S3 Ep58: Covid baby boom or bust?
Will the pandemic create more or fewer babies? Joshua Wilde tells Tim Phillips how Google search data can provide the answer.
11 Dec 202016min
S3 Ep57: The Spanish Empire's shipwreck problem
When the galleon San José sank in a typhoon in 1694, it was carrying a cargo worth 2% of the GDP of the entire Spanish empire. Fernando Arteaga, Desiree Desierto and Mark Koyama tell Tim Phillips abou...
4 Dec 202024min
S3 Ep57: Africa's roads make the rich richer
Africa's roads were originally built so that colonial powers could extract its natural wealth. What has happened since then? Steven Poelhekke of the University of Auckland examines the maps with Tim P...
27 Nov 202012min
S3 Ep56: The secret war in Laos
Laotians are still suffering collateral damage from a covert war that the US waged in the country half a century ago. Felipe Valencia Caicedo tells Tim Phillips about the devastating impact of the bom...
20 Nov 202017min
S3 Ep55: A history of public debt
When we compare ratios of debt to GDP, do we look closely enough at the political and financial context in which the debts were calculated? Eric Monnet of the Paris School of Economics tells Tim Phill...
13 Nov 202021min
S3 Ep54: Europe should throw out its fiscal rulebook
The EU's increasingly complex system of fiscal rules should be replaced by a system of fiscal standards instead, Olivier Blanchard tells Tim Phillips. You can watch the recording of Olivier presentin...
6 Nov 202019min
S3 Ep53: Gun control in Brazil
In 2003 Brazil enacted strict gun control legislation. Rodrigo Schneider tells Tim Phillips about the effects on crime and homicide, and whether we can assume there would be a similar impact in other ...
30 Okt 202014min
S3 Ep52: The price of a vote
How well does campaign finance work, and which political parties benefit most? Julia Cagé tells Tim Phillips how the price of a vote has varied in recent British and French elections.
26 Okt 202020min
