The economics of research and development. With Heidi Williams
Intuitively, research and development is a building block of a productive future. But exactly how important is it, and can we put a number on it? Heidi Williams is a professor of economics at Dartmout...
28 Okt 202423min
What is Kamalanomics? With James Politi
With the US election in a matter of weeks, today Soumaya Keynes is joined by the FT’s Washington bureau chief, James Politi. They discuss the Kamala Harris platform – from industrial policy to tax ref...
21 Okt 202431min
What’s wrong with effective altruism? With Martin Sandbu
The effective altruism movement has been on a wild ride over the past decade. EA started – in the popular consciousness, at least – as a forum for mindful questions about where best to put charitable ...
14 Okt 202430min
Why even a PhD isn’t enough to erase the effects of class, with Anna Stansbury
Race and gender have dominated headlines about economic outcomes in the past decades, but class … not so much. Class is often invisible, hard to describe and awkward to talk about. Anna Stansbury, an ...
7 Okt 202433min
How to cut government debt, with Robin Wigglesworth
Jamaica’s economy struggled for decades, and at one point it had amassed debts worth more than 140 per cent of GDP. Even the IMF wouldn’t return its calls. But somehow, in the 2010s, it managed to hal...
30 Sep 202428min
What would Trump do on trade? With Alan Beattie
This campaign, candidate Donald Trump is promising even more extreme versions of the policies that marked his first term. But what would higher, and more widespread, tariffs actually look like? And in...
23 Sep 202430min
Is this a winning US economy for the Democrats? With Jared Bernstein
Jared Bernstein is the chair of President Biden’s Council of Economic Advisers. Today on the show, Soumaya gets to put him in the hot seat. She grills him about everything from price caps to inflation...
16 Sep 202426min
Do price controls really help with inflation? With Isabella Weber
When presidential candidate Kamala Harris proposed legislation to ban price gouging, we naturally thought to interview Isabella Weber, an associate professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst...
9 Sep 202433min
