Spring 2011 | Public lectures and events | Video

London School of Economics and Political Science•www.lse.ac.uk

Video files from LSE's spring 2011 programme of public lectures and events, for more recordings and pdf documents see the corresponding audio collection.

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Politics, Power, Cities

Contributor(s): Enrique Peñalosa | Enrique Peñalosa, former Mayor of Bogotá and one of the world's most challenging urban thinkers, describes the urgent need for governments to create socially inclusive and well-designed transport systems, public spaces and cities. Addressing mobility, public space, equity, quality of life and social inclusion, Peñalosa will propose that inequality and exclusion are the main causes of the problems that affect cities in developing countries, particularly issues r...

Jan 11, 2011•1 hr 31 min

Facing Disaster In the Middle East: Do We Have Only Bad Options?

Contributor(s): Stephen Kinzer | American and European policies toward the Middle East have produced a region immersed in violence, terror, anger and oppression. Yet although new and terrifying threats are emerging from the region, new opportunities also present themselves. To seize on them, the West needs to change policies that were shaped for the Cold War. Kinzer offers ideas for a new approach to the world's most turbulent region. Stephen Kinzer is the author of Reset Middle East(I.B.Tauris)...

Jan 10, 2011•1 hr 14 min

The Naked Swimmer: Can Spain (and the Euro) overcome this crisis?

Contributor(s): Professor Luis Garicano | Spain is widely considered the weak link in the Euro construction. We examine the validity of this assumption by analysing the origins and evolution of the current crisis and the growth perspectives of Spain. Luis Garicano is a Professor of Economics and Strategy at the LSE's departments of Management and Economics. Through the Madrid based FEDEA foundation, he has been involved in efforts to promote structural reforms in the Spanish Economy. In particul...

Jan 10, 2011•1 hr 11 min

The Moral Importance of the Difference between the Unity of the Individual and the Separateness of Persons

Contributor(s): Dr Alex Voorhoeve | Individual lives have a unity that the lives of separate individuals do not. This truism has radical, and not fully appreciated, implications for distributive ethics. Alex Voorhoeve is senior lecturer in philosophy at LSE's Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method.

Jan 10, 2011•1 hr 20 min

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