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The London School of Economics and Political Science public events podcast series is a platform for thought, ideas and lively debate where you can hear from some of the world's leading thinkers. Listen to more than 200 new episodes every year.
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Getting lost in a field: a personal history in behavioural public policy
Dec 9, 202401:27:22Tap to summarizeIn his inaugural lecture, Adam Oliver will describe how he became involved in, and has helped contribute towards the development of, the still relatively new field of behavioural public policy (BPP).
Transcribe →The Open Society as an Enemy: Populism, Popper and pessimism post-1989
Dec 2, 202401:31:11Tap to summarizeAcross the world, populist agendas on both the left and right threaten to undermine fundamental principles that underpin liberal democracies, what were previously seen as virtues of the ‘Open Society’ are now, seen as vices, dangers, or threats.
Transcribe →Is the internet good for children?
Nov 27, 202401:25:16Tap to summarizePublic anxiety about children’s digital lives and wellbeing is reaching a fever pitch, marking a notable turnaround from the decades-long efforts to ensure children are fully digitally included, literate and empowered.
Transcribe →New World, New Rules - What Works for Global Governance
Nov 25, 202401:23:27Tap to summarizeThis event marks the launch of New World, New Rules by George Papaconstantinou and Jean Pisani-Ferry, in which two of European policymakers and analysts outline a new agenda for global governance.
Transcribe →Data visualisation: alive visual words
Nov 20, 202401:25:57Tap to summarizeThe talk will explore the design process and motivations behind data visualization projects, characterized by different usage contexts, responding to various needs, and with differing levels of experimentation.
Transcribe →Who owns outer space?
Nov 20, 202400:29:39Tap to summarizeWith companies, like SpaceX or Blue Origin, getting into space exploration and the cost of launching rockets dropping, could we see a lot more people heading into space in the future?
Transcribe →Reversed realities revisited: 30 years of thinking in gender and development
Nov 14, 202401:23:19Tap to summarize30 years ago, Naila Kabeer published Reversed Realities: Gender Hierarchies in Development Thought, which became a landmark study in the scholarship on gender and development.
Transcribe →Liberal Constitutionalism, Media Ownership & the Public-Private Divide
Nov 13, 202401:23:33Tap to summarizeLiberal constitutional theory rests on a fundamental division between duty-bearing public institutions and the rights-wielding private persons.
Transcribe →F.A. Hayek's Nobel at 50: then and now
Nov 12, 202401:27:50Tap to summarize2024 marks the 50th anniversary of the Nobel Prize won by liberal political economist F.A. Hayek. This lecture will review some of Hayek’s key ideas and especially his contributions to the methodology of the social sciences.
Transcribe →LSE: The Ballpark | China’s evolving approach to economic security with Professor Yeling Tan
Nov 11, 202400:38:21Tap to summarizeIn October 2024 the LSE Phelan US Centre spoke to Yeling Tan, Professor of Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford. They spoke about how China understands economic security and its evolving economic strategy.
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