RES Annual Public Lecture 2021: Why digital is so disruptive?
The Royal Economic Society is pleased to announce that a recording of the 2021 APL is now available to view.
This year's lecture was chaired by Dame Carol Propper and delivered by Prof. Diane Coyle CBE, Bennett Professor of Public Policy at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.
Established in 2001, our Annual Public Lecture provides an opportunity for school students to watch internationally-renowned economists present their research. Principally aimed at sixth form students, the APL has become an established part of the senior school calendar.
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Lecture related papers and articles
Paper: General Purpose Technologies by Boyan Jovanovic and Peter L. Rousseau
Policy Brief: Uber and Beyond: Policy Implications for the UK
Innovation, Information, and The Networked Economy
How Uber, Airbnb, and Etsy Attracted Their First 1,000 Customers
With thanks to Diane Coyle, the University of Reading, the University of York and Discover Economics for these teaching resources.
Diane Coyle - Biography
Diane Coyle CBE
Professor Diane Coyle is the inaugural Bennett Professor of Public Policy at the University of Cambridge. Diane co-directs the Bennett Institute where she heads research under the themes of progress and productivity, and has been a government adviser on economic policy, including throughout the covid-19 pandemic. Her latest book, ‘Markets, State and People – Economics for Public Policy’ examines how societies reach decisions about the use and allocation of economic resources.
Diane is also a Director of the Productivity Institute, a Fellow of the Office for National Statistics, an adviser to the Competition and Markets Authority, and Senior Independent Member of the ESRC Council. She has served in public service roles including as Vice Chair of the BBC Trust, member of the Competition Commission, of the Migration Advisory Committee and of the Natural Capital Committee. Diane was previously Professor of Economics at the University of Manchester.
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The public lecture in 2019 was delivered by Professor Tony Venables, BP Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford and Director of the Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource Rich Economies, where he talked about the economics that underpins city performance and discussed the policy challenges that cities face.
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