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Shaping the Post-COVID World

London School of Economics and Political Science

Building on the important conversations and research being undertaken as part of LSE"s COVID-19 response, the Shaping the Post-COVID World initiative convenes a debate about the direction the world could and should be taking after this crisis and what policies national and global actors should pursue.

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00:08:19

How will New Technology Affect the Future of Work?

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2021/03/01

Contributor(s): Professor Alan Manning | Many fear the impact of robots and AI on the demand for labour in the future. Such techno-angst is nothing new and perhaps we can learn from the past what we need to worry about - and what we don't. Meet our speaker Alan Manning is Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at LSE and Director of the Community Programme at the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at LSE (@CEP_LSE), which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. Let us know what

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00:59:22

We Are All in This Together: has COVID-19 taught us...

Shaping the Post-COVID World ·

2021/03/01

Contributor(s): Dr Ganga Shreedhar, Professor Nick Chater, Sanchayan Banerjee, Dr Adam Oliver | Can the massive shift in the way we now relate to each other, and the rules we choose to live by, help us tackle other collective threats to humanity, like climate change? We need coordinated and cooperative collective action. Experts in behavioural public policy and sustainability discuss how the experience of the pandemic can be leveraged to enable new, transformative behaviours and policies. Meet our

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00:10:37

How Has COVID-19 Produced New Forms of Stigma?

Shaping the Post-COVID World ·

2021/03/01

Contributor(s): Nikita Simpson | Throughout the pandemic, the general population alongside policymakers have faced extreme uncertainty. Without a full picture of the virus and how it spreads, there has been much speculation about COVID-19 transmission and how to prevent it. These new perceptions of risk can work to polarise, exclude and stigmatise certain groups or individuals, compounding existing stereotypes and forms of historical exclusion. Drawing on ethnographic insights, Nikita Simpson

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00:09:03

A Letter on Feminist Peace

Shaping the Post-COVID World ·

2021/03/01

Contributor(s): | How could we create a world founded on an inclusive and intersectional concept of humanity and peaceful existence for all peoples? In September 2019, the Feminist International Law of Peace and Security project, at the LSE Centre for Women, Peace & Security, convened a workshop involving 19 legal academics and practitioners with the idea of drafting an alternative Security Council resolution to coincide with a number of anniversaries in 2020. The aim of the exercise was to reclaim

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00:24:28

SHORTCAST | Data-driven Responses to COVID-19:...

Shaping the Post-COVID World ·

2021/02/22

Contributor(s): Dr Seeta Peña Gangadharan, Dr Orla Lynskey, Dr Alison Powell, Dr Edgar Whitley | This is an event shortcast, a digested version of our live online public events series. This event was recorded on Thursday 15th October 2020. A full version is available to download on the LSE player.

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00:20:10

SHORTCAST | Growth and solidarity: cities reimagining...

Shaping the Post-COVID World ·

2021/02/22

Contributor(s): Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, Giuseppe Sala, Marta Foresti, Professor Ricky Burdett | This is an event shortcast, a digested version of our live online public events series. This event was recorded on Friday 9th October 2020. A full version is available to download on the LSE player.

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01:27:56

Wealth Inequality Across the Globe

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2021/02/18

Contributor(s): Professor Kwang-Yeong Shin, Svetlana Mareeva, Professor Li Chunling, Professor Louis Chauvel, Professor André J. Caetano | This event will introduce a special issue of The Journal of Chinese Sociology, which will showcase new analyses of wealth inequality and their implications for social stratification and inequality in comparative perspective. Chaired by Mike Savage, the contributions will range across Russia, China, South Korea, Brazil, as well as Europe and North America, to

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01:01:50

Gender and COVID-19: a feminist economic lens

Shaping the Post-COVID World ·

2021/02/18

Contributor(s): Professor Naila Kabeer | Join us for this first lecture in our new series organised in memory of Sylvia Chant which will be delivered by Naila Kabeer. Professor Kabeer will use a feminist economic lens to analyse a range of different impacts associated with COVID-19 and to explore the kinds of policies that such a lens would suggest for a more resilient and equitable future. Meet our speaker and chair Naila Kabeer (@N_Kabeer) is Professor of Gender and Development at the Department

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01:29:47

Let’s Talk Careers in a Post-COVID world

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2021/02/16

Contributor(s): Dorie Clark, Dowshan Humzah, Professor Connson Locke, Simon Ong, Helen Tupper | The impacts of COVID-19 on career prospects will differ across individuals. In this session we will discuss the groups of people who have advanced and those who have been left behind during the pandemic, along with discussing how those who have been left behind can adapt in a post pandemic world. In this session Grace Lordan will discuss the lessons we can learn from the social science literature about

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01:29:28

"World on the Edge": the crisis of the western...

