LSE: Public lectures and events

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From the Archive: Why women won Sep 21, 2026

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How, when, and why did women in the US obtain legal rights equal to men’s regarding the workplace, marriage, family, Social Security, criminal justice, credit markets, and other parts of the economy and society, decades after they gained the right to vote?

What happened to liberal democracy? Sep 15, 2026

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In this conversation with Nobel Prize-winner and LSE alumnus Daron Acemoglu he will be talking about his new book, What Happened to Liberal Democracy?

From the Archive: F A Hayek's Nobel at 50: then and now Sep 14, 2026

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This podcast was originally published in November 2024 and is being republished as part of our Summer archive series of LSE's Public Lectures and Events.

The new supply-side era: the O-ring meets geopolitics Sep 14, 2026

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Lazard CEO and Chairman Peter Orszag sees a new supply-side era taking shape, in which supply shocks that are increasingly geopolitical in origin and rooted in the physical world have displaced demand as the dominant source of macroeconomic variance.

From the Archive: How progress ends: technology, innovation, and the fate of nations Sep 08, 2026

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This podcast was originally published in October 2025 and is being republished as part of our Summer archive series of LSE's Public Lectures and Events.

In the realm of the last man Sep 02, 2026

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In this conversation with Francis Fukuyama he will be talking about his new book, In the Realm of the Last Man.

From the Archive: Wealth in people Sep 01, 2026

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This podcast was originally published in March 2025 and is being republished as part of our Summer archive series of LSE's Public Lectures and Events.

From the Archive: Taylor Swift and philosophy Aug 25, 2026

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This podcast was originally published in October 2024 and is being republished as part of our Summer archive series of LSE's Public Lectures and Events.

From the Archive: Addressing climate inequality Aug 17, 2026

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This podcast was originally published in May 2024 and is being republished as part of our Summer archive series of LSE's Public Lectures and Events.

From the Archive: Women in economics: progress, challenges and perspectives Aug 11, 2026

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This podcast was originally published in December 2025 and is being republished as part of our Summer archive series of LSE's Public Lectures and Events.