STICERD Public Events and Lectures

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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Cohesive Capitalism Lecture: How progress ends: technology, innovation, and the fate of nations

21 October 2025 In this event, Carl Benedikt Frey - one of the leading scholars of technology and the economy - will discuss his new book, How Progress Ends. Find out more...

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Hayek Lecture: Prosperity Through Growth with Economist Art Laffer

22 October 2025 Join us for this event about Arthur B Laffer's new book, Prosperity through Growth: Boosting living standards in an Age of Autocracy and AI, co-authored with Matthew Elliott, Michael Hintze and Douglas McWilliams. Find out more...

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Morishima Lecture: Agricultural Productivity, Social Organization and Economic Transformation in Rural Africa

6 November 2025 Chris Udry will speak about how certain dimensions of social organization - while essential for coping with market failures – can inadvertently stifle growth and contribute to collective poverty traps. Find out more...

Monday 22 September 2025 - Tuesday 23 September 2025

IFS-LSE-UCL

Workshop on Public Economics

A two day academic workshop on public economics jointly organised by IFS, LSE and UCL. The workshop will bring together leading researchers in public economics to explore key topics including business and capital taxatio...Read more...

Various speakers

IFS, 2 Marylebone Road, London, NW14DF

Monday 22 September 2025 09:00 - Thursday 25 September 2025 17:00

STICERD Economics of Environment and Energy Programme

Hosted by The Economics of Environment and Energy Programme (EEE), International Growth Centre (IGC) and Programme on Innovation and Diffusion (POID)

LSE Environment Week 2025

The Economics of Environment and Energy Programme (EEE), International Growth Centre (IGC) and Programme on Innovation and Diffusion (POID) are convening the fourth Environment Week at the LSE on 22-25 September 2025....Read more...

Various speakers

Venue to be Confirmed

Monday 22 September 2025 18:00 - 19:30

STICERD Economics of Environment and Energy Programme

Hosted by Economics of Environment and Energy Programme at STICERD, International Growth Centre and Programme on Innovation and Diffusion

Investing in our future: COP30 and the sustainable growth agenda

This is a public event as part of the fourth Environment Week at LSE from 22-25 September 2025. ...Read more...

Jose Scheinkman (Columbia University), Michael Greenstone (University of Chicago), Sherry Rehman (Senate of Pakistan)

This event is both online and in person

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

Tuesday 23 September 2025 18:30 - 20:00

STICERD Economics of Environment and Energy Programme

Hosted by Economics of Environment and Energy Programme at STICERD, International Growth Centre and Programme on Innovation and Diffusion

Valuing nature in a changing climate: rethinking natural capital

This is a public event as part of the fourth Environment Week at LSE from 22-25 September....Read more...

Jim Leape (Centre for Ocean Solutions), Rohini Pande (Yale University), Juliano Assunção (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro)

This event is both online and in person

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

Wednesday 24 September 2025 18:00 - 20:30

STICERD Economics of Environment and Energy Programme

Hosted by Economics of Environment and Energy Programme at STICERD, International Growth Centre and Programme on Innovation and Diffusion

Climate finance and investment in low-income countries

This is a public event as part of the fourth Environment Week at LSE from 22-25 September....Read more...

Christopher Woodruff (Wolfson College), Melinda Bohannon (Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office), Vera Songwe (Liquidity and Sustainability Facility), Sudarno Sumarto (SMERU Research Institute), Nicholas Stern (Global School of Sustainability at LSE)

This event is both online and in person

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

Wednesday 08 October 2025 18:30 - 19:30

Cohesive Capitalism Event

Hosted by Programme on Cohesive Capitalism

How to Save the Internet: The Threat to Global Connection in the Age of AI and Political Conflict

Sir Nick Clegg (former UK Deputy Prime Minister and Meta’s President of Global Affairs) presents his new book, How to Save the Internet: The Threat to Global Connection in the Age of AI and Political Conflict....Read more...

Nick Clegg, Larry Kramer (LSE)

This event is both online and in person

Venue to be Confirmed

Thursday 16 October 2025 18:30 - 20:00

Hayek Programme in Economics and Liberal Political Economy

Hosted by the Hayek Programme in Economics and Liberal Political Economy

Has the Free Market Failed?

From Donald Trump to Bernie Sanders, criticism of free markets, free trade, and globalization is now heard across the political spectrum. On the right, many blame free trade for hollowing out domestic industries; on the ...Read more...

Deirdre McCloskey (Cato Institute)

Wolfson Theatre, Cheng Kin Ku Building, LSE, 54 Lincoln's Inn Fields, WC2A 3LJ

Friday 17 October 2025 09:30 - 15:30

Hub for Equal Representation in the Economy

Hosted by the Hub for Equal Representation in the Economy

Barriers to Female Labour Force Participation

How do gender norms influence economic behaviour, choices, and opportunities? This event will bring together researchers to present new evidence on the ways cultural expectations and social attitudes shape economic life....Read more...

