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An Idea of Equality for Troubled Times
03 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Speakers discuss the idea of equality that societies should pursue in the difficult times ahead.
President Biden's First Year: success or failure?
03 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Leading experts on the United States take stock of the Biden administration’s first year in office and the road ahead.
Wellbeing as a Goal of Public Policy
03 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our panellists discuss the new issue of the LSE Public Policy Review, Beveridge 2.0: Wellbeing. This latest LSE Public Policy Review issue discusses t...
Poland's Constitutional Breakdown: an update
02 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Wojciech Sadurski published Poland's Constitutional Breakdown, in which he described the legal and political events that led to the country's recent t...
After the Virus: lessons from the past for a better future
01 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Why was the UK so unprepared for the pandemic, suffering one of the highest death rates and worst economic contractions of the major world economies i...
Can mothers do it all?
01 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Nathalie Abbott speaks to Shani Orgad (Professor of Media and Communications at LSE) about representations of mothers, and what effec...
Jacqueline Novogratz on impact investing, social entrepreneurship and moral imagination
01 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Impact investing, social entrepreneurship and philanthropy have gained significant momentum in the wake of the Covid-19 crisis. But what does success ...
Punishment
31 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Why do societies engage in the practice of punishment? What purpose does punishing serve? And does the punishment we find in modern societies do an ef...
Making Career Progression
28 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Presented by enterprise specialist and serial entrepreneur Peter Harrington, this podcast series covers a range of key topics all designed to help res...
How Can Evidence-Based Policing Advance Police Reform Overseas?
27 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This inter-disciplinary event brings together criminologists and political scientists from the Global South and North to answer what actually works to...
Strategies for Urbanisation in Africa
26 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The future prosperity and security of sub-Saharan Africa depends on building a new urban environment for the world’s most rapidly expanding populati...
Population Health in the 21st Century: path to progress
24 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Harlan Krumholz reviews the challenges of today’s health care infrastructure and economic models, and propose solutions for tomorrow.
Sir Ronald Cohen on Impact Investing
24 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sir Ronald Cohen is one of the most influential figures in impact investing over the past 50 years. In this 20 minute podcast, we learn more about his...
Victory and the Making of Peace: the Allies in the First World War
24 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Historian Margaret MacMillan delivers the second Engelsberg Chair lecture of 2021/22 on alliances and war.
Pitch Perfect Presentations
19 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Presented by enterprise specialist and serial entrepreneur Peter Harrington, this podcast series covers a range of key topics all designed to help res...
The Ballpark | S4 E2: California: Environmental Policy in the Golden State
19 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For this episode of The Ballpark, we head to California to take an in-depth look at the Golden State’s considerable economic power and what that mea...
The Story of Work: a new history of humankind
19 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this talk, Jan Lucassen discusses his new book, The Story of Work
Airbrushed out of history: the Soviet middle class and lessons for inequality
18 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
From the fall of Russia’s last Tsar to the rise of the communist state and beyond, there remains an unlikely survivor: the Russian middle class.
Developing an entrepreneurial mindset
18 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Presented by enterprise specialist and serial entrepreneur Peter Harrington, this podcast series covers a range of key topics all designed to help res...
Finding and getting the job you want
18 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Presented by enterprise specialist and serial entrepreneur Peter Harrington, this podcast series covers a range of key topics all designed to help res...
Mabel van Oranje on advancing equality, freedom and justice
18 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Mabel van Oranje is a serial entrepreneur for social change working globally to advance equality, freedom, and justice. We learn more about her person...
Research, Risk and Protection
18 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Presented by enterprise specialist and serial entrepreneur Peter Harrington, this podcast series covers a range of key topics all designed to help res...
Shaping up for Money
18 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Presented by enterprise specialist and serial entrepreneur Peter Harrington, this podcast series covers a range of key topics all designed to help res...
Supporting Stakeholder Organisations
18 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Presented by enterprise specialist and serial entrepreneur Peter Harrington, this podcast series covers a range of key topics all designed to help res...
