S3 Ep2: Regenerating the cities that were left behind
When the industries that have sustained our cities decline, how can we regenerate urban areas? At the SUERF conference in Amsterdam, Tony Venables and Charles Goodhart tell Tim Phillips that redevelop...
17 Jan 202014min
S3 Ep1: Will there be a post-Brexit financial services deal?
In 2020, the UK and the EU will try to strike a post-Brexit deal in financial services. At the SUERF conference in Amsterdam, David Miles and Iain Begg explain to Tim Phillips what's at stake in the n...
10 Jan 202015min
S2 Ep52: Has the randomista revolution gone too far?
This year's Nobel prize celebrated the work of the economists who popularised randomised controlled trials, “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty”. But is it possible to have ...
23 Dec 201914min
S2 Ep51: Burying bad news
New research demonstrates what we all suspected: for decades, politicians have routinely used busy news days to bury unpopular announcements. Ruben Durante educates Tim Phillips in the politics of dis...
20 Dec 201915min
S2 Ep50: Helping parents to read with their children
Language skills for preschoolers help them achieve more when they get to school, but some parents are better than others at helping their kids to develop these skills. Denis Fougère and Carlo Barone t...
13 Dec 201922min
S2 Ep49: Wealth taxes
Few countries tax their citizens' wealth annually, but Switzerland is one of them. Marius Brülhart tells Tim Phillips about a natural experiment in Switzerland's cantons that teaches us about how peop...
6 Dec 201918min
S2 Ep48: How the mobile internet changed politics
The mobile internet, promises to give us access to information anywhere, 24 hours a day. So how has it influenced trust in governments, politics, and politicians? Sergei Guriev tells Tim Phillips abou...
29 Nov 201919min
S2 Ep47: Can the stock market help save the planet?
We think about climate policies as moderating or interceding in markets. But a new paper implies that when stock markets play a bigger part in the economy, polluting industries become cleaner. Tim Ph...
22 Nov 201919min
