JOHN KAY, CBE, FBA, Fellow of St John’s College, is a former Financial Times columnist andauthor of several books including ‘Other People’s Money’.

John Kay explains why he fell in love with economics, what big banks and taxi drivers have in common, where modern finance has gone wrong, why economists should admit there are somethings you cannot predict, and previews the new book he is working on with his old colleague Mervyn King.

Sir Muir Gray and Lucy Abel debate: Is value-based health care nothing more than health econimics re-packaged or is health economics nothing more than only one of the six contributors to value-based healthcare?

Health economics is concerned with how to allocate resources in healthcare to optimise outcomes. Health economists have developed a variety of methods to evaluate whether the cost of providing healthcare interventions is worth the benefits. In other words, whether they are good value. These are based on preferences expressed by wider society relating to the value of increasing the length and quality of life. These values can be applied to an intervention by linking them via clinical outcomes.

Value-based healthcare’s concern with technical, personal, and allocative value are defined as, respectively, whether an intervention improves clinical outcomes; whether those clinical outcomes are meaningful for patients; and whether those improved outcomes are worth the costs. In this way it covers the same core principles as health economics, while ignoring over 50 years of research in this field.

Recent attempts to implement value-based healthcare have ignored issues such as interaction between interventions and fully considering opportunity cost. As a result, value-based healthcare adds little to the existing body of research, and diverts investment from proven methods, which risks reducing the value achievable in the NHS.

Sir Muir Gray is now working with both NHS England and Public Health England to bring about a transformation of care with the aim of increasing value for both populations and individuals and published a series of How To Handbooks for example, How to Get Better Value Healthcare, How To Build Healthcare Systems and How To Create the Right Healthcare Culture.

His hobby is ageing and how to cope with it and he has published books for publish a book for people aged seventy called Sod 70! one for the younger decade called Sod 60! This with Dr Claire Parker, and his book for people aged 40-60, titled Midlife, appeared in January 2017. Other books in series on Sod Ageing are Sod it, Eat Well, with Anita Bean and Sod Sitting, Get Moving with Diana Moran, the Green Goddess. For people of all ages Dr Gray’s Walking Cure summarises the evidence on this wonderful means of feeling well, reducing the risk of disease and minimising disability should disease strike.

Lucy Abel is a health economist working within the field of primary care and is part of the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences at the University of Oxford. She collaborates with research groups to bring the tools of economic evaluation to primary care health science research.

This talk is being held as part of the Practice of Evidence-Based Health Care course which is part of the Evidence-Based Health Care Programme. This is a free event and members of the public are welcome to attend.

There is mounting evidence that the planet’s capacity to sustain a growing human population, expected to be over 8 billion by 2030, is declining. The degradation of the planet’s air, water and land, combined with significant loss in biodiversity, is also resulting in substantial health impacts, including the reduction of food security and nutrition, and the spread of disease. Will our planetary boundaries be surpassed if current trends continue?

In this talk, Professor Yadvinder Malhi, Co-Director, Oxford Martin TNC Climate Partnership, will discuss the metabolism of a human – dominated planet, while Kate Raworth, author of Doughnut Economics, will ask if it is possible – as she puts it – “to live well without trashing the planet”.

There will be a drinks reception and book signing after the talk, all welcome.

Kumar Iyer, visiting academic at Hertford College and partner with consultants Oliver Wyman, will present findings from a study examining the potential impacts of Brexit on business. The talks will be followed by a brief discussion. All are welcome: please pre-register using the Eventbrite link.
Please note that unfortunately there is no disabled access to the Baring Room.

