Martin Wolf CBE: Uses and Abuses of Economics in the Debate on Universities. Wednesday 24 May 2017

The President and Vice-Chancellor’s Annual Guest Lecture

by Martin Wolf, Chief Economics Commentator at the Financial Times

Wednesday, 24 May 2017, 6.30pm, Lecture Theatre 1, The Diamond Building.

This lecture examines the logic underlying the government’s current higher education bill.  It will conclude that it relies too heavily on naive economic arguments.  Economics has an important role to play in analysing the future of universities, but it must not play a preponderant role.