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Data grab: the new colonialism of big tech and how to...

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2024/05/14

Contributor(s): Professor Ulises Ali Mejias, Professor Nick Couldry | Every time we click ‘Accept’ on Terms and Conditions, we allow our most personal information to be repackaged by Big Tech companies for their own profit. In this searing, cutting-edge guide, two leading global researchers – and leading proponents of the concept of data colonialism – reveal how history can help us both to understand the emerging future and to fight back.

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Will the US remain the world’s superpower?

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2024/05/13

The idea of an America in decline has gained traction in recent years and has, of course, been capitalized on by President Trump. Is America’s ‘greatness’ under threat?

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Are universities creating a new political divide?

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2024/05/13

Our panel explore large and growing gap between highly educated university graduates and those whose education finished at school.

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Will the US remain the world’s superpower?

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2024/05/13

Contributor(s): Elizabeth Ingleson, John Van Reenen, Ashley Tellis | A shining city on a hill. America the beautiful. The United States has long been mythologised as the land of dreams and opportunity. And since the fall of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s it has been undisputedly the most powerful nation on earth. But is it a fading force? The idea of an America in decline has gained traction in recent years and has, of course, been capitalized on by President Trump. Is America’s ‘greatness’

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Are universities creating a new political divide?

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2024/05/13

Contributor(s): Professor Maria Sobolewska, Dr Elizabeth Simon, Professor Jonathan Hopkin | Is the level of education now becoming a central political cleavage? And is it displacing long-established cleavages like social class?

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The bankers' new clothes: what's wrong with banking...

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2024/05/09

Professor Anat Admati discusses her latest book, The Bankers' New Clothes: What's Wrong with Banking and What to Do about It.

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The bankers' new clothes: what's wrong with banking...

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2024/05/09

Contributor(s): Professor Anat R Admati | Professor Anat Admati explores how the banking system can be made safer and healthier, exposing the shortcomings of current policies and revealing how the dominance of banking presents dangers to the rule of law and democracy itself.

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Human rights: the case for the defence

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2024/05/07

Baroness Chakrabarti, delivers this year’s annual Wollstonecraft Society Lecture on her latest book, Human Rights: The Case for the Defence, which explains why human rights are essential for our future.

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Human rights: the case for the defence

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2024/05/07

Contributor(s): Bee Rowlatt, Professor Conor Gearty, Baroness Chakrabarti | Baroness Chakrabarti's latest book, Human Rights: The Case for the Defence outlines the historic national and international struggles for human rights, from the fall of Babylon to the present day. Her intervention engages both sceptics and supporters and equips believers in the battle of ideas whilst persuading doubters to think again. For human rights to survive, they must be far better understood by everyone.

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Addressing climate inequality

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2024/05/02

This event presents new thinking on how to design and finance loss and damage funds as a result of climate change.

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Why women won

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2024/05/02

Contributor(s): Professor Claudia Goldin | 2023 Nobel Prize in Economics winner, Claudia Goldin delivers the first of two Economica-Coase lectures on US women obtaining legal rights equal to men's ranging from the workplace, marriage, family, social security, criminal justice, credit markets, and other parts of the economy and society, decades after winning the right to vote.

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Addressing climate inequality

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2024/05/02

Contributor(s): Professor Esther Duflo, Shweta Banerjee | Head of BRAC International, India, Shweta Banerjee joins the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics, Esther Duflo to examine how funds might be best spent to protect vulnerable populations against the effects of climate change.

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Why women won

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2024/05/02

2023 Nobel Prize in Economics winner, Claudia Goldin delivers the first of two Economica-Coase lectures on US women obtaining legal rights equal to men's decades after winning the right to vote.

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Lessons for monetary policy from the latest...

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2024/05/01

Governor Hernández de Cos addresses the lessons learned so far from the latest inflationary-disinflationary episode in the euro area and the European Central Bank’s response to it.

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Lessons for monetary policy from the latest...

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2024/05/01

Contributor(s): Pablo Hernández de Cos | In the last few years, central banks across the globe have faced a formidable surge in inflation, stemming from a succession of supply and demand shocks. In response, they have embarked on an extraordinarily sharp monetary policy tightening cycle. Governor Hernández de Cos looks at the lessons learned.

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Is the risk of nuclear war increasing?

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2024/04/30

As Nuclear security issues and risks are back on the international agenda, our panel examine the steps that can be taken to reduce them.

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Is the risk of nuclear war increasing?

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2024/04/30

Contributor(s): Dr Lauren Sukin, Professor Jeffrey Legro, Dr Fred Kaplan | Russia’s war in Ukraine, breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, and mounting rivalry between the US and China in East Asia have raised anew concerns about the risks of nuclear war. Is the risk of nuclear war increasing?

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This time no mistakes

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2024/04/29

Political economist, journalist, and bestselling author, Will Hutton discusses his new book, This Time No Mistakes in which he shows how the right and left have gone wrong over the course of the last century – and how we can remake a better Britain.

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The future-proof career: strategies for thriving at...

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2024/04/23

The book launch event of The Future-Proof Career by Isabel Berwick, a guide to navigating the post-pandemic work world.

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Approximation is the new optimal

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2024/04/15

The internet has become a huge computational platform for many heterogeneous, complex markets...

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