Lectures

The Wincott Foundation hosted an evening debate on 14 November, 2019 at the Financial Times to celebrate its 50th Anniversary. This special event took…

Opening statement by Martin Wolf, chief economics commentator, Financial Times: Why liberal capitalism should be saved “The bourgeoisie has through its exploitation of the…

Opening statement by Yanis Varoufakis, former finance minister of Greece: ‘Towards a post-capitalist liberal, technologically advanced social economy’ It is only fitting that any…

The 2018 Harold Wincott Annual Memorial Lecture, entitled “Can Multilateralism Survive?”, was given on Tuesday, 6 November, 2018 at Chatham House by Prof Jean Pisani-Ferry, Tommaso…

Response to Professor Jean Pisani-Ferry’s Wincott lecture by Bronwen Maddox, Director of the Institute for Government I agree with Jean’s assessment of the end…

Speaking notes for Wincott Lecture ‘Can Multilateralism survive?’, 6 November 2018 This version: November 2018 This lecture is downloadable in pdf format here. I…

The 2017 Harold Wincott Annual Memorial Lecture, entitled “Central Banks after the Great Recession”, was given on Tuesday, 28 November, 2017 at Chatham House…

The purpose of the annual lecture is to contribute to the public debate about contemporary issues in economics, business and finance. The lecturer is…

The Wincott Foundation has been fortunate over the years in attracting the interest and support of some of the country’s outstanding financial journalists. One…

The 2016 Harold Wincott Annual Memorial Lecture, entitled “Britain and Europe: What Ways Forward?”, was given on Wednesday, 26 October 2016 by Harold James, Professor of…