All Episodes

S9 Ep35: The success of the embedded state

S9 Ep34: Making defence spending pay

S9 Ep33: Did the sewing machine liberate women?

S9 Ep32: The digital money supply

S9 Ep31: How well does patent screening work?

S9 Ep30: Redefining the monetary standard

S9 Ep29: Guns and Butter

S9 Ep28: Immigration and integration in Europe

S9 Ep27: The right to choose to die

S9 Ep26: The public origins of American innovation

S9 Ep25: Rebalancing the Chinese economy

S9 Ep24: Stablecoins and Global Imbalances

S9 Ep23: Global imbalances redux

S9 Ep22: World War Trade

S9 Ep21: The Bank of England's capital mistake?

S9 Ep20: What triggered January 6?

S9 Ep19: Can blockchain decentralise money, contracts, and finance?

S9 Ep18: Will AI transform economic growth?

S9 Ep17: Sanctions and financial repression

S9 Ep16: What's next for Ukraine: The labour market

S9 Ep15: What's next for Ukraine: Reconstruction

S9 Ep14: What’s next for Ukraine: Investment

S9 Ep13: The alpha political male

S9 Ep12: Management under the spotlight

S9 Ep11: The next generation: Paris ‘25

S9 Ep10: How many people die when the US cuts foreign aid?

S9 Ep9: What should Europe do about Trump?

S9 Ep8: The economic consequences of living longer

S9 Ep7: How exchange rates responded to tariffs

S9 Ep6: What's next for Trump’s tariffs?

S9 Ep5: Is US debt sustainable?

S9 Ep4: Do stablecoins threaten financial stability?

S9 Ep3: Can Europe defend itself?

S9 Ep2: Has AI eaten the economics major?

S9 Ep1: Trump, trade, and AI growth

S8 Ep65: The future of globalisation

S8 Ep64: A London economic consensus?

S8 Ep63: Do sanctions work?

S8 Ep62: The cost of lost biodiversity

S8 Ep61: The politics of sustainability reporting

S8 Ep60: The planet has a problem with populism

S8 Ep59: Designing markets for nature

S8 Ep58: A big push for climate policy

S8 Ep57: How to make carbon removal work

S8 Ep56: The economics of biodiversity

S8 Ep55: Overcoming climate agenda fatigue

S8 Ep54: Coalitions of the willing

S8 Ep53: The visual politics of Brexit

S8 Ep52: A hundred lessons from history

S8 Ep51: A European Carbon Central Bank

S8 Ep50: The hidden cost of invasive species

S8 Ep49: Tastes, geography, and culture

S8 Ep48: What makes a successful entrepreneur?

S8 Ep47: Misinformation and trust in news

S8 Ep46: Is Davos more than a boondoggle?

S8 Ep45: The stickiness of gender biased norms

S8 Ep44: In coin we trust

S8 Ep43: Strategic cops and robbers

S8 Ep42: Carcillo: Closing the gender wage gap

S8 Ep41: Bertrand: Why Japanese men don’t take paternity leave

S8 Ep40: Petrongolo: Gender and the labour market

S8 Ep39: The next generation: PSE ’25

S8 Ep38: The state of globalisation

S8 Ep37: The effect of working from home on house prices

S8 Ep36: Davis: Will working from home stick?

S8 Ep35: The global impact of AI

S8 Ep34: How good are LLMs at doing our jobs?

S8 Ep33: Autor: Automation and the value of expertise

S8 Ep32: Bonus episode: From soft landings to hard realities

S8 Ep31: Does better school management boost test scores?

S8 Ep30: Do car bans hurt politicians?

S8 Ep29: Finding meaning at work

S8 Ep28: How to curb the bias against female experts

S8 Ep27: The Grievance Doctrine

S8 Ep26: The rise of China in academic research

S8 Ep25: Growth and trust in government

S8 Ep24: Do friendships change our political opinions?

S8 Ep23: What is geoeconomics?

S8 Ep22: Do superstar advisors create star students?

S8 Ep21: A meaningful life

S8 Ep20: Expelling the experts

S8 Ep19: Central banks as financial agents of the state

S8 Ep18: When our values clash at work

S8 Ep17: The menopause penalty at work

S8 Ep16: The next generation: Paris ‘24

S8 Ep15: Ending period stigma in schools

S8 Ep14: The laws that protected women from work

S8 Ep13: The class gap in career progression

S8 Ep12: Do we work harder when we work from home?

S8 Ep11: How should the EU respond to Trump?

S8 Ep10: Who should work, and how much?

