Literary Festival 2011 - This House Believes that the Future of Rights is...
Speaker(s): David Davis MP, Professor Conor Gearty | For the past twenty weeks Conor Gearty has been writing a collaborative book online, at www.therightsfuture.com, with an essay appearing weekly...
View ArticleWhere is Future Growth Going to Come From? [Video]
Speaker(s): Professor John Van Reenen, Professor Jonathan Haskel | Where will the sources of new growth come from in the wake of the financial crisis and recession? What is the role of education,...
View ArticleThe Global Chaos of Love [Video]
Speaker(s): Professor Ulrich Beck, Professor Lynn Jamieson | In the global age there are increasing numbers of long-distance relationships, bi-national couples, marriage migrants, foreign domestic...
View ArticleThe Lure of Authority: Motivation and Incentive Effects of Power [Video]
Speaker(s): Professor Ernst Fehr | Authority and power permeate political, social, and economic life - yet there is limited empirical knowledge about the motivational origins and consequences of...
View ArticleThe Impact of Politics on Economy in Turkey - in Turkish [Video]
Speaker(s): Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu | Mr. Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu MP, the leader of the main opposition Republican People's Party in Turkey, is visiting LSE only months before Turkey goes to the polls in a...
View ArticleNuclear Arms and Human Rights [Video]
Speaker(s): Professor Niall Ferguson | The decisive breakthroughs in the Cold War occurred in seemingly unrelated fields – nuclear arms control and human rights. But was the collapse of communism a...
View ArticleIncome Distribution and Social Change after 50 years [Video]
Speaker(s): Professor Sir Tony Atkinson | Fifty years ago, it was believed that income inequality was falling and that poverty had largely been eliminated. This lecture returns to Richard Titmuss'...
View ArticleOut of Europe? The United States in an Asian age [Video]
Speaker(s): Professor Michael Cox, Professor Arne Westad | Niall Ferguson argues that the world is now being shaped more by the emerging economies of the East than by the once dominant West. But within...
View ArticleWhy is the European Left Losing Elections? [Video]
Speaker(s): David Miliband MP | For the first time since First World War, governments in Britain, France, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden and Italy come from the centre-right. Is this just an accidental...
View ArticleThe Human Sciences in the 'Age of Biology' – revitalising sociology [Video]
Speaker(s): Professor Nikolas Rose | Thanks to the insights of genomics and neuroscience we now understand ourselves in radically new ways. Is a new figure of the human, and of the social, taking shape...
View ArticleClimate Change needs Climate Justice [Video]
Speaker(s): Mary Robinson | The debate on climate change is moving from stopping it to how best to manage its effects. Climate justice links human rights and development to achieve a human-centered...
View ArticleGender and Poverty in the 21st Century [Video]
Speaker(s): Professor Diane Elson, Professor Nancy Folbre, Professor Maxine Molyneux | Each speaker will briefly reflect on a theme inspired by or departing from the International Handbook of Gender...
View ArticleTriumph of the City: how our greatest invention makes us richer, smarter,...
Speaker(s): Professor Edward Glaeser | Building and maintaining cities is difficult and density has costs, but in this presentation Professor Edward Glaeser will argue that these costs are worth...
View ArticleChanges in Labour Market Inequality [Video]
Speaker(s): Professor Stephen Machin | In this lecture, the third in a series to celebrate 21 years of the CEP, Stephen Machin surveys significant research findings on wage inequality that have emerged...
View ArticleThe Mexican Economy and Future Prospects [Video]
Speaker(s): Ernesto Cordero | Ernesto Cordero is the Mexican Minister of Finance. This event marks the inauguration of Mexico Today Economic Prospects and Public Security, a week long conference of...
View ArticleThe Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity [Video]
Speaker(s): Pavan Sukhdev | Pavan Sukhdev is Study Leader for the G8+5 commissioned report on The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB), a hugely influential global study launched in Nagoya...
View ArticleExorbitant Privilege: The Rise and Fall of the Dollar [Video]
Speaker(s): Professor Barry Eichengreen | The dollar, the world's international reserve currency for over eighty years, has been a pillar of American economic hegemony. In the words of one critic, the...
View ArticleSecurity: Present and Future Challenges [Video]
Speaker(s): Admiral Sir Mark Stanhope, Professor Mary Kaldor | The inter-relationship between global and national security is a feature of our connected world. Rapid change and uncertainty in the...
View ArticleA Vision of the Next Economy: from macro to metro [Video]
Speaker(s): Ricky Burdett, Bruce Katz | LSE Cities and the Brookings Institution have carried out new research on how cities and metropolitan areas are responding to current economic challenges. Ricky...
View ArticleCities and Climate Change [Video]
Speaker(s): Joan Clos | Editor's note: We apologise for the poor audio quality throughout the question and answer session. Urban areas will have to play an increasingly important role as part of...
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