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Ideas Untrapped — 75 episodes

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Big Ideas with Robin Hanson

2

Power to the People

3

Free Markets in Africa

4

America's New Deal

5

Global Value Chains

6

Moving from Promise to Progress

7

Learning from East Asia

8

Trade-offs and Tensions

9

The Case for Parliamentarianism

10

Beyond GDP

11

The Dynamics of Growth

12

History and the Future of Prosperity

13

The Promise and Challenges of Charter Cities

14

Rethinking Good Governance

15

SCIENCE, SKEPTICISM, AND TRUTH

16

The Illusion of Autocracy

17

Why Education, Electricity, And Fertility Matter for Development

18

MUDDLING THROUGH - BANGLADESH'S DEVELOPMENT JOURNEY

19

MUDDLING THROUGH - BANGLADESH'S DEVELOPMENT JOURNEY

20

PRODUCTIVITY, EXPORTING, AND DEVELOPMENT

21

TALKING CITIES WITH A LEGEND

22

UNDERSTANDING INNOVATION

23

INSECURITY IN NIGERIA

24

FOOD POLICY AND ITS CHALLENGES

25

WHY WE COOPERATE

26

EXPLAINING THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

27

TALKING SUPPLY CHAINS

28

PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH AND ITS COMPLEXITIES

29

REMAKING A NATION

30

RULE OF LAW AND THE REAL WORLD

31

EVALUATION OF INTERVENTIONS

32

THE RETURN OF INDUSTRIAL POLICY

33

THE TRANSFORMATION CHALLENGE

34

SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR AND THE COLLECTIVE GOOD

35

DEVELOPMENT AS COMPETITIVENESS

36

Pandemic Post-Mortem

37

ANDREW NEVIN ON OTHER THINGS

38

ANDREW NEVIN ON BIG TRENDS

39

UNPACKING STATE CAPACITY

40

Nigeria and the Electricity Problem

41

A NEW VISION FOR NIGERIA

42

THE COLLAPSE OF LEADERSHIP

43

Ideas Untrapped

44

MAKING A NATION: THE CASE OF NIGERIA II

45

MAKING A NATION: THE CASE OF NIGERIA

46

Prosperity through Innovation

47

Urban Planning in Lagos

48

A Conversation About Police Reforms

49

Counting the Costs of Trade

50

Meta-Institution from the Bottom Up

51

IU Unplugged - with Walle Smith

52

CITIES AND DEVELOPMENT

53

Unemployment in Nigeria - IU unplugged

54

People, Power and Participation

55

Business at the Speed of Politics

56

IS THIS TIME DIFFERENT?

57

The Political Economy of Big Projects

58

Founders and Development

59

Thriving Beyond the Crisis

60

IU- Unplugged with Andrew Nevin

61

IU-Unplugged with Iyinoluwa Aboyeji

62

IU - Unplugged (One for the Fans) with Biola Kazeem

63

IU - Unplugged with Ikpeme Neto

64

Responsible Reforms

65

IU Unplugged -with Dolapo Oni

66

IU Unplugged - with Omotola Abimbola

67

IU unplugged - with The Black Bandit

68

The Merits of the Conventional

69

PUBLIC HEALTH 101

70

LOCKDOWN AND BEYOND

71

Pandemiconomics

72

THE MICROBE AND THE LEVIATHAN

73

Reinventing the Public - with Akin

74

On the Value of Knowledge - with Adedayo

75

Affiong Williams on Human Capital, Feminism, and Poverty