Events 2013-2014
The Future of Monetary Policy, by Charlie Bean
Tuesday 20 May 2014, 6:30-8:00 pm
Old Theatre, Old BuildingHosted by the Department
In this lecture Charlie Bean, outgoing deputy governor of the Bank of England and visiting professor of the Department of Economics at LSE, will reflect on the economic events of the past decade and their impact on the role of the central bank.
Twitter Hashtag for this event: #LSEBoE
Event free and open to all however a ticket is required - further information from LSE Events.
Recordings: Video recording on YouTube, Recordings on LSE Media page
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Unconventional Monetary Policy and the Financial Crisis, by Kevin Sheedy
Wednesday 30 April 2014, 6:30-8:00 pm
Hong Kong Theatre, Clement HouseHosted by the Department and the Centre for Macroeconomics
This talk discusses the policies adopted by central banks during the financial crisis, in particular forward guidance and quantitative easing.
Kevin Sheedy is a lecturer at the Department of Economics at LSE. His research focuses on inflation, (optimal) monetary policy and the effects of monetary policy on real activity.
Info: Event free and open to all with no ticket or registration required - further information from LSE Events.
Recordings: Audio recording on LSE Media page
Flash Boys: Cracking the Money Code, by Michael Lewis
Monday 28 April 2014, 6:30-8:00 pm
LSE campus, venue tbc to ticketholdersHosted by the Department
International bestseller Michael Lewis returns to the financial world with a ringside seat to the biggest new story in years prepares to hit Wall Street. Currently top-secret, the story is big, important, and involves Wall Street, a cast of misfits and oddballs doing things with stupefying amounts of money...He will speak about his new book in conversation with John Lanchester.
This event marks the publication of Lewis' new book Flash Boys: Cracking the Money Code.
Twitter Hashtag for this event: #LSELewis
Info: Event free and open to all however a ticket is required - further information from LSE Events.
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Why Abenomics Matters: Abenomics and the Japanese Economy, by Motoshige Itoh
Tuesday 25 March 2014, 6:30-8:00 pm
Hong Kong Theatre, Clement HouseHosted by the Department, STIDERD and the LSE Asia Research Centre
Japan is highly unusual in having experienced serious deflation in recent years, and Japan's experience may be regarded as providing a good case study for other industrial countries suffering from inadequate capital investment and what has been termed 'secular stagnation'. This lecture explains the nature of the 'Abenomics' introduced by Japan's Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, since taking office in December 2012, discussing in particular the impact of aggressive monetary policy and the implications of its growth strategy. The lecture will also touch on issues on fiscal consolidation and social security reform in Japan, which is the most rapidly ageing society in the world.
Professor Motoshige Itoh is a Professor of the Graduate School of Economics, Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo. He is the President of the National Institute for Research Advancement, and a member of the Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy. A graduate of the University of Tokyo, his academic field of specialisation is International Economics. Professor Itoh is closely involved in policy decision-making processes in the Japanese government and writes several columns for newspapers and magazines.
Professor Oriana Bandiera is Director of STICERD and Professor of Economics at LSE.
Twitter Hashtag for this event: #LSEGreenstone
Info: Event free and open to all with no ticket or registration required - further information from LSE Events.
Recordings: Audio recording on LSE Media page
In Conversation with Daniel Finkelstein
Thursday 20 March 2014, 6:30-8:00 pm
The Venue, Saw Swee Hock Student CentreHosted by the LSE and LSE Students Union
To mark the completion of the Saw Swee Hock Student Centre, the first brand new building on campus for more than 40 years, the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and the LSE Students’ Union have organised a series of ‘in conversation’events with some of the School's distinguished alumni. These events will take place in the Saw Swee Hock Student Centre and will be open to LSE students, alumni and staff.
This event will see Daniel Finkelstein in conversation with Jay Stoll.
Daniel Finkelstein, an alumnus of the Economics Department, is a weekly columnist, leader writer and associate editor of The Times.
Before joining the paper in 2001, he was adviser to both Prime Minister John Major and Conservative leader William Hague. Daniel was named Political Commentator of the Year at the Editorial Intelligence Comment Awards 2010, 2011 and 2013. He graduated from LSE with a BSc in Economics.
