Since 2012, the Festival of Economics has hosted almost 200 events featuring renowned speakers in economics, politics, media and academia including Mark Carney, Gordon Brown, Stephanie Flanders, Tim Harford, Rory Cellan-Jones, Diane Coyle, Mariana Mazzucato, Robert J. Shiller, Linda Yueh, Thomas Piketty, Robert Peston, Faisal Islam, Vicky Pryce and many, many more.
Tim Harford: Cautionary Tales (Live Podcast Recording, 2025)
In his hit podcast Cautionary Tales, Tim Harford brings stories of awful human error, tragic catastrophes, daring heists and …
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Closing the Productivity Gap – Regional Insights for the West of England
As part of the Festival of Economics you are invited to a Brunel Centre and Futures West Policy Session on their latest polic…
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Navigating the future of trade and tariffs – The Marshall Paley Lecture
In the second annual Marshall Paley lecture, Dr Swati Dhingra member of the Band of England’s Monetary Policy Committee joins…
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Hargreaves Lansdown Business Breakfast—Personal finance: Responsibility and resilience
The landscape of personal finance is changing. In its new strategy, the Financial Conduct Authority changed its goal from pre…
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Bank of England Citizens’ Panel (2025)
A one-off live event that offers the opportunity to meet Bank of England staff and share views on the economy and how it is a…
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Housing, land and the British Economy: The British Academy Lecture with John Muellbauer
Dealing with the UK’s housing crisis is at the top of the new government’s agenda and is of great national economic and socia…
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Do we still need artists in a generative AI world?
As generative AI technologies continue to evolve, the role of artists and creative professionals is under scrutiny. This sess…
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What is the future for UK migration?
Public discourse around migration to the UK has grown increasingly polarised. Recent shifts in migration policies reflect ong…
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How can Britain rebuild opportunity for working-class men?
Across the UK, working-class boys and men face some persistent barriers to educational achievement and economic opportunity. …
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Aid or Defence: Has Something Got to Give?
This session will explore the competing priorities of national defence and international aid in today’s geopolitical landscap…
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Divided we stand?
What explains the growing ideological polarisation in many Western societies? What are the consequences, and how can we build…
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How can we end the doom and gloom?
Britain has faced a barrage of bad economic news—from shocks to policy mistakes—over the past 20 years. Today, confidence in …
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Inequalities – the Marshall Paley Lecture
In this inaugural event, Sarah Smith OBE, Professor of Economics at the University of Bristol, introduces Professor Sir Richa…
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Global Britain: What is our role in the world?
In a world of shifting alliances and emerging global powers, where does the UK fit in? Our expert panel tackles pressing ques…
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Beyond fair play: What would a fair society look like?
In a time when social inequality and justice are at the forefront of public discourse, our panel examines a vision for achiev…
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Trading nation: How can we get Britain exporting again?
Does the UK’s future economic growth rely on exports? And if it does, what can we export to boost the country’s economy? Our …
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This Time No Mistakes: How to Remake Britain
Will Hutton discusses his book, This Time No Mistakes: How to Remake Britain , with Irina Anghel (Bloomberg). The book highli…
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Tim Harford: Cautionary Tales (Live Podcast Recording, 2024)
Tim Harford returns to the Festival of Economics with a third live recording of his popular podcast, Cautionary Tales. We tel…
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The first 100 days: Has the new government got its priorities right for kick-starting Britain?
The first 100 days of the new UK government serves as a barometer for Starmer’s economic and public policy aims. Our panel of…
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The kids aren’t alright: Tackling a legacy of child poverty, bad diets and poor health
The next generation faces a unique set of health and social challenges. Our expert panel considers the pressing issues affect…
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Great Britain? How We Get Our Future Back; and Growth: A Reckoning
Daniel Susskind, of King’s College London, and newly elected Labour MP for Swansea West and former Chief Executive of the Res…
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Legacies of Empire: What Britain needs to do
The British Empire has left an indelible mark on the UK economy. From the accumulation of wealth, through colonial trade, to …
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(Not) Moving on up: How can we increase social mobility?
