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Summer 2016 | Public lectures and events | Video

London School of Economics and Political Science

Video files from LSE"s summer 2016 programme of public lectures and events, for more recordings and pdf documents see the corresponding audio collection.

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01:01:41

UN - to be fit for purpose

Summer 2016 | Public lectures and events | Video ·

2016/06/02

Contributor(s): Dr Igor Lukšić | Many believe that this is by far the best time in history a human being can be born. Growing life expectancies, ever better medical aid and care for the elderly, IT revolution opens new windows of opportunities. But does the youth globally share this sentiment? Are those under 25 who make up almost half of the world's population happy with what their life has to offer? We have been strong on adopting agendas but not so strong in delivering them. What are we doing

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01:02:55

The UK and Europe: an insider's view

Summer 2016 | Public lectures and events | Video ·

2016/06/02

Contributor(s): Professor Jonathan Faull | Jonathan Faull (@FaullJonathan) has worked in senior positions across the European Commission for most of the period of the UK’s membership. His wide experience on the ‘inside’ gives him a privileged view on Britain’s performance in the European Union: its interests and strategy. This will be relevant to the follow-up after the referendum, whether Britain votes to stay or leave. Jonathan Faull is Professor of Law at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and the

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01:27:21

Misbehaving: the making of behavioural economics

Summer 2016 | Public lectures and events | Video ·

2016/06/01

Contributor(s): Professor Richard H Thaler | Richard Thaler, described by The Spectator as ‘the godfather of behavioural economics’, will be in conversation with LSE Director Craig Calhoun about his book Misbehaving, an authoritative and entertaining history of behavioural economics. Richard Thaler has spent his career studying the radical notion that the central agents in the economy are humans—predictable, error-prone individuals. Traditional economics assumes rational actors. Early in his

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01:32:26

Industrial Development – China and Africa

Summer 2016 | Public lectures and events | Video ·

2016/06/01

Contributor(s): Professor Chang-Tai Hsieh, Professor John Sutton | This panel of experts will explore the strengths and pitfalls of China’s growth model and the lessons for African industrial development. The event will be opened the Rt Hon Desmond Swayne (@DesmondSwayne), Minister of State for International Development. Chang-Tai Hsieh is Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth (@ChicagoBooth). John Sutton is the Sir John Hicks Professor of Economics at LSE. Dr John Page is Senior

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01:24:17

Stop Bombing Hospitals: Medecins Sans Frontieres and...

Summer 2016 | Public lectures and events | Video ·

2016/05/31

Contributor(s): Vickie Hawkins, Dr Stuart Gordon | MSF has witnessed first-hand the impact that violations have on the civilian population and infrastructure including their own facilities. Following the Agenda for Humanity, proposed at the first-ever World Humanitarian Summit, Vickie Hawkins, General Director of MSF UK, will explore the changes that have been proposed to strengthen the laws of war and the challenges that humanitarians face to ensure that hospitals, medical centres and medical

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01:14:25

Slippery Slope: Europe's troubled future

Summer 2016 | Public lectures and events | Video ·

2016/05/26

Contributor(s): Giles Merritt | Slippery Slope is far from the usual run of uncritical EU-related studies. Its aim is to set alarm bells ringing across Europe with its revealing insights into our increasingly troubled future. In his book which he will discuss in this lecture Giles Merritt argues that the steepness and suddenness of Europe's decline in the 'Asian century' will depend on the actions we Europeans undertake. And there are two key lessons that we need to face from the beginning. Firstly,

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01:33:46

The History of China's Future

Summer 2016 | Public lectures and events | Video ·

2016/05/26

Contributor(s): Isabel Hilton, Dr Leigh Jenco, Professor Jeffrey Wasserstrom | In China, history isn't just about the past - it shapes the future. With the rise of China over the past four decades, people increasingly look to China's turbulent modern history for clues about what the world will be like in the 21st century. The panelists will discuss how the newly published book, The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern China, addresses such questions through an examination of the broad sweep of

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01:27:23

Challenging Inequalities

Summer 2016 | Public lectures and events | Video ·

2016/05/25

Contributor(s): Shami Chakrabarti, Duncan Green, Phumeza Mlungwana | This panel will debate different approaches to addressing key inequalities. Shami Chakrabarti is the Former Director of Liberty (The National Council for Civil Liberties), appointed in September 2003. She was born in London and studied Law at LSE. She is Chancellor of Essex University and a Master of the Bench of Middle Temple. She is the author of On Liberty, published in 2014. Duncan Green(@fp2p) is Senior Strategic Adviser at

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01:33:33

Cities for a Small Continent

Summer 2016 | Public lectures and events | Video ·

2016/05/24

Contributor(s): Professor Bruce Katz, Professor Anne Power | Cities for a Small Continent is an international handbook, drawing together 10 years of ground-level research into the causes and consequences of Europe's biggest urban challenges. This event explores the potential for former industrial cities to offer a more sustainable future for a crowded European continent. Bruce Katz (@bruce_katz) is the Centennial Scholar at the Brookings Institution, where he focuses on the challenges and

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01:28:06

In Conversation with Steve Schwarzman

Summer 2016 | Public lectures and events | Video ·

2016/05/23

Contributor(s): Stephen A Schwarzman | This event will be a wide ranging discussion and interview with Mr Schwarzman about his life and career. Mr Schwarzman will be welcomed by LSE Director Craig Calhoun and interviewed by the first LSE cohort of Schwarzman Scholars commencing their studies in Beijing in October 2016. Stephen A Schwarzman is Chairman, CEO and Co-Founder of Blackstone (@blackstone). Mr Schwarzman has been involved in all phases of the firm’s development since its founding in 1985

