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Nicholas Crafts, Professor of Economics and Economic History and the Director of the ESRC Research Centre on Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE) at the University of Warwick, explores the question of why Britain was the first country in the world to experience the transition to an industrialised economy. Introduction by Hywel Williams, Senior Adviser, Legatum Institute.

Geoffrey Robertson QC discusses his new book 'An Inconvenient Genocide: Who Now Remembers the Armenians?', the politics of genocide and how to prevent the worst of all crimes.In conversation with Anne Applebaum, Director of the Transitions Forum at the Legatum Institute.

Jonathan Meades, writer, journalist, and film-maker, debates the concept of architectural legacy. Introduction by Hywel Williams, Senior Adviser, Legatum Institute

In anticipation of 800th anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta, the Legatum Institute hosted a half-day seminar on the international history and present day realities of constitutions and constitution building. This session discussed constitutions and the Middle East and North Africa region.

In anticipation of 800th anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta, the Legatum Institute hosted a half-day seminar on the international history and present day realities of constitutions and constitution building. This session discussed constitutional conventions and the process of negotiation.

In anticipation of 800th anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta, the Legatum Institute hosted a half-day seminar on the international history and present day realities of constitutions and constitution building. This session discussed Western cultural tradition.

What does opportunity look like in the US today? The Legatum Institute and the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC hosted a panel discussion which looked beyond economic growth to understand what else is important for national prosperity.Speakers included: Carol Graham, Leo Pasvolsky Senior Fellow, Global Economy and Development, Brookings Global – CERES Economic and Social Policy in Latin America Initiative; John Prideaux, Washington Correspondent, The Economist; Richard Reeves, Fellow, Economic Studies; Policy Director, Center on Children and Families; Charles Murray, W. H. Brady Scholar, American Enterprise Institute. The discussion was moderated by Nathan Gamester, Programme Director to the Legatum Prosperity Institute.

The Legatum Institute launched its 2014 Prosperity Index at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. The event included a presentation of key findings, followed by a high-profile panel discussion on the 'British enterprise spirit'. Speakers included Ed Conway of Sky News, entrepreneur Luke Johnson, Edward Lucas of The Economist and Baroness Wheatcroft. The discussion was moderated by James Barty, Senior Adviser to the Legatum Institute, with introductory remarks from Sian Hansen, Executive Director at the Legatum Institute.

Speakers: Boris Reitschuster, Moscow Correspondent for 'Focus', and Joerg Eigendorf Head of Investigative Team of 'Die Welt'.

Speakers: Michael Weiss, Editor-in-Chief, 'The Interpreter' and Janis Karklins, Director of the Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence, NATO.

Speakers included: Ed Vaizey, Minister for Culture and the Digital Economy, Fred Manson, Urban Renewal Specialist, and James Fischelis, Urban Consultant. Moderated by Crispin Kelly of Baylight Properties Ltd. Introductory remarks by Hywel Williams, Legatum Institute.

In this podcast, Adam Greenfield of LSE Cities discusses innovations in the pipeline that may redefine suburban living and urban relations.Moderated by Sian Hansen, Executive Director, Legatum Institute.

Speakers included: Rupa Huq, Sociology Lecturer at Kingston University; former Deputy Mayor of Ealing, and Oliver Green, Research Fellow, London Transport Museum. Introductory remarks by Hywel Williams, Legatum Institute.

Speakers included: Lord Adebowale, People's Peer and CEO of Turning Point; Sean Worth, former Downing Street Advisor; Damian Green MP, and Tim Montgomerie, Columnist, The Times. The discussion was moderated by James Barty, Strategy Director, British Bankers Association, with introductory remarks from Cristina Odone, Director of Communications, Legatum Institute.

Speaker:Gerard Lyons, Chief Economic Advisor to Boris Johnson.Interviewed by Harriet Maltby, Government and Economic Policy Researcher at the Legatum Institute.

The mayor’s lecture examined how the experiences of democrats in the 5th century BC can help us to preserve London’s unique metropolitan character today. He warned against “the challenge, global in its extent, to democratic freedoms. We must fight these enemies”, and defend democracy, the rule of law and an open welcome to talented incomers that made Athens the eternal glory of the Western world – in stark opposition to the "ghastly, self-whipping, olive-spitting, xenophobic Spartans".

Panellists included Oliver Bullough (journalist and author of the paper), Anthea Lawson (Deputy Campaigns Director at Global Witness) and moderator Anne Applebaum (Director of the Transitions Forum at the Legatum Institute).

Panellists included the report's author, Peter Pomerantsev, human rights barrister Geoffrey Robertson QC, and Giorgi Badridze, Senior Fellow, Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies. The discussion was moderated by Anne Applebaum, Director of the Legatum Institute's Transitions Forum.

In part one of the lecture, Graeme Leach spoke about the economics of EU membership for the UK, showing that from the outset, when the UK joined the then Common Market, membership was projected to be net negative. He was joined in conversation by Roger Bootle, Managing Director of Capital Economics (separate podcast) who discussed his book 'The Trouble with Europe'.

In part two of the lecture, Roger Bootle drew on themes from his book to outline what, in his view, has gone wrong with the EU.