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Angela Nagle on the online culture wars

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Nouriel Roubini on the US-China Thucydides Trap

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Jay Shambaugh on the tools to fight the next recession

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Joel Mokyr and the curse of Adam

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Will Davies on populism, data and experts

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Robert Kaplan on jobs, oil and credit

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Ajay Royan searches for the next growth frontier

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Banking culture since the crisis

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Kimberly Clausing makes the case for open economies

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Alphachat Live! Raghuram Rajan and Ashley Putnam on community

11

The IMF's Tobias Adrian on stability

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Bonus: IMF's Vitor Gaspar on debt

13

Odette Lienau on the most complicated debt restructuring in history

14

Yanis Varoufakis: "Democracy is a very fragile flower"

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Brexit: Too late now to get the milk out of the tea

16

Immigration: comparing this wave to the last

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Andrew Keen on the internet: misery is not the answer

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Waltraud Schelkle and Ashoka Mody: Is the eurozone fixable?

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What China wants: Brad Setser, and Freya Beamish

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Germany's China shock

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Peter Norton on the history of paying for big projects

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Climate change is not a business cycle

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Adam Tooze on Davos, econ 101 and the unexpected importance of China in the global economy

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The history of what we now call opportunity zones

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Olivier Blanchard on debt: “Relax. Don’t relax too much, but relax”

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Adam Posen on central banks, China and the enduring power of the dollar

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Robert Shiller: market narratives are 'like diseases'

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What exactly is 'slack'?

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Mariana Mazzucato on who creates value

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The math wizard who became a customer loyalty scheme guru

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Bill Janeway revisits the 'three-player game'

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David Autor on what we now know about trade

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Introducing Behind The Money

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Sir Paul Tucker on the legitimacy of the central bank

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Dan Drezner on the economics of ideas

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Jim Millstein on lessons from the financial crisis

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An encore chat with Geoffrey West

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Encore: Alice Rivlin on a career as an economic policymaker

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Benn Steil on The Marshall Plan

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ENCORE: Andrew Lo on adaptive markets

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The downside of the German economy

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Emi Nakamura on the methods and madness of inflation

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Stephanie Kelton on budget deficits and student debt

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Jonathan Knee on becoming the "accidental" investment banker

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ENCORE: 50 things that shaped the modern economy

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Understanding the North Korean economy

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Corporate tax and the trade balance

48

Thomas Wieser on his career in economic policy

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ENCORE: The life of Alan Greenspan

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Michele Wucker explains the 'gray rhino'

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ENCORE: Keynes v Hayek

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James Heckman on human capital development

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Hernando de Soto on the economics of property rights

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'The wisdom of finance'

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Unorthodox economics

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Hirschmania, the final chapter

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We're taking a break for Thanksgiving

58

Who is Sadie Alexander?

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The fiscal impact of US immigration

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A sit down with Adair Turner

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Stephen Kotkin on Stalin's economics

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ENCORE: Why economic populists always disappoint

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Richard Florida on geographic inequality

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Hirschmania Part 2

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Dan Drezner on the economics of ideas

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The science behind our addictions to social media and tech

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The economics of immigration

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Bonus: Life beyond the pit

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The making of the crisis in Venezuela

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Should Amazon be broken up?

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How well do immigrants integrate into American society?

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Buchheit and Gulati on restructuring Venezuela's debt

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"Don Draper has been drawn and quartered"

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The cost of dodging the tax man

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Michael Pettis on the Chinese economy

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Michael Pettis on the mechanics and politics of trade

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Encore episode: Angus Deaton on his Nobel Prize-winning career

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50 things that shaped the modern economy

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Encore episode: Heidi Williams on the economics of medical innovation

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Sizing up US retail

81

On the verge of a productivity boom?

82

Ireland: austerity poster child or "beautiful freak"?

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A chat with Geoffrey West

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The new masters of craft

85

More from our interview with Anne Case

86

The life of an economic policymaker

87

Encore episode: Maria Konnikova on psychology, work, and why we all get conned

88

The life and ideas of Albert O. Hirschman

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Inside Obama's economic policy shop

90

Tyler Cowen's stubborn attachments

91

Anne Case on mortality and morbidity in the 21st century

92

Encore episode: Jim Chanos on betting against Wall Street

93

When (and when not) to get political as a company

94

How persuasion works in business, life and politics

95

Buy, sell or adapt

96

How economics has evolved since the crisis

97

Why Texas works

98

UBI in action, and the need for full employment

99

Why economic populists always disappoint

100

Radical economics, rethought