LSE: The Ballpark

COVID-19 in South Asia: Bangladesh, India and Pakistan

22 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This podcast will explore how governments in South Asia are tackling COVID-19 and will focus specifically on Bangladesh, India and Pakistan.

Financing the Post-COVID-19 Recovery

19 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This panel will discuss the ways in which advanced economies as well as emerging markets can create the fiscal space to boost post-COVID-19 recovery p...

Financing the Post-COVID-19 Recovery

19 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This podcast discuss the ways in which advanced economies as well as emerging markets can create the fiscal space to boost post-COVID-19 recovery pros...

What Would it Take to Secure a Left Labour Government?

18 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Is Ralph Miliband’s last book, Socialism for a Sceptical Age, still of any relevance after Labour’s heavy defeat in the 2019 general election?

Good Economics for Hard Times

17 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Can economics be harnessed for the common good?

The Economics of Belonging: a radical plan to win back the left behind and achieve prosperity for all

17 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

As the coronavirus crisis shows, the western social contract is threadbare.

The Political Scar of Epidemics

17 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Epidemics pose a stress test for governments

COVID-19: the health policy and care response

16 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Dr Miqdad Asaria, Dr José-Luis Fernandez, Professor Alistair McGuire, Dr Clare Wenham

Crucial Role of State Capacity in Crisis Response

16 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

How states respond to the policy challenges posed by COVID-19 depends on the state capacities in place.

Race and Policing in America

16 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

George Floyd’s death has sparked widespread protest in the U.S. over police abuse. This podcast will discuss the sources of police violence and what...

How Much Tax Do The Rich Really Pay And Could They Pay More?

15 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

With tax rises now almost surely on the horizon, the question will be who should pay.

Six Political Philosophies in Search of a Virus: critical perspectives on the coronavirus pandemic

15 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

COVID-19 has brought a number of interesting questions in political philosophy to the fore. What are the limits and ethical role of the state? What is...

Beyond Heroes and Villains: How can we better understand refugee and asylum seeker stories?

12 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Does the media typically represent asylum seekers and refugees fairly? Could it do a better job at representing them?

Financial Strains, Health Pressures: Syria, Somalia and the COVID-19 impact

10 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Populations and institutions in Syria and Somalia have been subject to conflict and political turmoil for many years

Europe in the Time of Coronavirus: responding to the political and economic challenges of COVID-19

09 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Periods of crisis can strip politics back to its most basic forms, and the political reality is laid bare

Fiscal Policies to Support People and Growth During the COVID-19 Pandemic

08 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Fiscal policies have been central for providing emergency lifelines to people and firms during the COVID-19 pandemic, and are also at the forefront of...

Do Morals Matter: presidents and foreign policy from FDR to Trump

04 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Joseph S Nye

Post COVID-19 Futures of the Urbanising World

03 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Dr Creighton Connolly, Professor Roger Keil, Dr Deirdre McKay, Dr Rita Padawangi

COVID-19 and Illicit Markets

02 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Naomi Burke-Shyne, Jason Eligh, Gabriel de Santis Feltran, Kasia Malinowska, Alexander Söderholm

COVID-19 and Africa: pandemics and global politics

01 Jun 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Assis Malaquias, Elizabeth Sidiropoulos, Dr Folashadé Soulé

COVID-19 Economic Response: a comparative, cross-border perspective

29 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Dr Reuben Abraham, Dr Ailish Campbell, Rain Newton-Smith, Kazumi Nishikawa

Climate change and rising insurance premiums: New York City after Hurricane Sandy

29 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Dr Rebecca Elliott

COVID-19 Economic Response: a comparative, cross-border perspective

29 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

This panel will compare and contrast the economic policy response to COVID-19 undertaken by countries around the world in both developed and emerging ...

Capital Flow Cycles: a long global view

28 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Carmen M Reinhart

Data–driven Responses to COVID–19: opportunities and limitations

28 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Dr Seeta Peña Gangadharan, Dr Orla Lynskey, Dr Alison Powell, Professor Edgar Whitley

Addressing the Pandemic: the pharmaceutical challenges

26 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Kalipso Chalkidou, Dr Panos Kanavos, Professor Margaret Kyle, Professor Ken Shadlen

Responding to a Pandemic: the view from Latin America

22 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Laura Chinchilla, Ricardo Lagos, Juan Manuel Santos, Dr Ernesto Zedillo

London: a walkable city?

