Events 2016-2017

The End of Globalisation, the Return of History, by Stephen D King

Monday 12 June 2017, 6:30-8:00 pm
Old Theatre, Old Building

Hosted by the Department and the Centre for Macroeconomics

Globalisation, long considered the best route to economic prosperity and the apparent norm for decades, may not be as inevitable as we think.  It now threatens to go abruptly into reverse.  What went wrong?  And what is the likely impact upon our future prosperity?

Stephen D King (@KingEconomist) is senior economic adviser at HSBC, a specialist adviser to the House of Commons Treasury Committee and an author. His latest book is Grave New World: The End of Globalization: The Return of History.

Twitter Hashtag for this event: #LSEKing

Info: Event free and open to all with no ticket or registration required - further information from LSE Events.

Recordings: Audio recording on Soundcloud, Video recording on YouTube, Recordings on LSE Media page

Why Are Some Times Different: Macroeconomic policy and the aftermath of financial crises, by Christina D Romer

Wednesday 17 May 2017,  6:30-8:00 pm
Old Theatre, Old Building

Economica-Phillips Lecture 2017

The Annual Economica Phillips lecture is jointly sponsored by the journal Economica and the Department of Economics.

Christina Duckworth Romer is the Class of 1957 Garff B Wilson Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley and a former Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers in the Obama administration.

Francesco Caselli (chair) is Norman Sosnow Professor of Economics at LSE.

Twitter Hashtag for this event: #LSEPhillips

Info: Event free and open to all with no ticket or registration required - further information from LSE Events.

The Facts Matter: from policy to politics, by Jean-Yves Duclos

Monday 24 April 2017, 6:30-8:00 pm
Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House

Hosted by the Department and the Centre for Macroeconomics

While being a university professor, Jean-Yves Duclos had the opportunity to comment on governmental decisions. Now that he is the one making the decisions and as an economist, he sees the process in a much different perspective. 

Elected to the Canadian Parliament in October 2015, Jean-Yves Duclos (@jyduclos) was named Minister shortly after, currently serving as Canadian Minister of Families, Children and Social Development. Prior to politics, Minister Duclos was the head of the Department of Economics at Université Laval. He earned his master’s and doctoral degrees in Economics at LSE.

Twitter Hashtag for this event: #LSECanada

Info: Event free and open to all with no ticket or registration required - further information from LSE Events.

Recordings: Audio recording on Soundcloud, Video recording on YouTube, Recordings on LSE Media page

Breaking the Glass Ceiling, by Marianne Bertrand

Wednesday 23 March 2017,  6:30-8:00 pm
Old Theatre, Old Building

Economica-Coase Lecture 2017

Marianne Bertrand is an applied micro-economist whose research covers the fields of labor economics, corporate finance, and development economics. Her research in these areas has been published widely, including numerous research articles in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Political Economy, the American Economic Review, and the Journal of Finance.

Oriana Bandiera (chair) (@orianabandiera) is a Professor of Economics and the Director of the Suntory and Toyota Centre for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD) at the London School of Economics. 

Twitter Hashtag for this event: #LSECoase

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 State of Advanced Economies: forces, interactions and uncertainties, by Olivier Blanchard

Wednesday 22 March 2017, 6:30-8:00 pm
Old Theatre, Old Building

The Stamp Memorial Lecture Series
Hosted by the Department and the Centre for Macroeconomics

Professor Blanchard will discuss the main forces interacting to shape the world economy, and the uncertainties associated with them, namely the legacies of the financial crisis; the decrease in productivity growth; and populism and populist policies.  

Olivier Blanchard (@ojblanchard1) served as Chief Economist of the IMF from 2008 to 2015. He is now the Fred Bergsten Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute in Washington and Robert M Solow Professor of Economics emeritus at MIT.

Silvana Tenreyro (chair) is Professor of Economics at LSE.

This lecture is in memory of Josiah Charles Stamp who obtained a degree in economics from LSE in 1916. His thesis was published as British Incomes and Property in 1916 and launched his academic career. In 1919 he served on the Royal Commission on Income Tax and in the same year he joined Nobel Industries Ltd as secretary and director from which Imperial Chemical Industries later developed. In 1926 he became the president of the executive of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway and two years later he was appointed director of the Bank of England. He  also served as a governor and vice chairman of LSE. Stamp also held lectureships in economics at several universities, including Cambridge, Oxford and Liverpool. In 1938 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Stamp of Shortlands, Kent. Stamp died on 16 April 1941.  In 1942 a trust was set up jointly by the Bank of England, the London Midland and Scottish Railway, ICI and the Abbey Road Building Society to pay for the organisation of a Stamp memorial lecture.

Twitter Hashtag for this event: #LSEStamp

Info: Event free and open to all with no ticket or registration required - further information from LSE Events.

