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…
13-20 November 2026 | Bristol, UK
With key international talks in Paris coming up at the end of the year, what kind of agreement would be needed to actual…
If you could peer inside a megabank what would you see? Speaking with over 200 City insiders, Joris Luyendijk set out to…
Nobel Prize winner Robert J Shiller argues that markets, inherently filled with tricks and traps, harm as well as help u…
With the eurozone crisis in Greece, question marks hanging over the UK’s EU membership, and concerns about the changing …
With the new government committed to continuing to reduce government spending, the size of the state in the UK is planne…
Inequality has dominated economic and political debate following the publication of Thomas Piketty’s book Capital in the…
Immigration was one of the doorstep issues of the election campaign: both the Conservatives and Labour, as well as UKIP,…
Western capitalism is in crisis. For decades investment has been falling, living standards have stagnated or declined, a…
Chair: Jonathan Derbyshire
Torsten Bell (Resolution Foundation) Louise Haagh (University of York)
Anthony Painter (RSA)
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In the aftermath of the global financial crisis, economics seems anything but a science. Dani Rodrik, Professor of Inter…
Should government policy focus on our happiness rather than economic growth and incomes? Some economists think so, argui…
How can economic policies be made more effective in a world where populism rules and ‘evidence-based’ policy is out of f…