Talk followed by questions and discussion

Book Launch with Author & Translator: Yan Ge (顏歌)’s The Chilli Bean Paste Clan, translated by Nicky Harman

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2018/May/07 Monday 5-7PM Ho Tim Seminar Room, China Centre, St Hugh’s College, Oxford

Open and free of charge for all

Supported by: Oxford Chinese Studies Society

To welcome everyone back to Oxford in this Trinity Term, we have invited one of the most important writers of China’s post-1980 generation, Yan Ge, to share with us her experiences as a young writer in China and abroad. She will bring her seminal work, The Chilli Bean Paste Clan (《我們家》in Chinese, published in 2013), and discuss issues of family, language, morality, capitalism and more, with the novel’s English translator Nicky Harman. The Chilli Bean Paste Clan the English translation will be published by Balestier Press and available on the market from the 1st of May, 2018, adding a fresh voice in the growing field of literature in translation.

Synopsis of The Chilli Bean Paste Clan:

Set in a fictional town in West China, this is the story of the Duan-Xue family, owners of the lucrative chilli bean paste factory, and their formidable matriarch. As Gran’s eightieth birthday approaches, her middle-aged children get together to make preparations. Family secrets are revealed and long-time sibling rivalries flare up with renewed vigour. As Shengqiang struggles unsuccessfully to juggle the demands of his mistress and his wife, the biggest surprises of all come from Gran herself……

Professor David Der-wei Wang 王德威 of Harvard University has commented on Yan Ge and her work and hinted that she might signal a generational shift in the Chinese literary scene:
“She writes about her hometown. The stories in a small Sichuanese town are greatly done. She has her own worldviews, and frankly speaking, she is of a very fortunate generation. What she may have encountered as she grew up is not as tumultuous or adventurous as the writers that came before her, and therefore the factor of imagination has gradually come to matter more than experiences in reality.
她写她的故乡，四川一个小城的故事，写得很好。她有她的世界观，但坦白地讲，他们都是有幸的一代，在她成长的过程里面，她所遭遇的不如过去那辈作家有那么多的坎坷或者冒险性，所以，想象的成分已经逐渐地凌驾了现实经验的体会。”

This event will be of interest to those of you who work on contemporary China, Chinese literature, translation studies, and publishing. The conversation between Yan Ge and Nicky Harman will last around 30 minutes and we will leave plenty of time for critical dialogues, Q & A and discussions.

Books available for purchase at a discounted rate.

Speaker biography:

Yan Ge was born in Sichuan Province, China in 1984. She is a writer as well as a Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Literature. Publishing since 1994, she is the author of eleven books in Chinese. Her works have been translated into English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, and Hungarian. She was a visiting scholar at Duke University from 2011 to 2012 and a residency writer at the Cross Border Festival in Netherlands in November 2012. Named by People’s Literature magazine as one of twenty future literature masters in China, she is now the chairperson of China Young Writers’ Association and a contract writer of Sichuan Writers’ Association. She recently started writing in English. Her English stories could be seen on Irish Times and Stand Magazine. She lives in Dublin with her husband and son.

Nicky Harman is a British translator of Chinese literature, and one of the most influential figures in the field. She is co-Chair of the Translators Association (Society of Authors) and co-founded Paper Republic 纸托邦, one of the most important online forums for Chinese literatures in translation. She taught on the MSc in Translation at Imperial College until 2011 and now translates full-time from Chinese. The authors she has translated include Jia Pingwa贾平凹，Yan Geling 严歌苓，Chan Koon-chung 陈冠中，Annibaobei 安妮宝贝，Chen Xiwo陈希我，Yan Ge颜歌，and Han Dong韩东, to name just a few. She has won several awards with her translations.

How do we define a sound or a taste for which our language does not have a dedicated word?

Typically, we borrow words from another sensory modality. Wines, for example, are often described by words that belong to other sensory perceptions: a “soft flavour” borrows the adjective soft from the domain of touch, and a “round taste” borrows the adjective round from the domain of sight.

It remains an interesting open issue to what extent these cross-sensory metaphors are universal across languages, and to what extent they are language-specific.

Dr Francesca Strik Lievers will address these questions and provide an overview of the latest scientific discoveries in the field, using examples taken from different languages. Her talk will be followed by an opportunity for questions.

