Lionel Barber was the Editor of the Financial Times from 2005 until January 2020 and is widely credited with transformin…

Lockdown showed that the government can massively intervene in the economy, and it will continue to have to provide larg…

When was the last time you read a grand statement, accompanied by a large number, and wondered whether it could really b…

What does survival in the world’s most extreme economies – from refugee camps, to disaster zones to failed post-industri…

The economic impacts of the coronavirus as still being felt and they are still being understood. This event gives you th…

It has been a turbulent year, and 2021 promises just as much economic uncertainty.

Economics Festival Co-Director Diane…

Coronavirus! Climate! Brexit! Trump! Politics has never been more unpredictable, more alarming or more interesting. Talk…

Outside the NHS and social care sectors, the arts have been ground zero for COVID-19, part of the economy in which group…

Modern slavery is 71% female. Eighty per cent of the earth’s farmable surface is owned by men. UK women lose £140 billio…

Globalisation is being questioned like never before in 2020 – trade and the security of supply chains have become a fron…

For decades, successive governments have avoided explicit industrial goals, wary of Britain’s poor performance in the 19…

You are invited to take part in a ritual to break the spell of financialisation on transaction data.

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