The notion of social mobility has been a cornerstone of UK policy for decades. Despite this, we have been witnessing a signif…
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How can we build a sustainable planet?
Our expert panel discusses the intersection of economic growth and sustainability – in the context of escalating environmenta…
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Under-performing: How can we boost Britain’s low productivity?
UK productivity has been sluggish since the 2007-09 financial crisis. Our expert panel debates the causes of the UK’s product…
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The Tyranny of Nostalgia: Half a Century of British Economic Decline
An ‘in conversation’ with Bethan Staton ( Financial Times ) and Russell Jones as Jones introduces his book The Tyranny of Nos…
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Bank of England Citizens’ Panel (2024)
A one-off live event that offers the opportunity to meet Bank of England staff and share views on the economy and how it is a…
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LIVE PODCAST RECORDING Money Clinic with Claer Barrett
A live recording of the Money Clinic Podcast , where Claer Barrett and guests Susannah Streeter (Hargreaves Lansdown) and Sar…
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How Do We Build a Future Where Everyone Has a Home?
With soaring housing costs and an enduring cost-of-living crisis, securing a home – whether buying or renting – is a signific…
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What is the Future for Generation Alpha?
While every generation has its challenges, Generation Alpha (those born between 2010 and 2025) has endured the effects of the…
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Talking Economics: Brunel’s Vision for 2050
The ‘rest of HS2’ being cancelled has resurfaced questions about the UK’s infrastructure and public transport connectivity. O…
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How the Battle for Minerals Will Shape Our Future with Ed Conway
The battle for sand, iron, salt, oil, copper and lithium will dictate the balance of global power in the coming century. Ed C…
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Hargreaves Lansdown Breakfast Session
A breakfast session, hosted by Hargreaves Lansdown Bristol Team, focusing on financial resilience and what it means for the U…
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The Social Cost of a Failing Childcare System
As the nation’s childcare needs evolve, so too do the pressures facing nurseries, playgroups, childminders and other childcar…
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Oligarchs: Are They Dominating Our World?
Today, more than twenty oligarchs serve as heads of state or government in countries such as Russia, South Africa, Lebanon, a…
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What are the UK’s Long-Term Health and Care Needs?
As our nation’s demographics change and we are home to an increasingly ageing population, how will our needs for health and s…
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Britain and the Aftermath of Empire with Kojo Koram
Kojo Koram discusses his book Uncommon Wealth: Britain and the Aftermath of Empire , which uncovers the scandal of Britain’s …
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Tim Harford: Cautionary Tales (Live Podcast Recording, 2023)
We tell our children unsettling fairy tales to teach them valuable life lessons, but these cautionary tales are for the educa…
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What is the Future of Food in the UK?
With changing diets, new farming technologies and the increasing impacts of climate change, this is a pivotal time to be work…
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Talking Economics: What Next for Central Banks? with Jagjit Chadha and Huw Pill (2023)
In the third installment of our series on ‘What’s Next for Central Banks?’, Jagjit Chadha (Director, National Institute of Ec…
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Talking Economics: Food Supply and Inflation
We’re all seeing the price of our weekly shop escalate beyond recognition, and hearing endless chatter about the cost-of-livi…
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Making Economics Easily Digestible with Ha-Joon Chang
To explore economic theory, Ha-Joon Chang (SOAS University of London) uses the histories behind various food items from aroun…
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Bank of England Citizens’ Panel 2023
A one-off live event that offers the opportunity to let the Bank of England know how the cost-of-living crisis is affecting y…
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Tim Harford: Cautionary Tales (Live Podcast Recording, 2022)
We tell our children unsettling fairy tales to teach them valuable life lessons, but these cautionary tales are for the educa…
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Discover Economics School’s Challenge
A special event for students (aimed at those in years 11 and 12), in which they hear from Bank of England economists, Rupa Pa…
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Talking Economics: What Next for Central Banks? with Jagjit Chadha and Huw Pill (2022)
Jagjit Chadha (Director, National Institute of Economic and Social Research) and Huw Pill (Chief Economist, Bank of England) …
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Britain’s decisive decade
The UK is on the brink of a decade of huge economic change – from Covid-19 recovery to exiting the EU and transitioning towar…
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Cryptocurrencies and the future of money
From Bitcoin to Ethereum and Litecoin to Tether, there are now over 4,000 cryptocurrencies in circulation. In economic theory…
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Big data: What is the future of number crunching?