Jay Stoll is the general secretary of the LSE Students' Union, the primary representative of LSE students to the university, the media and the wider world. He graduated from LSE in 2013 with a BSc in International Relations and History.
After the conversation there will be the opportunity for the audience to put their questions to the speaker in the Q&A session. A free drinks reception will follow the event giving the audience a chance to meet the speaker.
Twitter Hashtag for this event: #LSESawSwee
Info: Event open to LSE students, staff and alumni however a ticket is required - further information from LSE Events.
Recordings: Recording on LSE Media page
Is Everything You Hear About Macroeconomics True?, by Wouter Den Haan
Wednesday 19 March 2014, 6:30-8:00 pm
Hong Kong Theatre, Clement HouseHosted by the Department and the Centre for Macroeconomics
This lecture looks at the real and perceived weaknesses, strengths and challenges of modern macroeconomics.
Wouter Den Haan is Professor of Economics and Co-director of the Centre for Macroeconomics at LSE.
Twitter Hashtag for this event: #LSEmacro
Info: Event free and open to all with no ticket or registration required - further information from LSE Events.
Recordings: Video recording on YouTube, Recordings on LSE Media page
Tragedy of the European Union: Disintegration or Revival?: How Europe must now choose between economic and political revival or disintegration, by George Soros
Discussants: Professor Mary Kaldor, Anatole Kaletsky
Thursday 13 March 2014, 6:30-8:00 pm
LSE campus, venue tbc to ticketholdersHosted by the Department
This event marks the publication of George Soros' new book, Tragedy of the European Union: Disintegration or Revival?: How Europe Must Now Choose Between Economic and Political Revival or Disintegrationin which he reveals the roots of Europe's current financial crisis and comprehensively assesses the consequences of that crisis for the global economy and on the political ideals embodied by the European Union. In this concise and illuminating volume, renowned financier George Soros examines both the political and economic fault-lines of the European Union to reveal the roots Europe's current financial crisis. Interwoven with aspects from George Soros' personal life, The Fate of the Union narrates the history of the European Union in order to assess the current crisis and its effects on Europe's role in the global economy. Will the Euro survive? George Soros identifies the true culprits of the Eurozone crisis - among them a misbegotten German austerity programme - and diagnoses what we must do to rescue the ideals of the European project.
George Soros (@georgesoros) is the chairman of Soros Fund Management and the founder the Open Societies Institute, a global network of foundations dedicated to supporting open societies. He is the author of several best-selling books including The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Crash of 2008 and What It Means, The Bubble of American Supremacy and The Age of Fallibility. He was born in Budapest and lives in New York City. Soros was born in Budapest in 1930. He survived the Nazi occupation and fled communist Hungary in 1947 for England, where he graduated from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He then settled in the United States, where he accumulated a large fortune through an international investment fund he founded and managed. Mr Soros has been active as a philanthropist since 1979, when he began providing funds to help black students attend Capetown University in apartheid South Africa. He has established a network of philanthropic organisations active in more than 50 countries around the world. These organisations are dedicated to promoting the values of democracy and an open society.
Mary Kaldor is professor of Global Governance and director of the Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit at the London School of Economics. She is the author of many books, including The Ultimate Weapon is No Weapon: Human Security and the Changing Rules of War and Peace, New and Old Wars: Organised Violence in a Global Eraand Global Civil Society: An Answer to War. Professor Kaldor was a founding member of the European Nuclear Disarmament and of the Helsinki Citizen's Assembly. She is also convenor of the Human Security Study Group, which reported to Javier Solana, and now Cathy Ashton.
Anatole Kaletsky is an award-winning journalist and financial economist who has written since 1976 for The Economist, the Financial Timesand The Times of Londonbefore joining Reuters. His recent book, Capitalism 4.0, about the reinvention of global capitalism after the 2008 crisis, was nominated for the BBC’s Samuel Johnson Prize, and has been translated into Chinese, Korean, German and Portuguese. Anatole is also chief economist of GaveKal Dragonomics, a Hong Kong-based group that provides investment analysis to 800 investment institutions around the world.
