The Tore Browaldh Lecture

We are entering a new era for the world economy, as the pandemic, geopolitics, climate change, and the demands of domestic social and political agendas have overwhelmed the hyper-globalization “consensus” that prevailed until recently. In this year's Tore Browaldh Lecture, Dani Rodrik, Professor at Harvard University, will sketch out possible futures for globalization.

Dani Rodrik is Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy at the Harvard Kennedy School.

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Transitions. Empires, Time, and Unfreedom.

Transitions seem to turn us away from rather than towards liberty. Timothy Snyder, well known Professor and author of “On Tyranny” will speak at the Tore Browaldh Lecture on what we did get wrong and what we have learned.

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Rethinking Value Creation - for innovation-led inclusive & sustainable growth.

Where does wealth come from, who creates it and what destroys it? This webinar will deep dive into global economics, as professor Mariana Mazzucato explains how capitalism can be steered toward a bold, innovative and sustainable future that works for all of us.

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Why is the economics of climate change so difficult and controversial?

His talk will provide a fast-paced crash course on why the economics of climate change is so especially difficult and so especially controversial.

50 years of the Altman Z-Score model and its applications to financial and managerial markets

Professor Altman will discuss the applications of credit scoring models, including his own Z-Score family of models for financial and managerial markets. He will relate what these models are saying about the current conditions and outlook for global credit markets.

Can we trust scientific results?

There is increasing concern about the fact that many scientific results have been impossible to reproduce. This is problematic since reproducibility is a central cornerstone of scientific research. Indeed, if a finding cannot be reproduced, there are good reasons to question the finding itself. Factors contributing to a lack of reproducibility include low statistical power, publication bias, and testing of hypotheses with low prior probability of being true.

Climate Change, Risk, and Population Ethics

The actions of the current generation could have profound and far-reaching effects on future generations as is well illustrated by different climate change scenarios. This fact raises new and important but very difficult moral questions.

Europe and migrants – progress and setbacks

Cecilia Malmström, EU Commissioner for Home Affairs, and soon European Commissioner for Trade. Since 2010 she has been responsible for the European Commission’s work within the fields of asylum and migration, police cooperation, border control, and the fight against organized crime and human trafficking. Cecilia Malmström is formerly a Member of the European Parliament and Minister for European Affairs of Sweden. She has a Ph.D. in political science and was a researcher at the University of Gothenburg for several years, teaching in European politics.

Crises in the Euro-zone and in banks - 'too big to fail' and 'too big to save'

The lecture will focus on the need for reforms to reduce the fragility of the financial sector, as well as to enhance growth and adjustment within each country. Are EU and national decision-making bodies up to the task?

Reforming strategic analysis to meet the challenges of global competition

What have we learned from the crisis?

Paul Krugman an American economist, columnist, blogger, author and intellectual. In 2008 he was awarded The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for his work associated with New Trade Theory and for his analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity.

Strategies for a Swedish Business School in Global Competition

This lecture attempts to set out some prepositions for achieving effective strategies for Business Schools in global competition. A fundamental premise is strong focus on research, but relevant to business. This must then be brought into the classroom fast. The interchange here - between new thinking and strong insights from class participants - is key.

The intellectual origins of modern economic growth

Growth issues, global competitiveness and welfare development are often on the agenda in the public debate. But it is very rare that the discussion is conducted with knowledge of the factors that create growth. The economic-historical theories often shine with their absence.

To add new dimensions to the debate, we have invited Professor Joel Mokyr to talk about the intellectual origins of modern growth thinking.