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A Superb Lent Programme at the LSE
10th December 2010
It is difficult to know where to start when perusing the public lecture programme for the Spring of 2011 just published. So instead here is a personal selection of the lectures that I intend to get to (weather permitting!). And all of this before the RSA lecture series is fully available ... it is going to be a busy time and there are some great opportunities here for sixth form students who can get within reach of the capital for these free evening events.
How the West Was Lost: fifty years of economic folly and the stark choices ahead
Date: Thursday 20 January 2011 6.30pm
Location: Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Dambisa Moyo
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
Date: Thursday 27 January 2011 6.30pm
Location: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: Michael Lewis, Professor David Webb
Phase Three of the Global Crisis
Date: Monday 31 January 2011 6.30pm
Location: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: Paul Mason
Absolute beginners: behavioural economics and human happiness
Date: Tuesday 08 February 2011 6.30pm
Location: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: Professor Paul Dolan
Uprising: will emerging markets shape or shake the world economy
Date: Wednesday 09 February 2011 6.30pm
Location: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: George Magnus
Where is Future Growth Going to Come From?
Date: Thursday 17 February 2011 6.30pm
Location: Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
Speaker: Professor John Van Reenen
Nuclear Arms and Human Rights
Date: Tuesday 01 March 2011 6.30pm
Location: Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Professor Niall Ferguson
Income Distribution and Social Change after 50 years
Date: Tuesday 01 March 2011 6.30pm
Location: Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
Speaker: Professor Sir Tony Atkinson
Grasshoppers, Ants and Locusts: the future of the world economy
Date: Wednesday 16 March 2011 6.30pm
Location: Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Martin Wolf
The Low-Carbon Industrial Revolution
Date: Thursday 17 March 2011 6.30pm
Location: Old Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Professor Lord Stern of Brentford
A Vision of the Next Economy: from macro to metro
Date: Thursday 24 March 2011 6.30pm
Location: Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House
Speaker: Bruce Katz
Geoff Riley
Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for over thirty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD conferences in the UK and overseas.