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01:35:30

Jack Rakove in conversation with Larry Kramer

The Ballpark ·

2026/10/01

Is America experiencing a constitutional crisis, or have we reached the point of constitutional failure? At this LSE Phelan US Centre event, leading scholar on American constitutional history, Professor Jack Rakove, explored this question

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34:04

LSE: The Ballpark | Predicting climate change with AI

The Ballpark ·

2026/09/28

Data is incredibly important in predicting climate change and its impacts. Now, climate scientists are increasingly using AI to help them interpret climate data and to make more accurate predictions about climate change and its impacts.

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59:34

In conversation with Alberto Musalem, President of...

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2026/09/29

Join us for a conversation between Ricardo Reis, A. W. Phillips Professor of Economics at LSE, and Alberto Musalem, President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, where they will talk about monetary policy and recent economic trends.

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01:31:12

Innovation and energy for a sustainable future

LSE Research channel | Video ·

2026/09/24

Transforming the energy system is one of the defining challenges of the twenty-first century. Meeting growing energy needs while tackling climate change will require not only new technologies, but also innovation across the energy system.

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01:27:30

The road to COP32: an African agenda for climate...

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2026/09/23

As the world looks ahead to COP32 in Addis Ababa, Africa has a unique opportunity to shape the direction of global climate negotiations. At a pivotal moment for international climate policy, the continent is setting the agenda on how climate action can support sustainable and resilient economic development.

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01:27:56

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

Latest 300 | LSE Public lectures and events | Video ·

2026/09/14

This podcast was originally published in November 2024 and is being republished as part of our Summer archive series of LSE's Public Lectures and Events.

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33:10

LSE: The Ballpark | Behavioural AI and...

The Ballpark ·

2026/09/14

As the popularity of AI grows, this new technology is increasingly being applied to make decisions based on interactions with humans, and their behaviours. But what happens if the way these AI systems have been built mean that they get it wrong?

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01:12:39

From the Archive: Why women won

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2026/09/21

How, when, and why did women in the US obtain legal rights equal to men’s regarding the workplace, marriage, family, Social Security, criminal justice, credit markets, and other parts of the economy and society, decades after they gained the right to vote?

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09:15

The toxic waste crisis poisoning UK towns | LSE...

LSE Research channel | Video ·

2026/09/15

What happens when toxic waste is buried and forgotten? Why are people in UK towns still getting sick decades later?

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01:25:01

From the Archive: How progress ends: technology,...

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2026/09/08

This podcast was originally published in October 2025 and is being republished as part of our Summer archive series of LSE's Public Lectures and Events.

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32:12

Should we still care about net zero? | Award-winning...

LSE IQ ·

2026/09/08

In 2019, the UK became the first major economy to commit in law to reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. But seven years later, the world looks very different.

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01:00:14

What happened to liberal democracy?

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2026/09/15

In this conversation with Nobel Prize-winner and LSE alumnus Daron Acemoglu he will be talking about his new book, What Happened to Liberal Democracy?

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52:10

The new supply-side era: the O-ring meets geopolitics

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2026/09/14

Lazard CEO and Chairman Peter Orszag sees a new supply-side era taking shape, in which supply shocks that are increasingly geopolitical in origin and rooted in the physical world have displaced demand as the dominant source of macroeconomic variance.

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31:30

LSE: The Ballpark | How AI is influencing society...

The Ballpark ·

2026/09/01

Since the emergence of AI as a highly transformative force for modern society, many have faced challenges in updating their policies to address the potentially harmful effects of unrestricted AI development and integration into everyday life.

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01:12:30

In the realm of the last man

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2026/09/02

In this conversation with Francis Fukuyama he will be talking about his new book, In the Realm of the Last Man.

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01:24:22

From the Archive: Wealth in people

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2026/09/01

This podcast was originally published in March 2025 and is being republished as part of our Summer archive series of LSE's Public Lectures and Events.

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01:21:55

From the Archive: Taylor Swift and philosophy

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2026/08/25

This podcast was originally published in October 2024 and is being republished as part of our Summer archive series of LSE's Public Lectures and Events.

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23:28

LSE: The Ballpark | AI and the gig economy with Dr...

LSE Research channel | Video ·

2026/08/17

From helping assign tasks and determine prices on delivery and rideshare platforms to recommending certain individuals over others on freelance hiring sites, AI is fast becoming a core part of the modern gig economy.

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01:17:58

From the Archive: Addressing climate inequality

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2026/08/17

This podcast was originally published in May 2024 and is being republished as part of our Summer archive series of LSE's Public Lectures and Events.

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08:43

The hidden health crisis behind climate change | LSE...

LSE Research channel | Video ·

2026/08/11

In this episode of Future Proof, Dr Miqdad Asaria, Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy, explores how climate change affects public health, why climate change health inequalities are growing, and what this means for the future of our societies.

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