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Equality of permission and of gender

Hosted by the Department of Economics

In-person and online public event (LSE campus, venue tbc to ticketholders)

Speaker

Professor Deirdre Nansen McCloskey

Chair

Professor Nava Ashraf

Join us in welcoming back to LSE, economist Deirdre Nansen McCloskey who will deliver this special lecture.

Meet our speaker and chair

Deirdre Nansen McCloskey (@DeirdreMcClosk) is Senior Fellow and holds the Isaiah Berlin Chair of Liberal Thought at the Cato Institute in Washington DC. From 2015 at the University of Illinois at Chicago she has been Distinguished Professor Emerita of Economics and of History, and Professor Emerita of English and of Communication.

Nava Ashraf (@profnavaashraf) is Professor of Economics at LSE. She is a leading researcher who uses rigorous field experiments in collaboration with large organizations to evaluate the impact of policies, practices, and incentives in behavioural, development, labour, and organisational economics. She is also the co-director of the psychology and economics program at STICERD and the founding director of the Altruistic Capital Lab, which aims to generate global evidence based on understanding what works and why.

More about this event

Join us on campus or register to watch the event online at LSE Live. LSE Live is the home for our live streams, allowing you to tune in and join the global debate at LSE, wherever you are in the world. If you can't attend live, a video will be made available shortly afterwards on LSE's YouTube channel.

The Department of Economics at LSE is one of the largest economics departments in the world. Its size ensures that all areas of economics are strongly represented in both research and teaching.

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This public event is free and open to all. This event will be a hybrid event, with an in-person audience and an online audience.

For the in person event: You can request one ticket via the online ticket request form, which will open after 12noon on Monday 22 September. The ticket line will stay open until all tickets have been allocated. 

For the online event: Registration for this event will open in early September.

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