The event is organised and hosted by Creative Multilingualism in collaboration with TORCH. Creative Multilingualism is a research programme led by the University of Oxford and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council as part of the Open World Research Initiative.

Participation is free and open to the public. We provide FREE LUNCH to all participants.

12.30-13.00 – lunch and mingling

13.00-14.00 – talk and discussion

The Making of the Indonesian Migrant Labour Movement
Junko Asano (St Antony’s, International Development)

The Bold and Brave of Burma:
A Micro-Level Study of the first Movers of Dissent between 1988-2011
Jieun Baek (Hertford, Blavatnik School of Government)

The Politics of Language and Rodrigo Duterte’s Populism
Adrian Calo (School of Oriental and African Languages, London)

The Making of the Indonesian Migrant Labour Movement
Junko Asano (St Antony’s, International Development)

The Bold and Brave of Burma:
A Micro-Level Study of the first Movers of Dissent between 1988-2011
Jieun Baek (Hertford, Blavatnik School of Government)

The Politics of Language and Rodrigo Duterte’s Populism
Adrian Calo (School of Oriental and African Languages, London)

Professor Glen O’Hara will examine why governments get things so wrong, so often. He will ask how history can be used to improve public policy making.

Britain’s exit from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism in 1992 and the Second Iraq War in 2003 are two infamous examples of disastrous policy, but governments blunder all the time – whatever party is in power. Infrastructure projects overrun. The aims and techniques of different departments clash. Scandals erupt among officials and politicians. Controversies stymie attempts at agreement and consensus. But why exactly do these failures happen? Are they more or less widespread than in the private sector? And can studying British governments’ decision-making across the twentieth century improve it in the future?

Glen will recommend a slow, deliberative, transparent, democratic and above all humble and sensitive approach in order to avoid another Black Wednesday or ruinous war.

Bill Browder, CEO and Founder of Hermitage Capital Management, Head of Global Magnitsky Justice Campaign and author of “Red Notice, How I Became Putin’s Number One Enemy”

Speaker: Jacques Rupnik (Sciences Po Paris)

Oxfam CEO Mark Goldring CBE, one of the most high profile figures in the world of charity and NGO’s, will be speaking in a very topical and well timed event to The Oxford Guild, Oxford PPE Society and UNICEF on Campus on Tuesday 22nd May from 6.15pm in the Dorfman Centre of St Peter’s College. As CEO of Oxfam GB, one of the most famous and high profile charitable organisations in the world (which has recently been in the news a huge amount), Mark Goldring brings the needs of the world’s poorest people to a global stage – working with high level government and business leaders and influencing them to act decisively against the causes of poverty. Goldring is chair of the British Overseas Aid Group (BOAG), an umbrella agency representing the 5 biggest NGOs in the UK: Oxfam, ActionAid, CAFOD, Christian Aid and Save the Children. He also manages Oxfam’s programmes in 55 countries; the organisation’s annual income of nearly £400m and thousands of staff and volunteers. He will be talking about the important issue of ‘Reducing Inequality, Ending Poverty: Politics, Philosophy or Economics?’ This will undoubtedly be one of the most TOPICAL AND FASCINATING EVENTS OF THE YEAR and a truly unique opportunity to hear from such a high profile speaker who will be sharing his vast range of experiences and insights over an extensive career. The event is 100% FREE AND OPEN TO ALL and is NOT TO BE MISSED! PLEASE REGISTER YOUR INTEREST HERE: https://goo.gl/forms/J87DUDnXVMY8vJqW2

Goldring’s considerable services to tackling poverty and disadvantage were recognised in 2008 with a CBE.Under his leadership, Oxfam, the international NGO reached more than 13 million people direct last year – and through its influence, improved the lives of many more. This involved responding to emergencies, developing long-term projects for poor communities and campaigning for lasting change. Goldring has decades of experience in international development. He was chief executive of VSO (Voluntary Service Overseas) and worked in the field for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID), and Oxfam too, as Bangladesh country director in the 90s. Before joining Oxfam, Goldring was chief executive of Mencap, the UK’s leading disability charity. In his five years there, he led the continued growth of the charity’s support services and positioned it as a leading influencer on national disability and social care policy. In recent years, he has also served as vice-chair of AMREF UK, the African health charity; as a board member of Accenture Development Partnerships; chair of the board of charity Revolving Doors and trustee of BRAC – the Bangladesh-based development agency. Goldring read law at Oxford and has a Masters in social policy and planning in developing countries from the London School of Economics.

