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Book Launch: A Political Economy of Behavioural Public Policy

Hosted by the Department of Social Policy

MAR 2.04, Marshall Building

Speakers

Lord Gus O’Donnell

Professor Shaun Hargreaves Heap

Professor Robert Sugden

Elisabeth Costa

Chair

Baroness Minouche Shafik

This event marks the publication of Adam Oliver’s new book, ‘A Political Economy of Behavioural Public Policy’ (Cambridge University Press).

Baroness Shafik will chair a panel that will consider the development and future of behavioural public policy, with reference to Oliver’s liberal perspective for the field.  

 

Meet our speakers

Lord Gus O’Donnell (Chair, Frontier Economics),

Professor Shaun Hargreaves Heap (Kings College, London),

Professor Robert Sugden (University of East Anglia),

Elisabeth Costa (Behavioural Insight Team).

Meet our chair

Minouche Shafik is Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science. Prior to this, she was Deputy Governor of the Bank of England. She is an alumna of LSE. Her new book, What We Owe Each Other: A New Social Contract, is out now. She is co-chair of the Economy 2030 Inquiry commission.

 

 

More about this event

The Department of Social Policy (@LSESocialPolicy) provides top quality international and multidisciplinary research and teaching on social and public policy challenges facing countries across the world. From its foundation in 1912 it has carried out cutting edge research on core social problems and helped to develop policy solutions.

 

 

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