Oriana Bandiera (LSE), Nina Roussille (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Venue to be Confirmed

Monday 20 October 2025 18:15 - 19:30

ESRC Festival of Social Science 2025

Altruistic Capital Lab

Reimaging Work: Meaning, Purpose and Productivity

Cohesive Capitalism Event

Hosted by the Department of Geography and Environment and the Programme on Cohesive Capitalism

How progress ends: technology, innovation, and the fate of nations

How will progress end? In this event, Carl Benedikt Frey – one of the leading scholars of technology and the economy – will discuss his new book, How Progress Ends....Read more...

Carl Frey (Oxford)

Venue to be Confirmed

Wednesday 22 October 2025 18:30 - 20:00

Hayek Programme in Economics and Liberal Political Economy

Hosted by the Hayek Programme in Economics and Liberal Political Economy

Prosperity Through Growth with Economist Art Laffer

Join us for this event about Dr Arthur B. Laffer’s new book, Prosperity through Growth: Boosting living standards in an Age of Autocracy and AI, co-authored with Matthew Elliott, Michael Hintze and Douglas McWilliams, wh...Read more...

Arthur Laffer (Laffer Associates)

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

Thursday 06 November 2025 18:00 - 19:30

Morishima Lecture

Hosted by STICERD

Agricultural Productivity, Social Organization and Economic Transformation in Rural Africa

This is the annual Morishima lecture, a lecture series held in honour of Professor Michio Morishima (1923-2004), Sir John Hicks Professor of Economics at LSE and STICERD's first chairman....Read more...

Chris Udry (Northwestern University)

Venue to be Confirmed

Friday 07 November 2025 - Saturday 08 November 2025

CEP, CEPR and STICERD

Seventeenth Annual Conference on Urban and Regional Economics (CURE)

An annual conference that brings together researchers working at the frontier on topics in urban and regional economics from around the world....Read more...

Various speakers

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

Friday 07 November 2025 11:00 - 18:00

STICERD and the Department of Management

Workshop on Organising Crime

An all-day workshop on Organised Crime will take place in the Marshall Building. The workshop features various speakers from the LSE, UCL, IFS and Diego Cambetta who is visiting from Collegio Carlo Alberto....Read more...

Various speakers

Venue to be Confirmed

Friday 07 November 2025 11:00 - 18:00

STICERD and the Department of Management

Workshop on Organising Crime

Various speakers

Venue to be Confirmed

Friday 07 November 2025 - Saturday 08 November 2025

CEP, CEPR and STICERD

Seventeenth Annual Conference on Urban and Regional Economics (CURE)

An annual conference that brings together researchers working at the frontier on topics in urban and regional economics from around the world....Read more...

Various speakers

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

Thursday 06 November 2025 18:00 - 19:30

Morishima Lecture

Hosted by STICERD

Agricultural Productivity, Social Organization and Economic Transformation in Rural Africa

Chris Udry (Northwestern University)

Venue to be Confirmed

Wednesday 22 October 2025 18:30 - 20:00

Hayek Programme in Economics and Liberal Political Economy

Hosted by the Hayek Programme in Economics and Liberal Political Economy

Prosperity Through Growth with Economist Art Laffer

Arthur Laffer (Laffer Associates)

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

Tuesday 21 October 2025 18:30 - 20:00

Cohesive Capitalism Event

Hosted by the Department of Geography and Environment and the Programme on Cohesive Capitalism

How progress ends: technology, innovation, and the fate of nations

How will progress end? In this event, Carl Benedikt Frey – one of the leading scholars of technology and the economy – will discuss his new book, How Progress Ends....Read more...

Carl Frey (Oxford)

Venue to be Confirmed

Monday 20 October 2025 18:15 - 19:30

ESRC Festival of Social Science 2025

Altruistic Capital Lab

Reimaging Work: Meaning, Purpose and Productivity

Hub for Equal Representation in the Economy

Hosted by the Hub for Equal Representation in the Economy

Barriers to Female Labour Force Participation

Oriana Bandiera (LSE), Nina Roussille (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Venue to be Confirmed

Thursday 16 October 2025 18:30 - 20:00

Hayek Programme in Economics and Liberal Political Economy

Hosted by the Hayek Programme in Economics and Liberal Political Economy

Has the Free Market Failed?

