Event

New economics for a new era

This event hosted by UK think tank the New Economics Foundation will both look back over the last 40 years while also looking ahead to how to deliver a radically better world.

In 1986, the LSE hosted The Other Economic Summit that led to the foundation of the NEF to address the urgent economic challenges facing people and planet. Forty years later, we reconvene at the LSE as we enter a decisive period for our economies and our democracies. Across the world, people are experiencing the economy not as a source of security or opportunity, but as a force that is distant, unfair and increasingly hostile to their lives and futures. Inequality is widening, the climate crisis is accelerating, and public trust in political institutions is eroding.

Over four decades, NEF has been championing bold, people‑powered alternatives to an economic model that too often fails people and planet. To celebrate this milestone, we are convening an evening that will both look back over the last 40 years while also looking ahead to how we deliver a radically better world. The evening will feature keynote speeches from Rt Hon Andy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester, who will set out his vision for a new localism and Professor Jayati Ghosh, who will talk about how we change the rules of the global economic order.