Spring 2007 | Public lectures and events | Audio and pdf

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Spring 2007 | Public lectures and events | Audio and pdf

Audio and pdf files from LSE's spring 2007 programme of public lectures and events.

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  1. 03/13/2007

    Understanding the Equity Premium Puzzle

    Contributor(s): Professor George Constantinides | Professor Constantanides is one of the most prominent and creative research scholars in the field of financial economics, in particular of theories of asset and derivatives pricing. He will present theoretical and empirical research on three classes of generalizations of the standard neoclassical model and will discuss their contribution towards a better understanding of equity risk premium.

    1h 8m

  2. 02/22/2007

    Contracts Reference Points and the Theory of the Firm

    Contributor(s): Professor Oliver Hart | This lecture launches two new annual lecture series, the Coase Lecture and the Phillips Lecture. These names reflect the authorship of the two most famous articles ever published in Economica (the 'Phillips Curve' article was the most heavily-cited macroeconomics title of the 20th century; Ronald Coase won the Nobel Prize for his work on the theory of the firm which began with his Economica article). In this inaugural Coase lecture, Oliver Hart will discuss how his recent work with John Moo

    1h 20m

  3. 02/21/2007

    Which way China? Will the world's most populous country embrace sustainable development? Is Dongtan City - Shanghai's new eco-city - the model for saving our cities and sustainable urban development?

    Contributor(s): Prof. Herbie Girardet, Isabel Hilton | Dongtan Eco-City, has been widely publicised and is regarded as a flagship model for sustainable urban development. But as China continues to urbanise with amazing rapidity, will such projects become mainstream? Can China avoid ever more national and global environmental damage in the all-out rush to grow its cities and its economy?

    1h 30m

  4. 02/19/2007

    From Kabila to Kabila: what else is new?

    Contributor(s): Professor Rene Lemarchand | Professor Lemarchand will consider the prospects for peace and stability in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the wake of the country's recent elections. Copyright (c)

    1h 40m

  5. 02/05/2007

    Psychology as Social Science

    Contributor(s): Professor Nikolas Rose | This talk considers what it means to approach psychology as a 'social' science in a specific sense - that is to say it sketches out an approach to the analysis of the part that psychology - its languages, techniques, forms of expertise, self-technologies - played across the twentieth century in the development of social-welfare rationalities and technologies of government. Copyright (c)

    1h 28m

  6. 01/22/2007

    The Kosovo Precedent? Secession and Frozen Conflicts

    Contributor(s): Dr Florian Bieber, Professor Bruno Coppieters | This roundtable discussion will explore the concept of secession by placing the experience of Kosovo in a comparative context. Copyright (c)

    1h 32m
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