Twitter Hashtag for this event: #LSESoros
Info: Event free and open to all however a ticket is required - further information from LSE Events.
The event will be streamed live on the LSE Livewebsite.
Recordings: Video recording on YouTube, Recordings and slides on LSE Media page
In Conversation with Bronwyn Curtis
Monday 3 March 2014 , 6:30-8:00 pm
The Venue, Saw Swee Hock Student CentreHosted by the LSE and LSE Students Union
To mark the completion of the Saw Swee Hock Student Centre, the first brand new building on campus for more than 40 years, the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and the LSE Students’ Union have organised a series of ‘in conversation’events with some of the School's distinguished alumni. These events will take place in the Saw Swee Hock Student Centre and will be open to LSE students, alumni and staff.
This event will see Bronwyn Curtis in conversation with Professor Danny Quah.
Bronwyn Curtis is an economist whose career spans both the financial markets and the media. She is a widely published author and a regular speaker on television and radio. Most recently she was Head of Global Research at HSBC. Previously she was at Bloomberg where she was managing editor and responsible for all European broadcasting activities. Other roles include Global Head of Currency and Fixed Income Strategy at Deutsche Bank and Chief Economist at Nomura International. She has also worked as a consultant for the World Bank and UNCTAD on projects in West Africa, Asia and the Caribbean.
Bronwyn is a non-executive director of JPM Asian Investment Trust PLC, Vice Chairman of the Society of Business Economists, a board member of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, a former member of the Council at the London School of Economics. She is also on the Advisory Board at Imperial College Business School, as well as a member of The Timesnewspaper’s Shadow Monetary Policy Committee. She has also been a Board member of the Office of Fair Trading. She has a master's degree from the London School of Economics, and is an economics graduate of La Trobe University, Australia. Bronwyn was awarded an OBE for services to business economics in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list in 2008.
Danny Quah is professor of economics and international development, and Kuwait Professor at LSE. He previously served as LSE’s Head of Department for Economics (2006-2009) and Council Member on Malaysia’s National Economic Advisory Council (2009-2011). He is Tan Chin Tuan Visiting Professor at the National University of Singapore, and lectures regularly at Peking University. He studied at Princeton, Minnesota, and Harvard, and was Assistant Professor in the Economics Department at MIT before joining LSE.
After the conversation there will be the opportunity for the audience to put their questions to the speaker in the Q&A session. A free drinks reception will follow the event giving the audience a chance to meet the speaker.
Twitter Hashtag for this event: #LSESawSwee
The podcast of this event is now available via the LSE Public Eventspages.
Fiscal Policy During Recessions and Recoveries, by Ethan Ilzetzki
Wednesday 26 February 2014, 6:30-8:00 pm
Hong Kong Theatre, Clement HouseHosted by the Department and the Centre for Macroeconomics
This talk discusses what is known about the effects of austerity and fiscal stimulus on economic activity.
Ethan Ilzetzki is an economics lecturer at LSE. His research focuses on the effects of fiscal policy and the role of politics in shaping fiscal policy.
Twitter Hashtag for this event: #LSEmacro
Info: Event free and open to all with no ticket or registration required - further information from LSE Events.
Recordings: Video recording on YouTube, Recordings on LSE Media page
Should the Euro Survive? Economics in an Era of Political Extremism, by Paul Donovan and George Magnus
Thursday 6 February 2014 , 6:30-8:00 pm
Hong Kong Theatre, Clement HouseHosted by the Department
Come along to an economics debate to help you consider what will happen next in Europe.
Paul Donovan is managing director of global economics at UBS.
George Magnus (pictured above)is senior economic advisor at UBS.
Twitter Hashtag for this event: #LSEEuro
Info: Event free and open to all with no ticket or registration required - further information from LSE Events.
