Beyond price: Trust me, I’m commercial All markets are based on trust. Confidence is everything. Yet...
Blind Spots & Bad Decisions: Why We Fall for Financial Traps Why do smart people make dumb financial choices? This lecture...
Enclosures of the Mind: Governing the Intellectual Commons We are living in an age of remarkable intellectual property...
Being a Guitarist in the Time of Byron and Shelley With a player’s insight (a guitar of 1825 is my...
Ghost of Scandals Past: A Short History of Financial Scandals The litany of great financial scandals is long, and sadly...
Haydn in London: The Revolutionary Drawing Room This concert looks at 18th century music making and the...
Endings in the Novel, from Austen and Dickens to Edward St Aubyn and Rachel Cusk More than anything else, the end matters to the novel...
Gresham and Defoe (underwriters): The Origins of London Marine Insurance This lecture explores the astonishing history of marine insurance underwriting...