Ask an Economist Dawn Holland, Stewart Lansley, Helen Simpson and Richard Davies
Join our panel as they discuss economics stories in the news and take your questions, big and small.
What are the questions you have always wanted to ask an economist but were afraid to ask? This informal session is an opportunity to delve into the topic of economics and find out what our panel thinks about a variety of issues facing us nationally and globally: What global trends will shape the world economy in the next ten years? How should economic data be communicated to the public? Are cryptocurrencies good for the economy? What will inflation look like in 100 years?
Dawn Holland, Stewart Lansley and Helen Simpson join Richard Davies as your panel of economics experts.
Promotional image for the 2021 festival created by Willem Hampson.
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Our tenth Festival of Economics run Wednesday 17 – Friday 19 November 2021. It is co-programmed by Diane Coyle (University of Cambridge and Enlightenment Economics) and Richard Davies (professor of Public Understanding of Economics, Bristol University and author of Extreme Economies). You can see the full programme here.
Festival of Economics 2021
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Festival of Economics
Festival of Economics 13-16 November 2023
Find out about this year’s programme of events.
Richard Davies is a Professor at Bristol University, a fellow at the London School of Economics and director of the UK’s Economics Observatory. He has been Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers at HM Treasury, an economist and speechwriter at the Bank of England, and economics editor of The Economist. He is co-director of the Bristol Festival of Economics, gives talks in state schools with Speakers for Schools, and is a director and founding trustee of CORE, a charity which provides open-access resources for economics teachers and students in universities across the world. His first book, Extreme Economies won the Stanford’s/Lonely Planet prize for debut travel writing. He wrote and edited The Economist’s recent guide to economics, and his articles have featured in The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Sunday Times, The Times, Wired and 1843 Magazine.
Dawn Holland is a Senior Consultant on macroeconomic modelling for the United Nations, a Fellow of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR), and a Member of the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council. She previously served as Chief of Global Economic Monitoring at UN/DESA, steering production of the UN’s flagship publication World Economic Situation and Prospects and the development of the UN’s World Economic Forecasting Model. Prior to joining the United Nations, she worked for many years (1996-2013) at NIESR with the National Institute’s Global Econometric Model (NiGEM), leading production of the global forecast and other modelling projects. A primary research focus has been on issues related to macroeconomic modelling and forecasting, fiscal multipliers and production functions. She has a strong interest in the modelling interactions between the macroeconomy, poverty, inequality and the environment.
Stewart Lansley is a visiting fellow in the School of Policy Studies, the University of Bristol. He has written widely on poverty, wealth and inequality, most recently A Basic Income For All with Howard Reed and A Sharing Economy: How Social Wealth Funds Can Reduce Inequality and Help Balance the Books. He is a Council member of the Progressive Economy Forum and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. His new book The Richer, The Poorer How Britain Enriched the Few and Failed the Poor, A 200-year history is out in November 2021
Helen Simpson is a Professor of Economics at the University of Bristol and the Director of the Centre for Evidence-based Public Services. She has given policy advice at HM Treasury, HMRC, BEIS, DfT, DIT, the European Commission and the OECD. Her research covers urban economics and the effects of place-based policies, productivity and innovation.
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