Recordings: Video recording on YouTube, Recordings on LSE Media page
China's Role in the Global Economy: Myths and Realities, by Keyu Jin
Wednesday 29 January 2014, 6:30-8:00 pm
Hong Kong Theatre, Clement HouseHosted by the Department and the Centre for Macroeconomics
The CFM and Department of Economics lecture series focuses on topical macroeconomic questions. Its aim is to give an informative and balanced overview of available knowledge among macroeconomists. This talk considers China’s growing role in the world economy.
Keyu Jin is a lecturer at LSE. Her research has focused on global imbalances and global asset prices, as well as international trade and growth.
Wouter Den Haan is professor of economics and co-director of the Centre for Macroeconomics at LSE.
Twitter Hashtag for this event: #LSEmacro
Info: Event free and open to all however a ticket is required - further information from LSE Events.
Recordings: Video recording on YouTube, Recordings on LSE Media page
The Reproduction of People by Means of People, by Nancy Folbre
Wednesday 15 January 2014, 6:30-8:00 pm
Hong Kong Theatre, Clement HouseHosted by the Department and the Gender Institute
Current understandings and analyses of the economy represent a partial picture. To provide a comprehensive understanding of the economy it is crucial to recognize that, firstly, the measurement of living standards should be expanded to include consideration of both the costs and benefits of unpaid work and intra-family transfers. Secondly, macroeconomic theory should acknowledge and measure the value of unpaid work as a dimension of output and expand its definitions of investment and consumption. Thirdly, public finance should focus more explicitly on both private and public intergenerational transfers.
This lecture applies a feminist perspective on the definition of output, income, and living standards to an alternative framework for national income accounting and budget analysis. This framework disaggregates flows of money and time devoted to the care of children, other dependents, the maintenance of adult capabilities, the development of adult capabilities, and luxury consumption over the lifecycle. By so doing it is possible to recognize the significance of all the work, both paid and unpaid, that contributes to national income.
Nancy Folbre is emeritus professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her research explores the interface between political economy and feminist theory, with a particular emphasis on the value of unpaid care work.
Twitter Hashtag for this event: #LSEpeople
Info: Event free and open to all however a ticket is required - further information from LSE Events.
Recordings: Audio recording on LSE Media page
Is Europe working?, by Professor Sir Christopher Pissarides
Thursday 12 December 2013, 6:30-8:00 pm
Old Theatre, Old BuildingLSE Regius Professorship Inaugural Lecture
The government announced earlier this year that LSE will be one of 12 universities to have the prestigious title of Regius Professor bestowed upon it by The Queen to mark the Diamond Jubilee, with the creation of a new Regius Professor in Economics. A Regius Professorshipis a rare privilege, with only two created in the past century; it is regarded as a reflection of the exceptionally high quality of teaching and research at an institution. It is the first Regius Professorship to have been awarded in the field of economics.
Christopher Pissarides has been appointed as Regius Professor at LSE. In 2010 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his work with Peter Diamond and Dale Mortensen on the analysis of markets with search frictions.
Twitter Hashtag for this event: #LSERegius
Info: Event free and open to all however a ticket is required - further information from LSE Events.
Recordings: Video recording on YouTube, Recordings on LSE Media page
The Body Economic: Why Austerity Kills, by David Stuckler
Wednesday 27 November 2013, 6:30-8:00 pm
Old Theatre, Old BuildingHosted by the Department and the Centre for Macroeconomics
The Body Economic puts forward a radical proposition. Austerity, it argues, is seriously bad for your health. We can prevent financial crises from becoming epidemics, but to do so, we must acknowledge what the hard data tells us: that, throughout history, there is a causal link between the strength of a community's health and its social protection systems. Now and for generations to come, our commitment to the building of fairer, more equal societies will determine the health of our body economic.
David Stuckler is an expert on the economics of global health, and a Senior Research Leader in Sociology at the University of Oxford. He is co-author with Sanjay Basu of The Body Economic.
Twitter Hashtag for this event: #LSEausterity
Info: Event free and open to all with no ticket or registration required - further information from LSE Events.