The digital revolution marks a profound transformation of society, on par with the great general purpose technologies of the past two centuries: the steam engine, internal combustion engine, and electrification. Each reshaped the economy, nature of work, geography of human settlements, and politics. So too is the digital revolution reshaping 21st century society. Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs’ talk will focus on the basic economics of the digital revolution and the implications for jobs and the distribution of income. Professor Sachs will discuss several key economic policy implications of the digital era.

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“Food is the new oil and land is the new gold” Lester Brown, founder of the Earth Policy Institute

The planet’s poorest 2 billion people spend over 50% percent of their income on food. Global food prices have doubled in the past decade. Rising temperatures, changing rainfall, eroding soils and shrinking water reserves are threatening the world’s largest food production regions. Climate change is set to hit 2.5 degrees by 2100. Population is on course to reach 10 billion by 2050. With governments in the Middle East and Africa teetering as a result of price spikes, and expanding markets sustaining one climate shock after another, food is quickly becoming the hidden driver of world politics.

Yet food-related Armageddon has been predicted before. And Malthus’ prophesies have not yet come to pass. In the past, industrialisation and the Green Revolution have staved off mass famine. What will it be today? Laboratory-grown protein? GM crops? Sustainable agriculture? Edible insects?

Join us for our panel discussion on “Devouring the Earth. How to feed 10 billion in the face of climate change”. Leading figures from the world of politics, business, science and activism will join together to discuss the challenges and solutions of managing our food systems in the 21st century. Book tickets for what promises to be a lively debate and the opportunity to put your questions to the panel!

One of the biggest failings of European governments over the past 25 years has been their unwillingness to explain to their electorates the profoundly changing dynamics of the global economy and the pressures this will place on their economic future. European welfare systems and other aspects of the socio-economic contract have become increasingly unsustainable in this international context. Yet governments have tended to underplay the extent of the challenge, avoided or postponed necessary structural responses, and constructed fair-weather institutions to disguise the gaps between policy choices and needed reforms. The result has been deep popular resentment to the halting reform process, which is seen as helping preserve the riches of the few rather than creating fair opportunities in the future, and an erosion in public trust in established parties.

Can parties, politicians and governments recover in the coming years, and what will they need to do? What is the balance of responsibilities at the national and EU institutional levels? What risks might throw them off course?

Talk followed by questions and discussion

Solar energy, once a niche application for a limited market, has become the cheapest and fastest-growing power source on earth. What’s more, its potential is nearly limitless – every hour the sun beams down more energy than the world uses in a year. But Varun Sivaram, Fellow for science and technology at the Council on Foreign Relations, former Oxford researcher, and author of a new book, Taming the Sun, warns that the world is not yet equipped to harness erratic sunshine to meet most of its energy needs. And if solar’s current surge peters out, prospects for replacing fossil fuels and averting catastrophic climate change will dim.

Innovation can brighten those prospects, Sivaram will argue. Financial innovation is already enticing deep-pocketed investors to fund solar projects around the world, from the sunniest deserts to the poorest villages. Technological innovation could replace today’s solar panels with coatings as cheap as paint and employ artificial photosynthesis to store intermittent sunshine as convenient fuels. And systemic innovation could add flexibility to the world’s power grids and other energy systems so they can dependably channel the sun’s unreliable energy. Unleashing all this innovation will require visionary public policy: funding researchers developing next-generation solar technologies, refashioning energy systems and economic markets, and putting together a diverse clean energy portfolio.

This talk will be followed by a drinks reception and book signing, all welcome.

