Rethinking the AI boom, with Daron Acemoğlu
Daron Acemoğlu is an economics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the author of Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity. Today on the show...
2 Sep 202430min
Who is winning the chip wars? With Chris Miller
Computer chips power toys and control nuclear reactors. They are in phones, cars and planes, getting us to work and keeping us safe. And they are at the centre of a growing tech war between the US and...
26 Aug 202433min
How much cash would it take to quit your job? With Pilita Clark and Mouhcine Guettabi
How much would it take for you to retire? The question is fun to think about, but also central to a serious conversation happening in economics about the cost and wisdom of a universal basic income. T...
19 Aug 202432min
The case for holding rates, with Catherine Mann
Recent events, including a weak US jobs report, a pullback in Japan, and volatility in US markets have made life trickier for central bankers around the world. In the UK, moderating inflation led the ...
12 Aug 202431min
Rethinking income inequality, with Chris Giles
A recently released research paper calls into question many of the assumptions about the rate at which income inequality has grown in the US over the past 75 years. Today on the show, Soumaya and the ...
5 Aug 202431min
What happens when manufacturing goes away? With Amy Goldstein
The GM plant in Janesville, Wisconsin, closed during the financial crisis in 2008, ending decades of production – and 3,000 steady, highly paid jobs. Journalist Amy Goldstein wrote about the town as t...
29 Jul 202430min
What does the US get wrong about China? With Adam Posen
NOTE: This podcast was recorded before Joe Biden announced he was stepping down from the US presidential raceBoth the Republicans and Democrats are talking tough on economic competition with China. Bu...
22 Jul 202435min
Have we reached the limits of monetary policy? With Hyun Song Shin
Hyun Song Shin is the economic adviser and head of research at the Bank for International Settlements, the “bank for central banks,” based in Basel, Switzerland. Today on the show, they talk about the...
15 Jul 202429min