Data collection worldwide is rising at an unprecedented rate and almost every industry depends on how information is stored, …
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Boom and Bust: A global history of financial bubbles
Diane Coyle (Bennett Institute, University of Cambridge) chats to authors John Turner and Will Quinn (both Queen’s University…
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British Academy Lecture: Wage controversies
The British Academy lecture is given by Stephen Machin (London School of Economics), who delves whether wages broken, if labo…
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Big Tech under control: Regulating the tech giants
Covid-19 accelerated the transition to a new age of digital progress, creating opportunities for the widespread and rapid ado…
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Reflections on economics with Andy Haldane and Diane Coyle
A year on from leaving the Bank of England, after more than 30 years there, Andy Haldane returns to the Festival to reflect o…
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Cost pressures: Generational pains
A decade of cuts and freezes to social services, a dysfunctional housing market with seemingly insurmountable barriers to own…
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Growth for good
In conversation with Andrew Kelly (Bristol Ideas), Alessio Terzi (Directorate?General for Economic and Financial Affairs, Eur…
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Talking Economics: Geopolitics and the global economy
Against a backdrop of war in Europe and increased concerns for Taiwan’s sovereignty, experts address the impacts of global po…
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Prices and wages: What’s going on?
With prices predicted to rise across the board for the remainder of the year, what can the relationship between wages and gro…
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Bank of England Citizens’ Panel
A one-off live event that offers the opportunity to let the Bank of England know how the cost-of-living squeeze is affecting …
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What Is the Wider Impact of a Resurgent China and an America in Decline?
Meredith Crowley, George Magnus and Linda Yueh discuss the uncertain outlook for the world’s two largest economies.
Wil…
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What Are the Economics of Household Labour?
Our panellists discuss how work in the home might best be assessed in terms of its economic value.
Household labour has…
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Rory Cellan-Jones
Rory Cellan-Jones, BBC’s technology correspondent, weaves the story of the smartphone era with his own personal experien…
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How Should We Deal With the Debt Hangover?
Our panellists explore how the economy might recover from one of the after-effects of the pandemic – increased debt.
Co…
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Talking Economics: The Ongoing Toll
Isabel Hardman, The Spectator
Stuart McIntyre, University of Strathclyde
Fabien Postel-Vinay, UCL
Carol Propper, Imperia…
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What Are the Economics of Reparation?
Our panellists discuss what reparations for the descendants of enslaved people should be, and the importance and role of…
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What Have We Learned From the Pandemic and Global Recession?
Grant Fitzner discusses the economic lessons to be learnt from the extraordinary events of the past two years, sharing h…
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What Should Economics Be?
Diane Coyle asks how economics needs to change to keep pace with the twenty-first century and the digital economy.
Digi…
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What Is the Reality of Brexit?
Swati Dhingra (LSE), Karen Jackson(Westminster Business School) and Alejandro Graziano (Nottingham) with The Economist’s…
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Bank of England Citizens’ Panel (2021)
A one-off live event that offers the opportunity to let the Bank of England know how the cost-of-living crisis is affect…
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How Can We Recognise and Adapt to Disruption?
Will Page, Spotify’s former chief economist, shares the lessons he’s learned on how to recognise and adapt to disruption…
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Ask an Economist
Dawn Holland, Stewart Lansley, Helen Simpson and Richard Davies. Our panel discusses economics stories in the news and t…
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Discover Economics: Generation-COVID
Panellists: Ellen Greaves, Rupal Patel, Peter Spittal and Richard Davies.