The Successful Start-up – what does it take?
18 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Presented by enterprise specialist and serial entrepreneur Peter Harrington, this podcast series covers a range of key topics all designed to help res...
Anger
17 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Experts discuss how different schools of thought conceptualise anger.
SHORTCAST | Environmentalism and Global International Society
16 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This shortcast discusses the new book, Environmentalism and Global International Society.
Critical Partnerships for Sustainable Development
14 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
UNDP Head Achim Steiner argues we need to step up multi-stakeholder co-operation and collective efforts to combat rising poverty and inequality, viole...
SHORTCAST | Career and Family: women's century-long journey toward equity
13 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Taking the form of an open conversation, this event discusses the themes of gender equity and couple equity as presented in Claudia Goldin’s book, C...
SHORTCAST | 15 years on from the Stern Review: economics of climate change, innovation, growth
12 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
To mark the 15th anniversary of the publication of the landmark The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review, Nicholas Stern reviews progress and...
Has COVID killed the office?
11 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What does the post-pandemic future hold for office workers?
Has COVID killed the office?
10 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What does the post-pandemic future hold for office workers?
Professor Johan Rockström on climate change
07 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This discussion explains the implications of 1.5 degree warming, and what needs to be done to avert further crisis.
Dismantling the Apartheid of Our Time: the Palestinian Liberation Movement as an anti-racist struggle
20 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In April 2021, Human Rights Watch sent shock waves across the human rights community and political circles alike when it published a report accusing I...
Systemic Risk in Interconnected Financial Markets
17 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Domino effects of losses can bring down entire financial systems with severe knock-on effects on the real economy.
Congratulations to the Class of 2021 | Winter Graduation
16 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Congratulations to the graduates of 2021!
How To Get Away With Killing? A Social Science Counter-investigation
14 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this discussion, anthropologist and sociologist Didier Fassin presents key themes from his recent book Death of a Traveller.
What is it like to be an animal?
13 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to a new season of LSE IQ, where we work with academics to bring you their latest research and ideas. In this episode we ask, what is it ...
Minimum Wages: lessons from international experience
13 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Recently, many countries have looked to increase minimum wages as part of a strategy to address labour market problems. This lecture summarises these ...
Nudge: the final edition
13 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Originally published over a decade ago, Nudge by Nobel Laureate Richard H. Thaler, and Cass R. Sunstein is now available in a completely revised final...
What is it like to be an animal? RftW
13 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What is it like to be an animal? Hear what Jonathan Birch had to say in this episode of the LSE iQ podcast.
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
10 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Beverly Daniel Tatum and Minouche Shafik discuss Dr Tatum's book Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations...
Why Women's Lives Don't Matter: ignoring sexual violence in conflict
10 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our panel reflects on factors that give rise to sexual violence, persistent gaps in state and multilateral efforts as well as the effective prevention...
What is it like to be an animal?
07 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to a new season of LSE IQ, where we work with academics to bring you their latest research and ideas. In this episode we ask, what is it ...
The External Action of the European Union
06 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to the launch of a new book edited by Sieglinde Gstohl and Simon Schunz, The External Action of the European Union – Concepts, Approaches, Th...
The Communards
29 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This year marks the 150th anniversary of the 1871 Paris Commune: an event that profoundly influenced the development of the left.
Career and Family: women's century-long journey toward equity
29 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This event takes the form of an open conversation to discuss the themes of gender equity and couple equity as presented in Claudia Goldin’s book, Ca...
The State We're In at 25: reconsidering progressive politics
29 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Will Hutton’s The State We’re In was one of the most important polemical works of the 1990s
Inclusion in Global Markets
26 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to our discussion on the idea of a global inclusion framework for firms.
Europe's Recovery Programs
26 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the wake of the pandemic, governments across Europe, as well as the European Commission, have financed programs to spur economic recovery.
Home in the World
26 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen talks about his recently publish memoir, Home in the World.