S8 Ep9: A European climate bond

S8 Ep8: Can planting trees change the climate?

S8 Ep7: The impact of financial deglobalisation

S8 Ep6: Do cryptocurrencies matter?

S8 Ep5: What impact have trade sanctions had on Russia?

S8 Ep4: Crime and punishment?

S8 Ep3: Trump’s tariffs: Help for the heartland?

S8 Ep2: What policymakers get wrong about US trade deficits

S8 Ep1: Can AI forecasts improve crisis response?

S7 Ep59: Spotting social isolation in the classroom

S7 Ep58: Trading around geopolitics

S7 Ep57: Can central banks green the financial system?

S7 Ep56: Populism and war

S7 Ep55: Masculinity around the world

S7 Ep54: Banking without branches

S7 Ep53: The price of deforestation

S7 Ep52: Financing the green transition

S7 Ep51: Insuring the world of the future

S7 Ep50: The economic effect of the Great Fire of London

S7 Ep49: Young, educated, and unemployed

S7 Ep48: NOBEL SPECIAL: James Robinson on antisocial norms

S7 Ep47: Access to opportunity in the sciences

S7 Ep46: Food policy in a warming world

S7 Ep45: How protests are born, and how they die

S7 Ep44: The US is in a fiscal mess

S7 Ep43: Digital access and infectious disease

S7 Ep42: The economics of strategy

S7 Ep41: The EU miracle

S7 Ep40: The economic burden of burnout

S7 Ep39: Getting cash transfers right

S7 Ep38: Do billionaires pay taxes?

S7 Ep37: When development creates conflict

S7 Ep36: Competence vs gender

S7 Ep35: Improving digital payments for social protection

S7 Ep34: The next generation: PSE 2024

S7 Ep33: The effects of disability hiring quotas

S7 Ep32: Will tax or finance get us to net zero?

S7 Ep31: Location, location, location

S7 Ep30: It’s a dirty job

S7 Ep29: Climate tipping points

S7 Ep28: Collaboration after #MeToo

S7 Ep27: Mafias and firms

S7 Ep26: Economic decline and the rise of populism

S7 Ep25: The stigma of depression

S7 Ep24: How fake news shapes the business cycle

S7 Ep23: What should business schools teach about the climate crisis?

S7 Ep22: Europe’s economic security

S7 Ep21: Clearing the path to growth

S7 Ep20: How quickly should we adopt AI?

S7 Ep19: Which jobs will AI replace?

S7 Ep18: Monetary policy, mortgages, and the housing market

S7 Ep17: The long shadow of the Spanish Civil War

S7 Ep16: Monetary policy responses to inflation

S7 Ep15: Mispriced risk and the end of ESG

S7 Ep14: Disasters and bank financing

S7 Ep13: Pandemic, war and debt

S7 Ep12: Women are from Mars too

S7 Ep11: Weder di Mauro: What went wrong at Credit Suisse

S7 Ep10: The euro at 25

S7 Ep9: Can parents teach patience?

S7 Ep7: Climate finance instruments

S7 Ep8: Main Street’s pain, Wall Street’s gain

S7 Ep6: The impact of mandatory profit sharing

S7 Ep5: Microdata in Europe

S7 Ep4: The seeds of knowledge

S7 Ep3: Young economists: Paris 2023

S7 Ep2: Solving the wickedest problem

S7 Ep1: The global transmission of Fed rate hikes

S6 Ep57: The impact of refugees on community health

S6 Ep56: A new programme area: Climate change and the environment

S6 Ep55: Navigating city transport policy

S6 Ep54: The art of gerrymandering

S6 Ep53: What is the purpose of a company?

S6 Ep52: Making banking safe

S6 Ep51: Later-life mortality and the repeal of prohibition

S6 Ep50: Violence against women in politics

S6 Ep49: Is there a market for biodiversity?

S6 Ep48: AI’s impact on jobs

S6 Ep47: Will deglobalisation lead to a new Cold War?

S6 Ep46: Whither climate finance?

S6 Ep45: Does anger drive populism?

S6 Ep44: How the US solved its Korean EV trade crisis

S6 Ep43: War and science in Ukraine

S6 Ep42: The slowdown in potential growth

S6 Ep41: Identity politics and polarisation

S6 Ep40: Price and prejudice: Asylum seekers and housing rents

S6 Ep39: How railways brought inventors together

S6 Ep38: Has broadband internet democratised finance?

S6 Ep37: Should history change the way we think about populism?

S6 Ep36: Democracy and political participation in India

S6 Ep35: Does regional identity guide investment?