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01:04:25

The Single EU Capital Market: progress and challenges

Summer 2016 | Public lectures and events | Video ·

2016/05/23

Contributor(s): Jonathan Hill | The development of a single capital market in Europe is one of the major undertakings of the Juncker Commission. Several important initiatives are already underway, for example new prospectus legislation. When complete, the single capital market will enhance Europe's innovation and high-tech industries. Jonathan Hill (@JHillEU) is the current European Commissioner for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union. Charles Goodhart is Emeritus

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01:02:23

Somalia's Foreign Policy Priorities

Summer 2016 | Public lectures and events | Video ·

2016/05/20

Contributor(s): Dr Abdusalam H Omer | In this lecture the Foreign Minister will present Somalia's newly adopted foreign policy. He will also discuss the Somali Government's vision and the current challenges and future opportunities for a new era of peace, progress and prosperity in Somalia, the region and the world. Abdusalam H Omer (@MinisterMOFA) is the Minister of the Foreign Affairs and Investment Promotion of the Federal Republic of Somalia. He has over 30 years international experience in

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01:36:15

Surveillance and the Public Sphere: confronting a...

Summer 2016 | Public lectures and events | Video ·

2016/05/19

Contributor(s): Oscar H Gandy Jr, Professor Louise Amoore | The increasingly precise segmentation and targeting of commercial messages has been enabled in large part through the analysis of massive amounts of transaction-generated-information. Although some attention has been paid to the use of these privacy invasive strategies within the public sphere, the use of personal data with regard to the formation, implementation and evaluation of public policies at the local, national and regional levels

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00:55:25

Politics Beyond Interest: ethics, kinship and the...

Summer 2016 | Public lectures and events | Video ·

2016/05/19

Contributor(s): Dr Sian Lazar | Taking inspiration from how Malinowski approached exchange, magic and law, Dr Lazar explores some of the realms of politics that lie beyond self-interest (enlightened or not). Sian Lazar (@sianml) is a Senior Lecturer in the Division of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. Katy Gardner trained at Cambridge and the LSE. After spending much of her career at the University of Sussex she has recently returned to the LSE. Her work focuses on issues of

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01:22:07

Rebuilding the Politics of Hope

Summer 2016 | Public lectures and events | Video ·

2016/05/17

Contributor(s): Jeremy Corbyn | Trust and belief in politicians is low, while the crash has broken the idea that each generation will be better off. How can we rebuild hope? Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) is Leader of the Labour Party and MP for Islington North. Robin Archer is Director of the Ralph Miliband Programme at LSE. The Ralph Miliband Programme (@rmilibandlse) is one of LSE's most prestigious lecture series and seeks to advance Ralph Miliband's spirit of free social inquiry.

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01:29:45

Taxes, Targets, and the Social Cost of Carbon

Summer 2016 | Public lectures and events | Video ·

2016/05/12

Contributor(s): Professor Robert Pindyck | In the Economica-Coase Lecture 2016, Professor Pindyck, one of the world’s leading micro-economists will discuss his recent work, which focuses on economic policies relating to rare disasters, such as low probability catastrophic outcomes from climate change or nuclear terrorism. Robert Pindyck is the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi Professor in Finance and Economics at the Sloan School of Management, MIT. He  is  also  a  Research  Associate  of  the

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01:27:05

The Rise and Fall of American Growth

Summer 2016 | Public lectures and events | Video ·

2016/05/11

Contributor(s): Professor Robert J Gordon | Professor Gordon will examine the history of economic growth in the USA, and explore solutions needed to overcome the economic challenges of the future. Robert J Gordon is the Stanley G Harris Professor in the Social Sciences at Northwestern University and author of The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2014 he was

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01:29:14

Race, Reform and the New Retrenchment: the perils of...

Summer 2016 | Public lectures and events | Video ·

2016/05/11

Contributor(s): Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw | Heightening tensions in the US over police killings of black people have undermined confidence that the election of Barack Obama signaled a new era on race relations in the US. The more lasting legacy may be the one championed by late Justice Scalia whose legal philosophy currently underwrites the central tensions in equality law in the United States. Through a Critical Race Theory prism, Professor Crenshaw will discuss Black Lives Matter and Say Her

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01:26:45

Rights Under Pressure: practising constitutional law...

Summer 2016 | Public lectures and events | Video ·

2016/05/10

Contributor(s): Professor Susanne Baer | Dynamics of globalisation, which include mass migration, international terrorism, and global trade, as well as the rise of transnational legal regimes, put pressure on national legal systems, the essence of which is to be found in constitutional law. In addition, courts are positioned in time and space, amidst public opinion about "who we are, really"? Can law guarantee liberty and security, guarantee equality and organise solidarity? Or is it, finally, naïve

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01:28:00

Should We Stay or Should We Go?

Summer 2016 | Public lectures and events | Video ·

2016/05/10

Contributor(s): Professor Danny Dorling | The UK fares unfavourably in relation to other large countries in the EU in terms of health, educational fairness, housing, income distribution and poverty. It was not the EU that made us become less equal and which created all the social problems that resulted from growing inequality. But it helps those who promote inequality to blame our membership of the EU for so much that is wrong in our society. Staying will not necessarily solve those problems, but

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