How to price in a Trump or Clinton presidency?
Citi's chief global political analyst Tina Fordham joins Cardiff Garcia for a trip around the global economy to discuss the economic risks of either a Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton victory in Novemb...
23 Sep 201620min
Forecasting the next-generation political economy
Forecasts about geopolitics and economics are often distorted by flawed institutional incentives and a range of cognitive biases. Dan Drezner, a professor of international politics at the Fletcher Sch...
14 Sep 201644min
A trip through Trumpland
Sociologist Arlie Hochschild spent five years in the Louisiana bayou as part of her study of the American right. Hochschild tells host Cardiff Garcia how Donald Trump's nomination has appealed to the ...
6 Sep 201624min
The drug price short
Corporate villains are sometimes behind sudden increases in drug prices, but these unwanted surprises are often the result of a complicated and opaque healthcare system. The FT's David Crow joins Card...
2 Sep 201622min
The protectionist policy controlling Canadian milk prices
The price of milk in Canada is disproportionately higher than it is in the US or even France, thanks to a government policy known as Supply Management implemented in the 1970s to protect dairy farmers...
26 Aug 201633min
The inaugural econ film review: Tron and Tron Legacy
Alphaville's Izzy Kaminska leads a rousing panel analysing the economic and financial themes as well as the two visions of the tech industry portrayed in the Tron movies. Hosted on Acast. See acast.co...
19 Aug 201651min
Alphachatterbox: Heidi Williams on the economics of medical innovation
The 2015 MacArthur Genius Grant recipient and MIT professor joins host Cardiff Garcia to discuss her work on the incentive systems that drive innovation in medical technology, including the effect of ...
5 Aug 20161h
Alphachatterbox: Gavyn Davies and Tyler Cowen on the productivity puzzle
FT Alphaville's Izabella Kaminska leads Gavyn Davies, chairman of Fulcrum Asset Management and an FT blogger, and Tyler Cowen, professor of economics at George Mason University, in a discussion on the...
29 Juli 201652min
