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VoxTalks Economics — 455 episodes
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