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Bubbles, Manias and Market Failures: The Unintended Consequences of Regulatory Responses

This lecture explores how regulators try to prevent what will hopefully be the ‘last’ bubble and suggests that the most effective regulatory frameworks were developed during the normal operation of markets, not in response to crises.

Executive Pay: What's Right, What's Wrong, and What Could Be Fixed?

Evidence will be presented on which aspects of pay are working well and which are indeed dysfunctional, and on how pay should be reformed.

Plastics from Potatoes, Rubber from Rice

This talk shows that the incorporation of a simple salt can lead to a flexible plastic with mechanical properties similar to oil derived plastics. Most importantly these plastics are recyclable and ultimately compostable.

The British Economy: Can We Build a Successful Future?

In this final lecture we will consider whether we can plot a more successful future than our recent history might suggest and what that implies for our economic and political institutions.

The Structure of Finance

The experience of inter-mediation in the UK does not encourage the thought that long term finance can easily be located. Do we need a Development Bank?

Trust-Busting or Trust-Building: How Can The City Earn Trust?

This talk and panel discussion will explore the fundamentals of trust, why companies lower standards at their peril, and what, other than pious words, can be done to restore confidence that society has appropriate levels of commercial trust.

The Housing Market

Housing represents the main asset class held by UK households and we shall try to understand why it is held as such a large share of assets. We shall then outline whether this choice has other knock on effects in the economy such as labour and social mobility.

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Bubbles, Manias and Market Failures: The Unintended Consequences of Regulatory Responses

Executive Pay: What's Right, What's Wrong, and What Could Be Fixed?

Plastics from Potatoes, Rubber from Rice

The British Economy: Can We Build a Successful Future?

The Structure of Finance

Trust-Busting or Trust-Building: How Can The City Earn Trust?

The Housing Market

London Merchants and Their Residences

Will Bitcoin and the Block Chain Change the Way we Live and Work?

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