In this book colloquium, a panel will discuss the concluding volume of economist and historian Deirdre McCloskey’s trilogy celebrating the oft-derided virtues of the bourgeoisie — Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World.

There’s little doubt that most humans today are better off than their forebears. The poorest of humanity, McCloskey shows, will soon be joining the comparative riches of Japan and Sweden and Botswana.

Why? Most economists — from Adam Smith and Karl Marx to Thomas Piketty — say the Great Enrichment since 1800 came from accumulated capital. McCloskey disagrees, fiercely. “Our riches,” she argues, “were made not by piling brick on brick, bank balance on bank balance, but by piling idea on idea.” Capital was necessary, but it was ideas, not matter, that drove “trade-tested betterment.” Nor were institutions the drivers. The World Bank orthodoxy of “add institutions and stir” doesn’t work, and didn’t.

McCloskey builds a powerful case for the initiating role of ideas — ideas for electric motors and free elections, of course, but more deeply the bizarre and liberal ideas of equal liberty and dignity for ordinary folk. Liberalism arose from theological and political revolutions in northwest Europe, yielding a unique respect for betterment and its practitioners, and upending ancient hierarchies. Commoners were encouraged to have a go, and the bourgeoisie took up the Bourgeois Deal, and we were all enriched.

Few economists or historians write like McCloskey — her ability to invest the facts of economic history with the urgency of a novel, or of a leading case at law, is unmatched. She summarizes modern economics and modern economic history with verve and lucidity, yet sees through to the really big scientific conclusion. Not matter, but ideas.

Participants include:
Denis Galligan, Emeritus Professor of Socio-Legal Studies and Director of Programmes, Foundation for Law, Justice and Society, Oxford

Dr Christopher Decker, Economist and Research Fellow, Faculty of Law, Oxford

Praise for Bourgeois Equality
Bourgeois Equality is richly detailed and erudite, and it will join its companion volumes as essential reading
— Diane Coyle, The Financial Times

A sparkling book. . . . McCloskey makes a convincing case
— Martin Wolf, The Financial Times, Best Books of Early 2016

First elected MP for Twickenham in 1997 and now leader of the Liberal Democrats, Sir Vince Cable is a high profile political heavyweight. He is joined in conversation by BBC World Service UK Political Correspondent Rob Watson OW. They will discuss Sir Vince’s career, both as a parliamentarian and more recently as a novelist of a political thriller.

Helen Jukes, author of A Honeybee Heart Five Openings, and Caspar Henderson, author of A New Map of Wonders talk about honeybees and nature. All are welcome. 7.30pm on 16 July in the library in the Oxford Hub. More details here https://www.facebook.com/events/222901301824557/

Blackwell’s are delighted to be joined by William Davies, who will be discussing his new book, ‘Nervous States’.

Why do we no longer trust experts, facts and statistics?

Why has politics become so fractious and warlike?

What caused the populist political upheavals of recent years?

How can the history of ideas help us understand our present?

In this bold and far-reaching exploration of our new political landscape, William Davies reveals how feelings have come to reshape our world. Drawing deep on history, philosophy, psychology and economics, he shows how some of the fundamental assumptions that defined the modern world have dissolved. With advances in science and medicine, the division between mind and body is no longer so clear-cut. The spread of digital and military technology has left us not quite at war nor exactly at peace. In the murky new space between mind and body, between war and peace, lie nervous states: with all of us relying increasingly on feeling rather than fact.

In a book of profound insight and astonishing breadth, William Davies reveals the origins of this new political reality. Nervous States is a compelling and essential guide to the turbulent times we are living through.

William Davies is a Reader in Political Economy at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he is also Co-Director of the Political Economy Research Centre. His work focuses on the history of ideas and how expert knowledge shapes politics and society today. William has also written for The Guardian, The New Statesman, London Review of Books, New Left Review, openDemocracy, The New York Times and The Atlantic.

