Economics

Joe Zammit-Lucia Interviewed by John Kay

The New Political Capitalism: How Businesses and Societies Can Thrive in a Deeply Politicised World
Bodleian: Divinity School 4:00pm Sun 27 Sunday, 27 March 2022 See this event
Helen Thompson Interviewed by Gwenan Edwards

Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century
Oxford Martin School: Seminar Room 4:00pm Mon 28 Monday, 28 March 2022 See this event
Paul Summerville and Eric Protzer Interviewed by Matthew Stadlen

Reclaiming Populism: How Economic Fairness Can Win Back Disenchanted Voters
Oxford Martin School: Lecture Theatre 12:00pm Wed 30 Wednesday, 30 March 2022 See this event
Mariana Mazzucato Introduced by Martin Sandbu

Voices of Europe. Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism
Sheldonian Theatre 4:00pm Sat 2 Saturday, 2 April 2022 See this event
Ian Goldin

Rescue: From Global Crisis to a Better World
Bodleian: Divinity School 10:00am Sun 3 Sunday, 3 April 2022 See this event
Stefan Dercon Interviewed by Ian Goldin

Gambling on Development: Why Some Countries Win and Others Lose
Blackwell’s bookshop 12:00pm Sun 3 Sunday, 3 April 2022 See this event

Festival information:

Often as an author, I only occasionally get to meet the public who buy and read my books. The Oxford Literary Festival was a special opportunity for me and certainly one of the highlights of my career – it was an honour I will never forget.

The Oxford Literary Festival is intellectual Viagra.

It was a privilege for me to visit the festival to receive the Bodley Medal. As an incidental blessing I saw Oxford at its most mysterious and atmospheric. It was a day of piercing cold and as I walked through the twilight from the Sheldonian to Christ Church, the streets were empty and the whole city was shutting itself away. Christ Church was silent except for the footfall of unseen persons around corners and the sounds of evensong creeping from behind closed doors. For the first time I understood thoroughly the power of college ghost stories.

The night in Oxford was the most beautiful event I have ever done. Not just the spectacular setting (of the Sheldonian), but an unforgettable evening.

The Oxford festival is the most elegant and atmospheric of literary festivals. It’s a pleasure to both attend and perform there.

A stimulating and rewarding on-stage conversation; a lively informed and tolerant audience; privileged access to the great treasures of the Bodleian, and finally, wonderfully interesting dinner companions to help me conclude the best day I have enjoyed at any festival – anywhere.

Every literary festival stays in an author’s mind for slightly individual reasons. I shall remember the Oxford festival for: - the size of the audience: at the top end of the range - their intelligence – this makes a huge difference for a speaker. In the Oxford audience I encountered many experts in the field my book covered and even one of the ambassadors I’d quoted - the beauty and the grace of the place itself – incomparable - the willingness of my hearers to buy books afterwards; I’ve never sold more.

I loved the whole atmosphere of the Oxford Literary Festival. From breakfast, alongside some of the attendees, who were talking books with each other a mile a minute, to the public event at The Sheldonian where everyone was lively and engaged – I felt I had arrived in a kind of literary heaven.