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Professor Ian Goldin, Director of the Oxford Martin School, looks at what we mean by development and what citizens, governments and the international community can do to encourage it. Goldin explains how the notion of[...]
In this talk Professor Daniel Kammen, Oxford Martin Visiting Fellow at INET Oxford, will discuss the strategies emerging to cost-effectively decarbonise energy systems worldwide. This work integrates elements of the science and engineering of energy[...]
The Technology and Management Centre for Development at the Oxford Department of International Development invites you to our upcoming research seminars. These research seminars are intended to connect active researchers and students on the topics[...]
An introductory talk of about twenty minutes, followed by Q&As and an hour or so’s discussion among the audience. You’re welcome to come along just to listen, or to take an active part in the[...]
British proposals to reform the EU aim to reduce European integration. One may agree or disagree, but these proposals should not be ignored because they put forward dilemmas about the nature of the EU, a[...]
For most of the world’s toughest challenges, there exists a tension between the needs of an individual and what is best for the common good. Income derived from fishing may be vital to one country’s[...]
The Technology and Management Centre for Development at the Department of International Development will be hosting two research seminars in the coming weeks – The afternoons of May 19 and June 1st. We invite researchers[...]
Three high-profile SPC alumni return to their college to discuss the impending EU Referendum in a forum chaired by the Master, Mark Damazer CBE. Join the Editor of the Sunday Times, Martin Ivens (BA Modern[...]
Is there anything wrong with putting a price on health, education, citizenship, and the environment? Where do markets serve the public good, and where do they not belong? Join us for a lively discussion with[...]
It is difficult to resolve the global warming free-rider externality problem by negotiating many different quantity targets. By contrast, negotiating a single internationally-binding minimum carbon price (the proceeds from which are domestically retained) counters pure[...]
Ludo, snakes & ladders and draughts are all popular pastimes, but in the past couple of decades a new generation of board games from designers with backgrounds in maths and science has begun to break[...]
The Las Casas Institute presents a day-long conference on money as a prism through which we often view the world and its challenges. Join theologians, economists, and other experts in discussing what money reveals and[...]
Speakers: -Jonathan Scheele (Senior Member, St Antony’s College and Head of Representation at the European Commission Representation in the UK, 2010-12) -Michael Weatherburn (Imperial College and Foundation for European Progressive Studies) -Lise Butler (Pembroke College[...]
Jonathon Porritt and Shaun Chamberlin celebrate the launch of the late Trinity alumnus David Fleming’s extraordinary book, ‘Surviving the Future: Culture, Carnival and Capital in the Aftermath of the Market Economy’. This intimate event will[...]
Between 1995 and 2011, remittances to developing world economies, that is, money sent by emigrants to family and friends in their country of origin, grew from US$55 billion to over US$372 billion, to exceed all[...]
Inequality is centre-stage in political debate both globally and in individual countries, being blamed for everything from Brexit to stagnating wages and growth. Professor Brian Nolan, Director of the Oxford Martin Programme on Inequality and[...]
Our present laws attacking conflict of interest and corruption came into existence during years of blistering financial and political corruption scandals in early Hanoverian England, notably the 1720 South Sea Bubble. But there was also[...]
Delivering reliable drinking water to millions of rural people in Africa and Asia is an elusive and enduring global goal. A systematic information deficit on the performance of and demand for infrastructure investments limits policy[...]
Centre for Global Politics, Economics and Society seminar series
A twenty minute talk to introduce the topic, followed by Q&As and about an hour’s discussion. All welcome.
Baroness Helena Kennedy, QC is Principal of Mansfield College, a prominent barrister and a Labour member of the House of Lords. Author of “Eve was Framed: Women and British Justice” (1992). Anthony Barnett is a[...]
Centre for Global Politics, Economics and Society seminar series
Distinguished Speaker Seminar: Michael Bloomberg Michael Bloomberg in conversation with Peter Tufano Thursday 17 November 2016, 5.45 – 6.45pm Oxford Saïd is excited to announce that Michael R. Bloomberg, Founder of Bloomberg LP and former[...]
Drawing on his expertise as former Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme, Achim Steiner, Director of the Oxford Martin School, will present the latest trends and explore the varied challenges of a global[...]
For the final event in our series, we’re bringing together a panel of experts to discuss approaches to tackling inequality. Each panellist will draw on their own research and experience to put forward a response[...]
Helena Chance, author of The Factory in the Garden: A History of Corporate Landscapes from the Industrial to the Digital Age (Manchester University Press, 2017), discusses the evolution of corporate landscapes following the Second World[...]
Writer, artiest and award-winning documentarian whose paintings have been exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery; author of “Creating Freedom: Power, Control and the Fight For Our Future” (2016), which explores freedom through the lens of[...]
This lecture is a joint event between the Oxford Martin School and The Institute of New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School Dishonest practices brought to light by the 2008 crisis have raised questions[...]
Lord Browne of Madingley is presently Chairman of L1 Energy, the Chairman of Trustees of both the Tate and the QEII Prize for Engineering, and Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Blavatnik School of[...]
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