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Social Solidarity and the Virus
March 15, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 41 MBContributor(s): Tim Dixon, Professor Kate Pickett | Has the sudden, intense common experience of the virus crisis generated a reservoir of social solidarity? How have public attitudes and political culture shifted and what is the significance of these changes for progressive politics? Meet our speaker and chair Tim Dixon (@dixontim) co-founded the More in Common organisation, and was previously an economic adviser and chief speechwriter for two Prime Ministers. He was born in Australia and tr...
Is Europe White? Assessing the Role of Whiteness in Europe Today
March 15, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 41.8 MBContributor(s): Dr Jean Beaman, Dr Neema Begum, Professor David Theo Goldberg | In the form of white privilege, ‘colour-blindness’ and supremacy, how does whiteness shape individual lives and European societies alike? This event will explore the role of whiteness in Europe and for European identities. Meet our speakers and chair Jean Beaman (@jean23bean) is Associate Professor of Sociology, affiliated with Political Science, Feminist Studies, Global Studies, and the Center for Black Studies R...
SHORTCAST | Beveridge 2.0 The Supportive State
March 12, 2021 00:00 - 22 minutes - 15.7 MBContributor(s): Jonathan Reynolds | The COVID-19 emergency is testing the protective capacity of welfare states in the most dramatic way. In virtue of their scale and nature, only the state can respond to on-going challenges, but policy responses need to be understood in relation to the capacity of different systems to provide protection and support. Prior to the COVID crisis, recent years had seen a growing debate around different approaches to address human needs: these differed in a variet...
SHORTCAST | Going for Growth
March 12, 2021 00:00 - 23 minutes - 17.6 MBContributor(s): Professor John Van Reenen | How can the UK and the world get back to sustainable growth following the COVID-19 pandemic? Pulling together the lessons of 30 years of work on technology, management and productivity, John Van Reenen will argue that innovation is the key to rekindling our economies. Meet our speaker and chair John Van Reenen (@johnvanreenen) is Ronald Coase School Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science and was previously Dir...
Women in International Thought
March 10, 2021 00:00 - 59 minutes - 27.2 MBContributor(s): Shruti Balaji, Professor Michael Cox, Professor Patricia Owens | There is a rich history of scholarly work by women on International Relations that has often been ignored in the discipline. This event, taking place shortly after International Women’s Day, will uncover and explore women’s often foundational role in thinking about international politics. Meet our speakers and chair Shruti Balaji (@shrutibalaji1) is a PhD researcher in the International Relations Department at LS...
A Brief History of Equality
March 10, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 29.2 MBContributor(s): Professor Thomas Piketty | Will the Covid-19 pandemic fuel social demand for equality and economic justice? In this lecture, Thomas Piketty offers a refreshing perspective on the historical rise of equality from the 18th century until the early 21st century. The primary determinants of inequality regimes across societies, Piketty argues, are political and ideological, rather than economic or technological. If we remember lessons as to how societies handled past inequality cris...
UK Market Regulation After Brexit: higher, lower or stay the same?
March 09, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 42.6 MBContributor(s): Minette Batters, Tony Danker, Professor Sam Fankhauser, Frances O'Grady | How best can the UK economy compete in the world of the future? What model of market regulation should we seek and can we realistically attain? And, over what time scale? How far might the UK’s strategy be blown off course by wider, exogenous pressures or by domestic pushback? What accommodation should we seek in regulatory standards with our external partners? The panel will discuss the prospects for th...
Safety Culture: what can the post-COVID world learn from high-risk industries
March 09, 2021 00:00 - 9 minutes - 186 MB VideoContributor(s): Dr Tom Reader | In the post-COVID world, companies (and indeed societies) will need to develop a culture that allows them to maximise productivity whilst retaining safety. How might the principles developed for managing safety in high-risk industries help organisations successfully balance these twin aims? Organisations in high-risk domains, like aviation, energy and healthcare, have been managing risks around productivity and safety for many years. It is a tricky balance to r...
Shaping the Post-COVID City
March 06, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 27.7 MBContributor(s): Professor Tony Travers, Kieron Boyle | How can policy makers and urban health leaders plan through this uncertainty, and how can those plans help to address the changing nature of and existing inequalities in urban health? To explore this question, we focus on a scenario planning approach undertaken by the Guys’ and St Thomas’ Charity and LSE Cities. Developed using a combination of social and spatial data analysis, existing research, and community input, we will discuss the f...
