Nicholas Barr, Professor of Public Economics at LSE, on Welfare States, Education Finance, and the Long View
You have spent your entire academic career at the LSE and earned your PhD at the University of California, Berkeley as a Fulbright Scholar. Looking back, was there a particular moment or experience early in your career that set you on the path toward studying the economics of the welfare state? When I went to LSE as an undergraduate, I was blown away by my first-year economics teacher, Richard Lipsey. So I promptly switched into the economic theory track for the rest of my degree, which then led on to a master’s degree at LSE and, as you said, a
