Date: Wednesday 11 May 2016
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: Professor Andrew Gamble
Chair: Professor Tony Travers

After the most serious economic crash since the 1930s and the slowest recovery on record, austerity rules. Can the Welfare State survive? challenges narrow definitions of welfare and explains why capitalist democracies still need generous, inclusive welfare states for all their citizens, and are rich enough to provide them

Andrew Gamble is Professor of Politics at the University of Sheffield and Emeritus Professor of Politics at the University of Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Academy of Social Sciences. His books include The free economy and the strong state (1988); Hayek: the iron cage of liberty (1996); Politics and Fate (2000); Between Europe and America: the future of British politics (2003), and Crisis without end? The unravelling of western prosperity (2014). In 2005 he received the Isaiah Berlin Prize from the Political Studies Association for lifetime contribution to political studies.

Tony Travers is a Visiting Professor at LSE, specialist in issues affecting local government, director of the Greater London Group and British Government @ LSE

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