Tickets cost £5. Doors will open at 6:45pm, when there will be a bar selling a range of drinks until 7pm. For all enquiries please email events.oxford@blackwell.co.uk or call our Customer Service Department on 01865 333623.

This is a joint lecture with The Rockefeller Foundation Economic Council on Planetary Health at the Oxford Martin School

Technological innovation is critical to addressing planetary health challenges. What can be done to ensure that innovation systems and the new “Fourth Industrial Revolution” respond effectively with positive social, environmental and economic consequences? How can we ensure equality of the energy transition?

This is a joint event with INET@Oxford

Technological change involves many economic, social and individual human factors that are interwoven in a complex pattern; thus, technological change serves as an exemplar for a complex socio-technical system. Moreover, some individual factors central to technological change are challenging areas with more unknown than understood: among these areas are individual creative invention, scientific interplay with technology, new business formation, human/product interactions and others. In this lecture, technological change and socio-technical system expert, Chris Magee, Oxford Martin Visiting Fellow and Professor at the Institute for Data, Systems and Society at MIT will share a perspective that can help all of us better understand this phenomenon despite the complexity.

His focus on a major regularity displayed by all technological domains – a constant yearly percentage improvement in performance – and study of how these performance improvement percentage/rate varies over different technologies (but not over time) is one important foundation for this perspective. A second foundation is the wide interconnection among ideas and knowledge that drive improvements in domains that nonetheless have independent and different rates of improvement. Technological change, the process underlying the profound changes in society over the past 200 years – especially economic growth – is surprisingly decoupled from many societal and economic details.

This talk will be followed by a drinks reception, all welcome

INVALUABLE introduction to Economic and Financial Consulting event and valuation case study discussion with FTI Consulting on Monday 29th October (4th wk) from 6pm in Jesus College’s Ship Street Centre WITH LOTS OF FREE DRINKS – DO NOT MISS OUT! This will provide you with a unique and very useful introduction to the type of work that you could do as an economic and financial consultant and give you the inside tips and advice you need to get your foot in the door and ace your case study interviews. THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST USEFUL EVENTS YOU CAN ATTEND IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN CONSULTING! FTI Consulting is a world leading consultancy with over 4,700 employees in 28 countries. In our Economic and Financial Consulting practice we advise our clients on issues of business valuation, corporate strategy and economic regulation. Clients include corporations, law firms and government agencies and we answer questions such as: “should a major gas supplier be allowed to raise prices?”, “how can you improve the way services are paid for in the NHS?”, and “how do you value the cost of intellectual property theft?” We work on varied and challenging assignments across a wide spectrum of industries, including with our sector specialists in financial services, energy and renewables, healthcare, and telecoms.

This event (https://www.facebook.com/events/285682425488635/) will give real, truthful insight into life in economic and financial consulting, provide an overview of the industry and how it works and advise you on how to ace consulting interviews to land the best internships and jobs! If you’re applying for a job in consulting, the case study interviews can be toughest part of the whole process. This INVALUABLE EVENT is for any students (of all years and courses) who would like to pick up advice, practical experience, and tips on how to break into the industry and tackle the case study interviews. This will be an interactive, unique and exciting session. FOR ANYONE APPLYING FOR A CONSULTING ROLE THIS YEAR, THIS WILL BE INCREDIBLY USEFUL TO ATTEND – you will almost certain to be asked to do a case study and practice and advice makes perfect. Come along on Monday 29th October (4th wk) from 6pm to get an excellent introduction to the industry and its future and learn the skills that will help you to stand out and get the job/internship offer that you’ve been hoping for! REGISTER YOUR INTEREST ASAP: https://tinyurl.com/FTIConsultingOxford

All FTI Consulting’s graduates benefit from extensive in-house training, sponsorship to pursue either the Chartered Financial Analyst or Chartered Accountant qualification and the opportunity to transfer between our international offices. This year we are looking for 15 graduates to join our practice, as well as 5 summer interns. Here’s your chance to get your foot in the door, network in a comfortable setting OVER LOTS OF FREE FOOT AND DRINKS and find out more at an invaluable event. We welcome numerate and highly analytical students from any degree discipline. Students from all years are welcome to attend!