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2021/02/16

Contributor(s): Professor John J. Mearsheimer, Professor Beate Jahn, Professor G. John Ikenberry | This event will debate the crisis of the liberal order: is the cause of the crisis liberalism itself, or does it have as much to do with Trump and the rise of populism as anything else? Explore the clash between liberalism and realism. Meet our speakers and chair G. John Ikenberry is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University in the Department of

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01:49:56

Shaping Cities in an Urban Age

Shaping the Post-COVID World ·

2021/02/11

Contributor(s): Professor Ricky Burdett, Kostas Bakoyannis, Professor Lila Leontidou, Professor Georgios Petrakos | As cities struggle with the combined pressures of a killer disease and economic stress, the impacts of urban form on well-being, inequality and resilience are brought into even sharper focus. Using research from LSE’s global Urban Age programme – including new research on Athens - the illustrated lecture reviews how urban planning, governance and design are critical to shaping urban

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00:58:04

The Recurring Crises of American Democracy

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2021/02/10

Contributor(s): Professor Robert Lieberman, Professor Suzanne Mettler | Join us for a discussion of America’s current predicament and how it differs from past threats to democracy in the US. You can order the book at Four Threats: The Recurring Crises of American Democracy. Meet our speakers and chair Robert Lieberman (@r_lieberman) is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. He studies American political development, race and American politics, and public

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01:06:33

Going for Growth

Shaping the Post-COVID World ·

2021/02/08

Contributor(s): Professor John Van Reenen | How can the UK and the world get back to sustainable growth following the COVID-19 pandemic? Pulling together the lessons of 30 years of work on technology, management and productivity, John Van Reenen will argue that innovation is the key to rekindling our economies. Meet our speaker and chair John Van Reenen (@johnvanreenen) is Ronald Coase School Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science and was previously Director

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01:26:01

Electoral Hostility: is the sanctity of elections...

Shaping the Post-COVID World ·

2021/02/04

Contributor(s): Jon Davies, Dr Sarah Harrison, Professor Michael Bruter, Dr Sandra Obradović, Adam Drummond, Thomas Hicks | A mere few years ago, who would have ever expected some people unhappy with the results of a US Presidential election to forcibly enter the Capitol to prevent a democratic result from being certified? Between the disruption from external threats such as covid and terrorism and the ever-increasing tension and frustration between voters, is the sanctity of elections under threat

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01:31:21

Building a Caring Economy

Shaping the Post-COVID World ·

2021/02/04

Contributor(s): Madeleine Bunting, Professor Diane Elson, Professor Lynne Segal | The spread of the COVID-19 pandemic has made us aware of an acute crisis of care that lies at the heart of global inequalities. Care has long been marginalised and neglected as a central part of our economy. It’s a crisis not just of care workers but moves from the intimate domain of our households to global planetary care itself. What is this crisis of care, how should we think about care, and what can be done to make

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00:56:37

The Epic Potential of Empowering Women

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2021/02/03

Contributor(s): Professor Linda Scott | Linda Scott coined the phrase “Double X Economy” to address the systemic exclusion of women from the world financial order. In her new book, which she will talk about at this event, Scott argues on the strength of hard data and on-the-ground experience that removing those barriers to women's success is a win for everyone, regardless of gender. Meet our speaker and chair Linda Scott (@ProfLindaScott) is an internationally renowned expert on women's economic

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01:27:51

Defending the Future: gender, conflict and...

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2021/02/01

Contributor(s): Hannah Bond, Bineta Diop, Helen Kezie-Nwoha | There is a growing recognition of the need for the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda to take into account how the climate crisis poses risks to women and girls’ peace and security, particularly in conflict and post-conflict contexts. Food security, water insecurity and displacement are issues affecting women and girls due to extreme weather and the climate emergency. The intersection of WPS, climate change, ecological destruction and

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00:26:40

SHORTCAST | Is it Time to Cancel Household Debt?

Shaping the Post-COVID World ·

2021/01/29

Contributor(s): Sarah-Jayne Clifton, Professor Deborah James, Dr Johnna Montgomerie, Dr Jerome Roos | Does the COVID-19 crisis mean that the time has now arrived for mass household debt cancellation? Central among the many social and economic policy challenges arising in our changed world is the pressing need to address high levels of household debt. Despite the lessons of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, our pre-COVID-19 economic order depended to a dangerous degree on extensive household

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01:00:35

Mission Economy: a moonshot guide to changing capitalism

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2021/01/29

Contributor(s): Professor Mariana Mazzucato | Join us for this public lecture by Mariana Mazzucato who will outline her new approach for governments to deal with inequality, disease and climate change. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, capitalism was stuck. It had no answer to the different challenges facing the world – from those related to health to digital privacy to the climate crisis. Taking inspiration from President Kennedy’s ‘moonshot’ programmes that successfully co-ordinated

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00:23:21

SHORTCAST | Behavioural Science and a Post-COVID World

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2021/01/28

Contributor(s): Professor Nick Chater, Professor Paul Dolan, Dr Grace Lordan, Professor Tali Sharot, Rory Sutherland | The impacts of COVID-19 on society post-COVID and how we deal with them hinge on how politicians, firms and the public respond. What valuable lessons can we learn from behavioural science in a post-COVID-19 world? These unique insights are crucial to mitigating the societal impacts of COVID-19. Nick Chater (@NickJChater) is Professor of Behavioural Science, Warwick Business School

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