Past STICERD Public Events and Lectures

Tuesday 25 November 2025 18:30 - 20:00

Hayek Programme in Economics and Liberal Political Economy

John Rawls and unequivocal justice

Curious about how free markets and social justice intersect? Join us for an engaging lecture by Christopher Freiman, author of the book Unequivocal Justice. Freiman offers a rethinking of the political theory of John Raw...Read more...

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...

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...

Thursday 06 November 2025 18:00 - 19:30

Hosted by STICERD

Agricultural Productivity, Social Organisation 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...

Wednesday 22 October 2025 18:30 - 20:00

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...

Tuesday 21 October 2025 18:30 - 20:00

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...

Monday 20 October 2025 18:15 - 19:30

Altruistic Capital Lab

Reimaging Work: Meaning, Purpose and Productivity

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Friday 17 October 2025 09:30 - 15:30

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...

Thursday 16 October 2025 18:30 - 20:00

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...

Wednesday 08 October 2025 18:30 - 19:30

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...

Wednesday 24 September 2025 18:00 - 20:30

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...

Tuesday 23 September 2025 18:30 - 20:00

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...

Monday 22 September 2025 18:00 - 19:30

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

Thursday 19 June 2025 18:30 - 19:30

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...

Wednesday 18 June 2025 17:30 - 18:30

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...

Monday 16 June 2025 17:00 - 18:00

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...

Wednesday 28 May 2025 18:30 - 20:00

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...

Wednesday 21 May 2025 18:30 - 20:00

The Hayek Programme in Economics and Liberal Political Economy

Stability is Overrated: Towards a Dynamic Liberalism

Contemporary liberals often praise values such as cohesion and stability. Though commonplace, embracing such values marks the abandonment of a major strand in 20th century liberal thought, a strand which eschews cohesion...Read more...

Thursday 15 May 2025 09:30 - Friday 16 May 2025 17:00

Hosted by the Economics of Environment and Energy Programme (EEE)

Environmental Populism Conference

This conference, organised by STICERD's EEE programme, explores our understanding of the contentious politics of climate policy focusing on ideology, economic interests, and institutional design....Read more...

Wednesday 14 May 2025 14:00 - 17:30

The Political Science and Political Economy Programme

Mini-conference on Political Economy and Applied Microeconomy

The PSPE group is hosting a mini conference on political economy and applied microeconomy. The conference aims to bring together scholars working or interested in applied theory. The papers at the conference will touch u...Read more...

Wednesday 14 May 2025 09:00 - Thursday 15 May 2025 17:00

Hosted by the Economics of Environment and Energy Programme (EEE), Programme on Innovation and Diffusion (POID) and STICERD

LSE Environment Camp 2025

STICERD's Economics of Environment and Energy Programme (EEE) and the Programme on Innovation and Diffusion (POID) within the LSE Economics Department are convening the second LSE Environment Camp at the LSE on 14-15 May...Read more...

Tuesday 13 May 2025 18:30 - 20:00

The Hayek Programme in Economics and Liberal Political Economy

Neoliberalism and social justice? Reconciling Adam Smith and John Rawls

This event will explore the relationship between Rawlsian liberal egalitarianism and neoliberalism, based on Nick Cowen's book Neoliberal Social Justice. His timely and provocative book challenges the conventional wisdom...Read more...

Monday 07 April 2025 09:30 - Tuesday 08 April 2025 16:30

IZA and LSE

G²LM|LIC Research Conference

A research conference organised by Annabelle Krause-Pilatus (IZA) and Oriana Bandiera (LSE and IZA)....Read more...

Monday 31 March 2025 18:00 - 19:00

STICERD and the School of Public Policy

AI goes to war

The School of Public Policy and the Political Science and Political Economy group at STICERD are delighted to have Ethan Bueno de Mesquita, Dean of the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago, as spea...Read more...