This is an event that is a must for any budding Consultant as it offers an invaluable insight into the industry, what it takes to be successful and the work involved and attending will help give you an edge when it comes to applications, interviews and assessment centres!

WHEN: 6pm, Monday 29th October (4th wk)
WHERE: Jesus College’s Ship Street Centre
REGISTER YOUR INTEREST HERE NOW: https://tinyurl.com/FTIConsultingOxford
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On Tuesday 30th October from 6pm we have an INVALUABLE and VERY EXCITING HSBC FLAGSHIP OXFORD EVENT on the Future of Global Markets & Finance: The Dealing Room of Tomorrow in the comfortable Surroundings of the Examination Schools. THIS IS NOT TO BE MISSED & IS ONE OF THE MOST USEFUL EVENTS OF THE ENTIRE YEAR! This ‘HOT TOPIC’ senior discussion and networking event will be led by senior Sales, Traders, Structurers and Quants from the Global Markets floor at HSBC. DO NOT MISS OUT on this incredible opportunity to take part in a very topical discussion with one of the leading banks IN THE WORLD, covering some major themes around the future of finance and developments in global markets from Brexit to emerging markets. If you are interested in exploring what a role in Sales, Trading, Structuring, Quantitative Analytics or Data Science could look like for you, then you should sign up to this event. REGISTER HERE ASAP: https://earlycareers.hsbc.gtios.com/candidate/Registration/EventRegistration.asp?GUID=7AF481A7-19D0-4C18-B6D8-A708945AEFA4

This event will help to provide you with the PRACTICAL SKILLS AND INSIDE KNOWLEDGE to ACE INTERVIEWS AND ASSESSMENT CENTRES and FURTHER YOUR CAREER, WHILST IMPROVING YOUR COMMERCIAL AWARENESS. These are exactly the kind of topics top firms ask about and use to assess you in interviews and assessment centres for SPRING WEEKS, INTERNSHIPS, FULL TIME JOBS and MORE! For any interview anywhere, not just at HSBC and in banking, you will need a good understanding of the world financial markets and events – THIS EVENTS PROVIDES YOU WITH AN EXCELLENT OVERVIEW IN A SHORT SPACE OF TIME!

There will be plenty of opportunity to ask questions and to find out about the challenges and opportunities for Global Markets and how this may affect your career. It will also give you an opportunity to find out which part of the business might suit your character and skills best.

You will also have the opportunity to network with a number of people at all levels across the Global Markets business OVER LOTS OF FREE DRINKS AND FOOD.

This promises to an invaluable event for anyone with a general interest in the world financial climate, or for those with upcoming applications who need to gain some additional knowledge and insight into the subject to take to their interviews and firms. HSBC’s huge expertise in this area, will propel you into your internships and jobs and impress your employers, helping you to convert interviews to offers. MAKE THE MOST OF THIS UNIQUE AND EXCITING OPPORTUNITY!

Intrigued by a career in markets, but want to know more? Want to get a first hand experience of the fast paced and intellectually stimulating world of markets? Every second of the day, the financial world shifts and changes, influenced by any number of economic, social, political or even environmental factors. Its reputation for pace and excitement is well founded – but what does it feel like to actually work there, and what do you need to succeed? This event is open to all Oxford University students, whether you’ve decided on a career in Banking or Markets or not, so whatever degree you are studying come along and discover more! This will be a truly fascinating insight into the work involved, latest developments and ways to get your foot into the door – DO NOT MISS OUT!

To attend this event you need to apply here: https://earlycareers.hsbc.gtios.com/candidate/Registration/EventRegistration.asp?GUID=7AF481A7-19D0-4C18-B6D8-A708945AEFA4 Places will be allocated on a first come first served basis, and are only open to University of Oxford students. Please arrive from 18:00 for registration and a 18:30 start. We look forward to meeting you!

