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Enrichment
Sir Paul Collier on Urbanisation and Economic Development
No country anywhere has developed without urbanisation. Professor Sir Paul Collier, the renowned development expert and Professor of Economics & Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of...
The Young Founders Entrepreneurship Course
Here are details of a new and exciting course for young entrepreneurs - it will run in London in the summer of 2015 and applications are now open.
Can we escape the grip of secular stagnation?
Are we doomed to secular stagnation, to permanently low rates of economic growth? The debate was sparked off nearly a decade before the financial crisis by the top American economist Robert Gordon....
Arthur Lewis and Development Economics
On the centenary of Arthur Lewis's birth, LSE Deputy Director and Provost Professor Stuart Corbridge discusses the Nobel laureate's contribution to development economics at LSE and the world at large
Popular culture is the driving force of inequality
The Oscars have come and gone for another year. Winning an Oscar is very often the basis for either making a fortune, or turning an existing one into mega riches. Jack Nicholson has an estimated...
Growing fast and growing slow - an anatomy of economic growth
Andy Haldane, Chief Economist at the Bank of England has recently given a superb speech on the dynamic of economic growth.
Dani Rodrik - Globalisation - the trade-offs
Dani Rodrik introduces 'The Globalisation Trilemma'. It shows how economics is a science of trade-offs - and the we can have too much globalisation
Joseph Stiglitz - Financial crisis as market failure
Nobel-prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz tells how the financial crisis of 2008 was a perfect storm of market failure.
Fishing for perfect competition
In the early 1990s Kathryn Grady of Brandeis University went in search of prefect competition at Fulton Fish Market in downtown New York - what she found was quite different.
You can't outsource responsibility
Richard Freeman of Harvard University and the National Bureau of Economic Research argues that while you can outsource production, you cannot outsource responsibility.
Invisible hands working together
Juan Camilo Cárdenas of Universidad de los Andes describes his innovative use of experimental economics in real-life situations and how it helps us understand why people co-operate despite the...
Working more or less - technology and the work-life balance
In this short video, Juliet Schor of Boston College discusses the paradox that, despite gains in technology, many people aren't working less - instead they are working more. What does this mean for...
Why some countries grew rich
In this short video, Sureash Naidu of Columbia University shows how three interconnected forces have led some countries to grow rich and enjoy a standard of living today that would have been...
Video of a talk on behavioural economics and public policy given by Dr David Halpern at the Marshall Society, University of Cambridge
Shouting at the supermarkets: is there a better way?
EVERY year, the supermarkets hire substantial batches of high-flying graduates to work in their buying departments. The urban mythology is that these expensively-educated young people are paid to...
Tim Harford on Thomas Schelling and War Games
Tim Harford tells the story of Thomas Schelling, an economist who helped America and the Soviet Union to avoid nuclear war.
Martin Wolf on why trade imbalances matter
Why do huge external imbalances herald disaster? Martin Wolf, the FT's chief economics commentator, explains what happens when some countries spend much less than their incomes and so run big...
Martin Wolf on Global Shifts and Shocks
Notes from a talk given on the global economy by Martin Wolf of the Financial Times
Can Game Theory Help the Greeks?
Game theory is a big topic in academic economics. It is scarcely possible to graduate from a good university without exposure to its abstruse logic. So perhaps the Greek government, replete with...
Why firms choose not to disclose the quality of their products
Rather than explicitly revealing information about the quality of their products and services, many firms prefer to signal quality through the prices they charge, typically working on the...