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Videos from LSE’s programme of public lectures and events in 2013
Saving the Arab Spring: economic development in the Middle East
The Challenges of Engaged Development in Brazil: Homage to Albert Hirschman…
Margaret Thatcher – Not For Turning
Polis Journalism Conference 2013: How to build trust in your journalism?
Polis Journalism Conference 2013: How to use social media for journalism
Polis Journalism Conference 2013: Trust In Europe
What should economists and policymakers learn from the financial crisis?
Scarcity, Abundance, Excess: Towards a Social Theory of Too Much
The Human in Politics
Euro-crisis & Greece
Greece’s way out of the crisis
India – Macroeconomic Challenges, Some Reserve Bank Perspectives
Does Eastern Europe Still Exist?
Unintended Consequences of the New Financial Regulations
Do Women Make Good Political Leaders?
Off the edge of history: the world in the 21st century
Media Representation and the Global Imagination
Live from Downing Street: The inside story of power, politics and the media
International Relations as a Social Science
Putinism: the ideology
Heroic Achievement or Folly, What Would Kapuscinski Make of Development Today
Masters of the Universe: Hayek, Friedman, and the Birth of Neoliberal Politics
The Foreign Policy Dilemmas of the US Administration in the Next Four Years