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Why women won
2026/09/21 | 1h 12 mins.
How, when, and why did women in the US obtain legal rights equal to men’s regarding the workplace, marriage, family, Social Security, criminal justice, credit markets, and other parts of the economy and society, decades after they gained the right to vote?
What happened to liberal democracy?
2026/09/15 | 1h
In this conversation with Nobel Prize-winner and LSE alumnus Daron Acemoglu he will be talking about his new book, What Happened to Liberal Democracy?
The new supply-side era: the O-ring meets geopolitics
2026/09/14 | 52 mins.
Lazard CEO and Chairman Peter Orszag sees a new supply-side era taking shape, in which supply shocks that are increasingly geopolitical in origin and rooted in the physical world have displaced demand as the dominant source of macroeconomic variance.
From the Archive: F A Hayek's Nobel at 50: then and now
2026/09/14 | 1h 27 mins.
This podcast was originally published in November 2024 and is being republished as part of our Summer archive series of LSE's Public Lectures and Events.
From the Archive: How progress ends: technology, innovation, and the fate of nations
2026/09/08 | 1h 25 mins.
This podcast was originally published in October 2025 and is being republished as part of our Summer archive series of LSE's Public Lectures and Events.

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