Creative destruction, AI, and the European recovery
Co-hosted by the Centre For Macroeconomics, LSE Department of Economics and the Centre for Economic Performance
Date: Tuesday 24 February 2026
Time: 6.30-8.00pm
Speaker: Philippe Aghion, 2025 Nobel Prize laureate in economics
Chair: Professor Larry Kramer
Venue: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, Cheng Kin Ku Building, LSE Campus
Event details: Join us for this special event with LSE's Philippe Aghion, joint recipient of the 2025 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.
This lecture will show how the Schumpeterian growth paradigm can shed light on recent history debates (secular stagnation, middle-income trap, European decline, impacts of AI) and be used to rethink capitalism.
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