POID Director John Van Reenen chaired and presented in a plenary panel discussion on "The role of the state in the post Covid economy" on August 28th.
Star speakers included Philippe Aghion (LSE and College de France), Wendy Carlin (UCL), Betsey Stevenson (Michigan) and Monika Schnitzer (Munich).
The presentations covered thinking of a new framework for economic policy, industrial policy, the "knife-edged" nature of economic policies actually enacted, how economists could be more influential, the risks of an over-extended industrial policy, the complementarity between policies towards growth and equality and the need for a new Marshall Plan to help the world recover from Covid-19.
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