Governing growth

An hour-long panel discussion of Professor Peter Hall's new book, Governing Growth, which traces the interactions between politics and economics in Western democracies over the past 80 years. The panel discussion will be followed by a 30-minute Q&A inviting questions from the audience. 

How do capitalist economies change over time? And what political consequences follow?

Peter Hall discusses his new book, Governing Growth, which traces and identifies a series of profound shifts in the political economies of Europe and the United States over the past 80 years. The book outlines three postwar growth regimes: an era of modernisation, from 1945 to about 1975; an era of liberalisation, from 1980 to the late 1990s; and an era of knowledge-based growth, beginning at the turn of the century.

This event will shed new light not only on the relationship between capitalism and democracy, but also on the roots of our contemporary political dilemmas.

• Peter A Hall, Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies in the Department of Government, Harvard University, and author of Governing Growth.
• Sara Hobolt, Sutherland Chair in European Institutions and Head of the Department of Government at LSE.
• David Soskice, Emeritus Professor in the Department of Government at LSE, and School Professor of Political Science and Economics from 2012-2022. 
• Chaired by Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey, Professor and Fellow of the British Academy, Department of Government at LSE. 

All welcome

Those interested in the relationship between capitalism and democracy in the postwar period.