Not Suitable for Work
March 06, 2021 00:00 - 58 minutes - 27 MBContributor(s): Dr Odul Bozkurt, Professor Brian O'Connor, Professor Judy Wajcman | When it comes to work, is less more? Our panel discuss whether work is making us bad citizens and unhappy humans. Is there something to be said for being idle? Bertrand Russell wrote that "immense harm is caused by the belief that work is virtuous". In more recent times, organisations from Microsoft to the Wellcome Trust have experimented with a four-day week, and advocates argue that shorter working weeks wil...
Health Policy in a Post-COVID World
March 05, 2021 00:00 - 59 minutes - 27.2 MBContributor(s): Dr Lucy Kanya, Dr Matthias Wismar, Dr Josep Figueras | COVID-19 has presented an opportunity to address some of the profound underlying problems of our health systems. We compare international health system responses to COVID-19, and outline clear lessons from the pandemic on how we might move forward. Meet our speakers and chair Update, Friday 5 March: Professor Elias Mossialos is no longer speaking at this event due to unforeseen circumstances Josep Figueras is the Director...
Accelerating Gender Equality in India post-COVID
March 05, 2021 00:00 - 58 minutes - 26.7 MBContributor(s): Farzana Afridi, Diva Dhar | To mark International Women’s Day 2021, we explore how India can adopt more gender inclusive policy planning and implementation to manage the impact of COVID-19. Meet our speakers and chair Farzana Afridi is Lead Academic for IGC India and an Associate Professor in the Economics and Planning Unit at the Indian Statistical Institute in Delhi. Her areas of interest are education, health, gender, and political economy. Diva Dhar (@diva_dhar) is a Senio...
What can Health Services Learn from COVID-19?
March 05, 2021 00:00 - 8 minutes - 581 MB VideoContributor(s): Alistair McGuire | COVID-19 has tested many countries’ health systems beyond their limits. Health services were overwhelmed by COVID patients and populations also faced barriers trying to get care and diagnoses for other conditions. We could – and should – have been better prepared for this crisis. Professor Alistair McGuire talks about what a new LSE venture with the World Economic Forum and AstraZeneca, the Partnership for Health System Sustainability and Resilience (PHSSR) ...
Humans, Animals and Pandemics: what needs to change?
March 05, 2021 00:00 - 9 minutes - 700 MB VideoContributor(s): Dr Jonathan Birch | What steps to improve animal welfare do governments need to take to save humanity from a catastrophe that may be far greater than the ongoing COVID disaster? Governments around the world have long identified an influenza pandemic as one of the greatest risks they face. Enduring a coronavirus pandemic will do virtually nothing to reduce that risk - unless it leads to a step change in the precautions we take against it. Measures previously seen as proportiona...
After COVID, What Next for Urban Humanitarian Responses?
March 05, 2021 00:00 - 9 minutes - 667 MB VideoContributor(s): Romola Sanyal | What lessons have been learned from the pandemic in managing humanitarian responses in urban settings? How can we harness this to create a more just world where rights and dignity become the cornerstones of practice? The pandemic has had significant effects on vulnerable populations, particularly the urban poor, migrant and displaced populations around the world. They have not only been victims of the virus, but lockdowns, travel restrictions and economic downt...
How to Harness Data to improve your Decision-making and Increase your Probability of Success
March 05, 2021 00:00 - 58 minutes - 26.6 MBContributor(s): Dr James Abdey | Data-driven decision-making and the ability to communicate a large amount of information to audiences efficiently are vital in any industry. Bringing data to life in meaningful ways can identify important trends, patterns, relationships, and anomalies that facilitate successful strategies. It is also necessary to construct models to deep dive into the world of data analytics. From forecasting to “understanding the causes of things”, join Dr James Abdey as he c...
How Can We Shape a More Inclusive Future?
March 04, 2021 00:00 - 9 minutes - 689 MB VideoContributor(s): Dr Manmit Bhambra | The politics of ‘difference’ remain salient in contemporary societies; discrimination often encompasses the sometimes less obvious, but equally damaging forms of prejudice, which can lead to a breakdown of dialogue and trust between people. So how can we shape a more inclusive future? We can achieve greater inclusivity if we focus on achieving and maintaining dialogue between the diverse social groups that make up our society. Representation is also key; by...