Recordings: Audio recording on Soundcloud, Video recording on YouTube, Recordings and slides on LSE Media page

The Productivity Puzzle, by Andrew G Haldane

Monday 20 March 2017, 6:30-8:00 pm
Old Theatre, Old Building

Hosted by the Department and the Centre for Macroeconomics

Event rescheduled from September 2016

Productivity growth has weakened across a number of economies over recent years, particularly in the UK. Does this reflect a slowing of innovation? What role can public policy play in supporting productivity growth?

Andrew G Haldane is the Chief Economist at the Bank of England. He is also Executive Director for Monetary Analysis, Research and Statistics, and a member of the MPC. Andrew has responsibility for research and statistics across the Bank.

Andrew has an Honorary Doctorate from the Open University, is Honorary Professor at the University of Nottingham, a Visiting Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford, a member of the Economic Council of the Royal Economic Society, a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and a Member of the Research and Policy Committee at Nesta. Andrew is Chairman and co-founder of Pro Bono Economics, a charity that matches volunteer economists with charitable projects.

Andrew has written extensively on domestic and international monetary and financial policy issues and has published over 150 articles and four books. In 2014, TIME magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world.

This event is free and open to all with no ticket or pre-registration required.

Twitter Hashtag for this event: #LSEHaldane

Info: Event free and open to all with no ticket or registration required - further information from LSE Events.

Recordings: Audio recording on Soundcloud, Video recording on YouTube, Recordings on LSE Media page

The Centre For Macroeconomics, LSE Department of Economics, the Women's Budget Group and LSE Equity, Diversity and Inclusion invite you to: 

A Budget that Works for Women, Conference regarding the impact of government economic policy on women                

Wednesday 1 March 2017, 9:00am-11:00am
32 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, LSE

Please RSVP to Roxanne Mashari

Agenda                
09:00-09:15  Tea/coffee                

09:15-09:30  Welcome
                      Professor Carola Frege, LSE EDI Taskforce Chair.                

09:30-10:00  Speech
                     Sarah Champion, MP – Why we need a budget that works for women. 

10:00-10:20  Panel Discussion
                     Chair – Professor Silvana Tenreyro.
                     Panel members – Sarah Champion and Lorraine Winson.                

10:20-11:00 Questions                

11:00           Close          

Politics after Brexit and Trump: Rick Pildes in Conversation with Mervyn King

Wednesday 08 February 2017, 5:00-6:15 pm
Old Theatre, Old Building

Hosted by the Department and the Centre for Macroeconomics

A year of unpredictable political upheavals in the industrialised world promises an interesting period ahead.  What are the lessons from Brexit and the Trump election for our democracy?

Richard H. Pildes is the Sudler Family Professor of Constitutional Law at the New York University Law School.  He is one of the nation's leading scholars of constitutional law and a specialist in legal issues affecting democracy.  

Mervyn King was Governor of the Bank of England from 2003 to 2013, and is currently School Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Lord King was made a life peer in 2013, and appointed by the Queen a Knight of the Garter in 2014.

Twitter Hashtag for this event: #LSEpolitics

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 Production of Money: How to break the power of bankers, by Ann Pettifor

Wednesday 08 February 2017, 6:30-8:00 pm
Old Theatre, Old Building

Hosted by the Department and the Centre for Macroeconomics

Political economist Ann Pettifor (picture copyright: Drew McLellan CC BY-NC 2.0) demystifies history’s most misunderstood invention: the money system. Arguing that democracies can reclaim control over money production, Pettifor sets out the possibility of linking the money in our pockets (or on our smartphones) to the change we want to see in the world around us.

Ann Pettifor (@AnnPettifor) is a political economist with a focus on finance and sovereign debt. She is the Director of PRIME (Policy Research in Macroeconomics), an honorary research fellow at City University, a fellow of the New Economics Foundation, and has an honorary doctorate from Newcastle University. She is the author of The Real World Economic Outlook and The Coming First World Debt Crisis, and co-authored The Green New Deal and The Economic Consequences of Mr Osborne.

Twitter Hashtag for this event: #LSEmoney

Info: Event free and open to all with no ticket or registration required - further information from LSE Events.

This event will be webcast live on the LSE website on LSE LIVE.

Recordings: Video recording on YouTube, Recordings on LSE Media page

Have Central Banks Run Out of Ammunition? In Conversation with Martin Wolf

Wednesday 01 February 2017
Please arrive for 7 pm, In conversation 7:15-8:15 pm, Reception 8:15-9:30 pm
Hong Kong Theatre, Atrium of Old Building

LSE Alumni Association Economics Event

The LSE Economics Alumni Group is pleased to welcome Martin Wolf, Chief Economics Commentator at the Financial Times, to discuss unconventional monetary policy in an unprecedented world.  

With growth low, optimism dimmed, and protectionism and populism both on the rise, what can central banks do to bolster growth and help to divide the pie of globalisation's benefits? Is the talk of economic and financial resilience and unconventional monetary policy tools as empty as the slogans about taking back control or making America great again? To answer these questions, and many more, the LSEEAG invites you to Have central banks run out of ammunition? In Conversation with Martin Wolf.

