2026-02-24
1 小时 29 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 everyone.
For those who don't know me, my name is Larry Kramer.
I'm the President and Vice Chancellor here at LSE.
And it's my special, really, privilege and pleasure to welcome you all to this very special event.
I'm delighted to see not just a full house,
but it looks like mostly students, which I think is wonderful.
The event tonight, just so you know, is jointly hosted by the LSE Department of Economics,
the Center for Economic Performance, and the Center for Macroeconomics.
So thank you to them for making this possible.
I told Philippe I was going to keep the introduction short,
and I will because you want to hear from him and not me.
That should not have gotten a laugh.
All right.
Economic growth.
Economic growth is not a given, right?
For most of human history,
living standards did not change significantly from one generation to the next.
And no one really expected them to do so.