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John Kay and Mervyn King, Radical Uncertainty
Uncertainty pervades the big decisions we all make in our lives. How much should we pay into our pensions each month? Sh…
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Responding, Recovering and Rebuilding from Covid in Bristol and the West of England
At the start of 2020, Bristol and the West of England was often described as a diverse, thriving and dynamic city region…
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Break the Spell of Financialisation
You are invited to take part in a ritual to break the spell of financialisation on transaction data.
Most transactions …
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Levelling Up the Left Behind, Myth or Possibility?
For decades, successive governments have avoided explicit industrial goals, wary of Britain’s poor performance in the 19…
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Ha-Joon Chang, What Next After Globalisation?
Globalisation is being questioned like never before in 2020 – trade and the security of supply chains have become a fron…
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Linda Scott, The Double X Economy: The Epic Potential of Empowering Women
Modern slavery is 71% female. Eighty per cent of the earth’s farmable surface is owned by men. UK women lose £140 billio…
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Ground Zero – How to Revive the Arts World when Crowds Are Banned
Outside the NHS and social care sectors, the arts have been ground zero for COVID-19, part of the economy in which group…
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Talking Politics – Live
Coronavirus! Climate! Brexit! Trump! Politics has never been more unpredictable, more alarming or more interesting. Talk…
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Shriti Vadera in conversation with Diane Coyle
It has been a turbulent year, and 2021 promises just as much economic uncertainty.
Economics Festival Co-Director Diane…
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Ask an Economist, Covid-19
The economic impacts of the coronavirus as still being felt and they are still being understood. This event gives you th…
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Extreme Economies – from Despair to Hope, Richard Davies with Anne Case
What does survival in the world’s most extreme economies – from refugee camps, to disaster zones to failed post-industri…
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Tim Harford
When was the last time you read a grand statement, accompanied by a large number, and wondered whether it could really b…
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Is Big Government Back?
Lockdown showed that the government can massively intervene in the economy, and it will continue to have to provide larg…
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Lionel Barber
Lionel Barber was the Editor of the Financial Times from 2005 until January 2020 and is widely credited with transformin…
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Decolonising Economics, What does it mean and how is it done?
In recent times, economics has been seriously challenged about its Eurocentric nature and colonial roots. In this event,…
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Why Diversifying and Decolonising Economics Matters to Everyone
The lack of diversity in terms of gender and race in economics has received increased attention in recent years, but eve…
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Building Bristol Back Better, Principles in Practice
How can the local economy be tilted towards a more sustainable, fairer and inclusive model?
The local and regional econ…
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Brexit, Farming and the Food Supply Chain
When lockdown began in March, it wasn’t just toilet paper that we couldn’t buy. Essential day to day foods, from flour t…
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Ask an Economist, Bank of England Monetary Policy Report
The Bank of England has been at the heart of the official response to the impact of Covid-19 on the UK economy. Malindi …
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Opening Event, Robert Chote in conversation with Richard Davies
To open this year’s festival, Robert Chote is in conversation with Richard Davies, professor of Public Understanding of …
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Why Are So Many Places Becoming ‘Left Behind’?
Well-paid, skilled jobs are increasingly concentrated in big cities. What is driving this economic polarisation, is it u…
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The Economics of Social Care
How to pay for social care in an ageing population is a fraught economic and political challenge. In a society where wea…
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Ask an Economist: Office for National Statistics
Find out more about collecting, analysing and disseminating statistics about the UK’s economy, society and population….
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Ask an Economist: Economics – What Is It Good For?
