St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar Series


2014-07-08 09:15: The Impact of Cambridge Social Science Research Workshop  (Professor Alan Hughes, University of Cambridge )

2015-01-21 18:00: 'In combating austerity, pure theory matters’ (Lord Eatwell (University of Cambridge))

2015-02-04 18:00: Acute Deficit Disorder:  Cause, Treatment and Cure (Professor John Weeks, SOAS, University of London)

2015-02-18 18:00: A Surplus of Ambition: Can Europe Solve its Debt Problems by Running Primary Surpluses? (Professor Barry Eichengreen, University of California, Berkeley)

2015-02-25 18:00: Keynes, the Pope and the IMF (Mark Hayes, Durham University)

2015-04-29 18:00: The Colonisation of the Future: An Alternative View of Financialisation and its Portents (Photis Lysandrou, City University)

2015-05-13 18:00: The Relative Merits of Alternative Goals of Development: Happiness, Income or Human (Frances Stewart, University of Oxford)

2015-10-07 18:00: St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar Series: Valpy Fitzgerald  (Valpy Fitzgerald, Oxford University)

2015-10-14 18:00: St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar Series: Kate Meagher (Kate Meagher, London School of Economics)

2015-11-04 18:00: St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar Series: Yiannis Kitromilides (Yiannis Kitromilides, University of Cambridge)

2015-11-18 18:00: CANCELLED:  St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar Series: Sir Anthony Atkinson  (Sir Anthony Atkinson, London School of Economics)

2016-02-03 18:00: St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar Series - Speaker:Ann Pettifor (Ann Pettifor)

2016-02-17 18:00: St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar Series - Speaker: Michelle Baddeley   (Michelle Baddeley)

2016-02-24 18:00: St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar Series - Speaker: Anastasia Nesvetailova  (Anastasia Nesvetailova )

2016-03-09 18:00: St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar Series - Speaker: Ozlem Onaran    (Ozlem Onaran)

2016-04-20 18:00: St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar Series - Speaker: Richard Murphy  (Richard Murphy)

2016-05-04 18:00: St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar Series - Speaker: Paul De Grauwe   (Speaker to be confirmed)

2016-10-12 18:00: St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar Series - Speaker: Terry Barker (Terry Barker ( Department of Land Economy))

2016-10-19 18:00: St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar Series - Speaker: Peter Sinclair (Peter Sinclair, University of Birmingham )

2016-11-02 18:00: St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar Series - Speaker: David Miles (David Miles, ~Imperial College)

2016-11-16 18:00: St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar Series - Speakers: Graham Gudgin and Ken Coutts   (Speaker to be confirmed)

2017-01-25 18:00: 'Brexit and the Political Economy of ‘Populism’ -Yiannis Kitromilides  (Yiannis Kitromilides)

2017-02-08 18:00: Engelbert Stockhammer - 'Explaining the Euro Crisis: Current Account Imbalances, Credit Booms and Economic Policy in Different Economic Paradigms' (Engelbert Stockhammer)

2017-02-22 18:00: 'Whose Recovery?’ - Andy Haldane (Andy Haldane)

2017-03-08 18:00: 'Expansionary Fiscal Policy – Open Economy Issues’ - Jonathan Perraton  (Jonathan Perraton )

2017-04-26 18:00: St Catharine’s Political Economy Seminar – ‘‘Calculating the Costs of Conflict’, Ron Smith (Ron Smith)

2017-10-11 18:00:  St Catharine’s Political Economy Seminar – ‘Neoliberalism, Institutional Blending and the Governance of Rural Land’ Ian Hodge (Ian Hodge)

2017-10-25 18:00: St Catharine’s Political Economy Seminar – ‘How corporate governance is central to economic policy’ Ciaran Driver (Ciaran Driver)

2017-11-08 18:00: St Catharine’s Political Economy Seminar – 'The Political Economy of Brexit', Michael Kitson (Michael Kitson)

2017-11-22 18:00: St Catharine’s Political Economy Seminar – ‘From austerity to immigrants as ‘significant others’ in economic policy changes' Liliana Harding (Liliana Harding)

2018-01-31 18:00:  St Catharine’s Political Economy Seminar - ‘How Did the Economics Profession Get it Wrong on Brexit?’by Graham Gudgin & Ken Coutts (Graham Gudgin & Ken Coutts)

2018-02-07 18:00:  St Catharine’s Political Economy Seminar - ‘Global Imbalances and Greece's Exit from the Crisis’ by Dimitrios Tsomocos (Dimitrios Tsomocos)

2018-03-07 18:00:  St Catharine’s Political Economy Seminar - ‘Technological Unemployment: Myth or Reality’ by Robert Skidelsky  (Robert Skidelsky )

2018-03-14 18:00:  St Catharine’s Political Economy Seminar  - ‘Bank Credit Rating Changes, Capital Structure Adjustments and Lending’ by Claudia Girardone (Claudia Girardone)

2018-04-25 18:00: St Catharine’s Political Economy Seminar - 'Why there will Never be a Complete Consensus in Macroeconomics: A Tale of Group Thinking and Paradigms', by - John McCombie (John McCombie)

2018-05-30 18:00: St Catharine’s Political Economy Seminar – ‘'Modelling the Impacts of Brexit on Low-Income Households' by Sophie Heald, Richard Lewney & Laurie Heykoop  (Sophie Heald, Richard Lewney & Laurie Heykoop)

