The Politics of Economics 2017-10-10 12:00: Why Do Rich People Love Austerity? (Dan M. Hausman (University of Wisconsin-Madison)) 2017-10-24 12:00: Philosophy and Public Policy after Piketty (Martin O'Neill (York)) 2017-11-07 12:00: The Politics of New Economic Technologies ( Hannah Kuchler and Mathew Lawrence) 2017-11-21 12:00: The Two Puzzles of Social Democracy: How it Confutes Market Doctrines (Avner Offer (Oxford)) 2018-01-23 12:00: The Crisis of Social-Democracy (Wolfgang Munchau (Financial Times) Chirstopher Bickerton (Cambridge) Louise Haag (York)) 2018-02-06 12:00: The Age of the Applied Economist: The Transformation of Economics Since the 1970s (Beatrice Cherrier (University of Caen)) 2018-02-20 12:00: The Move of Economics Ideas and Numbers into Policy (Paul Johnson (Institute for Fiscal Studies) Angus Armstrong (National Institute for Economic and Social Research)) 2018-03-21 12:00: Populism and Central Bank Independence (Rosa Lastra (Queen Mary University of London))