How our flawed debates about cost prevent us from spending public money wisely
Barely a news cycle goes by these days without someone in public office saying ‘We can’t afford that,’ while at the same time defending their favorite budget priorities and tossing around mind-numbing...
2 Des 202144min
Systems Failure: With the climate crisis hitting poor people hardest, David Keith says now is the time to explore solar geoengineering
Leaders from around the globe are meeting in Scotland today for the COP26 summit, talking about ways to speed up efforts to fight global warming. Yet even the optimists in Glasgow admit that the scien...
2 Nov 202130min
Systems Failure: Economist Jason Furman says economic inequality costs everyone
Harvard Kennedy School Professor Jason Furman recently testified before the House Select Committee on Economic Disparity and Fairness in Growth and called growing inequality the fundamental challenge ...
29 Sep 202125min
Systems Failure: How to respond when our algorithms are biased and our privacy is in peril
Harvard Kennedy School Professor Latanya Sweeney is a pioneer in the fields of algorithmic fairness and data privacy and the founding director of the new Public Interest Tech Lab at Harvard University...
17 Sep 202131min
Happiness in an age of fear and grievance
Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Business School Professor Arthur Brooks studies happiness: Where it comes from, how to achieve it, and how it affects our lives, our decision-making, and the world a...
30 Jul 202146min
Staying Power: Tony Saich on 100 Years of the Chinese Communist Party
The Chinese Communist Party rules a country that is already an economic superpower and is poised to become a military and geopolitical one as the 21st Century unfolds. But Harvard Kennedy School Profe...
10 Jun 202135min
Between blind faith and denial: Finding a productive approach to merging policy, science, and technology
PolicyCast is a production of Harvard Kennedy School and is hosted by Associate Dean for Communications and Public Affairs Thoko Moyo.Our guest for this episode, Sheila Jasanoff, is the Pforzheimer Pr...
5 Mai 202134min
Democracy’s uncertain prospects 10 years after the Arab Spring
PolicyCast is a production of Harvard Kennedy School and is hosted by Associate Dean for Communications and Public Affairs Thoko Moyo.PolicyCast is produced and engineered by Ralph Ranalli and co-prod...
25 Mar 202132min