22 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Tony Travers, CBE

Targeted Lockdowns and the Road to COVID-19 Recovery

22 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Michael Whinston

COVID-19 and its Impact on Euro Atlantic Security

21 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): General Sir James Everard, Dr Nathalie Tocci, Peter Watkins

Assessing the Impact of COVID-19: from mortality to misery?

21 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Paul Dolan, Dr Daisy Fancourt, Lord O'Donnell, Professor Carol Propper

Government Assistance to Struggling Businesses in the COVID-19 Crisis

19 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Erica Bosio, Dr Juanita Gonzalez-Uribe, Professor Dimitri Vayanos

COVID-19: the economic policy response

18 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Adnan Khan, Ricardo Reis, Silvana Tenreyro

The Great Reversal in the Time of COVID-19

13 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Thomas Philippon, Dr Angelo Martelli

Transboundary Crisis Management in Europe in the Wake of COVID-19

13 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Arjen Boin, Lydie Cabane, Professor Martin Lodge, Professor Nick Sitter

Behavioural Science in the Context of Great Uncertainty

13 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Nick Chater, Professor Liam Delaney, Professor Paul Dolan, Professor Ulrike Hahn, Dr Grace Lordan

Strategic Leadership in the Time of COVID-19

11 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): David H. Petraeus, Professor Michael Barzelay, Shirley Ze Yu

Assessing the Economic Impact of COVID-19

07 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Paul de Grauwe, Simeon Djankov, Professor Panos Tsakloglou, Dr Miranda Xafa

The Economics of Biodiversity

07 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta

What does gender have to do with pandemics?

05 May 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Dr Clare Wenham

COVID-19 and Deglobalisation

30 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Peter Watkins, Professor Linda Yueh

Coronavirus and Brexit: two cases of quarantine?

30 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Sir Simon Fraser, Dr Sara Hagemann, Professor Christian Lequesne, Professor Brigid Laffan

Global Leadership to Support Africa's Response to COVID-19

29 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Sir Paul Collier, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Minouche Shafik

Now or Never: Crafting the Global COVID-19 Response

21 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Gordon Brown, Minouche Shafik, Professor Lawrence H. Summers, Professor Andrés Velasco

The Three Horsemen: Pandemic, War and Depression in the 20th Century

17 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Barry Eichengreen, Ricardo Reis

Out of the Vat with Mahon O’Brien

07 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Dr Mahon O’Brien

Are we doomed, or can the climate crisis be averted?

07 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Bob Ward, Svenja Surminski, Ivan, XR

#10 | An Interview with Professor Thandika Mkandawire on African Knowledge Systems

02 Apr 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Thandika Mkandawire and Dr Laura Mann

The War on Drugs in the Philippines

27 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): John Collins, Dr Charlotte Eaton

Sharing of resources in complex households - deprivation and poverty across Europe

26 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Dr Eleni Karagiannaki, Dr Tania Burchardt

The Hostile Environment: debunking myths about immigration

11 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Dr Maya Goodfellow

Radical Uncertainty: decision making for an unknowable future

10 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor John Kay, Professor Lord King

A Right to a Free Press?

09 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Dr Chandrika Kaul, Professor Sue Mendus, Peter Oborne

Imagining our Futures

07 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Dr Simidele Dosekun, Dr Florian Foos, Professor Sam Friedman, Dr Ria Ivandic, Dr Kasia Paprocki

A World Without Work

07 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Daniel Susskind

Youthquake

07 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Lola Fayokun, Daniel Lawes, Noga Levy-Rapoport

Can Technology Deliver a Sustainable Future?

07 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Dr Eugenie Dugoua, Ria Sen, Carolyn Steel

Africa Talks: the global legacy of African women writers

07 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Margaret Busby, Sarah Ladipo Manyika

Nature vs Nurture

07 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Tom Dickins, Professor Eva Jablonka, Professor Sophie von Stumm

Where Are We on Global Health?

06 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Joe Cerrell, Dr Clare Wenham

Behind the Tin Sheets: city makers of Bangalore

06 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Dr Laura Bear, Ekta Mittal

Planet, Population and Rights

06 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Julia Corwin/Cohen, Carina Hirsch, Yamini Mishra, Professor Wendy Sigle

LSE and the World: personalities and progress

06 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Michael Cox, Sue Donnelly

Gender Equality and the Data Revolution

05 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Oriana Bandiera, Tonusree Basu, Twivwe Siwale

Tribes: how our need to belong can make or break society

05 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): David Lammy MP

Using Behavioural Science for Inclusion in the City

05 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Dr Grace Lordan, Karina Robinson, Brenda Trenowden, Irshaad Ahmad, Richard Nesbitt, Teresa Parker

The Ballpark | S4 E1: Kentucky: Realigning, Republican, Religious, and Rural

05 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Anne Cizmar | Welcome back to Season 4 of The Ballpark from the LSE US Centre! This season we’re continuing our State of t...

