Danny Quah: the world’s tightest cluster of people

Danny Quah is a Professor of Economics and International Development at LSE, and Director of the Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre, at LSE’s Institute of Global Affairs. He is also a Senior Fellow at LSE IDEAS. Danny works on the shifting global economy and the rise of the east. His current writing on global hegemony and world leadership in global economic policy-making. His empirical research seeks to make large things visible to the naked eye. This post relates to Danny’s December 2015 public event, hosted jointly by the LSE Department of Mathematics and the LSESU Applicable Maths Society. The lecture, entitled “Using Mathematics: Making Big Economics Visible to the Human Eye” can be viewed here, with accompanying slides available here.