WHEN: 6pm, Tuesday 30th October (4th wk)
WHERE: Examination Schools, Oxford
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This is a joint lecture with The Rockefeller Foundation Economic Council on Planetary Health at the Oxford Martin School

Governments, businesses and NGOs are developing new metrics and tools to value and measure social, environmental and economic change in the context of Sustainable Development Goals and planetary health. Current approaches face limitations in addressing temporal and spatial dimensions of natural capital value.

This talk will address emerging methodologies to measure natural capital and enable us to assess and measure ecological services and benefits more fully in economic analysis. The speakers will bring perspectives from the ecological science and economics.

This is a joint lecture with The Rockefeller Foundation Economic Council on Planetary Health at the Oxford Martin School

A concern for planetary health reflects the fact that global health outcomes are unlikely to be sustainable if they are achieved at the expense of the integrity of the very ecosystems human societies depend on. Indeed, the modern economy appears to treat global health and natural systems as substitutes: as we achieve more of the first, more of the second deteriorates. But there is also a different, under-explored, framing. Ecosystem integrity can be complementary to human health: under specific conditions, investing in the first can lead to improving returns on investments in the second. This is the thesis behind the idea of natural infrastructure. Investing in ecosystems for the purposes of achieving societal objectives, including global health, that can prove to be a good deal for both.

For example, some 2.1 billion people worldwide lack access to safe, readily available water at home, severely undermining health outcomes. With a growing share of the population also facing the effects of environmental degradation, integrated solutions that simultaneously advance nature conservation, water provision, and health would be a critical component of any solution. If these solutions then had the additional property of representing better value for money, they would represent attractive investment opportunities. Thus, including natural infrastructure in the narrative of planetary health requires proving that it is a viable, investable option to address both conservation and health objectives. There are promising examples that give hope. The challenge is to understand how public and private sector investment can fully value the potential of complementarity, and how to design coherent investment strategies that take full advantage of this opportunity at scale.

Blackwell’s are delighted to be hosting a very special event with Tom Kibasi on Prosperity and Justice: A Plan for the New Economy. The Final Report of the IPPR Commission on Economic Justice.

The UK economy is broken. It no longer provides rising living standards for the majority. Young people face an increasingly insecure future. The gap between rich and poor areas is widening. Meanwhile the rise of giant digital companies, the advance of automation, and catastrophic environmental degradation challenge the very foundations of our economic model.

This important book analyses these profound challenges and sets out a bold vision for change. The report of a group of leading figures from across British society, it explains how the deep weaknesses of the UK economy reflect profound imbalances of economic power. Its radical policy agenda for the 2020s includes new missions to drive productivity and innovation, an overhaul of our financial system, and reforms to improve wages, job quality and the redistribution of wealth.

Ten years after the financial crisis, as the UK confronts the challenge of Brexit, this is an urgent and compelling account of the reforms needed to build a new economy of prosperity, justice and environmental sustainability. It will set the terms of political and economic debate for years to come

Tom Kibasi is Director of the Institute for Public Policy Research, Chair of the IPPR Commission on Economic Justice and a principal author and editor of the Commission’s final report, ‘Prosperity and Justice: A Plan for the New Economy’. Under Tom’s leadership, IPPR has had significant impact in areas ranging from the real choices on Brexit, recasting the relationship between tech and society, and the funding and reform of the health and care system. Prior to joining IPPR, Tom spent more than a decade at McKinsey and Company, where he was a partner and held leadership roles in the healthcare practice in both London and New York. Tom helped government institutions with healthcare reform across a dozen countries in five continents and served international institutions, such as the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, and international foundations including the Rockefeller Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

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Professor Ian Goldin, Director of Oxford Martin Programme on Technological and Economic Change, will identify the economic impact of migration and examine how the contribution that migrants make has been overwhelmed by the politics. As Chair of the www.core-econ.org initiative to reform economics, Ian will locate the economics of migration within the broader need to reform economics.