S6 Ep34: Health and income risks in old age

S6 Ep33: Improving mental health as a route out of poverty

S6 Ep32: Adam: How inflation distorts relative prices

S6 Ep31: Political inequality

S6 Ep30: Closing the Gender gap in healthcare

S6 Ep29: The next generation of research

S6 Ep28: Aghion: Is green growth possible?

S6 Ep27: Johnson and Bozio: Can research influence policy?

S6 Ep26: Blanchard: What caused US inflation?

S6 Ep25: Duflo: Development in the 21st century

S6 Ep24: Do economists slow down as they age?

S6 Ep23: Immigration and public goods

S6 Ep22: The impact of trade sanctions

S6 Ep21: How male and female economists collaborate

S6 Ep20: Power and progress

S6 Ep19: Implementing central bank policy in China

S6 Ep18: How much inflation did Covid fiscal support cause?

S6 Ep17: American precious metals and the rise of the West

S6 Ep16: Does politics sell newspapers?

S6 Ep15: A troublesome transition

S6 Ep14: How should we measure expected inflation?

S6 Ep13: Corporate taxation and carbon emissions

S6 Ep12: What’s missing from climate risk stress tests

S6 Ep11: Hobbesian wars and the separation of powers

S6 Ep10: Larry Summers on the global economy

S6 Ep9: Building a resilient vaccine supply chain

S6 Ep8: Applying economics (not gut feel) to ESG

S6 Ep7: AI is reshaping economic research

S6 Ep6: Powerful forces are reshaping global trade

S6 Ep5: Fair pay for CEOs!

S6 Ep4: Do cultural stereotypes influence bank investment?

S6 Ep3: Rebuilding Ukraine’s labour market

S6 Ep2: Slavery and the industrial revolution

S6 Ep1: Who pays for your credit card rewards?

S5 Ep54: Understanding US inflation

S5 Ep53: Do content moderation laws work?

S5 Ep52: How empires rise, and how they fall

S5 Ep51: The great carbon arbitrage

S5 Ep50: How does trade policy affect competition?

S5 Ep49: How did inflation get so high?

S5 Ep48: Climate and debt

S5 Ep47: Slowing the spread of the next epidemic

S5 Ep46: How does climate change affect asset prices?

S5 Ep45: How social media influences the news

S5 Ep44: Violence against women at work

S5 Ep43: The illusion of control

S5 Ep42: Does inequality create growth?

S5 Ep41: Ghost firms and tax fraud

S5 Ep40: Our workless future

S5 Ep39: The political economy of lockdown

S5 Ep38: Divest or engage?

S5 Ep37: Yellow vests and carbon taxes

S5 Ep36: Distracted donors and political violence

S5 Ep35: The global real interest rate

S5 Ep34: Covid-19’s impact on innovation

S5 Ep33: Causes and costs of populism

S5 Ep32: Levelling up Europe’s left-behind places

S5 Ep31: Closing the European data gap

S5 Ep30: Curing Covid inflation

S5 Ep29: Defusing the carbon bombs

S5 Ep28: Inflation and Europe’s public finances

S5 Ep27: The Economics of Brexit

S5 Ep26: The consequences of war for the EU

S5 Ep25: Piketty on equality

S5 Ep24: Male and female voices in economics

S5 Ep23: The price of war

S5 Ep22: What is the purpose of a finance professor?

S5 Ep21: The food crisis has no respect for borders

S5 Ep20: What can helicopter money do?

S5 Ep19: Helping fathers to acknowledge paternity

S5 Ep18: The limits of microfinance

S5 Ep17: Inequality and creative destruction

S5 Ep16: How Fox News inspired vaccine hesitancy

S5 Ep15: Forced displacement, then and now

S5 Ep14: Motivated science and green innovation

S5 Ep13: Will Ukraine's economy survive the war?

S5 Ep12: Do schools change our religious attitudes?

S5 Ep11: Women's liberation, household revolution

S5 Ep10: Raising the pressure on Putin

S5 Ep9: The lockdown supply shock

S5 Ep8: A positive inflation target for the euro area

S5 Ep7: Anti-LGBT discrimination in transition economies

S5 Ep6: A French revolution in state-building

S5 Ep5: Macro-financial policies in an international financial centre

S5 Ep4: Managing risk in global supply chains

S5 Ep3: The other great migration

S5 Ep2: AI: software for autocrats?

S5 Ep1: The gender gap: Nature or nurture?