Breaking the Inequality Mould in Latin America
March 04, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 28.8 MBContributor(s): Dr Amir Lebdioui, Dr Alice Krozer, Professor Francisco Ferreira, Dr Laura Carvalho | Rethinking inequality reduction programmes in post-COVID Latin America is timely and urgent. What are the pathways forward? After a decade or more in which inequality had fallen in Latin America, in recent years inequality had risen once more, motivating waves of protests across the region. COVID-19 has exploited existing inequalities affecting both the health outcomes and livelihoods of the p...
Isolationism: the future of US foreign policy?
March 04, 2021 00:00 - 59 minutes - 27.3 MBContributor(s): Professor Charles Kupchan, Dr Leslie Vinjamuri | During the presidency of Donald Trump, the US pursued a more self-interested and transactional foreign policy, often seeing relations with other countries as a zero-sum game. Charles Kupchan discusses his new book, Isolationism: A History of America’s Efforts to Shield Itself from the World. He looks at how the resurgence of isolationism is reshaping America foreign policy and what it means for the post-COVID world. You can orde...
What is the Future of Diplomacy?
March 04, 2021 00:00 - 11 minutes - 839 MB VideoContributor(s): Tristen Naylor | Are pixellated images of leaders in tiny squares on a computer screen the 'new normal' for international diplomacy? What are the implications of the loss of physicality in diplomacy? And what does this portend for international relations in the post-Covid world? As with all facets of life, COVID-19 brought the world of international diplomacy to a halt, forcing diplomats and heads of government to quickly overhaul how they do their work. Forced to move their i...
Why is Unemployment Bad for Gender Equality?
March 04, 2021 00:00 - 8 minutes - 636 MB VideoContributor(s): Aliya Rao | Aliya Rao explores how unemployment reinforces gender inegalitarian norms and behaviours when it comes to time, space and emotions. How might we tackle this seemingly backwards step? The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed rampant gender inequalities. The economic downturn we are facing has led to mass unemployment, which has had a disproportionate impact on women. Research from before and during the pandemic shows that women’s job loss and unemployment – more prevalent ...
How to Manage Technological Disruption: tech giants, competition, and the future of work
March 04, 2021 00:00 - 59 minutes - 27.6 MBContributor(s): Dr Niamh Dunne, Dr Robert Falkner, Dr Carsten Sørensen, Professor Leslie Willcocks | The Fourth Industrial Revolution has transformed the way we work and live. Digital platforms have upended traditional business models and are disrupting ever more industries in a post-COVID world. Novel technologies (AI, robotics) are replacing ever more human tasks, raising fears about increasing unemployment. While technological innovation is a source of prosperity, its impact on business an...
How Can We Do Good Science With Models?
March 03, 2021 00:00 - 10 minutes - 777 MB VideoContributor(s): Erica Thompson | Given their power to influence the world, how can we ensure that mathematical models are developed in a transparent and accountable way, providing information that is useful and relevant without being over-confident or subject to hidden bias? We've heard a lot about models recently. Some have been in the news, like the epidemic models that shaped government decisions about lockdowns and the climate models that inform us about the potential consequences of our ...
We Have Declared a Climate Emergency! Now what?
March 03, 2021 00:00 - 7 minutes - 544 MB VideoContributor(s): Candice Howarth | The translation of climate policy into “on the ground” actions in our communities should deliver healthier, more prosperous and resilient cities with reduced greenhouse gas emissions, but how can we achieve that, and fast? Local councils have now declared climate emergencies across the UK, but the impact and effectiveness of these declarations on enhancing long-term climate action has yet to be seen. What do these declarations mean for future climate governan...
COVID-19 in the UK: where are all the women?
March 03, 2021 00:00 - 57 minutes - 26.3 MBContributor(s): Mandu Reid, Bell Ribeiro-Addy, Mary-Ann Stephenson, Dr Clare Wenham | Women’s vulnerability must be considered in pandemic preparedness and response. We look at the role of UK policymakers in re-establishing the path to a more equal society for men and women in this context and draw comparisons with other countries who are doing well, and who have also fallen shy of the mark. While there have been significant advances in gender equality in the past 30 years, the COVID-19 pande...
