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.
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