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
S5 Ep10: Raising the pressure on Putin
Which economic sanctions against Russia are lawful, which are politically feasible, and which will bite? Luis Garicano - economist and MEP - describes what has been done so far and what more can be do...
5 Mar 202216min
S5 Ep9: The lockdown supply shock
China's Covid lockdown in early 2020 shocked the business world. How did this surprise disruption affect the firms that rely on imported Chinese products? Isabelle Mejean tells Tim Phillips about the ...
4 Mar 202215min
S5 Ep8: A positive inflation target for the euro area
Inflation reduces economic welfare by distorting demand. But what is the inflation rate that minimises these distortions? Maybe it's a lot higher than our models assume, Klaus Adam tells Tim Phillips.
25 Feb 202212min
S5 Ep7: Anti-LGBT discrimination in transition economies
A recent experiment in Serbia, Turkey and Ukraine attempted to overcome deep-seated prejudice against the LGBT community using information. Ralph De Haas and Cevat Aksoy of the European Bank for Recon...
18 Feb 202216min
