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NEWS
New Year Membership Offer!
05 January 2026
Winner of the SPE Essay Competition Announced
18 November 2025
2025 Rybczynski Prize Shortlist Announced
05 November 2025
Call for Feedback
14 July 2025
EVENTS
What Makes a Good UK Tax System?
Meeting: 12 March 2026
Sports Economics
Meeting: 16 April 2026
Joint OMFIF, The Reform Club's ECA Group & SPE Roundtable
Meeting: 28 April 2026
Overview of Cost‑Benefit Analysis with Applied Example
Course: 12 May 2026 - 14 May 2026
READING ROOM
An anatomy of tariffs: History, theory, and prognosis
Articles & Shortlisted Essays: 18 November 2025
The financialisation of risk: When uncertainty becomes a tradable asset
Articles & Shortlisted Essays: 18 November 2025
What if AI made the world’s economic growth explode?
Articles & Shortlisted Essays: 18 November 2025
The positive story of global ageing
Articles & Shortlisted Essays: 18 November 2025
SPEAKERS CORNER
OBR Post‑Spring Statement Briefing
Speaker Series: 05 March 2026
2025 Annual Conference Report
Conference reports: 13 October 2025
Money: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Speaker Series: 10 October 2025
Is Population Ageing a Demographic Timebomb?
Speaker Series: 24 September 2025
Professional Development
After reviewing what the Society offers its membership, the Council has decided to launch a Professional Development programme.
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