Events 2010-2011

East beats West? Is the East taking over the world?, by Danny Quah 

Thursday 30 June 2011, 1:00-2:15pm
Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building

The LSE Big Questions Lecture

Professor Danny Quah will present the LSE Big Questions Lecture on "East beats West? Is the East taking over the world?". A highly interactive lecture for schools, the lecture will explore how the world is changing, with countries such as China and India becoming wealthier and more powerful than ever before.

OECD at 50, Better Policies for Better Lives, with Danny Quah among the speakers

Wednesday 16 March 2011, 10:30am-4:45pm

Hosted by OECD

Speakers: Vince Cable, Jonathan Coppel, Howard Davies, Siddharth George, Joe Grice, Angel Gurria, Dr John Llewellyn, Jim O'Neill, Pier Carlo Padoan, Professor Danny Quah, Gabriela Ramos, David Ramden, Professor Keith Smith

As the OECD starts its next 50 years, the global economic governance system is evolving dramatically. The G20 has become the premier global economic forum and economic dynamism and political influence will continue to shift East and South. What are the likely global economic challenges that tomorrow's economic policy makers will be faced with, how will the OECD support global cooperation and where will the solutions be found?

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

LSESU Economics Society Conference: The New Global Economy: Policy and Financial Markets

Saturday 12 March 2011, 10.30am-6:00pm
Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House

Hosted by the LSESU Economics Society

Speakers: Sir Samuel Brittan, Francesco Caselli, Colin Mayer, Richard Moat, Dr Richard Wellings

The conference seeks to explain the current global dilemmas of both the public and private sectors, providing an insight into possible solutions. This project is jointly organised by the LSE SU Economics Society and the LSE SU Finance Society. The speakers are all eminent in their fields and from across the UK, and the rest of the world. They will give their insight and opinions and challenge both the audience and each other to think in a different way on these key topics.

Sir Samuel Brittan, Financial Times columnist. Francesco Caselli (pictured), Professor of Economics at LSE. Colin Mayer, Dean of Oxford's Said Business School and co-founder of the European Corporate Governance Institute. Richard Moat, managing director of T-Mobile UK. Dr Richard Wellings, deputy editorial director of the Institute of Economic Affairs.

Twitter Hashtag for this event: #lsefinance

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

Equilibrium in the Labour Market with Search Frictions, by Professor Christopher Pissarides

Tuesday 15 February 2011, 6:30-8:00pm
Old Theatre, Old Building

Hosted by the Nobel Lecture

Professor Christopher Pissarides was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize for Economic Sciences in 2010 (jointly with Peter Diamond and Dale Mortensen) for their work on the economics of unemployment, especially job flows and the effect of being out of work. Christopher Pissarides is professor of economics at LSE and holder of the Norman Sosnow Chair in Economics.

Further information from LSE Events.

Recordings: Video recording on YouTube

To cut or not to cut? Debating the comprehensive spending review, debate with Tim Besley among the speakers

Friday 4 February 2011, 6:30-8:00am
Old Theatre, Old Building

Hosted by the British Government @ LSE

Speakers: Professor Timothy Besley, Professor Simon Hix, Dr Jonathan Hopkin, Martin Wolf

A panel of experts debate the political and economic implications of the unprecedented fiscal adjustment undertaken by the Conservative-Lib Dem coalition government.

Timothy Besley is director of STICERD, EOPP Associate and Kuwait Professor of Economics and Political Science.

Simon Hix is professor of European and comparative politics at LSE.

Jonathan Hopkin is senior lecturer in British and comparative politics at LSE.

Martin Wolf is associate editor and chief economics commentator at the Financial Times.

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

Phase Three of the Global Crisis, by Paul Mason

Monday 31 January 2011, 6:30-8:00pm
Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building

Hosted by the department

As countries adopt competitive exit strategies from the global crisis Paul Mason surveys the political economy of a flat recovery. He argues that mainstream economics have still refused to draw the lessons of asset price bubbles and situates the divergent recovery, east and west, within a long-wave explanation of the crisis.

Paul Mason is the award-winning economics editor of BBC Newsnight, covering an agenda he describes as 'profit, people and planet' and author of the Idle Scrawl blog, which was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize 2009. His first book, Live Working or Die Fighting: How the Working Class Went Global, was long listed for the Guardian First Book Award.

This event marks the publication of his latest book Meltdown: The End of the Age of Greed.

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

Recording: Video recording on YouTube

The Tensions of International Power: Restructuring in a Shifting Global Economy, by Danny Quah

Monday 17 January 2011, 6:30-8pm
Old Theatre, Old Building

Hosted by the Ralph Miliband Series

Does economic strength determine global power? How long can under-performing
economies continue to claim world political leadership? Danny Quah presents the arguments and evaluates the evidence.

Danny Quah is professor of economics at LSE and co-director of LSE Global Governance.

