S5 Ep18: The limits of microfinance
Microfinance has helped millions of the world's poor build better lives. But can it help the world's poorest people, who spend most of their lives growing food to feed their families, to diversify int...
29 Apr 202210min
S5 Ep17: Inequality and creative destruction
Governments are desperate to create innovation hubs or attract tech companies to kickstart economic growth, but that creates winners and losers. Richard Blundell tells Tim Phillips how policy can bala...
22 Apr 202219min
S5 Ep16: How Fox News inspired vaccine hesitancy
At the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, some cable news hosts cast doubt on the effectiveness of vaccines. Matteo Pinna tells Tim Phillips about his research on the impact of Fox News on vaccination r...
15 Apr 202211min
S5 Ep15: Forced displacement, then and now
Syria, Venezuela, Ukraine: forced migration is constantly in the news, but these events have been happening for hundreds of years. Sascha Becker tells Tim Phillips about new research that is discoveri...
7 Apr 202222min
S5 Ep14: Motivated science and green innovation
Scientists create innovation. Is this because they are paid to do it, or because they care about the outcome? Tim Besley tells Tim Phillips how motivated science drives down the cost of innovation and...
1 Apr 202216min
S5 Ep13: Will Ukraine's economy survive the war?
Are the Ukrainian economy and financial system holding up to Russia's bombardment? Yevhenii Skok tells Tim Phillips whether emergency policies have been able to maintain liquidity and financial stabil...
25 Mar 202216min
S5 Ep12: Do schools change our religious attitudes?
Does compulsory religious education make us more likely to believe as adults, and does it make us more ethical? Ludger Woessmann, Larissa Zierow, and Benjamin Arold explain to Tim Phillips what educat...
18 Mar 202216min
S5 Ep11: Women's liberation, household revolution
Until the second half of the 19th century, coverture laws granted married men almost unlimited power over the household. Moshe Hazan and David Weiss tell Tim Phillips about how abolition changed the n...
11 Mar 202211min
