#52 - Property rights and corruption in feudal England - w/ Sean Bottomley
Senior Fellow Sean Bottomley of Northumbria University speaks to Nicolas Wittstock about the Court of Wards - a medieval legal institution in England. Sean's research uncovers the effects on property ...
9 Aug 202141min
#51 - Education systems and technological change - w/ Marius Busemeyer
Prof. Marius Busemeyer of Konstanz University speaks to Nicolas Wittstock about education and vocational training systems. To invest in and improve education is the object of almost every conversation...
2 Aug 202145min
#50 - Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose? The follies of persistence studies - w/ Abad and Maurer
In this episode, Prof. Leticia Arroyo Abad and Prof. Noel Maurer speak to Nicolas Wittstock to present their criticisms of “persistence studies” - accounts of economic history that seek to explain pre...
26 Jul 202139min
#49 - The Political Economy of Pandemics in the US - w/ Abad and Maurer
Prof. Leticia Arroyo Abad and Prof. Noel Maurer speak to Nicolas Wittstock about their research on the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic - and its parallels with the 2020 Covid-19 epidemic.
19 Jul 202148min
#48 - Has Big Tech oversold its productivity? - w/ Victor Menaldo
In this episode, Victor Menaldo speaks to Nicolas Wittstock about his forthcoming book on productivity within the US technology sector. Robert Solow famously declared in 1987 that “you can see the com...
12 Jul 202139min
#47 - Is Silicon Valley upending Democracy? - w/ Carles Boix
In this episode, Prof. Carles Boix of Princeton University discusses his latest book - “Democratic Capitalism at the Crossroads - Technological Change and the Future of Politics” with Nicolas Wittstoc...
5 Jul 202147min
#46 - The Meritocracy Trap - w/ Daniel Markovits
In this episode, Prof. Daniel Markovits of Yale Law School speaks to Nicolas Wittstock about the US labor market, education system, and economic inequality. In his book "The Meritocracy Trap", Prof. D...
28 Jun 202149min
#45 - The Geography of Innovation in the US - w/ Enrico Moretti
In this episode, Prof. Enrico Moretti of the University of California, Berkely speaks to Nicolas Wittstock about the economic geography of the United States. In particular, they discuss why certain in...
21 Jun 202142min
