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Economics of well-defined choices: the case for the orthodoxy

16 October 2024, 4:00 pm–5:30 pm

Economics of well-defined choices

This event is open to IIPP's students and faculty only

This event is free.

Event Information

Open to

All | UCL students

Availability

Yes

Cost

Free

Organiser

IIPP Comms

 

Hosted at UCL IIPP on Wednesday 16th October 2024 from 16:00 - 17:30 (GMT) for a talk by Dr Angus Armstrong.

Read more about IIPP 2024-25 Enrichment Lectures

 

About the Speaker

Angus Armstrong

Director of Rebuilding Macroeconomics and a Research Professor at UCL leading a course on the New Economics of Prosperity for the Institute for Global Prosperity

Angus Armstrong
Angus Armstrong is Director of Rebuilding Macroeconomics and a Research Professor at UCL leading a course on the New Economics of Prosperity for the Institute for Global Prosperity. Angus was an ESRC Senior Fellow during the EU Referendum and Scottish Independence Referendum, while Director of Macroeconomics at NIESR. He has been a Special Advisor to House of Commons and House of Lords committees. Angus was Head of Macroeconomic Analysis at HM Treasury, represented the UK at the G20 Officials Meeting in early 2009, worked closely on the Treasury’s response to the Global Financial Crisis and proposed the Asset Protection Scheme. He was lead author of the Treasury’s Housing Finance Review. Angus has a PhD from Imperial College London. He is also the Chief Economic Advisor to the Lloyds Bank Group. More about Angus Armstrong