S4 Ep51: Europe's asylum lottery

S4 Ep50: Germany's stalled social mobility

S4 Ep49: Why natural experiments won the Nobel

S4 Ep48: Coming out in America

S4 Ep47: Pensions and fertility in Namibia

S4 Ep46: Tournaments: Playing to win

S4 Ep45: Creating a resilient society

S4 Ep44: How crises rewire our brains

S4 Ep43: Pension reform and the incentive to work

S4 Ep42: Rethinking financial globalisation

S4 Ep41: The robots are reshoring!

S4 Ep40: Using AI to target aid in Togo

S4 Ep39: Pitching with passion

S4 Ep38: The flight from quality

S4 Ep37: Remembering Peter Neary

S4 Ep36: Share vaccines, save lives

S4 Ep35: Does malnutrition cause disease?

S4 Ep34: Propaganda, persuasion, and the Nazis

S4 Ep33: The PPE panic of 2020

S4 Ep32: How Craigslist killed local news

S4 Ep31: Covid's effect on inequality

S4 Ep30: Does economics do enough race-related research?

S4 Ep29: A cure for Friday morning fever

S4 Ep28: What makes children lie?

S4 Ep27: Why mums return to work

S4 Ep26: Whatever happened to the 15-hour work week?

S4 Ep25: Capitalism after Covid

S4 Ep24: Populism in Latin America

S4 Ep23: Turning competition research into competition policy

S4 Ep22: How central banks saved us from Covid-19

S4 Ep21: Twitter changes how the media reports conflict

S4 Ep20: The financial system and climate risk

S4 Ep19: Are socially responsible banks more resilient?

S4 Ep18: Parental age and child health

S4 Ep17: Making sense of the US-China trade war

S4 Ep16: The problems of digital trade

S4 Ep15: Covid-19 is reshaping European economic policy

S4 Ep14: Discovering history's notable people

S4 Ep13: Inequality beyond GDP

S4 Ep12: What if bitcoin succeeds?

S4 Ep11: Do looks matter in economics?

S4 Ep10: Regulation after Wirecard

S4 Ep9: Exporting pollution

S4 Ep8: How Africa can recover from Covid-19

S4 Ep7: Patent pools for generic drugs

S4 Ep6: Is Europe's trade strategy fit for purpose?

S4 Ep5: Do we give more to charity after we've been sick?

S4 Ep4: Capitalist systems and inequality

S4 Ep3: Boiling point in Africa

S4 Ep2: The microeconomics of cryptocurrencies

S4 Ep1: The refugee's dilemma

S3 Ep59: How authoritarians stay in power

S3 Ep58: Covid baby boom or bust?

S3 Ep57: The Spanish Empire's shipwreck problem

S3 Ep57: Africa's roads make the rich richer

S3 Ep56: The secret war in Laos

S3 Ep55: A history of public debt

S3 Ep54: Europe should throw out its fiscal rulebook

S3 Ep53: Gun control in Brazil

S3 Ep52: The price of a vote

S3 Ep51: Nepotism in academia

S3 Ep50: The Black Death

S3 Ep49: Politics and ethnicity in Africa

S3 Ep48: Should Google be allowed to acquire Fitbit?

S3 Ep47: Publishing in economics

S3 Ep46: The old songs

S3 Ep45: Post-pandemic transport policy

S3 Ep44: Trustworthiness in the financial sector

S3 Ep43: What next for the UK's furloughed workers?

S3 Ep42: Kindergartens in America

S3 Ep41: Racism and the "China virus"

S3 Ep40: Restoring financial stability to India

S3 Ep39: A new explanation for wage stagnation

S3 Ep38: Bailing out the kids

S3 Ep37: Does social media make us xenophobic?

S3 Ep36: Europe's zombie lending

S3 Ep35: Recessions increase inequality

S3 Ep34: Valuing digital services

S3 Ep33: The mechanics of the industrial revolution

S3 Ep32: Solving Europe's productivity puzzle

S3 Ep31: Banks under pressure

S3 Ep30: To each according to their needs

S3 Ep29: Coping with Covid in developing economies

S3 Ep28: Who gets exposed to Covid-19?

S3 Ep27: The Great Reversal

S3 Ep26: Structural transformation and economic growth

S3 Ep25: Time for beds

S3 Ep24: Tech industry mergers

S3 Ep23: Helicopter money

S3 Ep22: The Swedish solution to Covid-19

S3 Ep21: The myth of British inventive genius

S3 Ep20: Do the rich get more coronavirus tests?

