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The Spectre of State Capitalism - Dr Ilias Alami
The state is back, and it means business. Since the turn of the 21st century, state-owned enterprises, sovereign funds, and policy banks have vastly expanded their control over assets and markets. Concurrently, governments have experimented with increasingly assertive modalities of statism, from techno-industrial policies and spatial development strategies to economic nationalism and trade and investment restrictions. This book argues that we are currently witnessing a historic arc in the trajectories of state intervention, characterized by a drastic reconfiguration of the state's role as promoter, supervisor, shareholder-investor, and direct owner of capital across the world economy. It offers a comprehensive analysis of this “new state capitalism”, as commentators increasingly refer to it, and maps out its key empirical manifestations across a range of geographies, cases, and issue areas.
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11/18/2024
About the Department of Economics
Short video about the Department. Wendy Carlin speaker
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7/18/2024
Why the 2008 Financial Crisis Is Still With Us - Bailouts, Austerity and the Crisis of Democracy
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 2008 Financial Crisis - Why and How it Happened
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 Politics of Platform Regulation: How Governments Shape Online Content Moderation
As digital platforms have become more integral to not just how we live, but also to how we do politics, the rules governing online expression, behaviour, and interaction created by large multinational technology firms --- popularly termed ‘content moderation,’ ‘platform governance,’ or ‘trust and safety’ --- have increasingly become the target of government regulatory efforts seeking to shape them. This book provides a conceptual and empirical analysis of this important and emerging tech policy terrain of ‘platform regulation.’ How, why, and where exactly is it happening? Why now? And how do we best understand the vast array of strategies being deployed across jurisdictions to tackle this issue? Speaker: Dr Robert Gorwa Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Discussant: Marisol Manfredi PhD Candidate of Sustainable Development & Climate Change (IUSS Pavia + University of Pisa), Chair: Dr Cecilia Rikap Head of Research & Associate Prof in Economics, IIPP
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5/8/2024
Lessons from Bidenomics and the US Auto Strike, the British Steel Industry, and the Global South
The second lecture in the Labour and Climate Change series will look at four case studies over the last two years—President Biden’s massive climate-related public investment agenda and the response from US trade unions, the effort to decarbonise the British steel industry, the attempt to phase out the South African coal mining industry, and the effort by President Lula to decarbonise Brazil’s economy after years of climate denial under his predecessor. In each case, the interactions of government, labour parties, and labour unions provides lessons about what to do and not to do to fight climate change effectively, both in the developed and the developing world. The lecture will be presented by Professor Damon Silvers
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5/2/2024
Gorman Lecture 1: Economic Policy to Combat Climate Change
How can economic policy be used to address global warming? The first lecture will cover the basic natural-science background, collected into a set of important “stylized facts”. Taken together, these facts strongly suggest that we should limit the emissions of greenhouse gases significantly, but leave open how to best achieve this goal. The second lecture will address the “how” and argue that economic analysis offers very useful tools to this end. It will thus use these tools to compare the pros and cons of different kinds of policy suggestions and end with a discussion of the climate policy strategies adopted in the EU and in the U.S.
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1/4/2024
Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World
In his new book Our Lives in Their Portfolios: Why Asset Managers Own the World, Brett Christophers (Professor of Human Geography at Uppsala University) peels back the veil on what he calls ‘asset manager society’ – a society in which the natural and built environment becomes one more vehicle of siphoning money from the many to the few. Asset managers, he shows, are unlike traditional owners of housing and other essential infrastructure. Buying and selling these life-supporting assets at a dizzying pace, the crux of their business model is not long-term investment and careful custodianship but making quick profits for themselves and the investors that back them. As the owners of more and more of the basic building blocks of everyday life, asset managers shape the lives of each and every one of us. In his talk, Brett Christophers will dive into how and why this came about, and what the consequences are. Chair: Mariana Mazzucato | Director, IIPP Discussant: Stefan Horn
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12/19/2023