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Listen to a podcast recording of the keynote event Rethinking market capitalism: Innovation and the Path to Shared Prosperity with Professor Daron Acemoglu.

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The widely held idea that democracy and markets could or would flourish everywhere has run aground. Public confidence in political and economic liberalism has waned since the triumphalism of the 1990s.  What practical steps can political leaders and policymakers take to restore public trust in governments’ ability to manage markets as a source of collective prosperity? 

MIT's Daron Acemoglu argued that modern market economies have focused excessively on automation and cost-cutting. What we need is not more innovation for eliminating jobs or intensifying surveillance, but a renewed focus on creating new tasks, providing better decision-making tools and granting greater autonomy to workers. Good jobs, which pay high wages and deploy worker skills, are not only critical for productivity growth, but also essential for re-creating democratic citizenship.

The keynote panelists were:

• Peter Trubowitz, LSE (Chair)
• Daron Acemoglu, MIT (Speaker)

Listen to a podcast recording of Globalisation and the return of geopolitics

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This recording includes introductory comments from LSE's incoming President and Vice Chancellor Larry Kramer.

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The resurgence of geopolitics is reshaping everything from supply chains to sustainability. What will the resulting new geo-economic landscape look like? Are we entering an era of greater regionalisation and localisation of trade and finance?  If so, what can policymakers do to maximise social wellbeing while minimising the risk of great power conflict? This panel considered the implications of mounting geopolitical rivalry and economic nationalism for global capitalism.

Roundtable panelists:

• Peter Trubowitz, LSE (Chair)
• Michael Mastanduno, Dartmouth College
• C. Raja Mohan, Asia Society
• Anne-Marie Slaughter, New America  

Listen to a podcast recording of Populism and democratic capitalism

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Panel Event Review

• Read a review of the panel event, Populism and democratic capitalism, by LSE Master's student, Josette Peacock [LSE USAPP blog].

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Public trust in the competence and fairness of democratic governments has eroded.  Populist insurgencies, mostly on the far right, are hollowing out the political center, the bedrock of democratic capitalism. What should governments, parties and businesses do to restore public confidence in democratic capitalism? What are the main obstacles standing in the way? This panel explored the challenges of rebuilding democratic support for capitalism at a time of extraordinary political discontent and volatility. 

Roundtable panelists:

• Stephanie Rickard,  LSE (Chair)
• Sheri Berman, Barnard College
• Ian Shapiro, Yale University
• Luigi Zingales, University of Chicago 

Listen to a podcast recording of Global governance in an era of anti-globalism

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Panel Event Review

• Read a review of the panel event, Global governance in an era of anti-globalism, by LSE Master's student, Grace Lundell [LSE USAPP blog].

Panel details

Popular support for global economic institutions like the WTO, IMF and World Bank has weakened in the Global West as well as in the Global South. Pressures to ‘take back control’ are rising in the advanced industrial nations. Demands for greater input and fairness in emerging economies are widespread. The emergence of rival models global governance also signals a shift. This panel focused on whether and how these global institutions might be reformed to make them more relevant and responsive to today’s economic, technological, and environmental challenges.

Roundtable panelists:

• Leslie Vinjamuri, Chatham House and SOAS University of London (Chair)
• G. John Ikenberry, Princeton University
• David Luke, LSE
• Nita Rudra, Georgetown University