Paul Osterman - The Disposable Worker: How Firms Learned to Stop Investing in People
The unspoken employment contract, characterized by stable jobs, career ladders, wages that rose with productivity, didn't dissolve overnight. Firms chipped away at it deliberately, and the result is a...
16 Sep 52min
David Deming - What's Happening to Young Workers, and What College Should Do About It
For the first time in recent history, new college graduates have a higher unemployment rate than the general population. The causes are tangled, the implications are serious, and universities are caug...
9 Sep 48min
Ioana Marinescu - Why Workers Are Underpaid, and What We Could Do About It
Most people earn less than they're worth. Not because they're not productive, but because the labor market isn't nearly as competitive as it could be.In this episode, Ben sits down with Ioana Marinesc...
2 Sep 51min
Roberto Rigobon - Why We're Getting Worse at Measuring
The economy is changing faster than our ability to track it. And the data sources we rely on most, like surveys, official statistics, and government indices, were designed for a world that no longer e...
26 Aug 57min
Deena Mousa - What AI Means for the Developing World
The standard debate about AI and jobs is a rich-country debate. But for billions of people in low- and middle-income countries, the stakes and the story look completely different.In this episode, Ben ...
19 Aug 37min
Luis Garicano - Why the Most Valuable Work Is the Hardest to Automate
The jobs most protected from AI aren't necessarily the most credentialed ones. They're the ones where tasks are so tightly bundled together that pulling one thread unravels the whole thing.In this epi...
12 Aug 50min
Ronnie Chatterji - How The Labor Market Looks From Inside Open AI
What does it look like to do economics from inside the AI revolution with access to data nobody else has, and questions nobody has figured out how to answer yet?In this episode, Ben sits down with Ron...
5 Aug 44min
Bill Easterly - What We Get Wrong About Foreign Aid
The story of foreign aid is usually told as a story of insufficient resources. Bill Easterly thinks that misses the point.In this episode, Ben sits down with Bill Easterly, NYU economist and author of...
30 Jul 35min