Economists from the University of Bristol will discuss the use – and usefulness – of economics and how it can help to br…
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Discover Economics
An opportunity to learn about economics and where an economics degree might take you with a programme of interactive ses…
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100 Years After Keynes: the Future of Capitalism
Keynes’ economics laid the foundation for a version of capitalism combining the merits of both markets and government in…
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Keynote: Carl Frey – The Technology Trap
How can the history of technological revolutions help us better understand economic and political polarisation in the ag…
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Talking Politics: Podcast Recording
Corbyn! Trump! Brexit! Politics has never been more unpredictable or more interesting. Talking Politics is the podcast t…
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Ask an Economist: The Environment
What is the ‘green economy’, how did it come about and does it work? Should we have economic growth in a time of climate…
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Big Digital
The Silicon Valley tech titans have gone from heroes to zeroes – although we can’t put our iPhones down, we feel like we…
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Deborah Hargreaves: Pay Inequality and the Future of Capitalism
Wages for the majority have been stagnant for decades, but a lucky few have enjoyed a pay bonanza. Deborah Hargreaves ex…
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Bank of England Breakfast Briefing
An opportunity to share your views on the local economy and how it relates to your business, with Bank of England agents…
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Fact and Fiction in Economics: The Role of Media and Social Media
Most people get their economics from the media, and increasingly from social media, where technical debates become highl…
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Keynote: Danielle Walker Palmour – Can We Build an Inclusive Economy?
Commentators agree that the current economic system in the UK does not serve everyone well. In addition, the context of …
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Genoeconomics: Can Genetics and Economics Learn From Each Other?
What have we learnt about the relationship between social outcomes – such as education and income – and genetics? The la…
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Ask an Economist: Living Wage
Jo Michell (Associate Professor in Economics at UWE Bristol) leads an informal session on the topic of the living wage a…
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Can Employee-Owned Businesses Save Our Economy?
The employee-owned business sector in the UK is growing. Discover more about this model with a panel of representatives …
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George Magnus: Is China in Jeopardy?
George Magnus considers the threats to China’s continued economic rise. What are the possible outcomes of conflicts over…
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Keynote: Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England
We are delighted that this year’s festival begins with a keynote from the Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney. …
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Forecasts: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Economic forecasting has never had a stellar reputation – and it seems to be getting worse. Yet it seems impossible to d…
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What Are Women Worth?
Women are less valued than men in the economy – earning less, promoted less and in economics. What will it take to close…
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Trains, Planes, Automobiles – and Buses
Almost everyone has to travel – and almost every means of public transport seems expensive, crowded and inadequate. What…
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The Rise of the City
City and metro mayors are increasingly high-profile and urbanisation is rising. By 2050 the majority of citizens will li…
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Andy Haldane: Central Banks, Past, Present and Future
The chief economist at the Bank of England in conversation with Festival of Economics director Diane Coyle….
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Schools Event: Discover Economics
A free event for year 11 and 12 students to discover more about economics through a series of interactive, educational s…
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Does Economics Care About the Future?
Keynes famously said we’re all dead in the long run. We face major intergenerational problems, a housing crisis, automat…
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Rain Newton-Smith: Growth in the Time of Brexit
Brexit provides many challenges to future economic growth, but it’s argued that there are many opportunities, too. Rain …
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Linda Yueh: The Great Economists
What can the ideas of history’s greatest economists tell us about the most important issues of our time? In the light of…
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Higher Education: Decline and Fall?
Universities boost economic growth and graduates can earn a high salary premium – but higher education policy is in a me…
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Paul Tucker: Unelected Power
Central bankers have emerged from the financial crisis as the third great pillar of unelected power alongside the judici…
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Richard Wilkinson: The Inner Level
How does inequality affect us individually? Can it alter how we think, feel and behave? Should we accept that inequality…
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Glen Weyl: Radical Markets
Glen Weyl reveals bold new ways to organise markets for the good of everyone, showing how the force of genuinely open, f…
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Will the Fourth Industrial Revolution Bypass the Home of the First?
