Atkinson Lectures

A lecture series held in honour of Professor Tony Atkinson, Chair of STICERD from 1980-1988, Tooke Professor at LSE from 1980-92 and Centennial Professor from 2010-2017.

Many of our seminars and public events this year will continue as in person or as hybrid (online and in person) events. Please check our website listings and Twitter feed @STICERD_LSE for updates.

Unless otherwise specified, in-person seminars are open to the public. Please ensure you have informed the event contact as early as possible.

Those unable to join the seminars in-person are welcome to participate via zoom if the event is hybrid.

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Cognitive Economics

9 November 2023 A lecture by Professor Andrei Shleifer on an approach of cognitive economics that unifies theoretically a broad range of puzzling findings, and incorporates new strategies of measurement and prediction. Find out more...

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Media and behaviour change: unpacking social effects

13 November 2017 In this lecture Eliana La Ferrara presents some recent research done in collaboration with Abhijit Banerjee (MIT) and Victor Orozco (World Bank). The authors test the effectiveness of an entertainment education TV series aimed at providing information and changing attitudes and behaviors related to HIV/AIDS. Find out more...

Thursday 09 November 2023 18:15 - 19:30

STICERD and FMG

STICERD Atkinson Lecture - Cognitive Economics

Human choices are often unstable, dependent on normatively irrelevant features of the problem, and variable across people in similar situations. Standard economics resolves these challenges by constructing exotic prefer...Read more...

Andrei Shleifer (Harvard University)

This event is both online and in person

Old Theatre, Ground Floor, Old Building, LSE, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE

Monday 13 November 2017 09:30 - 18:00

STICERD

Media and behaviour change: unpacking social effects

In this lecture Eliana La Ferrara presents some recent research done in collaboration with Abhijit Banerjee (MIT) and Victor Orozco (World Bank). The authors test the effectiveness of an entertainment education TV series...Read more...

Eliana La Ferrara (Bocconi University)

ONLINE

Monday 28 November 2016 09:30 - 18:00

STICERD

Midlife morbidity and mortality in Europe and America: Why has the US left the herd?

After a century of nearly uninterrupted progress, all-cause mortality rates among white men and women in middle age stopped falling in the US, in the late 1990s, and began to rise. While midlife mortality continued to fa...Read more...

Anne Case (Princeton School of Public & International Affairs)

ONLINE

Thursday 26 November 2015 16:30 - 18:00

STICERD

Innovation, income inequality, and social mobility

In recent decades, there has been an accelerated increase in top income inequality, particularly in developed countries. In this lecture Philippe Aghion argues that innovation partly accounts for the surge in top income ...Read more...

Philippe Aghion (Collège de France; Harvard University and LSE)

SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

Tuesday 28 October 2014 17:00 - 18:30

STICERD

The Economics of Beliefs and Misbeliefs

This is the inaugural STICERD Atkison Lecture in honour of LSE’s Centennial Professor and STICERD associate Sir Tony A. Atkinson. Roland Bénabou is Theodore A. Wells '29 Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princ...Read more...

Roland Bénabou (Princeton University), joint with Psychology and Economics Seminar

SAL 1.04, 1st Floor Conference Room, Sir Arthur Lewis Building, LSE, 32 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PH

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