The Stories We Tell – Narrative Economics and the Stage
Wed 19 March 2025
This is a companion event to the recent staging of Liam’s play, The Land That Never Was, about legendary Scottish conman Gregor MacGregor, who sold unsuspecting investors a country that didn’t exist.
A conversation with Liam Rees (playwright), Robbie Mochrie (Associate Professor Heriot Watt University), Andrew Milligan (Former Head of Global Strategy, Standard Life Investments) and Professor Russell Napier (Keeper of the Library of Mistakes).
Starting from the work which Robert Shiller has done on narrative economics – and his work with George Akerlof on Phishing for Phools, Robbie, Liam, Andrew and Russell will engage in a lively conversation about our susceptibility to stories in the face of rational argument.
Errorists (that’s colloquial for fans of the Library of Mistakes!) can expect an entertaining melding of the worlds of the arts and economics, and a lesson in how we can learn important lessons from both.
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