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Lionel Robbins Memorial Lectures
Lionel Robbins Memorial Lectures: Designing Policies for Growth - The Layers of Growth Policy Design
Philippe Aghion (Collège de France; Harvard University and LSE)
Monday 19 January 2009 18:30 - 20:00
Sheikh Zayed Theatre, Cheng Kin Ku Building, LSE, 54 Lincoln's Inn Fields, WC2A 3LJ
Lionel Robbins Memorial Lectures 2009
Designing Policies for Growth
Speaker: Professor Philippe Aghion, Robert C. Waggoner Professor of Economics, Harvard University
Dates: Monday 19, Tuesday 20, Wednesday 21 January 2009
Time: 18.30pm
Lecture Summaries and Recordings:
Lecture 1: The Layers of Growth Policy Design
Chaired by Professor Danny QuahThis lecture will lay down the framework to think about growth policy design. It will argue that growth policy should involve several layers of intervention: (i) knowledge; (ii) market reforms (with the issue of industrial policy); (iii) culture and trust to secure market reforms; (iv) growth-compatible macroeconomic policy over the cycle.
- Lecture I: The Layers of Growth Policy Design (19 Feb 2009)
Listen to Podcast: MP3 | Watch Videocast: Vodcast
Lecture 2: Growth and the Environment
Chaired by Mr Christopher JohnsonLecture 2 will discuss how policies that induce directed technical change can be designed so as to maximize sustainable growth in a world with environmental constraints
- Lecture II: Growth and the Environment (20 Feb 2009)
Listen to Podcast: MP3 | Watch Videocast: Vodcast
Lecture 3: Growth and Culture: Regulation and Trust
Chaired by Sir Howard DaviesThe final lecture will focus on the relationship between market reforms and trust. It will try to explain: (i) why countries with higher levels of trust and social capital tend to be countries with less regulated product and labor markets; (ii) why countries with lower levels of social capital are also countries with higher demand for more regulations; (iii) why fast deregulation in a low-trust country leads o further reductions in trust.
- Lecture III: Growth and Culture: Regulation and Trust (21 Feb 2009)
Listen to Podcast: MP3 | Watch Videocast: Vodcast
About the Speaker: Philippe Aghion is Robert C. Waggoner Professor of Economics at Harvard University. His main research areas are growth economics and the theory of organizations. With Peter Howitt he published “Endogenous Growth Theory” (1998, MIT Press), which develops the so-called Schumpeterian growth paradigm. His more recent work analyzes the relationship between growth and market structure (“Competition and Growth”, with Rachel Griffith, 2005, MIT Press), growth and education (“Higher Education and Growth”, Gorman Lectures), and between growth and organizations.
For more information, please contact Jo Cantlay on 020 7955 7285 or by email at j.m.cantlay@lse.ac.uk.
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This event will take place in Sheikh Zayed Theatre, Cheng Kin Ku Building, LSE, 54 Lincoln's Inn Fields, WC2A 3LJ.
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