
10 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Making Space for Girls is a research project around how girls and young women have been left out when thinking about public spaces.
Series 3 | Episode 3 - Assessing the Assessment, a look at the World Bank’s CPIA
10 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode builds on the previous theme by zooming in on the World Bank’s Country Policy and Institutional Assessment (CPIA) score.
Sizing Up the US Midterm Elections
09 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Will the midterm elections put the Republicans back in control of Congress, and President Biden and the Democrats on the defensive?
Lula and the Latin American Left
07 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our panel of experts consider the lessons for the left in Latin America and beyond.
Inflation: how long do recessions last?
03 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
With a potential recession looming in the near future we talk to Jason Lennard about the history of recessions and the shape of them.
Series 3 | Episode 2 - IMF creditworthiness: implications for knowledge production and African development
03 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode addresses how the IMF conceptualises creditworthiness.
Viral Justice
03 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Ruha Benjamin discusses a practical vision of how small changes can add up to large ones, transforming our relationships and communities and helping u...
Friedrich Hayek and Adam Smith on the Concept of Liberty
01 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The term, “liberty,” has largely disappeared from traditional economics. As part of a larger study of Adam Smith’s politics, Barry Weingast sugg...
How does class define us?
01 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of LSE iQ asks, ‘How does class define us?’
NATO's Strategic Concept
31 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
NATO’s strategy for the next decade.
Trade and Climate A Negotiating Agenda For The WTO
31 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
After striking a deal on fisheries subsidies, could trade and climate be the next negotiating challenge for the WTO?
Series 3 | Episode 1 – Who Owns Knowledge: the Politics of Knowledge Production
27 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast asks the question, what is considered legitimate knowledge within the development studies field?
The Multidimensional Politics of Inequality
27 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the inaugural Social Policy Lecture at LSE, Leslie McCall presents a novel analytical framework for the understanding of popular responses to econo...
Social Media and Hate
25 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Using expert interviews and focus groups, this book investigates the theoretical and practical intersection of misinformation and social media hate in...
Can't Pay, Won't Pay! A Popular History of Taxes
24 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for the screening of Xavier’s Villetard’s documentary Can't Pay, Won't Pay! and following this a question and answer session with Natacha ...
In Conversation with Olivia Umurerwa Rutazibwa
20 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
To celebrate Black History Month, join us for this conversation with Olivia Umurerwa Rutazibwa.
Landscapes of Environmental Racism
20 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Settler colonialism and racial capitalism in the US has resulted in dramatic forms of inequality through institutionalized, geopolitical, and environm...
The Past, Present, and Future of Global Economic Governance
19 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our panel of Jamie Martin, Abraham Newman and Stephanie Rickard discuss the future of globalisation and international economic governance, particularl...
How does class define us?
18 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of LSE iQ asks, ‘How does class define us?’
Ronald Ross and Hilda Hudson: a surprising collaboration on the theory of epidemics
18 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
During WW1, the famous physician Ronald Ross teamed up with a young geometer, Hilda Hudson, and together they effectively founded mathematical epidemi...
The Rise and Fall of the Neo-Liberal Order
17 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The neoliberalism that has defined American political economy for more than four decades appears to be in terminal decline.
Social Science is Explanation or it is Nothing
13 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Engaging with LSE's core motto, "Rerum Cognoscere Causas" meaning "to know the causes of things", we engage with a fundamental question about the purp...
Threatening Dystopias: politics of climate change adaptation in Bangladesh
13 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Launch of Kasia Paprocki's new book, Threatening Dystopias The Global Politics of Climate Change Adaptation in Bangladesh.
Coping When Life is Hard: can philosophy help?
12 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Two recent books - Kieran Setiya's Life is Hard and Luc Bovens's Coping - argue that it can. In this panel event, the authors talk to Susanne Burri an...
Inflation: the energy crisis explained
12 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Rising energy bills drive up the cost of living. LSE's Anna Valero explains what led to the current energy crisis and how the transition to net zero e...
The Strategic Nexus Between Climate Change, Energy and Geopolitics
11 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This lecture explores how to develop effective international strategies that help us prevent catastrophic global warming.
The New Political Capitalism
10 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Joe Zammit-Lucia and Michael Barzelay discuss Joe's recent book, The New Political Capitalism - How businesses and societies can thrive in a deeply po...
Play it Again Clem? Lessons from the 1940s for Post-COVID Britain
06 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What are the lessons we should learn, how successful were the policies of the time, and should we really try to go back to the future?
Unfree: migrant domestic labour in the Middle East
05 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In her new book, Rhacel Salazar Parreñas offers nuanced accounts of workers relationships with their employers in the United Arab Emirates.
Hijacking Women's Health
04 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Women’s health is and always has been hijacked for political ends. The US Supreme Court overturning of Roe vs Wade is but another example of elites ...
How can we survive the next mass extinction?
04 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This month, LSE iQ asks: How can we survive the next mass extinction?
What is the Future of the US Supreme Court?
04 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Recent US Supreme Court decisions have rocked the nation.
From Annexation to War: Russia's aggression in Ukraine
03 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this talk, the panellists consider both Russia's war against and invasion of Ukraine since February 2022 and the longer trajectory of Russia's aggr...
Welcome 2022: A message from Christine Lagarde, President of the European Central Bank
03 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“Be curious about what you can give back to the world and how you can use your time here towards that goal." This year's Welcome address comes from ...
The Connections World: the future of Asian capitalism
29 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Modern Asia is built upon a web of close relationships running between and within business and politics: the connections world.
In Conversation with Ray Dalio
26 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Join Ray Dalio and Minouche Shafik in conversation as they deep dive into the findings of Dalio's recent book, Principles for Dealing with the Changin...
LSE: The Ballpark | Finding Success as a Phelan US Centre Undergraduate Research Assistant, with Karen Torres
26 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Phelan US Centre’s Joss Harrison speaks to Karen Torres about her experience as an undergraduate research assistant (UGRA) with Dr John Collins ...