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Amartya Sen Lectures

A lecture series held in honour of Professor Amartya Sen, professor of economics at Harvard University and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics.

Due to the onging coronavirus outbreak, many of our seminars and public events this year will continue as online seminars. Please check our website listings and Twitter feed @STICERD_LSE for updates.

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Tim Besley, Minouce Shafik and Amartya Sen
Foundations of State Effectiveness

Tim Besley discusses the importance of norms, values and institutions in supporting state effectiveness drawing on recent developments in social science. As well as making connections to Amartya Sen's ideas, the lecture will reflect on some of the major policy challenges that the world faces in the turbulent times that we are living through. Listen to podcast...
Asma Jilani Jahangir
Religious Intolerance and its Impact on Democracy

In this event, human rights lawyer Asma Jilani Jahangir will focus on how government failure to address the questions of religious intolerance and free expression dilutes the principles of democracy, equality and justice, particularly for women and religious minorities. View Video...

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Public Lectures

Photo: Amartya Sen

Amartya Sen Lectures
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Atkinson Lectures

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Morishima Lectures
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