Info: Event open to alumni only - further information from LSE Alumni.

Policy Issues Affecting the Bank of England: inflation control and social choice, by Mark Carney

Monday 16 January 2017, 6:30-8:00 pm
LSE campus, venue TBC to ticketholders

Hosted by the Department and the Centre for Macroeconomics

A lecture by Mark Carney (picture copyright: Bloomberg CC BY-NC-ND 2.0), the Governor of the Bank of England, followed by a discussion and Q&A with Amartya Sen, Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University, chaired by Professor Lord Nick Stern.

Mark Carney is Governor of the Bank of England and Chairman of the Monetary Policy Committee, Financial Policy Committee and the Board of the Prudential Regulation Authority. The Governor joined the Bank on 1 July 2013. After a thirteen-year career with Goldman Sachs in its London, Tokyo, New York and Toronto offices, Mark Carney was appointed Deputy Governor of the Bank of Canada in August 2003. In November 2004, he left the Bank of Canada to become Senior Associate Deputy Minister of Finance. He held this position until his appointment as Governor of the Bank of Canada on 1 February 2008. Mark Carney served as Governor of the Bank of Canada and Chairman of its Board of Directors until 1 June 2013. 

Amartya Sen is Thomas W Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University. He is the recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics and an LSE Honorary Fellow.

Nicholas Stern (chair) is the Chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the LSE and is currently the President of the British Academy.

Twitter Hashtag for this event: #LSECarney

Info: Event free and open to all however a ticket is required - further information from LSE Events.

Recordings: Video recording on YouTube, Recordings, transcript and slides on LSE Media page

Transcript: Bank of England website

Images: LSE Flickr account.

The Curse of Cash, by Kenneth S Rogoff

Wednesday 23 November 2016, 6:30-8:00 pm
Old Theatre, Old Building

Hosted by the Department and the Centre for Macroeconomics

The world is drowning in cash—and it’s making us poorer and less safe. Kenneth Rogoff, one of the world’s leading economists, makes a persuasive and fascinating case for an idea that until recently would have seemed outlandish: getting rid of most paper money.  As well as offering a plan for phasing out paper money he addresses the issues the transition will pose, ranging from fears about privacy and price stability to the need to provide subsidized debit cards for the poor.

Kenneth S Rogoff, (@krogoff) (picture copyright: International Monetary Fund) the Thomas D Cabot Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University and former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, is the coauthor of the New York Times bestseller This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly (Princeton). He appears frequently in the national media and writes a monthly newspaper column that is syndicated in more than fifty countries. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His new book is The Curse of Cash.            

Twitter Hashtag for this event: #LSEcash 

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

Investing in Inclusive Growth, by Bill Morneau

Tuesday 15 November 2016, 6:30-8:00 pm
LSE campus, venue TBC to ticketholders

Hosted by the Department, the Centre for Macroeconomics and the Department of International Relations

Canada’s Minister of Finance, Bill Morneau (picture copyright: International Monetary Fund CC-BY-NC-ND-2.0), shares his views on the global economy and how Canada is investing to strengthen its middle class and grow the economy over the long term.        

Bill Morneau (@Bill_Morneau) is Canada’s Finance Minister. Previously, he led Morneau Shepell and was Pension Investment Advisor to Ontario’s Finance Minister. Morneau’s community service in Toronto is extensive, having supported the arts, helped street kids, and improved access to health care and education. Internationally, he founded a school for Somali and Sudanese youth in an African refugee camp. He holds a BA from Western University, an MSc from the London School of Economics and Political Science and an MBA from INSEAD.           

Twitter Hashtag for this event: #LSECanada 

Info: Event free and open to all however a ticket is required - further information from LSE Events.

Recordings: Audio recording on Soundcloud

The Wealth of Humans: work, power and status in the twenty-first century, by Ryan Avent

Monday 26 September 2016, 6:30-8:00 pm
Old Theatre, Old Building

Hosted by the Department and the Centre for Macroeconomics

In his new book, The Wealth of Humans: Work, Power, and Status in the Twenty-First Century, which he will discuss in this talk, Ryan Avent addresses the difficult questions about the increasing abundance of labour and what this means politically, economically and socially for every one of us. The traditional solutions – improved education, wage subsidies, universal basic income – will no longer work as they once did. In order to navigate our way across today’s rapidly transforming economic landscape, Avent argues that we must radically reassess the very idea of how, and why, we work.

Ryan Avent (@ryanavent) is a Senior Editor and Economics Columnist for The Economist, where he has covered the global economy since 2007. His work has appeared in the Guardian, New York Times, the Washington Post, the New Republic and the Atlantic. He has an economics degree from North Carolina State University, and an
MSc in Economic History from the London School of Economics and Political Science.   

Professor Francesco Caselli (chair) is Norman Sosnow Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Twitter Hashtag for this event: #LSEwealth

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