30-May-2022
English
Financing Resilient Health systems: Is There a Trade-off between Efficiency and Resilience?
Building more resilient health systems will require smarter investments to be better prepared for future crises. Smart investments in health resilience protect economies from destabilising shocks, and protect people from premature death. The challenge is to make these investments whilst maintaining the financial sustainability of health systems.
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27-January-2022
English
Taming the Crazy: Mitigating Infodemics with the Science of Mental Immunity - Andrew Norman
Epidemics of cognitive contagion present an existential threat in a globalised world. Understanding the mind's immune system - cognitive immunoloy - can help tackle "infodemic" problems of weaponised social media, conspiracy theories, distrust of public institutions and science denial.
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1-September-2021
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Value(s): Building a Better World for All - Mark Carney
Mark Carney discusses the radical, foundational change that is required if we are to build an economy and society based not on market values but on human values.
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10-June-2021
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Rethinking Productivity: Insights from Neuroscience
As part of the Neuroscience-inspired Policy Initiative this seminar explores how the latest innovations in neuroscience can help us unlock insights into how to optimise productivity.
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25-March-2021
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Innovations to Address Women’s Brain Health Inequalities
As part of the OECD March on Gender initiative, this seminar looks into differences in neurological outcomes between men and women, supported by the NAEC Neuroscience-inspired Policy Initiative.
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25-February-2021
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The Deficit Myth? - Stephanie Kelton
Vice-president Dick Cheney famously boasted, “Reagan proved deficits don’t matter.” Was he right? Do deficits matter? Stephanie Kelton leads a debate on whether deficits matter and how we think about government spending today and the implications for future generations. Can deficits be used to sustain life and build a more just economy that works for the many and not just the few?
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27-January-2021
English
A Brain Capital Grand Strategy: Towards Economic Re-imagination
A discussion of A Brain Capital Grand Strategy: Towards Economic Re-imagination – an inter-disciplinary effort of medical doctors, neuroscientists and economists. In our brain economy, investments in brain health and brain skills are critical for post-COVID economic renewal, re-imagination, and long-term economic resilience.
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22-May-2020
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Is this time different? Recovery in a time of pandemic - Paul Krugman
Paul Robin Krugman is the Distinguished Professor of Economics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and a columnist for The New York Times. In 2008, Krugman was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to New Trade Theory and New Economic Geography
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15-May-2020
English
Will Covid-19 Remake the World? - Dani Rodrik
Covid-19 is reinforcing existing problems of inequality and economic insecurity within nations. In response we need a new direction for policy, investing in continuous education, social protection and flexible markets ("flexicurity")
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30-April-2020
English
Exiting and Learning from the Covid-19 Pandemic - Michael Spence
Nobel Laureate Michael Spence discusses the exit and restoration of “normal” economic activity, specifically the close alignment between good health outcomes (containment) and speeding up the recovery. Professor Spence also discusses what appears to be large differences in performance across countries and jurisdictions in containing the virus. He looks at post pandemic recovery and longer term changes.