S3 Ep19: We need a Covid-19 debt standstill

S3 Ep18: John Maynard Keynes's art portfolio

S3 Ep17: Lessons from the Ebola crisis on dealing with Covid-19

S3 Ep16: Modelling the economic consequences of Covid-19

S3 Ep15: How much do governments lend to each other in a crisis?

S3 Ep14: The coronavirus shock to financial stability

S3 Ep13: A Covid credit line for Europe

S3 Ep12: Singapore's response to Covid-19

S3 Ep11: The polarization of reality

S3 Ep10: Economics in the time of Covid-19

S3 Ep9: Women in Economics

S3 Ep8: Digital market merger policy

S3 Ep7: The history of immigration quotas

S3 Ep6: Education creates peace

S3 Ep5: Central banks and regional inequality

S3 Ep4: The origins of tech clusters

S3 Ep3: Betting on the Lord

S3 Ep2: Regenerating the cities that were left behind

S3 Ep1: Will there be a post-Brexit financial services deal?

S2 Ep52: Has the randomista revolution gone too far?

S2 Ep51: Burying bad news

S2 Ep50: Helping parents to read with their children

S2 Ep49: Wealth taxes

S2 Ep48: How the mobile internet changed politics

S2 Ep47: Can the stock market help save the planet?

S2 Ep46: The Great Expectations of the middle class

S2 Ep45: How to improve consumer credit ratings

S2 Ep44: Let's stay together

S2 Ep43: The cost of dying

S2 Ep42: Increasing diversity in economics

S2 Ep41: The economics of an ageing population

S2 Ep40: A new story of London's economic development

S2 Ep39: Lessons from the Irish banking crisis

S2 Ep38: The death of banks?

S2 Ep37: Does foreign investment create green growth?

S2 Ep36: The economic history of World War 2

S2 Ep35: Africa's lands of opportunity

S2 Ep34: Could a $15 minimum wage save lives?

S2 Ep33: Investing in Brexit

S2 Ep32: Social media polarization

S2 Ep31: Learning about ourselves

S2 Ep30: France's broken social elevator

S2 Ep29: The true cost of emissions cheating

S2 Ep28: The benefits of starting school early

S2 Ep27: Italy is a very sick patient

S2 Ep26: How the G20 can save world trade

S2 Ep25: The threat to global prosperity

S2 Ep24: What would Ricardo do?

S2 Ep23: The future of the welfare state

S2 Ep22: The Yrjo Jahnsson award

S2 Ep21: The cost of kids

S2 Ep20: Managing the secret state

S2 Ep19: The end of the WTO?

S2 Ep18: The lost ones

S2 Ep17: How art auctions work

S2 Ep16: The 2018 trade war

S2 Ep15: Girls, boys and multiple choice

S2 Ep14: A green monetary policy

S2 Ep13: RCTs in the long run

S2 Ep12: Why are schools segregated?

S2 Ep11: Love, money and parenting

S2 Ep10: Innovation policy for Europe

S2 Ep9: The Big Data economy

S2 Ep8: Gender bias in mathematics

S2 Ep7: A history of international finance

S2 Ep6: Legal cannabis and the black economy

S2 Ep5: The end of globalisation?

S2 Ep4: Work in transition, part 2

S2 Ep3: Work in transition, part 1

S2 Ep2: Why we vote for protectionism

S2 Ep1: The half-life of injustice

S1 Ep29: Superstar economists

S1 Ep28: Regulating cyber risk

S1 Ep27: The end of men

S1 Ep26: Short-time work

S1 Ep25: Does prison work?

S1 Ep24: Connecting to power

S1 Ep23: The world needs more migrants

S1 Ep22: The economics of the Great War

S1 Ep21: The rise of superstar firms

S1 Ep20: Why education reduces crime

S1 Ep19: The making of modern London

S1 Ep18: The next recession will be a bad one

S1 Ep17: Women and monetary policy

S1 Ep16: The impact of innovation

S1 Ep15: The missing profits of nations

S1 Ep14: English in Europe

S1 Ep13: IMF reform: An unfinished agenda

S1 Ep12: Populism in France

S1 Ep11: The decline of northern England

S1 Ep10: Financing the war on cancer

S1 Ep9: Explaining Germany's recovery

S1 Ep8: Tax evasion and inequality

S1 Ep7: Robots and jobs

S1 Ep6: Will central banks issue digital currencies?

S1 Ep5: The UK’s post-Brexit US trade deal

S1 Ep4: What caused the growth of the Sicilian Mafia?

S1 Ep3: The stubbornly high cost of remittances

S1 Ep2: The return of regional inequality

S1 Ep1: How blockchain technology is changing finance