Manufacturing is poised for what is often called the Fourth Industrial Revolution, a range of new technologies such as A…
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The End of the NHS? Not With a Bang but a Whimper
The NHS is under ever-greater financial pressure, and this year has brought the strongest warnings yet that the service …
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Robots and Gigs
Most robots are not cute humanoids but machines automating production lines. Even Greggs’ pasties are made by industrial…
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Trade, Trump and Brexit
The growth of trade in the decades after 1945 was the driving force for increasing prosperity in the post-war era. But m…
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Jean Tirole: Economics for the Common Good
The winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Economics, Jean Tirole from the Toulouse School of Economics, will discuss his new…
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Statistics, Lies and Truth in the Post-fact World
One of the features of the fake news era is the use and abuse of statistics. Although political campaigns have always pr…
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The Future of Money
Money is fundamental to the economy; it is also intensely political, social and technological. Government policies can c…
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Eric Beinhocker: Prosperity, the Future of Capitalism and What this Means for our Politics
There’s huge debate now about prosperity and the future of capitalism, following the crash and slow recovery. Eric Beinh…
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Debate: Would Policymaker Use of Complexity Analysis Make Economics More Relevant to the Real World?
Is standard economic forecasting and analysis fit for purpose? Or should economists be adopting methods from complex sys…
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Who Owns Britain?
A lot of attention has been paid to the distribution of income, but what about Britain’s far more unequally spread wealt…
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Keynote Address: Stephanie Flanders
Where is the global economy heading and how can we make it work better for people? The former BBC Economics Editor Steph…
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Gordon Brown: A Life in Politics
The former Prime Minister and our longest-serving Chancellor reflects candidly on an extraordinary career….
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Michael Lewis on Kahneman and Tversky
Author of Flash Boys, The Big Short and Moneyball on the friendship that created the field of behavioural economics….
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Family is Destiny: Are We at the End of Social Mobility and Did It Exist at All?
Is the era of social mobility and meritocracy over – assuming it was ever real? With Old Etonians commanding top acting …
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Why Crime Pays: The Economics of Organised Crime
Chair: Tom Gash
Nadia Campaniello (University of Essex) Mirko Draca (University of Warwick) David Skarbek (King’s Colleg…
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Is Innovation Really Good For Us?
Innovation is the economic buzzword of the moment but is it all it’s cracked up to be? Productivity is flat-lining every…
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We’re All Doomed (Again): What Could Go Wrong in the Global Economy?
As 2008 fades into history, the global economy still looks frail. Monetary policy is still ‘unconventional’. China keeps…
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Tim Harford: The Merits of Messiness
Tim Harford explores the benefits of having messiness in our lives: why it’s important, why we resist it and why we shou…
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People, Politics and Policy: Improving the Economic Policy Process
How can economic policies be made more effective in a world where populism rules and ‘evidence-based’ policy is out of f…
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Should the Government Aim to Make Us Happy?
Should government policy focus on our happiness rather than economic growth and incomes? Some economists think so, argui…
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Keynote Address: Dani Rodrik
In the aftermath of the global financial crisis, economics seems anything but a science. Dani Rodrik, Professor of Inter…
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Basic Income: An Idea Whose Time Has Come?
Chair: Jonathan Derbyshire
Torsten Bell (Resolution Foundation) Louise Haagh (University of York)
Anthony Painter (RSA)
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Mariana Mazzucato: Rethinking Capitalism
Western capitalism is in crisis. For decades investment has been falling, living standards have stagnated or declined, a…
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Immigration and Future Prosperity
Immigration was one of the doorstep issues of the election campaign: both the Conservatives and Labour, as well as UKIP,…
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The Growth of Inequality and Reviving Social Mobility
Inequality has dominated economic and political debate following the publication of Thomas Piketty’s book Capital in the…
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Honey, I Shrank the State: Is There a Future for the Public Sector?
With the new government committed to continuing to reduce government spending, the size of the state in the UK is planne…
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The European End-Game: What Does the Future Hold for the EU?