How and where to start
26 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Presented by enterprise specialist and serial entrepreneur Peter Harrington, this podcast series covers a range of key topics all designed to help res...
Proxies: the cultural work of standing in
26 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dylan Mulvin discusses his new book, Proxies: The Cultural Work of Standing In.
Queering Europe: nationalism and sexuality
25 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This discussion explores the seemingly paradoxical relationship between sexuality and Europeanness.
Environmentalism and Global International Society
23 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This event discusses the new book, Environmentalism and Global International Society.
Data Feminism: what does feminist data science look like?
19 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What is feminist data science? How is feminist thinking being incorporated into data-driven work? And how are scholars in the humanities and social sc...
Grief
19 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Grief is something we all experience in our lifetimes, but how well do we understand it?
Rethinking American Political Economy
19 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Two leading US political scientists discuss how globalisation, economic inequality and democratic erosions are reshaping American political life.
Disposable Workers in the Platform Economy
18 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Apps such as Uber and Just Eat have radically changed the economic landscape, but how has platform technology impacted workers?
Secular Stagnation After COVID-19
17 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Lawrence H Summers delivers the Stamp Memorial Lecture in conversation with Professor Silvana Tenreyro.
Putting Peace Back into Politics
17 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our speakers reflect on the cost of broken promises and the failure to learn lessons, whilst highlighting ways to effectively prioritise and foster pe...
Flux: eight superpowers for thriving in constant change
16 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
At a time when change feels relentless and too often beyond our control, April Rinne will discuss her new book which offers a bento box of superpowers...
Bad lighting is harming London's housing estates - how can we fix it?
12 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Compare the moody atmosphere of a well-lit heritage district with the bright flood-lighting of a council estate: light codes the city, telling a story...
How Can Africa Adapt to Climate Change?
09 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Leading global experts discuss how Africa can best adapt to climate change.
Social Unrest in Colombia and Chile: causes and cures
09 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Why did Colombia and Chile experience bouts of social unrest and street violence recently? What are the roots of this discontent and what can be done ...
Technological Change, Cities and Spatial Inequality
09 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Technological change is reshaping economic geography, raising profound challenges for economic development.
Cogs and Monsters: what economics is, and what it should be
08 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How much is economics to blame for crises like the financial crash, inequality or even climate change?
The Lock Asylum (Audio Drama)
08 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Can we imagine what life was like for the thousands of young women who lived as prostitutes, servants and migrants in eighteenth-century London?
Greece and the Euro: from crisis to recovery
03 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This talk introduces the new e-book edited by Kevin Featherstone and George Alogoskoufis.
What Climate Change Loss and Damage Means for the US and the World
03 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This event brings together speakers who have researched and organised around climate change loss and damage to discuss the potential and limitations o...
15 years on from the Stern Review: economics of climate change, innovation, growth
02 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
To mark the 15th anniversary of the publication of the landmark The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review, Nicholas Stern reviews progress and...
Britain, Europe and America: lessons from the recent past and prospects for the near future
02 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
From his experience as UK Ambassador to Washington, Kim Darroch considers the new challenges facing the transatlantic relationship and draws on the le...
China's Political Worldview and Chinese Exceptionalism
02 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Discussing Benjamin Ho's new book, China's Political Worldview and Chinese Exceptionalism, this podcast explores how China is currently engaged in a c...
In Conversation with John F Kerry, US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate
02 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Just days ahead of the start of the COP26 summit, US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry delivers remarks before taking audience questio...
Pandemic Public Finance: how historic is it?
02 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What does the economic history of earlier periods of very high debt tell us about the current environment of rising public indebtedness and, potential...
Free: coming of age at the end of history
01 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Join us as Lea Ypi discusses her memoir and her experiences growing up in Albania, the last Stalinist outpost in Europe during the fall of communism i...
Modern Conversations
01 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We explore what philosophy, linguistics, and anthropology can tell us about our distinctly modern conversations.
