Preview: Ask a Harvard Professor, Season Three
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16 Okt 20201min
Doug Elmendorf and Karen Dynan: How much can the federal budget and the deficit continue to grow?
What should be done now about the federal budget and the deficit, with Doug Elmendorf, dean of the Harvard Kennedy School, and Karen Dynan, professor of the practice of economics.For more information ...
13 Apr 202026min
William C. Kirby: Is China ready for leadership on the global stage?
CHINA IS THE MOST POPULOUS COUNTRY ON EARTH, and until a few hundred years ago, it was also the most economically powerful. Today, China is ascendant on the world stage. What does its government seek ...
6 Apr 202053min
Benjamin Sachs and Sharon Block: When did labor law stop working?
Why would it take an Amazon worker, employed full time, more than a million years to earn what its CEO, Jeff Bezos now possesses? Why do the richest 400 Americans own more wealth than all African-Amer...
30 Mars 202030min
Nicholas Burns: Why Does Good Diplomacy Matter?
What role does diplomacy play in the modern world order, and what are the characteristics of a good diplomat? Which countries are the great powers today, and which will lead in 2050? Does NATO have a ...
23 Mars 202031min
Maya Sen: Have U.S. courts become political prizes?
If judges truly are impartial arbiters of justice, why do politicians fight over who will be appointed to the bench? Are the courts actually a political prize? And are judges really akin to umpires, j...
16 Mars 202034min
David Cutler: Can the U.S. Healthcare System Be Fixed?
No country in the world spends more on health care than the United States, or has less to show for it when compared to other wealthy nations. The U.S. spends nearly 50 percent more per capita than Swi...
9 Mars 202031min
Joseph S. Nye: How Do Past Presidents Rank in Foreign Policy?
Rating the foreign policy of presidents from FDR to the present day with Joseph Nye, formerly a government professor in FAS, later dean of the Kennedy School, now a University Distinguished Service Pr...
2 Mars 202024min
