Economics: A Walk Through Its Past, Present and Future

This walking tour will take you onto an intellectual journey from the early 19th century until today. Walking in the streets of Bloomsbury, we visit places associated with Jeremy Bentham, David Ricardo, Vladimir Lenin, John Maynard Keynes, Virginia Woolf, George Orwell and other profound thinkers. We will explore how these thinkers shaped the history of the 19th and the 20th century and will discuss the relevance of their ideas to today’s world. The tour will take about 90 minutes.

The tour communicates complex economic ideas in a simple way to a general audience, with the lens of economic history and history of ideas.

Dr Ramin Nassehi

The tour is open to the general public, particularly those with little prior knowledge of economics. It is designed for anyone with an interest in economics, politics, or intellectual history, regardless of background or expertise.

The event will be of particular interest to people passionate about intellectual history and the history of the Bloomsbury area.

21 October