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.
LSE events are taking a break over the summer, so we've dug into our archives
of more than 7,000 lectures to bring you some of our favourites, including this one.
Welcome, everyone.
My name is Gilat Levy.
I'm a professor at the Economics Department here at LSE.
And I'm extremely happy to welcome Professor James Robinson here to the LSE.
And you, the audience, here in the old theater, in the old building, looking very young.
And also our audience online.
Professor Robinson...
He's the director of the Pearson Institute.
He's a Pearson professor and a university professor in the Harris School of Public Policy in the University of Chicago.
I'm sure you've heard he's also the latest recipient of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize for the Economic Sciences
in memory of Alfred Nobel, together with two other.Co-authors, I'm sure you've heard about this because LSE
was very happy to bask in the glory as Jim was an undergraduate here at the LSE.
The groundbreaking research that Jim, I can call you Jim, Jim, Jim together with Simon Johnson
and Daryl Nasemoglu produced groundbreaking and extremely influential, looked at the...
Super important question of why do some states or places
or regions succeed and why do some of them fail economically and politically?