Events and engagement

IIPP hosts regular public lectures and panel discussions featuring experts from around the world. Find out more below. IIPP also holds regular events and you can find out more by visiting the Events page.

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Lecture series

Who owns what and why? 2021

This thought-provoking series explores ideas of ownership, value extraction and value distribution.

Research Seminar Series 2020-21

A series of talks focussing on the research of experts from IIPP and beyond

A global engagement series 2020

Public purpose in the time of COVID-19

British Library lecture series 2019

Innovation and the Welfare State

British Library lecture series 2018

Rethinking Public Value and Public Purpose in 21st Century Capitalism

Talks

Thomas Philippon

Thomas Philippon speaks on competition, rents and growth within the American economy

Heather Boushey

Heather Boushey speaks on inequality; how it constricts our economy and what we can do about it

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

A talk from Shoshana Zuboff, followed by a panel discussion with Carole Cadwalladr, Paul Hilder and Shahmir Sanni

Branko Milanović

Recent trends in global income distribution and their political implications

MOIIS report launch

Launch of the UCL Commission on Mission-Oriented Innovation and Industrial Strategy (MOIIS) chaired by Mariana Mazzucato and Lord David Willetts

Erik Reinert

After globalisation: Resurrecting the economic ideas that produced the welfare state

Jonathan Breckon, Josh Ryan-Collins, Geoff Mulgan and Mariana Mazzucato at Rethinking Public Value

Nesta

Nesta and IIPP launch papers that explore and rethink public value in the 21st century

SITRA

Sparking social innovation through crowdsourcing and prizes: Does Finland lead the way?

Josh Ryan-Collins

The launch of Josh Ryan-Collins' latest book 'Why can't you afford a home?'

The people's prescription launch

Launch of report from IIPP along with STOPAIDS, Global Justice Now and Just Treatment

Fred Block

Fred L. Block gives a lecture on his new book 'Capitalism: The Future of an Illusion'

Doing Capitalism and The Entrepreneurial State

Mariana Mazzucato and Bill Janeway

Launch of the new editions of 'Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy' and 'The Entrepreneurial State'

Josh Ryan-Collins and Laurie MacFarlane

Discussing Josh Ryan-Collins and Laurie MacFarlane's book 'Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing'

“Allegory of Good Government” fresco by Lorenzetti. Image: © Public domain

The Public Economy, Public Goods and Public Value

Exploring the difference between the public economy and the market model and why those differences matter