CEP Public Events
Co-hosted with the LSE Department of Economics and Centre for Macroeconomics
Creative destruction, AI, and the European recovery
Philippe Aghion (Collège de France; INSEAD and LSE)
Tuesday 24 February 2026 18:30 - 20:00
This event is both online and in person.
Sheikh Zayed Theatre, Cheng Kin Ku Building, LSE, 54 Lincoln's Inn Fields, WC2A 3LJAbout this event
Join us for this special event with LSE's Philippe Aghion, joint recipient of the 2025 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
Philippe Aghion will show how the Schumpeterian growth paradigm can shed light on recent history debates (secular stagnation, middle-income trap, European decline, impacts of AI) and be used to rethink capitalism.
Spekaer and chair
Philippe Aghion is the 2025 Nobel Prize laureate in economics, a professor LSE and the College de France and an associate of the Centre for Economic Performance. He is a fellow of the Econometric Society and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His research focuses on the economics of growth. With Peter Howitt, he pioneered the so-called Schumpeterian Growth paradigm which was subsequently used to analyse the design of growth policies and the role of the state in the growth process.
Larry Kramer has been President and Vice Chancellor of LSE since April 2024. A constitutional scholar, university administrator, and philanthropic leader, he was previously the President of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Dean of Stanford Law School.
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Directions
This event will take place in Sheikh Zayed Theatre, Cheng Kin Ku Building, LSE, 54 Lincoln's Inn Fields, WC2A 3LJ.
The building is labelled CKK on the LSE campus map. You can also find us on Google Maps. For further information, go to contact us.