With the eurozone crisis in Greece, question marks hanging over the UK’s EU membership, and concerns about the changing …
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Robert J Shiller: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception
Nobel Prize winner Robert J Shiller argues that markets, inherently filled with tricks and traps, harm as well as help u…
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Swimming with Sharks: My Journey into the World of the Bankers: An interview with Joris Luyendijk
If you could peer inside a megabank what would you see? Speaking with over 200 City insiders, Joris Luyendijk set out to…
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The No-Growth Economy: Is it the Only Way to Save the Planet?
With key international talks in Paris coming up at the end of the year, what kind of agreement would be needed to actual…
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The Future British Economy in an Uncertain World: An interview with Vince Cable
Vince Cable, Business Secretary in the 2010-2015 government, provides an inside view of the coalition and a unique persp…
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What Will Make the Housing Market Work?
No sooner does the British economy start to recover than there’s a housing market boom, threatening economic stability a…
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Economics of Crime and Punishment
We usually think of policing and punishment in terms of justice, or broader social trends, but economics provides an inv…
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Will the Robots Eat All the Jobs?
Recent research predicts that about a third of UK jobs are at high risk of automation in coming decades. Is this to be w…
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Beyond Quantitative Easing
Six years on from the height of the financial crisis in Autumn 2008, the question of how monetary policy can move away f…
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Adair Turner in conversation with Robert Peston
Adair Turner is one of our most distinguished experts on economic and financial policy, having held positions ranging fr…
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Can economics make us eat better: Schools Challenge
This event gives sixth-form students an opportunity to learn about economic and behavioural economic thinking on healthy…
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Obesity in the UK: Gluttony or Sloth?
People are getting fatter. Weight gain is a result of consuming too many calories (gluttony) relative to energy burned i…
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Should the Economy be More Local?
There is renewed focus on the role of cities in improving economic performance overall, and also on the importance of lo…
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How to Speak Money
The language of economic elites can be complex, jargon- filled and completely baffling. But if we don’t know what they’r…
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The State of the City – Bristol 2014: The Mayor’s Annual Address and Debate
The second annual Mayor’s lecture sees Mayor George Ferguson talking about the past year of delivery and the current sta…
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Launch of Perspectives series – Diane Coyle
All are invited to stay on after the previous event for the launch of a new series of short, opinionated books on econom…
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Every Planet Has a North
There are two economies in the UK, London and the rest. Yet despite the fact that the division stands out in any objecti…
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The Problem of the Banks
Five years on from the Great Financial Crisis, the question of how to prevent another widespread banking meltdown has no…
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Inequality – Why Does It Matter?
Recent decades have brought a big increase in inequality, not just in the UK but in other countries too. Many people ins…
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Reforming Public Services
There is greater pressure than ever for public services to become more efficient as budgets are cut, and more responsive…
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The New World Economy
The idea that the world’s centre of economic gravity is moving to the BRIC nations – Brazil, China, India and Russia – a…
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Pop-up Economics
Tim Harford is senior columnist for the Financial Times, author of many books, the latest being The Undercover Economist…
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The World Economy After the Crash
What is the state of the world economy five years after the crash? Daniel Franklin, editor
of the annual Economist publi…
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The State of Economic Recovery in the uK
Over the past six months ‘recession’ has given way to ‘recovery’. With many economic figures showing signs of improvemen…
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Intergenerational Economics and the ‘Jilted Generation’
Some say the baby boomers have bankrupted the youth of Britain. That ever-spiralling house prices put home ownership onl…
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The State of the City – Bristol 2013: the mayor’s Annual Address and Debate
The first of an annual series in which Bristol City Mayor George Ferguson looks back on an historic first year in office…
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Economics in Crisis
This session turns the spotlight on the subject of economics itself. Economists will try to debate honestly the weakness…
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What Next for Britain’s Economy?
There is a fierce debate between advocates of a government stimulus for the economy and those who say the longer-term co…
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People, Places and Poverty (with Joseph Rowntree Foundation)
The panel will discuss how an individual person’s characteristics (skills, experience, family background) and their soci…
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The Future of Capitalism
The panel will debate the nature of the economic system itself. Does the crisis reveal fundamental flaws in capitalist e…
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