2018-10-10 18:00: St Catharine’s Political Economy Seminar -“Fiscal Space: What have we learnt since the crises?" (Jagjit Chadha)

2018-10-17 18:00: St Catharine’s Political Economy Seminar – ‘Scientific Macroeconomics and the Quantity Theory of Credit’ (Richard Werner)

2018-11-07 18:00: St Catharine’s Political Economy Seminar -‘De-unionization and the growing Inequality’ (Ahmad Seyf)

2018-11-21 18:00: St Catharine’s Political Economy Seminar – ‘Time for Growth’ (Lars Boerner )

2019-01-16 18:00: St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar Series - "Fiscal Consequences of Unconventional Monetary and Credit Policies" (Yaprak Tavman)

2019-02-13 18:00: St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar Series - "The Changing State and the 2019 Spending Review" (Paul Johnson)

2019-02-27 18:00: St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar Series - "Why Did Economists Fail to Predict the Arab Uprisings?" (Hassan Hakimian)

2019-03-06 18:00: St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar Series - Trade and Development: Why a 'No Deal' Brexit Would be an Economic Catastrophe’" (Terry Barker)

2019-04-17 18:00: St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar Series - 'The Global Commodity System in the 21st Century' Photis Lysandrou (Photis Lysandrou)

2019-04-24 18:00: St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar Series - 'Industrial Policy in the UK' Diane Coyle (Diane Coyle)

2019-10-16 18:00: St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar Series - "A Democratic Measure of National Income' Martin Weale (Martin Weale)

2019-10-30 18:00: St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar Series - 'The Evolution of Sectarianism: A Political Economy Approach' - Sebastian Ille (Sebastian Ille )

2019-11-13 18:00: St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar Series - 'The End of History: The Political Economy of Post-Liberal Capitalism', Professor Alexander Buzgalin (Professor Alexander Buzgalin)

2019-11-27 18:00: St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar Series - Hector Pollitt 'Policies to promote low-carbon technological development' (Hector Pollitt)

2020-01-29 18:00: St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar Series - Franziska Sielker 'A Planner’s Perspective – The Use of Spatial Analysis for Policy Making in Border Regions' (Franziska Sielker)

2020-02-12 18:00: St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar Series - Terry Barker  'The institutional capture of IPCC economics by neoclassical ideology' (Terry Barker )

2020-03-04 18:00: St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar Series - Laura Diaz Anadon '"The role of government policy to incentivise technology innovation to meet the climate change challenge"' (Laura Diaz Anadon)

2020-03-11 18:00: St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar Series - Richard Lewney 'Policies to promote low-carbon technological development' (Richard Lewney)

2023-04-24 18:00: St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar Series - Professor Ron Martin and Professor Pete Tyler - 'Left Behind Places and the Political Economy of Levelling Up' (Professor Ron Martin & Professor Pete Tyler)

2023-11-27 18:00: St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar - Professor Jane Humphries - ‘Careworn: Towards an economic history of caring work’ (Professor Jane Humphries)

2024-03-11 18:00: St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar - Professor Michael Kenny and Dr Davide Luca - Drifting apart? The urban-rural continuum and the evolution of political disenchantment across 30 European countries (Professor Michael Kenny and Dr Davide Luca)

2024-04-29 18:00: St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar - Professor Paul Collier - ‘A New Economics for Left Behind Places: how downward spirals can be reversed’ (Professor Paul Collier )

2024-05-14 18:00: St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar - Professor Andy Pike - ‘Financialisation and local statecraft: local government in England in austerity and centralisation, 2010’ (Andy Pike, Newcastle University )

2024-06-03 18:00: St Catharine’s Political Economy Seminar - Professor Ron Martin- Capitalism Divided? London, Financialisation and the UK’s Spatially Unbalanced Economy' (Speaker to be confirmed)

2024-11-06 18:00: St Catharine’s Political Economy Seminar - Professor Harry Garretsen - 'Economic geography meets psychology: Motivation, results, and research agenda' (Harry Garretsen)

2024-11-11 18:00: St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar - Urban Mobility: how the iphone, covid and climate changed everything - Associate Professor Shauna Brail (Shauna Brail)

2024-11-27 18:00: St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar - Professor Claire Colomb - 'Governing urban platform capitalism. The contentious regulation of short-term rental housing in European cities – a comparative approach' (Claire Colomb)

2025-02-19 18:00: St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar - Professor Christina Beatty -'Reducing economic inactivity in the UK:  An economic and political imperative'  (Christina Beatt)

2025-03-05 18:00: St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar - Professor Neil Lee - 'Innovation for all' (Neil Lee)

2025-05-12 18:00: St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar - Ugo Gentilini - “What Are We Learning from 2,500 Years of Cash Transfers?” (Ugo Gentilini)

2025-10-22 18:00: St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar - Professor Steve Fothergill - 'The demolition of British Regional Policy' (Professor Steve Fothergill)

2025-11-12 18:00: St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar - Adam Yousef - 'The political economy of regional planning: challenges and opportunities” (Adam Yousef)

2025-11-26 18:00: St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar -Dr Melissa Sands - Title TBC (Dr Melissa Sands)

2026-02-18 18:00: St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar -Dr Ilias Alami - Green industrialisation in the Global South: between Financial Subordination and Turbulent Geopolitics (Ilias Alami)

2026-03-04 18:00: St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar - Professor Sarah Hall (Professor Sarah Hall)