S8 Ep49: Tastes, geography, and culture
It’s cultural meme that teenagers in New York and Seoul will have more in common with each other than with their parents. Has where we come from been downgraded as an influence on what we like, or is ...
26 Sep 202529min
S8 Ep48: What makes a successful entrepreneur?
We are up to our necks in advice about how to innovate in business, how to succeed as a founder, or how to spot a great startup. Blogs, YouTube channels and airport bookshops claim to reveal the secre...
19 Sep 202518min
S8 Ep47: Misinformation and trust in news
Today generative AI makes it easy to create and distribute convincing fake news stories, pictures, even videos. We’ve all been hoodwinked – but does that undermine our trust and confidence in the main...
12 Sep 202519min
S8 Ep46: Is Davos more than a boondoggle?
The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, in Davos, attended by thousands of business and policy VIPs – is one of those events that pops up on the news every year, as we see photos of multinatio...
5 Sep 202517min
S8 Ep45: The stickiness of gender biased norms
The belief that women are in some way inferior to men has been around for centuries. And throughout that time, women have suffered the consequences. Economists have lately been trying to understand mo...
29 Aug 202523min
S8 Ep44: In coin we trust
On 4 August, Paul Atkins, the chair of the US Securities and Exchange Commission, launched “Project Crypto”. The SEC wants to make the US “the crypto capital of the world”. Crypto investors make a lot...
22 Aug 202527min
S8 Ep43: Strategic cops and robbers
How do criminals choose the weapons they carry, the number of accomplices, the types of business they target? Economists have long argued that decisions to commit economic crimes are strategic, based ...
15 Aug 202522min
S8 Ep42: Carcillo: Closing the gender wage gap
Recorded live at the PSE-CEPR Policy Forum 2025. The gender wage gap in advanced economies isn’t shrinking. What can firms do to eliminate the part of the wage gap that comes from discrimination? Th...
8 Aug 202518min
