#  Worldwide Week at Harvard: Unelected Power: A Book Presentation and Discussion with Sir Paul Tucker 

 



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 **October 24, 2018** 

 03:30PM - 05:00PM EDT 

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 **Lower Level Conference Room, Adolphus Busch Hall**  



 

 



 

 Pervasive reliance on technocratic government risks moving us all towards undemocratic liberalism, and a popular backlash. Among technocrats, few reach further than central bankers, who emerged from the financial crisis as a third great pillar of unelected power alongside the judiciary and the military. In his new book [Unelected Power: The Quest for Legitimacy in Central Banking and the Regulatory State](https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__press.princeton.edu_titles_11240.html&d=DwMGaQ&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=Ba0ITBINUN7aLvUE5gbC_5aIcuErAF7wBiYBJFa0SC8&m=uOXqc_uXBA59kiF2zhwJKff3Q4M5x66HX67SggRMzlY&s=OoU6ACsrNhMpDqWi8CZ1kBLVci3Kmpv6cWmzcmOSkCk&e=), Paul Tucker outlines principles of delegation that can bring independent agencies into line with the deep political values of democracy, the rule of law, and constitutionalism.

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 ***Speaker***: [Sir Paul Tucker](https://ces.fas.harvard.edu/people/001970-paul-tucker), Chair, The Systemic Risk Council; Senior Fellow, CES, Harvard University; Deputy Governor, The Bank of England (2009-2013).

 ***Chair and Discussant:***[ Lawrence H. Summers](https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty/lawrence-h-summers), Charles W. Eliot University Professor, Harvard University; President Emeritus, Harvard University.

 ***Sponsor:*** [European Economic Policy Forum.](https://ces.fas.harvard.edu/study-groups/000046-european-economic-policy-forum)



 

 



 

 

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