ROBINSON COLLEGE KEYNES LECTURE 2012
Nicholas Wapshott will present his new book Keynes Hayek: The Clash That Defined Modern Economics with a response by Professor Andrew Gamble, followed by a discussion chaired by Dr Mark Hayes.
The event will take place on Tuesday 14 February 2012 in the Robinson College Auditorium from 5.30 pm until 7.00 pm. Doors open 5.00 pm.
Nicholas Wapshott is an author, journalist and broadcaster. He was previously the former New York bureau chief of The Times, editor of the Saturday edition of The Times and founding editor of The Times Magazine. He is the author of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher: A Political Marriage (2007).
Andrew Gamble is Professor of Politics in the University of Cambridge. He read economics at Cambridge for his first degree, then political theory at Durham before returning to Cambridge for his Ph.D in social and political sciences. He is a joint editor of New Political Economy and The Political Quarterly, and a Fellow of the British Academy and the Academy of Social Sciences. His most recent book, The Spectre at the Feast (2009), sets the financial crisis of 2007/8 in historical context and assesses its global consequences, how far it might go, and what is to be done.