The Ballpark | S4 E1: Kentucky: Realigning, Republican, Religious, and Rural

05 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Anne Cizmar

The Carbon Conscious Consumer: going beyond nudges with nudge plus

04 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Peter John, Professor Theresa M Marteau, Dr Sanchayan Banerjee, Professor Gerry Stoker

Fog in Channel: continent cut off

04 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Lord MacPherson, Professor Kai Spiekermann

Propaganda and Democratic Resistance

04 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Shakuntala Banaji, Darren Moon, Peter Pomerantsev

Can Behavioural Insights Shape Policy-making All Over the World?

04 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Liam Delaney, Dr Barbara Fasolo, Professor Adam Oliver, Dr Jet G Sanders

Shaping America's Future

04 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Lawrence R. Jacobs, Gideon Rachman, Professor Leah Wright Rigueur, Professor Linda Yueh

The Rise of Modern Europe

04 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Simon Glendinning, Dr Darian Meacham, Professor Helen Parish

Financing a Global Climate Deal

03 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Ann Pettifor, Gianpiero Nacci, Rhian-Mari Thomas, Steve Waygood

Shaping London

03 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Cllr Muhammed Butt, Amica Dall, Cllr Georgia Gould

Power, Philanthropy and Inequality

03 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Dr Luna Glucksberg, Sonia Medina

LSE IQ Episode 31 | Is corruption inevitable?

03 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Michael Muthukrishna, Professor Sandra Sequeira

Shaping the World

02 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Simon Hix, Dr George Ofosu, Professor Peter Trubowitz

Lessons from the Past: how to learn and not learn from history

02 Mar 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Michael Cox, Professor Matthew Jones, Professor Anita Prazmowska, Professor David Stevenson

Supply Chain Economics and the Next Phase of the Anti-Modern Slavery Movement

25 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): John Studzinski

Windows of Opportunity: how nations create wealth

24 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Lord Sainsbury

Game Theory and Politics

20 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Bernhard von Stengel

Standing For Reason

20 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Gordon Brown, Professor John Sexton

What Has European Integration Ever Done For Us?

19 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Esra Özyürek, Rossella Pagliuchi-Lor, Professor Waltraud Schelkle

Writers Rebel

19 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Chloe Aridjis, A.L. Kennedy, Daljit Nagra, Dr Ganga Shreedhar

Immigration Detention

18 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Mary Bosworth, Professor Matthew Gibney, Mishka

'Brexit' and the Future of British Politics

17 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Sara B Hobolt, Sir Anthony Seldon, Professor Tony Travers, CBE

The Shape of the Beast

14 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Arundhati Roy, Professor Amartya Sen

The International Political Economy: sources of nuclear proliferation

13 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Etel Solingen

LSE and the Genesis of Global Governance

11 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Patricia Clavin

When the Going Gets Tough: women and the future of global peace and security

10 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Sanam Naraghi-Anderlini

The Ballpark | Extra Innings: Donald Trump and the Roots of Republican Extremism in the US, with Professor Theda Skocpol

07 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Theda Skocpol | On 14 October 2019, the US Centre hosted Professor Theda Skocpol for the event “Donald Trump and the Roots...

The Ballpark | Extra Innings: How Baby Boomers Stole the Millennials’ Economic Future, an interview with Joseph Sternberg

07 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Joseph Sternberg | In this Extra Inning from the LSE US Centre, Ballpark host Chris Gilson talks with The Wall Street Journal’s Jose...

The Ballpark | Extra Innings: Donald Trump and the Roots of Republican Extremism in the US, with Professor Theda Skocpol

07 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Theda Skocpol

The Ballpark | Extra Innings: How Baby Boomers Stole the Millennials’ Economic Future, an interview with Joseph Sternberg

07 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Joseph C. Sternberg

Capital and Ideology

06 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Thomas Piketty

Out of the Vat with Brian Glenney

05 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Dr Brian Glenney

Peace

04 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Dr Louise Arimatsu, Dr Robin Dunford, Dr Rachel Julian, Dr Michael Neu

Can We Be Happier?

03 Feb 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Contributor(s): Professor Lord Layard