Geography and the wealth of nations
27 October - 1 hour 33 minsTwo hundred and fifty years after the publication of The Wealth of Nations, Jeffrey D Sachs returns to one of Adam Smith's most striking claims: that "the discovery of America, and that of a passage to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope, are the two greatest and most important events recorded in the history of mankind." Drawing on new geospatial datasets, Professor Sachs argues that Smith's observation captures deep truths about long-term global economic change — truths that remain profoundly relevant for our own age.
Series Episodes
Celebrating Hilde Himmelweit: women, scholarship, and LSE’s intellectual history
Join us to celebrate Hilde Himmelweit as part of LSE’s 130th anniversary programme, honouring the life and legacy of Hilde Himmelweit (1918–1989), a pioneering refugee scholar and one of the very few women to hold a professorship at the School in its early history.
1 hour 26 mins
21 October Finished
A collectivist, economic perspective on AI
So much of the recent focus of artificial intelligence (AI) has been on the quest to use massive data to build a single autonomous machine or agent that mimics and augments the human mind. And we only tend to think about AI on that one level – AI as single machine or agent.
1 hour 30 mins
20 October Finished
From crisis to stability to what? Greece in a fragmenting world
Greece has travelled a remarkable path over the past decade, moving from deep economic crisis to a period of renewed stability and recovery. But what comes next? As geopolitical tensions intensify and the global economy becomes increasingly fragmented, the country once again finds itself navigating a shifting and uncertain landscape.
1 hour 2 mins
18 October Finished
The republic of innovation: a new political economy of freedom
Join us for this talk and discussion with Andrea Lorenzo Capussela as he discusses his book, The Republic of Innovation.
1 hour 28 mins
14 October Finished
Weaponising dependency - the new world order
In this public lecture, Rory Stewart explores how economic interdependence, technological networks and global supply chains have become instruments of geopolitical power.
1 hour 14 mins
13 October Finished