Planning for the Post-COVID world: central bank policies in emerging economies
01 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The COVID-19 pandemic has necessitated a massive policy response.
Red or Green?
27 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Germany's elections saw a surprise comeback for the SDP and strong gains for the Greens. Meanwhile, results for left-wing Die Linke were catastrophic....
The 'Human' in Human Rights
27 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Craig Calhoun discusses the problems which arise from putting a secular conception of the human at its centre for our normative and political imaginat...
The Brexit Deterrent? How Britain's Exit has Shaped Public Support for the EU
27 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How has Brexit shaped public support for the EU in the remaining 27 member states? Is Britain’s exit from the EU a deterrent or has it given a boost...
How to Stop Fascism?
22 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In his new book How to Stop Fascism, Paul Mason offers a radical, hopeful blueprint for resisting and defeating the new far right.
In Conversation with Otegha Uwagba
22 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
To celebrate Black History Month, LSE Director Minouche Shafik talks to bestselling author and culture journalist Otegha Uwagba.
What's Wrong with Rights?
22 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Human rights bridge morality and politics, and underpin our sense of what it means to be human. But where do rights come from? Can non-human beings ha...
Calling In, Not Calling Out
19 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Loretta J. Ross invites us to call others in, rather than call them out.
Changing the Story on Disability?
19 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We hear from those who are striving to shift narratives around disability through public awareness campaigns globally and will explore whether and how...
Monetary Policy and Financial Cycles
19 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In our world of free capital mobility, we show that Central banks of large currency areas are drivers of financial cycles and of risk taking in the in...
The Aristocracy of Talent: how meritocracy made the modern world
14 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For much of history meritocracy was a revolutionary thought, but by the end of the twentieth century it had become the world's ruling ideology. How di...
The Ballpark | Extra Innings: How UK Think Tanks influence US policymaking, with Professor Michael Cox
13 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
On July 21st, 2021, The Phelan US Centre’s Chris Gilson spoke to Professor Michael Cox of LSE IDEAS about his new article in the journal, Internatio...
The Dawn of Everything
13 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for this event in which David Wengrow will be in conversation with Alpa Shah about his new book co-authored with the late David Graeber, The D...
The Indian Economy: recent developments and prospects
11 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this event, the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India and the Chair of the 15th Indian Finance Commission will discuss the challenges facing the ec...
Welcome 2021: A message from LSE Governor Lord Victor Adebowale CBE
11 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"It really doesn't matter what you study here, what matters is that you understand the challenges society is facing, and that you're willing to contri...
Opportunities for Stronger and Sustainable Post-Pandemic Growth in Latin America and the Caribbean
07 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This panel from the IDB and LSE will discuss the 2021 Latin American and Caribbean Macroeconomic Report...
The Euro@30: has the common currency finally grown up?
06 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This panel will discuss whether the reforms since 2010 have been sufficient to make the Euro a "mature" currency.
The Plague Year: America in the time of COVID-19
06 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for this event discussing Pulitzer Prize-winning author Lawrence Wright’s new book, The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid.
From Crisis to Transformation: a path forward
05 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Join us for this event discussing Anne-Marie Slaughter's new book, Renewal: From Crisis to Transformation in Our Lives, Work, and Politics.
Reconciliation Processes in Post-Conflict Societies: Colombia and beyond
05 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This talk looks at the context of peace, justice, forgiveness and reconciliation processes in Colombia and beyond, by sharing international experience...
Addiction
04 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What is addiction? Although it is often discussed in terms of neurobiology, this can’t begin to capture what it means to be addicted and what addict...
Why is Latin American Inequality So Extreme? Introducing LAC Inequality Review
29 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For as long as data on income inequality has been available, Latin America has stood as one of the world’s two most unequal regions...
Reciprocity and the Welfare State
28 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Join our panelists as they come together to discuss the new issue of the LSE Public Policy Review, Beveridge 2.0: Reciprocity Across the Life-Cycle.