Debate
24 Sept 2026
18:00 GMT · 90 min
Debate: Should rich countries abandon growth targets?
Formal two-side debate with cross-examination and a recorded change-of-mind poll before and after.
OBOuattara Bamadou412 attending
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Arguments that happen in real time.
Debates with a format, reading groups with a text in hand, lectures followed by hard questions.
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Reading Group
26 Sept 2026
19:30 CET · 90 min
Reading group: The Human Condition, §24–27
Close reading of the sections on action and plurality. Bring the text; we read aloud.
NSNoémie Simard188 attending
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2 Oct 2026
12:00 SGT · 60 min
Lecture: Bloom's two sigma, forty years on
What the original study actually found, what failed to replicate, and what adaptive systems can honestly claim.
LCLian Chen657 attending
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8 Oct 2026
17:00 WAT · 75 min
Study session: measuring the landlocked penalty
We work through three identification strategies together and try to break each one.
DFDr. Femi Akintola241 attending
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15 Oct 2026
20:00 JST · 80 min
Debate: attention — scarce resource or recovering tissue?
Two readings of the same meta-analysis, argued to a conclusion.
KTKenji Tokoro326 attending
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Recordings of past sessions.
Reading Group
4 Sept 2026
18:00 EAT · 90 min
Reading group: cities, density and the price of proximity
Recording available. Ended with an unusual amount of agreement about housing supply.
AMAmara Moyo274 attending
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21 Aug 2026
19:00 BST · 70 min
Lecture: identification without an experiment
Recording available. A tour of natural experiments and their discontents.
RGRosalind Grant503 attending
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