Success and Luck: good fortune and the myth of meritocracy
7 Dec 2016
Speaker: Prof Robert H. Frank (Cornell University)
Discussants: Prof Nicola Lacey (LSE) and Rt Hon Ed Miliband MP
Chair: Prof John Hills (LSE)
Professor Robert Frank discussed the role luck plays in economic success.
Watch the video recording here.
Credit Suisse Global Wealth Report 2016
23 November 2016
Speaker: Anthony Shorrocks (Global Economic Perspectives; World Institute of Development Economics Research)
Discussants: Dr Abigail McKnight (LSE) and Deborah Hardoon (Oxfam)
Chair: Prof John Hills (LSE)
To mark the publication of the Global Wealth Report 2016, Tony Shorrocks explained the basis of Credit Suisse data and summarised the current evidence on the level, distribution and trends of household wealth in all regions and countries of the world since 2000.
Watch video recording here.
Charles Booth Centenary Lectures
3 November 2016
Speakers: Mary Morgan, Alan Manning, Stephen Machin, Fran Tonkiss, Suzi Hall, Anne Power, Emily Grundy, Tim Newburn and John Hills
This event, which coincided with the LSE Research Festival 2016, was part of a wider LSE celebration of pioneering social scientist Charles Booth, who died in 1916, and whose original survey into life and labour in London is held in the LSE Library.
Booth's investigation of poverty in London provides a key example both of the creative development of social science and of the ways in which research may be used to have a positive impact on society. The event brought together a group of scholars from a range of disciplines to explore the substance of Booth's ideas as well as his broader legacy for the social sciences and for contemporary social analysis.
Watch video recordings here.
Taxing the Rich: A History of Fiscal Fairness in the US and Europe
12 October 2016
Speaker: Professor David Stasavage
Chair: Professor David Soskice
In today's social climate of growing inequality, why are there not greater efforts to tax the rich? David Stasavage asks when and why countries tax their wealthiest citizens.
Watch video recording here.
2016 APPAM Interantional Conference
13-14 June 2016
The Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management 2016 conference was held at the International Inequalities Institute on June 13th & 14th 2016.
This international conference gathered policy researchers and analysts from around the globe to share the latest research and knowledge on the pressing challenge on inequality.
More details and video recording here.
Challenging Inequalities
25 May 2016
Speakers: Craig Calhoun, Shami Chakrabarti, Duncan Green and Phumeza Mlungwana
This public lecture followed the III Annual Conference 2016 and debated different approaches to challenging inequality across the globe.
Listen to podcast here.
III Annual Conference 2016
25 May 2016
Speakers: Kimberlé Crenshaw, Nicola Lacey, Kim Weeden, Stephen Jenkins, Facundo Alvaredo, Katharina Hecht, Satanuka Roy, Rebecca Simson, Thomas Piketty, Murray Leibbrandt, Catherine Boone, John Hills, Deborah Hargreaves, David Soskice
An international gathering to discuss inequality held at Friends House, London.
Watch video recordings here.
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
21 March 2016
MacArthur 'Genius' award winning ethnographer Matthew Desmond speaks about his investigation into the low-income rental market and eviction in privately owned housing, and argues it is a cause, not just a symptom, of poverty.
Podcast available here.