Deirdre McCloskey (Cato Institute)

Wolfson Theatre, Cheng Kin Ku Building, LSE, 54 Lincoln's Inn Fields, WC2A 3LJ

Wednesday 08 October 2025 18:30 - 19:30

Cohesive Capitalism Event

Hosted by Programme on Cohesive Capitalism

How to Save the Internet: The Threat to Global Connection in the Age of AI and Political Conflict

Nick Clegg, Larry Kramer (LSE)

This event is both online and in person

Venue to be Confirmed

Wednesday 24 September 2025 18:00 - 20:30

STICERD Economics of Environment and Energy Programme

Hosted by Economics of Environment and Energy Programme at STICERD, International Growth Centre and Programme on Innovation and Diffusion

Climate finance and investment in low-income countries

This is a public event as part of the fourth Environment Week at LSE from 22-25 September....Read more...

This event is both online and in person

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

Tuesday 23 September 2025 18:30 - 20:00

STICERD Economics of Environment and Energy Programme

Hosted by Economics of Environment and Energy Programme at STICERD, International Growth Centre and Programme on Innovation and Diffusion

Valuing nature in a changing climate: rethinking natural capital

This is a public event as part of the fourth Environment Week at LSE from 22-25 September....Read more...

Jim Leape (Centre for Ocean Solutions), Rohini Pande (Yale University), Juliano Assunção (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro)

This event is both online and in person

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

Monday 22 September 2025 18:00 - 19:30

STICERD Economics of Environment and Energy Programme

Hosted by Economics of Environment and Energy Programme at STICERD, International Growth Centre and Programme on Innovation and Diffusion

Investing in our future: COP30 and the sustainable growth agenda

This is a public event as part of the fourth Environment Week at LSE from 22-25 September 2025. ...Read more...

Jose Scheinkman (Columbia University), Michael Greenstone (University of Chicago), Sherry Rehman (Senate of Pakistan)

This event is both online and in person

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

Monday 22 September 2025 09:00 - Thursday 25 September 2025 17:00

STICERD Economics of Environment and Energy Programme

Hosted by The Economics of Environment and Energy Programme (EEE), International Growth Centre (IGC) and Programme on Innovation and Diffusion (POID)

LSE Environment Week 2025

Various speakers

Venue to be Confirmed

Monday 22 September 2025 - Tuesday 23 September 2025

IFS-LSE-UCL

Workshop on Public Economics

Various speakers

IFS, 2 Marylebone Road, London, NW14DF

Friday 20 June 2025 09:30 - Saturday 21 June 2025 18:00

Hayek Programme in Economics and Liberal Political Economy

The Hayek Programme in Economics and Liberal Political Economy and University of Bologna

Narratives and Culture in Historical Perspective - Hayek Conference

This conference organised by LSE's Hayek Programme and the University of Bologna explores the intersection of political economy, culture, and narratives from a historical perspective....Read more...

Various speakers

This event is both online and in person

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

Thursday 19 June 2025 18:30 - 19:30

Altruistic Capital Lab

Hosted by the LSE Festival

Visions of the Future: Reimagining the way we work

This event is part of the LSE Festival: Visions for the Future, running from Monday 16 to Saturday 21 June 2025, with a series of events exploring the threats and opportunities of the near and distant future, and what a ...Read more...

Oriana Bandiera (LSE), Daniel Susskind (University of Oxford), Nava Ashraf (LSE)

This event is both online and in person

MAR, Ground Floor, The Marshall Building, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LY

Wednesday 18 June 2025 17:30 - 18:30

Cohesive Capitalism Event

LSE Festival: Visions for the Future and the Cohesive Capitalism Programme

Visions for the future with Daron Acemoglu

Daron Acemoglu, LSE alumnus and co-recipient of the 2024 Nobel Prize in economics, whose work has provided new insights into why there are such vast differences in prosperity between nations, will be in conversation with...Read more...

Daron Acemoglu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

This event is both online and in person

MAR, Ground Floor, The Marshall Building, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LY

Monday 16 June 2025 17:00 - 18:00

Cohesive Capitalism Event

Hosted by LSE Festival: Visions for the Future and the Cohesive Capitalism Programme

The London Consensus: Economic principles for the 21st century

A generation ago, the so-called Washington Consensus laid out a series of do’s and don’ts for policymakers around the world, but it fell short by neglecting the social and institutional underpinnings indispensable for ac...Read more...

Oriana Bandiera (LSE), Dani Rodrik (Harvard University), Margaret Levi (Stanford)

This event is both online and in person

MAR, Ground Floor, The Marshall Building, 44 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LY

Wednesday 28 May 2025 18:30 - 20:00

Cohesive Capitalism Event

Hosted by the Cohesive Capitalism Programme

Capitalism and its critics

Join us for this lecture at which John Cassidy will speak about his new book, Capitalism and Its Critics: A Battle of Ideas in the Modern World....Read more...

John Cassidy

This event is both online and in person

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

Wednesday 21 May 2025 18:30 - 20:00

Wolfson Theatre, Cheng Kin Ku Building, LSE, 54 Lincoln's Inn Fields, WC2A 3LJ

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