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

The Rise of the Chinese Economy, by Linda Yueh

Friday 12 November 2010, 4:00-5:30pm
CLM.D202, Clement House

Hosted by the LSE SU Economics Society Lecture

In this event, Linda Yueh will be speaking about her latest book, which is written to serve as a comprehensive text on the economy of China and its future direction. She will examine the main contributors to China's prolific growth, as well as the challenges it might face in the future from her perspective - having had a stellar academic career as one of the leading commentators on this issue.

Linda Yueh is an economist, broadcaster and author. A fellow in economics at Oxford University, she is an economics correspondent for Bloomberg TV. She directs the China Growth Centre (CGC) at St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford, is an associate of the Globalisation programme of the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) and the IDEAS: International Affairs, Diplomacy & Strategy research centre both at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and is a fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts (FRSA). She has appeared on television on channels such as BBC, CNBC and Bloomberg multiple times in a variety of positions - commentator, host and co-host - of some of the most-watched programmes on business television.

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

Towards a New Financial System, by Jose Vinals

Tuesday 9 November 2010, 2:00-3:30pm
Old Theatre, Old Building

Hosted by the Department and STICERD

José Viñals was appointed to the position of Financial Counsellor and Director of the Monetary and Capital Markets Department of the International Monetary Fund on April 15, 2009. Prior to his appointment, Mr. Viñals was Deputy Governor at the Bank of Spain from July 2006.

After joining the Bank of Spain in 1984, he held a number of senior positions and has served on a range of advisory and policy committees at the central bank and within the European Union, including as Chairman of the European Central Bank's International Relations Committee.

A former faculty member in the Economics Department at Stanford University, he holds a master's degree in economics from the London School of Economics and a PhD in economics from Harvard University. Mr. Viñals has published widely on macroeconomics, monetary policy, and financial issues, and is a research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research. 

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

Recording: Video recording on YouTube

The State of the World Economy, by Olivier Blanchard

Thursday 4 November 2010, 6.30-8pm
Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building

Hosted by the Department and CEP

A strong and sustained world recovery requires two rebalancing acts. Internal, with a shift, in advanced countries, from fiscal support to private demand. External, with an increase in net exports in deficit countries, notably the US, and a decrease in net exports in surplus countries, notably China. Policy should be aimed at increasing their pace.

This lecture is one in a series of lectures to celebrate 21 years of the Centre for Economic Performance.

Olivier Blanchard is Economic Counsellor and Director of the Research Department at the IMF and has worked closely with the CEP over the last 25 years.

A citizen of France, Olivier Blanchard has spent his professional life in Cambridge, US. After obtaining his Ph.D in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1977, he taught at Harvard University, returning to MIT in 1982, where he has been since then. He is the Class of 1941 Professor of Economics, and past Chair of the Economics Department. He is currently on leave from MIT, as Economic Counsellor and Director of the Research Department of the International Monetary Fund.

He is a macroeconomist, who has worked on a wide set of issues, from the role of monetary policy, to the nature of speculative bubbles, to the nature of the labor market and the determinants of unemployment, to transition in former communist countries. In the process, he has worked with numerous countries and international organizations. He is the author of many books and articles, including two textbooks in macroeconomics, one at the graduate level with Stanley Fischer, one at the undergraduate level.

He is a fellow and Council member of the Econometric Society, a past vice president of the American Economic Association, and a member of the American Academy of Sciences.

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

Recording: Video recording on YouTube

The Economist as a Philosopher, by Nicholas Phillipson and Lord Skidelsky

Wednesday 6 October 2010, 6:30-8:00pm
Old Theatre, Old Building

Hosted by the Department

The Economist as Philosopher: Adam Smith and John Maynard Keynes on human nature, social progress and economic change

Robert Skidelsky and Nicholas Phillipson (pictured) discuss how the philosophies of Keynes and Smith helped shape their influential economic ideas and examine how each has influenced social and political change.

Nicholas Phillipson is Honorary Research Fellow in History at Edinburgh, where he has taught since 1965. He has held visiting appointments at Princeton, Yale, Tulsa, the Folger Library, Washington DC and the Ludwigs-Maximilian Universitat, Munich. He is co-director of a three-year Leverhulme-funded project on the Science of Man in Scotland. He was an associate editor of the New Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, a founder editor of the journal Modern Intellectual History, published by the Cambridge University Press, and is a past president of the Eighteenth Century Scottish Studies Society. His new book is Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life|.

Robert Skidelsky 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, including the Lionel Gelber Prize for International Relations and the Council on Foreign Relations Prize for International Relations. He is the author of The World After Communism (1995) (American edition called The Road from Serfdom). He was made a life peer in 1991, and was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 1994. His latest book is Keynes: The Return of the Master. 

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

Recording: Video recording on YouTube