Visions for the future with Daron Acemoglu

Visions for the future with Daron Acemoglu

Author: LSE Film and Audio Team June 18, 2025 Duration: 1:02:55
Daron Acemoglu, LSE alumnus and co-recipient of the 2024 Nobel Prize in economics, whose work has provided new insights into why there are such vast differences in prosperity between nations, will be in conversation with LSE's President Larry Kramer

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Economic nationalism and global (dis)order [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:24:11
Join us for this year's Martin Wight Memorial Lecture which will be delivered by Robert Falkner who will explore the rise of economic nationalism amidst growing geopolitical rivalry.
A new data infrastructure for the social sciences? [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:26:30
The social sciences rely heavily on legacy data systems conceived to meet challenges of the 20th century (and earlier!). Is this the moment to build a new data system that meets new challenges and exploits new types of t…
Fixing education for the AI age [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:27:00
The recent prominence of AI has exposed major deficiencies in education. Not only how much improvement can be made in the pedagogical process with modern technology, but also how the subject-matter has diverged from what…
Tolerance and freedom of expression [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:28:59
Join us for the Sir Karl Popper Memorial Lecture which will be delivered by Peter Godfrey-Smith who will speak about tolerance and the freedom of expression.
Elite conflict, colonialism and democracy in the Middle East [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:28:23
Why has democracy struggled to thrive in the Global South? In this British Academy-funded research project, Mohamed Saleh develops a new economic history of the Middle East that explains the economic roots of authoritari…
Capitalism and its critics [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:23:34
In this lecture John Cassidy will speak about his new book, Capitalism and Its Critics: A Battle of Ideas in the Modern World.
Critique is the critique of power [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:32:47
This event will bring together sociologists from a range of traditions to discuss whether critique can be equated with the critique of power in the analysis of the social world.