2026-02-17
1 小时 14 分钟Welcome to the LSE Events podcast by the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Get ready to hear from some of the most influential international figures in the social sciences.
Good evening.
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Good evening.
My name is Larry Cramer.
For those of you who don't know me, I'm the President and Vice Chancellor here at LSE.
And it's my privilege and pleasure to welcome you all here to the old theater for this very special event,
which is hosted by the LSE Department of International Development.
As a school,
we take pride in our role as a global convener for the discussion and debate of rigorous social science issues on the most urgent challenges of our time.
And certainly, if you think about it,
the persistent inequality among nations qualifies as one of those challenges.
It is, I think, among the oldest.
And in some ways, you could say the best,
or maybe I should say worst examples of what Horst and Riddle denoted as a wicked problem.
At a time now when the world's most advanced economies are becoming increasingly insular and myopic,
It's more important than ever that major institutions of teaching and research like LSE focus on these kinds of wicked problems.
But tonight's effort, tonight's event is an effort to make good on that responsibility.
It's been made possible through the initiative of Dominica Zavala Zubizarreta,