Behavioural Science and the Macroeconomy – How Behavioural Factors Can Help Reignite Growth (The Behavioural Roundtable)
7 Mar 2024
17:15 -18:30
Times are shown in local time.
Open to: All
Castle Teaching Room (Cambridge Judge Business School)
Trumpington St
Cambridge
CB2 1AG
United Kingdom
Join our Behavioural Roundtable with Professor David Halpern
Join Professor David Halpern as he discusses the relevance of behavioural economics for productivity and macro-level market design; and how behavioural factors can help reignite growth in the economy. Tea, coffee, and networking from 17:00.
Prior to BIT, David was the first Research Director of the Institute for Government and between 2001 and 2007 was the Chief Analyst at the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit. David was also appointed as the What Works National Advisor in July 2013, a position he held until 2022 through which he led efforts to improve the use of evidence across the UK government. Before entering government, David held tenure at Cambridge and posts at Oxford and Harvard. He has written several books and papers on areas relating to behavioural insights and well-being, including Social Capital (2005), Online Harms and Manipulation (2019) and co-author of the MINDSPACE report. In 2015, David wrote a book about the team entitled Inside the Nudge Unit: How Small Changes Can Make a Big Difference. David was awarded a CBE in the New Year’s Honours in January 2022 for Public Service in his role as What Works National Adviser.
The Behavioural Roundtable is a speaker series hosted by the El-Erian Institute. It serves to convene leading practitioners and researchers in the field of behavioural insights to share experiences from the field and discuss latest scientific insights.