Imagining the New 9-5 | Teresa Ghilarducci
The labor market and workplace conditions have changed dramatically in recent years – often not for the better. How will the COVID-19 pandemic change how jobs are structured in the 21st century? Hoste...
19 Maj 202028min
Lockdowns or Clampdowns? | Michael Ignatieff
The COVID-19 pandemic has created opportunities for dictators and democrats alike to abuse government power, spurring fears that emergency measures will outlive the emergency. That danger is particula...
5 Maj 202025min
Is the EU the World’s Unsung Superpower? | Anu Bradford
When it comes to commerce, where Europe leads, others follow. The reason is simple: it’s too costly for global companies not to adopt a one-size-fits-all approach to their products. Does that make the...
21 Apr 202029min
Will COVID-19 Make Modern Monetary Theory Mainstream? | Pavlina R. Tcherneva
From the ashes of the Great Depression, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt pushed through a raft of labor and social reforms that remade the American state and economy. We need FDR’s brand of “bold ex...
7 Apr 202030min
What History Can Teach Us About COVID-19 | Frank Snowden
COVID-19 has upended our health systems, economies, and societies, but we’ve been through this before. Yale University historian Frank Snowden says history has much to teach us about confronting pande...
31 Mars 202019min
How to Start a Movement | Leymah Gbowee
Liberian activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah Gbowee launched a movement that toppled a dictatorship and ended a 14-year civil war. How did she do it? By bringing women into the peace process....
17 Mars 202024min
Live from Brooklyn Public Library: How Democrats Can Win in 2020
“Make America Great Again” was a powerful campaign slogan in 2016, appealing in states that mattered to voters who felt that the US economy had passed them by. Winning them over – or winning them back...
3 Mars 202033min
What Do Mainstream Economists Get Wrong About Poverty And Growth? | Abhijit Banerjee
By focusing on practical solutions to small questions, Abhijit Banerjee helped revolutionize development economics. Now, he’s turning his focus to rehabilitating the battered reputations of economists...
18 Feb 202021min
