Making sense of Trump's tariffs. With Dani Rodrik
Tariffs have historically been an important tool of industrial policy. They were used in the last century by east Asian nations to promote infant industries, and are being used today by the EU to help...
6 Helmi 202536min
Can the WTO stay relevant? With Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
In an interview recorded before President Trump hit China, Mexico and Canada with steep tariffs that disrupt the global trading system, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the director-general of the World Trade Org...
3 Helmi 202530min
Martin Wolf talks to Arvind Subramanian: India, the next economic superpower?
India is the world’s most populous nation, and since the 1990s it has maintained almost Chinese levels of rapid economic growth. Prime Minister Narendra Modi aims to make India a high income country a...
27 Tammi 202530min
Update from Davos: Can industrial policy really work? With Beata Javorcik
Sam Fleming is the FT’s Economics Editor, and this week he is reporting from the World Economic Forum at Davos, where much of the talk is about protectionism and industrial policy. Today on the show, ...
24 Tammi 202530min
Trump and the history of tariffs. With Doug Irwin
Doug Irwin is a professor at Dartmouth College and the author of several books on trade. Today on The Economics Show, he joins the FT’s Senior Trade Writer Alan Beattie to discuss the history of tarif...
20 Tammi 202543min
Martin Wolf speaks to Andrew J Scott: Can societies age gracefully?
Increasingly elderly populations seen in countries such as Japan and Italy are set to become the norm everywhere in the coming decades. But will a more senior demographic make the cost of state pensio...
13 Tammi 202532min
Martin Wolf interviews Mariana Mazzucato: Can the state innovate?
In 1962, then US president John F Kennedy committed his nation to reaching the Moon before the decade was up. It was a huge undertaking, but one that ultimately succeeded, and also produced technologi...
30 Joulu 202431min
Martin Wolf interviews Christine Lagarde: Whither Europe?
The Eurozone’s economic recovery from Covid-19 has been anaemic compared with America’s, despite achieving a soft landing from double-digit inflation. Indeed, Europe’s relative underperformance stretc...
23 Joulu 202440min
