Upcoming Events
23rd January 2018
Lord Lamont and Prof. Tim Congdon
'What was the cause of the Great Recession: Bankers or Policy-Makers?'
23rd January 2018: Lord Lamont introducing Prof.Tim Congdon
Prof. Tim Congdon is the editor of the recently published “Money and the Great Recession – did a crash in global money growth cause the global slump?” in association with the Institute of Economic Affairs. Lord Lamont wrote the foreword and will be introducing Professor Congdon’s talk.
Banks and free markets are still held entirely culpable for the financial crisis despite evidence pointing in other directions. This book examines the role that monetary policy operated by central banks played in the great recession. Edited by Professor Tim Congdon, the authors of the book use their experience to marry theory and practice, demonstrating their understanding of the real underlying causes of the slump following the financial crisis. Parallels are drawn with central bankers’ similar mistakes in the Great Depression in the US.
Royal Overseas League, St James's Street, SW1A 1LR. 6.30pm - 8pm.
Non-members can book Early Bird tickets here for £15 (£10 for students). Members can reserve their free place here.
28th February 2018
Dame Minouche Shafik
Director, London School of Economics
28th February 2018: Dame Minouche Shafik, Director, LSE
Dame Minouche will be Director of the London School of Economics from September 2017. She was Deputy Governor for Markets and Banking at the Bank of England, where she had responsibility for the Bank’s balance sheet and its interaction with financial markets. She is a member of the Monetary Policy Committee, the Financial Policy Committee and the Board of the Prudential Regulation Authority. Prior to joining the Bank, she was Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund from 2011-2014 where she was responsible for policy and programmes in Europe and the Middle East. Prior to that she was Permanent Secretary of the UK’s Department for International Development. She has held academic appointments at the Wharton Business School of the University of Pennsylvania and the Economics Department at Georgetown University and published on a variety of economic topics.
Royal Overseas League, St James's Street, SW1A 1LR. 6.30pm - 8pm.
Non-members can book Early Bird tickets here for £15 (£10 for students). Members can reserve their free place here.
28th March
'Rethinking the Economics
of Land and Housing'
with Josh Ryan-Collins
and Laurie MacFarlane
28th March: Josh Ryan-Collins, University College London and Laurie MacFarlan, New Economics Foundation
Josh Ryan-Collins is Senior Research Associate at the Centre for Innovation and Public Purpose at UCL. Laurie MacFarlane is the Economics Editor of opendemocracyUK. Together they will be discussing their book, 'Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing', described by the Financial Times as “a lucid exposition of the dysfunctional British housing market”..
Why are house prices in many advanced economies rising faster than incomes? Why isn’t land and location taught or seen as important in modern economics? What is the relationship between the financial system and land?
In this accessible but provocative guide to the economics of land and housing, the authors reveal how many of the key challenges facing modern economies - including housing crises, financial instability and growing inequalities - are intimately tied to the land economy. Looking at the ways in which discussions of land have been routinely excluded from both housing policy and economic theory, the authors show that in order to tackle these increasingly pressing issues a major rethink by both politicians and economists is required.
Royal Overseas League, St James's Street, SW1A 1LR. 6.30pm - 8pm.
Non-members can book Early Bird tickets here for £15 (£10 for students). Members can reserve their free place here.
24th April
'Platform Capitalism'
with Nick Srnicek
24th April: Nick Srnicek, Kings College London
Nick Srnicek is currently a faculty member at King's College London and author of 'Platform Capitlism'.
What unites Google and Facebook, Apple and Microsoft, Siemens and GE, Uber and Airbnb? Across a wide range of sectors, these firms are transforming themselves into platforms: businesses that provide the hardware and software foundation for others to operate on. This transformation signals a major shift in how capitalist firms operate and how they interact with the rest of the economy: the emergence of ‘platform capitalism’.
Nick Srnicek critically examines these new business forms, tracing their genesis from the long downturn of the 1970s to the boom and bust of the 1990s and the aftershocks of the 2008 crisis. He will show how the foundations of the economy are rapidly being carved up among a small number of monopolistic platforms, and how the platform introduces new tendencies within capitalism that pose significant challenges to any vision of a post-capitalist future. This book will be essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how the most powerful tech companies of our time are transforming the global economy.
Royal Overseas League, St James's Street, SW1A 1LR. 6.30pm - 8pm.
Non-members can book Early Bird tickets here for £15 (£10 for students). Members can reserve their free place here.