What is Colonial about Global Health?
March 03, 2021 00:00 - 55 minutes - 25.3 MBContributor(s): Professor Paul Farmer, Dr Mosoka Fallah, Dr Sumegha Asthana | Can COVID-19 invigorate an alternative vision for the future of global health? Our panel address the legacy of colonialism within international health systems and ask: what is the relationship between histories of imperialism and health, development and human rights? How can international institutions be reformed to overturn the global North’s dominance in health programming? How might new funding arrangements that ...
What Work Disappeared? COVID-19 and Labour Market Outcomes for the Under 25s
March 03, 2021 00:00 - 9 minutes - 692 MB VideoContributor(s): Erica Thompson | Has the COVID-19 pandemic led to worse career prospects for young people? Research has shown a widening gap in the likelihood of young people being in employment, particularly in banking, finance and insurance, and public administration, education and health. Teresa Almeida and Ganga Shreedhar discuss the need for more inclusive labour market policies to create opportunities for younger workers to counter the adverse, long-term impacts of COVID-19. Meet our sp...
Digital by Default: the COVID-19 generation
March 03, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 57.3 MBContributor(s): Patricio Cuevas-Parra, Laurie Day, Maya Göetz, Konstantinos Papachristou | Almost overnight, following lockdown, children’s lives became digital by default. We critically reflect on how children’s experiences, needs and rights are being, and could be better, served in a digital world. COVID-19 transformed society’s reliance on digital technologies as the infrastructure for work, family, education, health and more. Supposedly the digital natives are ahead of their parents and o...
How to Be Effective Leaders in the Context of Organisational Change
March 03, 2021 00:00 - 59 minutes - 27.3 MBContributor(s): Dr Emma Soane, Dr Rebecca Newton, Professor Sandy Pepper | Effective leadership is essential in any organisation. In an uncertain world, resilient leaders are more important than ever to the survival and success of a business. In this session, Dr Rebecca Newton, Professor Sandy Pepper and Dr Emma Soane will discuss how you can use the dynamics of authentic and transformational leadership to change organisations for the better. They will consider business ethics, as well as cha...
How Can Policy Makers Use Behavioural Science?
March 02, 2021 00:00 - 59 minutes - 27.4 MBContributor(s): Professor Julian Le Grand, Dr Grace Lordan, Professor Paul Dolan, Teresa Almeida | What specific societal behaviours should policy makers want to shape as we move forward in a post-COVID world? We analyse what behavioural science research has added to the policy debate on COVID-19 so far, and what questions have been overlooked. Meet our speakers and chair Teresa Almeida is a Research Officer in Behavioural Science at The Inclusion Initiative, LSE. She holds an MSc in Behaviou...
Start-up Survival: how do young innovators navigate the 'new normal'?
March 02, 2021 00:00 - 10 minutes - 783 MB VideoContributor(s): Yohan Iddawela, Tara Chandra | From rehashing business models, securing necessary safety protocols, to creating robust digital presences, we hear from our student and alumni entrepreneurs on how they navigated the new norm and dealt with the challenges and conflicts while protecting their mental health. It's been a tough time for everyone, but especially for early-stage start-ups who rely on economic certainty, available customers and ease of communication to drive their brill...
Financing a Green and Just Recovery from COVID-19
March 02, 2021 00:00 - 59 minutes - 27 MBContributor(s): Naïm Abou-Jaoudé, Sharan Burrow, Rathin Roy, Dr Rhian-Mari Thomas | How can we combine recovery from COVID-19 with the shift to an inclusive and sustainable global economy? Leading figures in government, business and civil society have pledged to “build back better”. In the run-up to the COP26 climate summit in November 2021, there’s a clear need for both greater ambition and greater practicality in mobilising the public and private finance that will be needed for a green and ...
Scroungers versus Strivers: the myth of the welfare state
March 02, 2021 00:00 - 19 minutes - 27.1 MBContributor(s): Professor John Hills | This episode is dedicated to social policy giant Professor Sir John Hills, who died in December 2020. In this episode, John tackles the myth that the welfare state supports a feckless underclass who cost society huge amounts of money. Instead, he sets out a system where most of what we pay in, comes back to us. He describes a generational contract which we all benefit from, varying on our stage of life. His words remain timely after a year of pandemic wh...