Recordings: Video recording on YouTube, Recordings on LSE Media page
LSESU-UCL Economics Conference: People and Economics
Saturday 23 November 2013, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Old Theatre, Old BuildingHosted by the LSE Students' Union Economics Society’s Special Projects Division and the UCL Economist's Society
LSE Students' Union Economics Society’s Special Projects Division and the UCL Economist's Society with the kind support of the LSE and UCL Economics Departments.
The theme of the Conference is People and Economics, which points to how economics can inform decision-making in many facets of human life that are subtly interlinked with markets. Taking center stage is an open debate about Women and Economicsthat touches on women in economicsand the economics of gender. The Conference is designed to meet the need to address topics of current and significant policy importance not limited to macroeconomics and finance, while drawing attention to women and exposing the human face of economics.
For further information please visit the LSESU-UCL Conferencewebsite.
The Chicago Plan Revisited, by Michael Kumhof
Tuesday 12 November 2013, 6:30-8:00 pm
Old Theatre, Old BuildingHosted by the Department
Michael Kumhof will discuss his 2012 paper (which can be downloaded here) on the Chicago Plan, a radical reform plan for the banking industry that would eliminate banks’ power to create money.
Based on proposals developed by members of the Chicago School in the US in the 1930s, Kumhof’s plan represents the most far-reaching and decisive proposal to eliminate the risks associated with fractional reserve banking.
Michael Kumhof is deputy division chief of the Modelling Division at the IMF Research Department.
Twitter Hashtag for this event: #LSEKumhof
Info: Event free and open to all with no ticket or registration required - further information from LSE Events.
Recordings: Video recording on YouTube, Recordings on LSE Media page
Work as a Value, with Professor Lord Skidelsky and Lord Maurice Glasman
Tuesday 29 October 2013, 6:30-8:00 pm
Old Theatre, Old BuildingHosted by the Department
Why do we work almost as hard as we did 40 years ago, despite being on average twice as rich? Robert Skidelsky suggests an escape from the work and consumption treadmill. This event marks the paperback publication of Robert and Edward Skidelsky's book How Much Is Enough?
Robert Skidelsky (pictured above)is emeritus professor of political economy at the University of Warwick. His three-volume biography of the economist John Maynard Keynes (1983, 1992, 2000) received numerous prizes; he also penned the critically acclaimed Keynes: The Return of the Master. You can read an introduction to his argument here.
Dr Maurice Glasman is a reader in political theory at London Metropolitan University, author of Unnecessary Suffering and a Labour Peer. His paper, "Politics, Employment and the Young Generation", to which he will refer during the evening, can be downloaded here.
Twitter Hashtag for this event: #LSEwork
Info: Event free and open to all, however a ticket is required - further information from LSE Events.
Recordings: Video recording on YouTube, Recordings on LSE Media page
The Inextricable Links between Banking and the Economy, by Antonio Horta-Osorio
Monday 21 October 2013, 6:30-8:00 pm
LSE campus, venue TBC to ticketholdersHosted by LSE
Please note that this lecture is open only to LSE staff and students.
António will set out his views on why the future of the UK economy and the banking industry are inextricably linked. He will explore the mutual interdependency between a healthy economy and a healthy banking industry, and will explain the steps Lloyds Banking Group has taken on its strategic transformation since António joined as Group chief executive in 2011.
António joined the board of Lloyds Banking Group on 17 January 2011 as an executive director and became Group chief executive on 1 March 2011. Previously he was the chief executive of Santander UK plc and executive vice president of Grupo Santander. He was also chairman of Santander Totta until 2011, where he was CEO between 20002006, and prior to that was CEO of Banco Santander Brazil.
António started his career at Citibank Portugal where he was head of Capital Markets. At the same time, he was an assistant professor at Universidade Catolica Portuguesa. He then worked for Goldman Sachs in New York and London. In 1993, he joined Grupo Santander as chief executive of Banco Santander de Negócios Portugal.
A graduate of management and business administration at Universidade Católica Portuguesa, António has a MBA from INSEAD where he was awarded the Henry Ford II prize – and an AMP from Harvard Business School. He was recently awarded Honorary Doctorates from the University of Edinburgh and the University of Bath.
