S4 Ep15: Covid-19 is reshaping European economic policy
Europe has struggled through two crises in the last decade, but this time its response has been much more decisive and ambitious. George Papaconstantinou tells Tim Phillips why Covid-19 may be the cat...
23 Apr 202112min
S4 Ep14: Discovering history's notable people
Can we create a database of everyone in history? What would it tell us about who we consider to be important? Etienne Wasmer, Morgane Laouenan, and Arash Nekoei tell Tim Phillips about what their proj...
16 Apr 202121min
S4 Ep13: Inequality beyond GDP
We measure inequality using income as a proxy for welfare. But are we mixing up "doing well" with "being well"? Leandro Prados de la Escosura thinks so, and his research contradicts much of what we th...
2 Apr 202121min
S4 Ep12: What if bitcoin succeeds?
What would our economies be like if Bitcoin completely displaced fiat currency? Jon Danielsson tells Tim Phillips that it wouldn't be a world that he wants to live in.
26 Mars 202114min
S4 Ep11: Do looks matter in economics?
Good-looking economists get better academic posts. Galina Hale tells Tim Phillips about surprising new research that challenges our assumptions about how departments rate and recruit candidates.
19 Mars 202116min
S4 Ep10: Regulation after Wirecard
It has been two years since Wirecard suddenly collapsed. Giorgio Barba Navaretti and Alberto Pozzolo explain to Tim Phillips why it is so hard to supervise global fintechs, and how regulators can do a...
12 Mars 202119min
S4 Ep9: Exporting pollution
Anti-pollution laws penalise firms whose activities emit CO2. Itzhak Ben-David tells Tim Phillips that well-intentioned regulation may be causing multinationals to shunt polluting activities to poorer...
5 Mars 202111min
S4 Ep8: How Africa can recover from Covid-19
Africa’s citizens have so far mostly been spared the direct health consequences of the pandemic, but many of its economies are on life support. Ugo Panizza and Simeon Djankov, two of the editors of a ...
23 Feb 202117min