Wednesday 26 March 2025 18:00 - 19:30

The Future of Foreign Trade

This is the Atkinson Lecture 2025 with Elhanan Helpman who will be speaking on the future of foreign trade....Read more...

Monday 24 March 2025 18:30 - 20:00

Hosted by the Hayek Programme in Economics and Liberal Political Economy

CANCELLED: Rethinking John Rawls and justice

What does justice require in practice, not just in theory? Join us for a lecture by Christopher Freiman, author of Unequivocal Justice, as he offers a rethinking of dominant political philosophies and challenges conventi...Read more...

Monday 10 March 2025 18:30 - 20:00

Hosted by the Hayek Programme in Economics and Liberal Political Economy

Epistemic pluralism and climate change

This lecture explores the merits of epistemic pluralism in understanding climate change today. Epistemic pluralism emphasises the need for diverse ways of knowing, analysing, and interpreting climate change—drawing insig...Read more...

Thursday 27 February 2025 18:30 - 20:00

The Lost Marie Curies

This is the inaugural lecture of Professor Xavier Jaravel. It is part of a series of inaugural lectures at LSE that provides an opportunity to celebrate the achievements of new professors. ...Read more...

Wednesday 12 February 2025 18:30 - 20:00

Hosted by the Hayek Programme in Economics and Liberal Political Economy

Power, freedom, and justice: rethinking Foucault

What are the implications of Michel Foucault’s critical social theories for how we think about freedom, power, and justice?...Read more...

Wednesday 29 January 2025 18:30 - 20:00

Hosted by the Hayek Programme in Economics and Liberal Political Economy

Has neoliberalism failed? Reflections on Western society

In this timely event, Samuel Gregg will delve into the origins of the term "neoliberalism," its contested usefulness in contemporary discourse, and whether intellectuals such as F. A. Hayek and Milton Friedman fit the "n...Read more...

Thursday 23 January 2025 18:30 - 20:00

Cancelled: Sir Arthur Lewis 110 Anniversary Event: Confronting the climate and development challenge

Unfortunately we have had to cancel this event but we hope to reschedule it for a future date. ...Read more...

Tuesday 12 November 2024 18:30 - 20:00

Hosted by the Hayek Programme in Economics and Liberal Political Economy

F A Hayek's Nobel at 50: then and now

2024 marks the 50th anniversary of the Nobel Prize won by liberal political economist F.A. Hayek. This lecture will review the life and times of F.A. Hayek and consider the implications of his ideas for contemporary poli...Read more...

Friday 11 October 2024 - Saturday 12 October 2024

Hosted by the Department of Government and the Programme on Cohesive Capitalism

Comparative Formal Theory Workshop

The annual two-day conference on Comparative Formal Theory (CFTC) will take place at the LSE on the 11th and 12th of October 2024....Read more...

Wednesday 09 October 2024 18:30 - 20:00

Hosted by the Hayek Programme in Economics and Liberal Political Economy

The case for shareholder capitalism

This event will provoke further debate on the question of stakeholder vs shareholder capitalism. In this lecture, Professor David McLean will make a case for shareholder capitalism, understood as an approach that emphasi...Read more...

Friday 27 September 2024 09:00 - Saturday 28 September 2024 15:30

Hosted by STICERD, TIME, TCD, BREAD and CEPR

2024 Development Economics Annual Symposium

This is the annual symposium in development economics organised by STICERD, TIME, TCD, BREAD and CEPR....Read more...

Thursday 26 September 2024 18:30 - 20:00

LSE Environment Week

Sewage in our waters

We have a growing waste problem, which has been around for some time and is only getting worse. Dumping of sewage is threatening the health of our rivers. Plastics have penetrated deep into the world’s oceans. Leakages f...Read more...

Wednesday 25 September 2024 18:30 - 20:00

LSE Environment Week

Trade and climate change: Managing policies on the road to net zero

Trade and climate change policies have become increasingly interwoven. Subsidies for green industries often provoke tariffs, such as US actions over Chinese solar panels and electric vehicles. The European Union’s Emissi...Read more...

Tuesday 24 September 2024 18:00 - 19:30

LSE Environment Week

Innovative market solutions to confront climate change

Large investments are needed to confront climate change. Current levels are far below what is required. Bridging this investment gap rests on harnessing both public and private climate finance. Yet, accessing and effecti...Read more...

Monday 23 September 2024 09:00 - Thursday 26 September 2024 17:00

STICERD, CEP, LSE Department of Economics, Economics of Environment and Energy Programme, International Growth Centre and POID

LSE Environment Week 2024

The Economics of Environment and Energy Programme (EEE), International Growth Centre (IGC) and Programme on Innovation and Diffusion (POID) within the LSE Economics Department host the third Environment Week. Working wit...Read more...

Wednesday 18 September 2024 18:00 - 19:30

STICERD

The FT Money Machine Event

The Financial Times, in partnership with Infosys, has brought back to life the 'Moniac' computer that uses water to show how money flows around an economy. This historic piece of technology was created in 1949 by LSE stu...Read more...

Thursday 20 June 2024 09:30 - Friday 21 June 2024 18:00

Hosted by LSE's Department of Social Policy, the LSE Hayek Programme, the Classical Liberal Institute at New York University Law School, the Hayek Program at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, and the Institute for Humane Studies

Symposium on the Lessons of Classical Liberalism for the Modern World

On June 20-21, the LSE will host a workshop on the Lessons of Classical Liberalism for the Modern World. This event is sponsored by the LSE’s Department of Social Policy, the LSE Hayek Programme, the Classical Liberal In...Read more...

Wednesday 12 June 2024 18:00 - 19:30

STICERD

Social Media and Social Good

Smartphones and social media have transformed the shape of our days, the way we get information, and the way we connect with others. While they have brought tremendous benefits, they have also sparked widespread concern ...Read more...

Friday 07 June 2024 09:00 - Saturday 08 June 2024 17:40

Hosted by The Political Science and Political Economy programme

13th Annual LSE and NYU Conference in Political Science and Political Economy: 'Social Conflict and Political Inequality'

This is the annual LSE and NYU conference in political science and political economy. The conference will explore aspects of social conflict and political inequality....Read more...

Wednesday 29 May 2024 - Thursday 30 May 2024

Hosted by the Hayek Programme in Economics and Liberal Political Economy, and the Department of Economic History

Hayek Workshop on Institutions and Political Economy in Historical Perspective

The role of political institutions in shaping economic activity is central to recent scholarship in economics. However, these institutions are historically shaped, and examining them from a historical perspective is cruc...Read more...

Thursday 02 May 2024 18:45 - 20:00

LSE Environment Camp

Addressing climate inequality

A central issue with climate change is that those who contribute least to the problem are being most effected. This public event will present new thinking on how to design and finance loss and damage funds....Read more...

Thursday 02 May 2024 - Friday 03 May 2024

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

LSE Environment Camp 2024

A two-day conference designed to provide PhD students from all fields of economics the opportunity present new research on environmental issues, interact with future colleagues, and receive valuable feedback....Read more...

Wednesday 27 March 2024 17:00 - 18:00

The Political Science and Political Economy Programme

Reinventing Property Rights

The annual LSE Political Science and Political Economy lecture brings together political scientists and economists to discuss recent contributions, both theoretical and empirical, to the study of institutions, political ...Read more...

Monday 11 March 2024 18:30 - 20:00

Hosted by the Hayek Programme in Economics and Liberal Political Economy

Law and Finance at 25

Andrei Shleifer will discuss the reforms in laws and regulations around the world in the past 25 years. ...Read more...

Wednesday 06 March 2024 10:00 - 17:00

The Hub for Equal Representation in the Economy, the UCL Stone Centre and the European Economic Association

Career Structures in Economics: Workshop and Policy Session

H.E.R., in collaboration with The EEA and UCL’s Stone Centre, will host an all-day event to further explore career structures in economics....Read more...

Tuesday 30 January 2024 06:30 - 20:00

Hosted by the Hayek Programme in Economics and Liberal Political Economy and the Department of Social Policy

Empowering citizens with behavioural science

Behavioural public policy has gained significant attention recently due to two key factors: political debates over government size and role, and the globally influential approach of nudging....Read more...

Thursday 09 November 2023 18:15 - 19:30

STICERD and FMG

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...

Monday 09 October 2023 18:30 - 19:45

STICERD and the Hayek Programme in Economics and Liberal Political Economy, and the Department of Social Policy

Optimally Irrational. The good reasons we behave the way we do

A public lecture by Professor Lionel Page on the topic of his latest book: 'Optimally Irrational. The good reasons we behave the way we do'. The lecture is hosted by STICERD and the Department of Social Policy and suppor...Read more...

Tuesday 19 September 2023 10:00 - 17:00

LSE-UCL Economic Theory Workshop

LSE and UCL are organising a joint workshop on economic theory on Tuesday 19 September. Researchers from both institutions will present new work in economic theory....Read more...

Monday 04 September 2023 18:00 - 19:30

The Hub for Equal Representation in the Economy

Parenthood and the double x economy

In this event, expert and best-selling author Linda Scott, in a conversation with academic and political leaders, will discuss how the unequal division of the burden of parenthood fuels women’s systematic exclusion from ...Read more...

Monday 04 September 2023

The Hub for Equal Representation in the Economy

Child Penalty Conference

Join the Hub for Equal Representation in the Economy for the upcoming Child Penalty Conference and the Parenthood and the Double X Economy lecture....Read more...

Wednesday 14 June 2023 - Friday 16 June 2023

STICERD

CEPR Public Economics Annual Symposium 2023

The goal of the symposium is to provide a forum for high-quality work in public economics and to bring together economists in the field from across Europe as well as key researchers from outside the region....Read more...

Thursday 08 June 2023 09:30 - Friday 09 June 2023 18:00

STICERD and the LSE Department of Management

Conference on behavioural political economy

A conference on behavioural political economy, as part of the Psychology and Economics Programme within STICERD. The conference was hosted by STICERD and the LSE Department of Management. It was organised by Marina Agran...Read more...

Tuesday 06 June 2023 18:30 - 20:00

The Department of Economics and supported by the Hayek Programme in Economics and Liberal Political Economy

Economics, Hayek, and Large Language Models

For the first time, Large Language Models give us a direct and effective means of conversing with Artificial Intelligence on substantive questions of our choosing, including matters of economics....Read more...

Wednesday 31 May 2023 18:30 - 20:00

STICERD

Social capital and economic mobility

This is the 2023 Morishima Lecture. This lecture series is held in honour of Michio Morishima (1923-2004), Sir John Hicks Professor of Economics at LSE and STICERD's first chairman....Read more...

Thursday 18 May 2023 09:30 - Friday 19 May 2023 18:00

STICERD, LSE, University of Oxford, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, CEPR

Organising development and the development of organisations conference

Most people in high income countries work within an organisation, often very large with several layers of management. Most people in low income countries work on their own or with family members. Why and how do organisat...Read more...

Monday 15 May 2023 18:30 - 20:00

STICERD and Mouradian Foundation

What would a fair society look like?

In this talk, Daniel Chandler will explore how Rawls’s ideas can help us transform our societies for the better, drawing on his recent book, Free and Equal....Read more...

Tuesday 02 May 2023 - Wednesday 03 May 2023

Economics of Environment and Energy Programme (EEE), STICERD, Programme on Innovation and Diffusion (POID), Department of Economics

LSE Environment Day

The Economics of Environment and Energy Programme (EEE), Programme on Innovation and Diffusion (POID), and STICERD are organising an Environment Day on 2 and 3 May 2023 at the LSE....Read more...

Monday 27 March 2023 18:00 - 19:30

The Political Science and Political Economy Programme

How to introduce culture in economics

The annual LSE Political Science and Political Economy lecture brings together political scientists and economists to discuss recent contributions, both theoretical and empirical, to the study of institutions, political ...Read more...

Wednesday 01 March 2023 18:00 - 19:30

STICERD, BRAC, and the IGC

Why do people stay poor?

Recent research indicates there is a wealth threshold below which people are stuck in the so-called ‘poverty trap’ – where the initial wealth of a person and a system of oppression keeps them in a cycle of poverty rather...Read more...

Wednesday 16 November 2022 18:30 - 20:00

Hosted by the Hayek Programme in Economics and Liberal Political Economy

Abolishing the Political Class, From Aristotle to Hayek

This event is the formal launch of the Hayek Programme in Economics and Liberal Political Economy at LSE and picks up on themes in Hayek’s writings and that of many thinkers through the ages....Read more...

Monday 19 September 2022 09:30 - Friday 23 September 2022 18:00

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

LSE Environment Week 2022

The Economics of Environment and Energy Programme (EEE), International Growth Centre (IGC) and Programme on Innovation and Diffusion (POID) within the LSE Economics Department will convene an Environment Week at the LSE ...Read more...

Friday 10 June 2022 09:30 - Saturday 11 June 2022 18:00

The Political Science and Political Economy Programme

LSE-NYU Political Science and Political Economy annual conference

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Tuesday 31 May 2022 17:30 - 19:00

STICERD

Why Does Racial Inequality Persist?

In exploring the persistence of racial inequality, Glenn Loury will discuss a range of conceptual frameworks that are useful for understanding racial inequality drawing on a lifetime of work on these issues, traversing d...Read more...

Monday 28 March 2022 18:00 - 19:00

The Political Science and Political Economy Programme

What role does social identity play in politics?

What is social identity? What role does it play in politics? In the inaugural annual LSE Political Science and Political Economy public lecture, Moses Shayo will discuss how individuals associate themselves and identify ...Read more...

Friday 14 January 2022 14:30 - 17:00

Hub for Equal Representation in the Economy Launch Event: Making Equality Work

The Hub for Equal Representation in the economy will be officially launched the 14th of January 2022. Prominent academics and business leaders will come together for this event and share knowledge and strategies to set t...Read more...

Wednesday 10 November 2021 12:30 - 14:00

COVID-19 vs. the Ultra-Poor Graduation Approach: Evidence from Bangladesh

This event will bring to light the latest findings by BIGD and LSE on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the 2007 cohort of beneficiaries of BRAC’s UPG program in rural areas of Bangladesh. The speakers, alongside a ...Read more...

Thursday 08 July 2021 09:30 - 18:00

STICERD

Ninth Meeting of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality

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Wednesday 23 June 2021 16:00 - 17:00

STICERD

Awakening the Giant Beast: from pandemic to economic recovery

How does the Biden-Harris Administration evaluate the current state and growth trajectory of the U.S. economy as it emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic? How are the Administration’s plans to expand infrastructure investme...Read more...

Thursday 06 May 2021 14:30 - 19:30

Paris-London Public Economics Conference, 6-7 May 2021

The Paris-London Public Economics conference is a two-day conference organized by faculty at the London School of Economics, Sciences Po, University College London, the Institut des Politiques Publiques, the Institute fo...Read more...

Wednesday 17 June 2020 17:00 - 18:00

STICERD

Good Economics for Hard Times

Can Economics be harnessed for the common good? Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo’s bestselling book “Good Economics for Hard Times” makes the case for how economics can help us solve the toughest problems in some of the...Read more...

Tuesday 10 March 2020 18:00 - 20:00

LSE Presents The People Vs Social Sciences

In this mock trial, it will be debated whether the social sciences, as an area of research, commentary and investigation, has failed society. With public trust in democracy at the lowest it has been in decades, in a tim...Read more...

Tuesday 18 February 2020 16:45 - 17:45

Hosted by the Hayek Programme in Economics and Liberal Political Economy

Civil Liberties in Times of Crisis

Stefanie Stantcheva will discuss her recent paper, which explores how far citizens are willing trade off civil liberties during COVID-19, and whether worries about the long term erosion of civil liberties induce citizens...Read more...

Thursday 19 September 2019 09:30 - 18:00

CEPR, STICERD, Marshall Institute and Rustandy Center Joint Conference

The London School of Economics (STICERD and Marshall Institute), the University of Chicago Booth School of Business (Rustandy Center) and the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) invite you to the joint conference ...Read more...

Wednesday 08 May 2019 09:30 - 18:00

STICERD

The Meritocracy Trap

Merit is not a genuine excellence but rather a pretence, constructed to rationalise an offensive distribution of advantage. Merit, in short, is a sham....Read more...

Wednesday 13 March 2019 18:30 - 20:00

STICERD

Foundations of State Effectiveness

Hosted by the Amartya Sen lecture series, STICERD and the International Inequalities Institute. An effective state promotes freedom and the well-being of its citizens. This lecture will discuss the importance of norms,...Read more...

Thursday 14 February 2019 18:30 - 20:00

Netflix for Agriculture? Digital Technology for Development

The rapid spread of mobile phones in developing countries, coupled with recent advances in our ability to analyze big data through tools such as machine learning and artificial intelligence, has generated considerable ex...Read more...

Wednesday 06 June 2018 18:00 - 19:30

STICERD

Public Policy and Retirement Security - A Trans-Atlantic Perspective

Chair: Tim Besley Retirement pension plans are a major challenge in countries with ageing populations. James Poterba will discuss how their design evolved over the last decades and how the US and UK followed strikingl...Read more...

Monday 04 June 2018 08:30 - 18:00

Trans-Atlantic Public Economics Seminar

This event will take place over 4 -5 June 2018. Income inequality has increased in both the U.S. and the U.K. in the last three decades, generating new interest in the factors that contribute to inequality and the co...Read more...

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...

Thursday 15 June 2017 18:30 - 20:00

STICERD

Market Places and Market Design

Nobel laureate Alvin Roth will deliver this year’s Morishima Lecture on the topics of game theory, market design and experimental economics. Alvin Roth is the Craig and Susan Shaw Professor of Economics at Stanford Univ...Read more...

Friday 09 June 2017 09:30 - 18:00

STICERD

PODER Final Conference and CEPR Annual Symposium on Development Economics

The CEPR annual symposium of the Development Economics Programme will be hosted by STICERD, London School of Economics on Friday 9 and Saturday 10 June, 2017. The meeting will be held jointly with the Policy Design and E...Read more...

Tuesday 17 January 2017 18:30 - 20:00

STICERD

Religious Intolerance and its Impact on Democracy

In this special event 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, particularl...Read more...

Friday 16 December 2016 09:30 - 18:00

CEPR Public Economics Conference on 'New perspectives on consumption measures'

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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...

Wednesday 22 June 2016 18:30 - 20:00

STICERD

The Secret of Our Success

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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...

Monday 22 June 2015 09:30 - 18:00

STICERD and IGC

IGC-STICERD Sir Arthur Lewis Symposium on Growth and Development

The Symposium will be held at the LSE and will feature top LSE academics - Professors Oriana Bandiera, Tim Besley and John Sutton with Professor Douglas Gollin from the University of Oxford. To sign up and for more infor...Read more...

Thursday 21 May 2015 18:30 - 20:00

STICERD

Scarcity: a talk for people too busy to attend talks

Why does poverty persist? Why do the busy feel perpetually behind? Why do diets fail? The scarcity mind set connects these diverse behaviours. Sendhil Mullainathan is a Professor of Economics at Harvard whose main intere...Read more...

Thursday 14 May 2015 09:30 - 18:00

CEPR Annual Public Economics Symposium 2015

This two-day event, organised by STICERD's director Oriana Bandiera and Henrik Kleven and sponsored by IGC and CEPR, will provide a forum for high-quality work in public economics and will bring together economists in th...Read more...

Wednesday 11 March 2015 13:30 - 16:45

STICERD

Empire and Imperialism in British and Japanese History

Sponsored by STICERD and organised by graduate students from the Department of Economics History at LSE, this afternoon workshop explores the economic and historic links between Britain and Japan. ...Read more...

Tuesday 03 March 2015 09:30 - 18:00

STICERD

Law, Economics and the Republic of Beliefs

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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...

Monday 16 June 2014 18:30 - 20:00

STICERD

Capital in the Twenty-First Century

What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Thomas Piketty’s latest findings from his book Capital in the Twenty-First Century will transform debate and set the agenda for the nex...Read more...

Monday 09 June 2014 09:30 - 18:00

Special Seminar in Political Economy - 'Elections and Durable Governments in Parliamentary Democracies'

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Friday 30 May 2014 10:15 - 14:00

STICERD

2014 Public Economics UK (PEUK) Workshop

We are pleased to announce that the next PEUK Workshop will take place on Friday 30th of May 2014, at STICERD. It is co-organised by the Universisty of Warwick, HMRC and LSE. Sponsored by the ESRC through CAGE and STICER...Read more...

Tuesday 25 March 2014 09:30 - 18:00

Why Abenomics Matters: Abenomics and the Japanese economy

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Tuesday 18 March 2014 09:30 - 18:00

Book launch: All that is Solid: The Great Housing Disaster

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Thursday 26 September 2013 09:30 - 18:00

STICERD

Second CEPR Workshop on Incentives, Management and Organization

On Thursday 26th and Friday 27th September 2013, STICERD will host a Workshop on Incentives, Management and Organisation. The event is joint with CEPR and the IGC Firm Capabilities programme and it aims to bring together...Read more...

Wednesday 29 May 2013 09:30 - 18:00

STICERD

The Amartya Sen Lecture at LSE

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Monday 09 July 2012 09:30 - 18:00

Property before people

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Wednesday 11 January 2012 18:00 - 19:30

CASE/new economics foundation event

About Time: Examining the case for a shorter working week

As the economic crisis deepens, it is timely to consider the arguments for moving towards much shorter, more flexible paid working hours - sharing out jobs and unpaid time more fairly across the population. Following the...Read more...

Monday 13 June 2011 09:30 - 18:00

STICERD

EOPP/STICERD Special Event: Economic Foundations of Public Policy Conference

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Thursday 19 May 2011 09:30 - 18:00

STICERD

Public Policy, Equity and Growth: STICERD panel discussion

This event is part of a celebration of 25 years on from the LSE project on Taxation, Income Distribution and Incentives run in STICERD by Sir Tony Atkinson, Mervyn King and Professor Lord Stern. The panel brings together...Read more...

Monday 24 January 2011 09:30 - 18:00

IGC-STICERD-DESTIN

IGC-STICERD-DESTIN Development Lecture: Creating Pathways for the Poorest - Linking safety nets, livelihoods and access to finance

People at the very bottom of the economic ladder are often excluded, or exclude themselves, from microfinance. Their income is usually too low and unreliable to permit repayment of loans or investment in anything but bas...Read more...

Wednesday 23 June 2010 09:30 - 18:00

STICERD

EOPP Special Event: Summer School on Empirical Methods for Economic Development

Oriana Bandiera is organizing the Second AMID Summer School on Empirical Methods for Economic Development on June 23-26 at the LSE. The school is intended for PhD students, post-docs and junior faculty members. The aim i...Read more...

Friday 18 June 2010 09:30 - 18:00

STICERD

EOPP Special Event: CEPR Public Policy Symposium 2010

Oriana Bandiera and Henrik Kleven, along with Thomas Piketty (Paris School of Economics and CEPR) and Emmanuel Saez (University of California, Berkeley and CEPR) are organizing a symposium on public economics to bring to...Read more...