Why Should We Build Back Differently?
March 02, 2021 00:00 - 10 minutes - 754 MB VideoContributor(s): Dr Sunil Kumar | Post-COVID19, there is talk of ‘building back better’. What does this mean? Does it refer to making some improvement to existing economic and social arrangements whilst leaving much of its premise intact? Sunil Kumar draws upon his research on internal migrant construction workers in India, exploited in terms of wages as well as working and living conditions, to suggest that we should, instead, think of building back differently based on the idea of care. He a...
How to Develop your Presence and Influence
March 02, 2021 00:00 - 48 minutes - 22 MBContributor(s): Professor Connson Locke | Influencing others has always been an important skill and it will become even more critical in a post-COVID world. To create positive change in the world, we need to influence people who have more power than we do and convince them to listen to us. Drawing on material from her new book, Making Your Voice Heard, Professor Locke will provide practical tips for how to build your bases of power, influence others, and make your voice heard. Meet our speake...
How the Pandemic Polarised Us
March 02, 2021 00:00 - 59 minutes - 27.4 MBContributor(s): Professor Peter Trubowitz, Professor Sara Hobolt, Dr Florian Foos | We explore political polarisation in the UK, EU, US and on social media in light of COVID-19, and how democracy can be built back. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit and the world was plunged into lockdown, nations were unified in the fight against the virus. As time has rolled on, a suffering economy, rising infection and death rates, a historic election, Brexit, and confusion around devolved powers have intensi...
How Has COVID-19 Produced New Forms of Stigma?
March 01, 2021 00:00 - 10 minutes - 773 MB VideoContributor(s): Nikita Simpson | Throughout the pandemic, the general population alongside policymakers have faced extreme uncertainty. Without a full picture of the virus and how it spreads, there has been much speculation about COVID-19 transmission and how to prevent it. These new perceptions of risk can work to polarise, exclude and stigmatise certain groups or individuals, compounding existing stereotypes and forms of historical exclusion. Drawing on ethnographic insights, Nikita Simpson...
Life in a Post-COVID World: learning from Southeast Asia
March 01, 2021 00:00 - 58 minutes - 27 MBContributor(s): Professor Hyun Bang Shin, Dr Nicole Curato, Dr Sin Yee Koh, Professor John Sidel | Although the distinctive outcomes of COVID-19 in Southeast Asia are only now becoming clear, we expect that they can become the basis for innovative and impactful ideas that will matter for neighbouring regions and the world. Leading thinkers on Southeast Asia reflect on the lessons of COVID-19 for connectivity, governance, and urbanisation in the region and assess the futures it might foretell ...
We Are All in This Together: has COVID-19 taught us how to save the world?
March 01, 2021 00:00 - 59 minutes - 37.8 MBContributor(s): Dr Ganga Shreedhar, Professor Nick Chater, Sanchayan Banerjee, Dr Adam Oliver | Can the massive shift in the way we now relate to each other, and the rules we choose to live by, help us tackle other collective threats to humanity, like climate change? We need coordinated and cooperative collective action. Experts in behavioural public policy and sustainability discuss how the experience of the pandemic can be leveraged to enable new, transformative behaviours and policies. Mee...
A Letter on Feminist Peace
March 01, 2021 00:00 - 9 minutes - 544 MB VideoContributor(s): | How could we create a world founded on an inclusive and intersectional concept of humanity and peaceful existence for all peoples? In September 2019, the Feminist International Law of Peace and Security project, at the LSE Centre for Women, Peace & Security, convened a workshop involving 19 legal academics and practitioners with the idea of drafting an alternative Security Council resolution to coincide with a number of anniversaries in 2020. The aim of the exercise was to ...
How will New Technology Affect the Future of Work?
March 01, 2021 00:00 - 8 minutes - 604 MB VideoContributor(s): Professor Alan Manning | Many fear the impact of robots and AI on the demand for labour in the future. Such techno-angst is nothing new and perhaps we can learn from the past what we need to worry about - and what we don't. Meet our speaker Alan Manning is Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at LSE and Director of the Community Programme at the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at LSE (@CEP_LSE), which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. Let us kno...
