This discussion was held on Tuesday 14th May from 17:30-19:00 BST in person at UCL IIPP or online via Zoom.
Building on the previous lecture exploring the roots of the 2008 financial crisis, this talk will look at the long term consequences of the crisis and both the political and economic policy response. It will focus on the combination of bailout, austerity and quantitative easing, as well as the price of those policies in terms of economic performance and political stability.
To conclude this discussion on the 2008 financial crash and the crisis in neoliberal economics, the lecture will explore the intellectual opening the crisis created and the ideas that have stemmed from it.
The lecture is presented by Professor Damon Silvers, Visiting Professor of Practice at UCL IIPP and Former Deputy Chair of the US Congressional Oversight Panel for Troubled Asset Relief Program.
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5/15/2024
The first of two lectures, this discussion will look at the 2008 financial crisis and will seek to dispel a number of myths that have spread about the crisis since. It will examine the deep roots of the crisis in the neoliberal economic model, the nature of how the crisis emerged and unfolded, and the core character of the policy response of the countries at its centre.
The lecture is presented by Professor Damon Silvers, Visiting Professor of Practice at UCL IIPP and Former Deputy Chair of the US Congressional Oversight Panel for Troubled Asset Relief Program.
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5/10/2024
The first public talk as part of the UCL IIPP Labour and Climate Change Series 2024 will explore the nature of climate change as both a political economy problem and an engineering problem, the implications of the increasingly alarming science of climate change, the nature of state action required to effectively fight climate change in the closing window we have left, and the critical role of workers, their unions and their political organisations in providing the political backing necessary for effective climate policy.
The lecture is presented by Professor Damon Silvers and was recorded on the 25th April 2024
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4/29/2024
This panel discussion will look at mission-oriented policy-making and state-building for the Global Majority, exploring how issues of race, empire, class and coloniality intersect with IIPP founder Prof. Mariana Mazzucato’s framework for economic development laid out in ‘The Entrepreneurial State’.
The panel will ask what it means to bring the histories, perspectives and voices of the Global Majority to the forefront across the social sciences - particularly in a context of increased geopolitical fragmentation, complexity and interdependence, and identify the key challenges in implementing the concept of ‘The Entrepreneurial State’ across the geographically and politically diverse Global South.
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3/25/2024
The second talk in The Pre and Post-History of Brexit - Race, Class and Finance in the Making of British Economic Strategy Lecture Series will look at the economic trap of post-Brexit, post financial crisis Britain, and why escaping from the growth trap Britain is in will require rethinking Britain's fundamental economic strategy in the neoliberal era.
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5/22/2023
The first talk in The Pre and Post-History of Brexit - Race, Class and Finance in the Making of British Economic Strategy Lecture Series will look at the prehistory of Brexit and its roots in the post-imperial crisis of British industry and the neoliberal approach to British political economy of successive British governments in the 1990's during the high tide of European integration. The focus will be on the centrality of issues of race, class and empire to the economic fate of post-imperial Britain.
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5/11/2023
The second talk in the Neoliberalism as a Global System: Private Power and Public Weakness Lecture Series focus' on the consequences of neoliberalism for the capacity of states to effectively address major problems in global society against the background of challenges such as climate change, and looks at possible post-neoliberal futures. The lectures draw upon the rapidly growing academic literature on neoliberalism and Professor Silvers' personal experiences in public policy making in the neoliberal age.
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5/4/2023