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Tastes, geography, and culture
Season 8 Episode 49
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…
Published on 7 hours ago
What makes a successful entrepreneur?
Season 8 Episode 48
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 secr…
Published on 1 week ago
Misinformation and trust in news
Season 8 Episode 47
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 mai…
Published on 2 weeks ago
Is Davos more than a boondoggle?
Season 8 Episode 46
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 multinati…
Published on 3 weeks ago
The stickiness of gender biased norms
Season 8 Episode 45
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 m…
Published on 4 weeks ago
In coin we trust
Season 8 Episode 44
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 lo…
Published on 1 month ago
Strategic cops and robbers
Season 8 Episode 43
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…
Published on 1 month, 1 week ago
Carcillo: Closing the gender wage gap
Season 8 Episode 42
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? T…
Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Bertrand: Why Japanese men don’t take paternity leave
Season 8 Episode 41
Recorded live at the PSE-CEPR Policy Forum 2025.
One of the mysteries for economists and policymakers has been the reluctance of men to take paternity leave, no matter how generous the terms offere…
Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Petrongolo: Gender and the labour market
Season 8 Episode 40
From our series recorded live at the PSE-CEPR Policy Forum 2025. How much progress have we made in finding out the source of gender inequality at work?
At the Forum, Barbara Petrongolo of the Univer…
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago