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Economics, Hayek, and Large Language Models 06.06.2023 1:13:40 ↓

Overall, what can economists learn from this new development, and what will it mean for economies?

Global Governance in an Age of Fracture 01.06.2023 1:35:27 ↓

This panel of experts discusses the future of global governance.

Social Capital and Economic Mobility 31.05.2023 1:33:10 ↓

How can we give children from low-income families better chances of rising up out of poverty?

Time to Think 26.05.2023 1:38:11 ↓

In conversation with Hannah Barnes

Ontological Polyglossia: the art of communicating in opacity 25.05.2023 55:48 ↓

Ontological polyglossia: the art of communicating in opacity. What do communicating with a baby, with an ancestor and with an animal, have in common?

Patriarchy: where did it all begin? 24.05.2023 1:23:23 ↓

Award-winning writer Angela Saini gives this year’s Wollstonecraft Society Lecture, sharing from her hotly-anticipated book, "The Patriarchs".

What We Owe the Future: in conversation with William MacAskill 22.05.2023 1:37:47 ↓

William MacAskill discusses his recent book What We Owe the Future, and his argument for ‘longtermism’, which proposes that positively influencing the future is the moral priority of our time.

Putting Bourdieu and Marx in Dialogue 18.05.2023 1:27:46 ↓

This event marks the launch Gabriella Paolucci's edited book Bourdieu and Marx.

Central Bank Balance Sheet Expansion and Financial Stability: why less can be more 17.05.2023 1:32:36 ↓

Raghuram Rajan delivers this lecture in honour of LSE's Charles Goodhart.

What Would a Fair Society Look Like? 15.05.2023 1:31:43 ↓

Our society faces multiple crisis — culture wars, unprecedented dissatisfaction with democracy, vast inequalities, a climate and ecological emergency — but where is the alternative?

Blood and Power 11.05.2023 1:25:28 ↓

With the rise of Giorgia Meloni, commentators have expressed concern that the far right has once again become ascendent in Italian politics.

Anti-globalism and the Future of the Liberal World Order 09.05.2023 1:34:49 ↓

This event discusses Peter Trubowitz’s and Brian Burgoon’s new book, Geopolitics and Democracy.

Shaping a 21st Century Policy Consensus 04.05.2023 1:17:40 ↓

The Washington Consensus laid out a series of do´s and don’t´s for policymakers around the world. The world has changed a great deal since 1989 and so has the collective wisdom on what sound policies look like.

The Travelling Salesman Problem 03.05.2023 1:23:06 ↓

Is it possible to compute the shortest route through a large number of stops? The task, known as the traveling salesman problem, or TSP for short, sounds simple enough.

The Dialogical Roots of Deduction 02.05.2023 1:16:12 ↓

Catarina Dutilh Novaes gives a public lecture on her Lakatos Award winning book, The Dialogical Roots of Deduction.

Russian War on Ukraine: the death of a soldier told by his sister 27.04.2023 1:38:40 ↓

What does it mean to be on the frontline of the Ukrainian resistance?

Should Monarchy Be Abolished? 26.04.2023 1:25:24 ↓

Some of the world’s most longstanding democracies are monarchies. But what is the case for a Republic?

What is it like to be an animal? 19.04.2023 30:21 ↓

This month we’re re-running an episode from 2021 which asks, ‘What’s it like to be an animal?’

A Complex Relationship: religiosity and science in a historical perspective 30.03.2023 1:28:30 ↓

Frequent clashes between religiosity and science still occur today, but is this relationship always negative? Can religiosity and science co-evolve?

Critical Minerals, Geopolitics, and the Risks for Achieving Net-Zero Transition 29.03.2023 1:30:06 ↓

This event brings together leading voices in the field for a panel discussion on the risks for the net-zero transition caused by the dependence on critical minerals.

Digital Platforms and the Future of Political Solidarity 28.03.2023 1:27:28 ↓

Digital platforms are where we live out much of our lives, including our politics.

The Rise and Fall of the EAST 27.03.2023 1:32:37 ↓

Yasheng Huang, the Epoch Foundation Professor of International Management at MIT, discusses how autocracy and ideological homogeneity have hampered Chinese technological development in the past, and threaten to do so again.

Supply Matters 27.03.2023 56:53 ↓

Join us for this keynote speech by Andrew Bailey, Governor of the Bank of England.

How can we make homes more affordable? 27.03.2023 31:58 ↓

This episode of LSE iQ asks, ‘How can we make homes more affordable?’

Of Boys and Men: new challenges for gender equality 23.03.2023 1:24:33 ↓

This event addresses some of the important issues facing men and boys in our society today and puts forward a positive vision of masculinity that is compatible with gender equality.