Big ideas
London School of Economics and Political Science
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This series explores ideas that will shape thinking in the 21st century.
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APR 1, 2009
New internationalism needed for new world order [Video]
Global institutions such as the United Nations risk fragmenting unless they become more democratic warns Professor David Held.
8 MIN
MAR 6, 2009
Risk regulation has gone too far [Video]
We need to go back to first principles to examine the real nature of risk and its possible effects on society, argues Professor Bridget Hutter.
7 MIN
FEB 18, 2009
Costing the climate [Video]
Economic motives rather than ethical concerns will be ultimately what prevents runaway climate change, argues Dr Sam Fankhauser.
5 MIN
FEB 4, 2009
Good intentions perverse incentives [Video]
Professor Luis Garicano explains what the current financial crisis and boring, defensively played football matches have in common
5 MIN
JAN 9, 2009
Death in the modern age [Video]
Professor Emily Jackson examines the meaning of death and the moral and legal questions raised by euthanasia.
8 MIN
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