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SUMMARY:Fireside chat with Diane Coyle: Cogs and Monsters - Professor Dian
 e Coyle &amp\; Professor Neil Lawrence
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CONTACT:Prof Diane Coyle
DESCRIPTION:Join economist and former advisor to the UK treasury *Diane Co
 yle* as she discusses her new book Cogs and Monsters: What Economics Is\, 
 and What It Should Be – an exploration of the enormous problems—but al
 so opportunities—facing economics today if it is to respond effectively 
 to these dizzying changes and help policymakers solve the world’s crises
 \, from pandemic recovery and inequality to slow growth and the climate em
 ergency.\n\nIn a fireside chat with *Neil Lawrence*\, DeepMind Professor o
 f Machine Learning at the University of Cambridge\, Coyle will discuss whe
 ther economic individualism is still valid in the digital economy\, whethe
 r we need to measure growth and progress in new ways\, and whether economi
 cs can ever be objective\, since it influences what it analyses.\n\n"Book 
 your place":https://www.waterstones.com/events/fireside-chat-with-diane-co
 yle/cambridge.\n\n\n*Professor Diane Coyle* co-directs the "Bennett Instit
 ute for Public Policy":www.bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/. She was previously
  Professor of Economics at the University of Manchester. She has held a nu
 mber of public service roles including Vice Chair of the BBC Trust (2006-2
 014)\, member of the Competition Commission (2001-2009)\, the Migration Ad
 visory Committee (2009-2014)\, and the Natural Capital Committee (2016-201
 9). She was awarded a CBE for her contribution to the public understanding
  of economics in the 2018 New Year Honours.\n\n*Professor Neil Lawrence* i
 s the DeepMind Professor of Machine Learning in the Department of Computer
  Science and Technology\, University of Cambridge\, senior AI fellow at Th
 e Alan Turing Institute\, visiting Professor at the University of Sheffiel
 d\, co-host of Talking Machines\, and a Guardian contributor. Neil's resea
 rch interests are in probabilistic models with applications in computation
 al biology\, personalised health and developing economies.\n\n"Book your p
 lace":https://www.waterstones.com/events/fireside-chat-with-diane-coyle/ca
 mbridge.
LOCATION:Waterstones Cambridge
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