Monday 14 June 2010 09:30 - 18:00

EOPP, TG and LSE Management Special Event: The Formation of Family and Its Intergenerational Consequences

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Friday 19 March 2010 09:30 - 18:00

GINI: Growing Inequalities' Impacts - Opening Conference: 19th and 20th March 2010.

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Saturday 30 May 2009 09:30 - 18:00

Microfoundations of Development Workshop - Day TWO

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Friday 29 May 2009 09:30 - 18:00

Microfoundations of Development Workshop - Day ONE

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Friday 20 March 2009 10:30 - 17:30

4th London and Oxbridge Time Series Workshop

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Monday 10 December 2007 09:30 - 18:00

Lionel Robbins Essay On The Nature and Significance Of Economic Science - 75th Anniversary Conference

The purpose of this conference is both to renew the considerations of Robbins's theme and reflect on the current nature and significance of economic science as well as examine Robbins's own position from a historical per...Read more...

Friday 05 October 2007 09:30 - 18:00

CEPR/BREAD

CEPR/BREAD Conference on Development Economics

The Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) Development Economics Program and the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD) will hold a joint conference on 5th-6th October, 2007 at the London Sc...Read more...

Friday 25 May 2007 09:30 - 18:00

STICERD

STICERD Conference in Honour of Peter Robinson

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Tuesday 11 April 2006 09:30 - 18:00

The Measurement of Mobility: A Class of Distance Indices.

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Thursday 24 February 2005 17:00 - 18:30

Missing Women and the Price of Tea in China: The Effect of Relative Female Income on Sex Imbalance.

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Monday 21 February 2005 17:00 - 18:30

Distorted Gravity: Heterogeneous Firms, Market Structure and the Geography of International Trade.

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Friday 18 February 2005 12:30 - 14:00

Financial Globalization, Portfolio Diversification, and the Pattern of International Trade.

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Thursday 17 February 2005 17:00 - 18:30

US, Environmental Regulation and FDI: Evidence from a Panel of U.S. Based Multi-National Firms.

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Monday 14 February 2005 17:00 - 18:30

The Market for Intellectual Property: Evidence from the Transfer of Patents.

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Friday 11 February 2005 16:00 - 17:30

Leasing and Secondary Markets: Theory and Evidence from Commercial Aircraft

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Thursday 10 February 2005 17:00 - 18:30

Estimation of Structural Parameters and Marginal Effects in Binary Choice Panel Data Models with Fixed Effects

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Monday 07 February 2005 17:00 - 18:30

On the Robustness of Economic Models to Heavy-Tailedness Assumptions

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Monday 31 January 2005 17:00 - 18:30

Tying Odysseus to the Mast: Evidence from a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines

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Friday 28 January 2005 17:00 - 18:30

The Timing of New Technology Adoption: The Case of MRI

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Thursday 27 January 2005 16:00 - 17:30

Relationship-Specificity, Incomplete Contracts, and the Pattern of Trade

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Thursday 20 November 2003 09:30 - 18:00

Observations on the Japanese and East Asian Economies with special reference to China

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Thursday 09 October 2003 18:00 - 20:00

Monetary Policy and Financial Market

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Tuesday 24 June 2003 18:30 - 19:30

The Roots of Racial Tensions:urban ethnic neighbourhoods

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Tuesday 10 June 2003 11:30 - 13:00

Three Seminars On Hayekian Macroeconomic Thought: Seminar III: Hayek, Friedman, And Modern Developments

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Tuesday 03 June 2003 11:30 - 13:00

Three Seminars On Hayekian Macroeconomic Thought: Seminar II: Hayek And Keynes: Head To Head

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Tuesday 27 May 2003 11:30 - 13:00

Three Seminars On Hayekian Macroeconomic Thought: Seminar I: Capital-Based Macroeconomics.

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