Date: Sunday 24 May 2009
Time: 12:00pm - 06:00pm
Banks, Bonuses and Inequality (12pm)
Phillip Blond, Eamonn Butler, Fabienne Peter David Goodhart chairs
Widespread outrage has been the response to the “bonus culture" of big banks. What is at issue here? Is it the sheer scale of such bonuses, or the reward for failure and the lack of merit that is the problem? What sort of equality do we want: that of opportunity, or outcome?
The Limits of Freedom (5pm)
Will Hutton, Eamonn Butler, David Goodhart Fabienne Peter chairs
Laisséz faire capitalism is in retreat. The burst of the economic bubble has rallied calls for increased regulation from all sides and with it demands to control individual excess. To what extent should freedoms be limited? Who regulates the regulators? And is there a danger that we will jump from the frying pan to the fire?
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Date: Wednesday 20 May 2009
Time: 12:45pm - 02:15pm
Location: 23 Great Smith Street, London, SW1P 3BL
Title: The Financial Crisis
Date: Tuesday 19 May 2009
Time: 12:45pm - 02:15pm
Title: Newspapers and the Internet
Date: Tuesday 5 May 2009
Time: 06:00pm - 08:00pm
Location: 23 Great Smith Street, London, SW1P 3BL
Title: "Obama's first 100 days in office"
Date: Tuesday 7 April 2009
Time: 06:00pm - 08:00pm
Location: 23 Great Smith Street, London, SW1P 3BL
Speaker: Peter Kellner
Title: 2010: A forgone conclusion?
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