Previously a non executive Director to the Court of the Bank of England, António is currently a non executive of Fundação Champalimaud in Portugal, serves on the CBI President’s Committee and is a governor of the London Business School.
Twitter Hashtag for this event: #LSELloyds
Info: Event free and open to all LSE staff and students.
Grassroots innovation and the Spread of Flourishing, by Edmund Phelps
Monday 21 October 2013, 6:30-8:00 pm
LSE campus, venue TBC to ticketholdersHosted by LSE - Oakeshott Memorial Lecture
A handful of nations saw exploding wages, teeming employment and an engaged populace from 1820 to 1940, racing ahead of the others until something put a damper on their dynamism. What was that something? And how can these nations get back their mass flourishing?
Edmund Phelps is the 2006 Nobel Laureate in Economics and the Director of the Center on Capitalism and Society at Columbia University. His career has been devoted to two intertwined aims: to call into question the preconceptions about education, information and knowledge to which mainstream economics has clung, replacing them with the modern notions necessary to describe the successful operations of a modern economy; and to put "people as we know them", with their imperfect knowledge, understanding and expectations, back into economic models. He is the author of several books the most recent of which is Mass Flourishing: how grassroots innovation created jobs, challenge, and change.
Suggested hashtag for this event for Twitter users: #LSEPhelps
This event is free and open to all however a ticket is required. One ticket per person can now be requested.
For further information please visit the LSE Public Eventspages.
Why Growth Theory REquires a Theory of the STate Beyond Market Failures, by Mariana Mazzucato
Tuesday 8 October 2013, 6:30-8:00 pm
Hong Kong Theatre, Clement HouseHosted by the Department
Government spending has a higher multiplier when that spending is 'directed' towards large missions. Whether this was putting 'a man on the moon' in the past, or tackling 'climate change' in the future, such missions require a strong intervention by government, beyond the usual justification tied to 'public goods' and 'externalities' (fixing market failures). The talk will consider the implications of mission oriented investments for understanding the role of the state in the economy, how to develop symbiotic (not parasitic) public-private partnerships, and how to judge the performance of state intervention beyond the crowding out-crowding framework.
Mariana Mazzucatois an economist, and holds the RM Phillips Chair in Science and Technology Policy at the University of Sussex (SPRU). Her work focuses on the relationship between financial markets, innovation and economic growth, and is currently funded by the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), the Ford Foundation and the European Commission. Her book The Entrepreneurial State: debunking private vs. public sector mythshas been called 'heretical' by Forbes.
Twitter Hashtag for this event: #LSEMazzucato
Info: Event free and open to all with no ticket or registration required - further information from LSE Events.
Recordings: Video recording on YouTube, Recordings on LSE Media page
The Undercover Economist Strikes Back, by Tim Harford
Tuesday 1 October 2013, 6:30-8:00 pm
Old Theatre, Old BuildingHosted by the Department and the Centre for Macroeconomics
A million readers bought The Undercover Economistto get the lowdown on how economics works on a small scale, in our everyday lives. Since then, economics has become big news. Crises, austerity, riots, bonuses – all are in the headlines all the time. But how does this large-scale economic world really work? What would happen if we cancelled everyone’s debt? How do you create a job? Will the BRIC countries take over the world?
Asking - among many other things - what the future holds for the Euro, why the banks are still paying record bonuses and where government borrowing will take us, in The Undercover Economist Strikes Back, Tim Harford (pictured)returns with his trademark clarity and wit to explain what’s really going on - and what it means for us all.
Tim Harford is a senior columnist for the Financial Timesand the presenter of Radio 4’s More or Lessand Pop-Up Economics With Tim Harford. He was the winner of the Bastiat Prize for economic journalism in 2006, and More or Lesswas commended for excellence in journalism by the Royal Statistical Society in 2010, 2011 and 2012. Harford lives in Oxford with his wife and three children, and is a visiting fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford. His other books include The Undercover Economist, The Logic of Lifeand Adapt.
Twitter Hashtag for this event: #LSEHarford
Info: Event free and open to all, however a ticket is required - further information from LSE Events.
Recordings: Video recording on YouTube, Recordings on LSE Media page
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