The End of Alchemy: Money, Banking and the Future of the Global Economy?

Lord Mervyn King, was Governor of the Bank of England from 2003 to 2013, and is currently Professor of Economics and Law at New York University and School Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics. Lord King was made a life peer in 2013, and appointed by the Queen a Knight of the Garter in 2014.

The past twenty years saw unprecedented growth and stability followed by the worst financial crisis the industrialized world has ever witnessed. Most accounts of the recent crisis focus on the symptoms and not the underlying causes of what went wrong. The End of Alchemy explains why, ultimately, this was and remains a crisis not of banking - even if we need to reform the banking system - nor of policy-making - even if mistakes were made - but of ideas.

Lord Mervyn King will talk about his book, introduced by Prof David Tuckett, Head of the Centre for the Study of Decision-Making Uncertainty at UCL in the Faculty of Brain Sciences. There will be an opportunity for book-signing at the end.