BSc Economics student Durra provides a recap from this year’s Festival of Economics and meets with Professor Sir Richard Blundell to discuss this year’s Marshall Paley Lecture on ‘Dimensions of Inequality: The IFS Deaton Review’.
The Festival of Economics is an annual three-day event hosted the Economics Observatory with panels, book talks and live podcast records. The event brings together academic experts, journalists, practitioners, and policy makers from around the world to Bristol to debate today’s most pressing economics questions.
This year’s inaugural Marshall Paley Lecture was delivered by Professor Sir Richard Blundell CBE FBA, Ricardo Chair of Political Economy at University College London. Professor Blundell is also Co-Director of the ESRC Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), and a Bristol Economics alumnus.
“I did my undergraduate degree in Bristol, so it’s very close to my heart.” said Professor Blundell.
Blundell discussed ‘Dimensions of Inequality: The IFS Deaton Review,’ a programme of research that stepped back and asked: how are different kinds of inequality related, which matter most, what are the big forces that combine to create them, and what is the right mix of policies to tackle them?
After the lecture, Durra met with Professor Blundell to hear key insights from the event and reflected on her highlights of the festival.
“I definitely recommend Festival of Economies to everyone.” says Durra.
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The Economics Observatory is hosted by the School of Economics, and bridges the gap between academic research, government policy and the public. The Marshall Paley Lecture is supported by the School of Economics, where Mary Marshall Paley was the first woman lecturer – and one of the first in the UK.
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