Abstract

The next St Catharine’s Political Economy Seminar will be held on Monday,29 April 2024. Professor Paul Collier will give a talk on “A New Economics for Left Behind Places: how downward spirals can be reversed”. The seminar will beheld in the Ramsden Room at St Catharine’s College from 6.00-7.30 pm. All are welcome. The seminar series is supported by the Cambridge Journal of Economics and the Economics and Policy Group at the Cambridge Judge Business School.

Talk Overview This presentation will be in advance of the soon to be published, June 2024, book by Professor Collier of the same title ’ A New Economics for Left Behind Places: how downward spirals can be reversed’

Speaker Overview: Paul is Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government in Oxford and a Professorial Fellow of St Antony’s College. From 1998–2003 he took a five-year Public Service leave during which he was Director of the Research Development Department of the World Bank. Collier is currently a Director of the International Growth Centre. His research covers the causes and consequences of civil war, the problems of democracy in low-income and natural resources rich societies and how to create liveable and productive cities in rapidly urbanising developing countries. From 2017-2018, Collier was the academic co-director of the LSE -Oxford Commission on State Fragility, Growth and Development.