How to take control of your decisions
March 01, 2021 00:00 - 55 minutes - 25.3 MBContributor(s): Dr Barbara Fasolo, Dr Umar Taj | What is the next big decision you need to make? COVID-19 has had a profound impact on many of our behaviours. What is the impact it has had on the decisions we have made – or perhaps not made? In this session, Barbara and Umar will share tips based on decision science research and practical training which you can apply to your next decision and to shape the future to come. To get ready for the event, you might want to note down an important dec...
What We Owe Each Other: a new social contract
March 01, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 37.7 MBContributor(s): Baroness Shafik, Juan Manuel Santos, Professor Amartya Sen | What should a social contract for the 21st century look like? Launching her new book, What We Owe Each Other, LSE Director Minouche Shafik draws on evidence from across the globe to identify key principles for a social contract for every society. She will be in conversation with Juan Manuel Santos and Amartya Sen. The social contract governs all aspects of society, from politics and law to our families and communitie...
The Costs of Connection: how data is colonizing human life and appropriates it
February 25, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 40.5 MBContributor(s): Mutale Nkonde, Professor Ulises Ali Mejias, Professor Nick Couldry | Nick Couldry and Ulises Ali Mejias will discuss their book, The Costs of Connection: How Data Colonizes Human Life and Appropriates it for Capitalism. Couldry and Mejias argue that the role of data in society needs to be grasped as not only a development of capitalism, but as the start of a new phase in human history that rivals in importance the emergence of historic colonialism. This new "data colonialism" ...
A Polity Divided: empire, nation, and the construction of the British welfare state
February 24, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 41.9 MBContributor(s): Professor Gurminder K Bhambra | The Annual British Journal of Sociology Lecture will examine national welfare in the context of being an imperial polity organised around hierarchies – and intersections – of class and race, and the consequences of this for social and political structures. Meet our speaker and chair Gurminder K Bhambra (@GKBhambra) is Professor of Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies in the School of Global Studies, University of Sussex. Nigel Dodd (@nigelbdodd) ...
Making Your Voice Heard
February 24, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 28 MBContributor(s): Professor Connson Locke | Drawing on research from her latest book, Making Your Voice Heard, Connson Locke will look at how to develop your leadership presence and be more influential in the workplace. Discover a fresh approach to influence, grounded in psychological research, and learn how to make your voice heard, regardless of your background or gender. How do you exercise influence when those around you have as much or more power than you do? Where does your power come fr...
SHORTCAST | Data-driven Responses to COVID-19: opportunities and limitations
February 22, 2021 00:00 - 24 minutes - 16.8 MBContributor(s): Dr Seeta Peña Gangadharan, Dr Orla Lynskey, Dr Alison Powell, Dr Edgar Whitley | This is an event shortcast, a digested version of our live online public events series. This event was recorded on Thursday 15th October 2020. A full version is available to download on the LSE player.
SHORTCAST | Growth and solidarity: cities reimagining human mobility in Africa and Europe
February 22, 2021 00:00 - 20 minutes - 16.2 MBContributor(s): Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, Giuseppe Sala, Marta Foresti, Professor Ricky Burdett | This is an event shortcast, a digested version of our live online public events series. This event was recorded on Friday 9th October 2020. A full version is available to download on the LSE player.
Resilience
February 22, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 33.9 MBContributor(s): Professor Serene Khader, Professor Mark Neocleous, Dr David Westley, Dr David Bather Woods | What do we mean by the term ‘resilience’? We trace the philosophical traditions of resilience and explore critical perspectives on its modern forms. Meet our speakers and chair Serene Khader (@SereneKhader) is Professor and Jay Newman Chair in Philosophy of Culture at CUNY. Mark Neocleous is Professor of the Critique of Political Economy, Brunel University London. David Westley (@David...
Philanthropy - from Aristotle to Zuckerberg
February 22, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 28.2 MBContributor(s): Paul Vallely, Professor Rob Reich, Fran Perrin | Join us for this talk by Paul Vallely who will be discussing his new book, Philanthropy: From Aristotle to Zuckerberg. The super-rich are silently and secretly shaping our world. In this exploration of historical and contemporary philanthropy, author Paul Vallely reveals how this far-reaching change came about. Vivid with anecdote and scholarly insight, this survey - from the ancient Greeks to today's high-tech geeks - provides...