Why do companies make terrible decisions? With Dan Davies
Modern industrial economies were made possible by automation and mass production, but also by something similar going on inside the world of management. Where once all the decisions were made by an id...
17 Mars 202532min
Martin Wolf talks to Keyu Jin: Has China’s economy run out of gas?
After decades of double-digit growth, China's economy has been expanding at less than half that since the pandemic. A property market crash, youth unemployment and now a trade war with the US are all ...
10 Mars 202530min
Martin Wolf talks to Adair Turner: Can the world decarbonise fast enough?
The world economy is emitting carbon dioxide faster than ever before, meaning our planet is heating up faster than ever before. Martin Wolf speaks to someone who has spent much of the past two decades...
3 Mars 202531min
What future for aid and development? With Minouche Shafik
US President Donald Trump has frozen all foreign aid payments, while Elon Musk is putting America’s biggest development agency, USAID, “through the woodchipper”. Meanwhile, the UK government has just ...
27 Feb 202532min
Martin Wolf talks to Richard Baldwin: What’s the future of global trade?
Donald Trump’s tariffs are a twentieth century tool that simply won’t work in the 21st century global trading system. That’s the view of today’s guest, Richard Baldwin, professor of international econ...
24 Feb 202536min
Why are birth rates falling? With Alice Evans
Birth rates are falling fast and not just in highly developed countries. And as populations age, it’s becoming harder to fund pensions or raise labour productivity. But falling fertility could also be...
21 Feb 202534min
The real Russian economy. With Sergei Guriev
The war in Ukraine is a humanitarian crisis. It is also an economic problem. Sanctions from the US and Europe are meant to make war too expensive for Russia to continue. President Vladimir Putin claim...
17 Feb 202542min
Is innovation slowing down? With Matt Clancy
Productivity growth in the developed world has been on a downward trend since the 1960s. Meanwhile, gains in life expectancy have also slowed. And yet the number of dollars and researchers dedicated t...
10 Feb 202534min
