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Can we trust the regulators?
Episode 146
We like to think of trust as one thing: you either have it, or you don't. My guest's research says otherwise. People can trust a regulator and distru…
1 day, 19 hours ago
Globalization's Six Faces, and Who We Trust
Episode 145
Two people can look at the very same trade deal, the same tariff, the same wave of globalization, and walk away with opposite conclusions about who's…
2 weeks, 6 days ago
God, Money and the Nation, A History of Trust
Episode 144
It opens in one of Stalin's prisons: a condemned man writing to the very dictator about to have him shot, still pleading to be trusted. From that chi…
1 month ago
Trusted Brands: Voice, Volume, Vulnerability
Episode 143
If you build or look after a brand, this is a practical half-hour on the one thing every marketing budget quietly rests on: earning trust and keeping…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Being Right Never Earns Trust
Episode 142
Most people think an institution earns trust by being right. Katherine McComas thinks it earns trust by asking, and after a career studying what happ…
2 months, 1 week ago
Trusting, Line by Line
Episode 141
Most people think trust is something you either have or you don't. Ann Merrit Rikke Nielsen, assistant professor at the University of Copenhagen and …
2 months, 2 weeks ago
How Medicine Earns Trust
Episode 140
What does it actually take for a hospital, a research institution, or a public health agency to deserve the trust of the communities it serves? Consu…
3 months ago
Trusted Philantrophy
Episode 139
Most people think philanthropy is about money. John Loudon, Executive Director of the COmON Foundation and one of the best-known philanthropists in c…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Understanding the Trust-Law Dynamic: Insights on Legitimacy
Episode 138
In this replay of a 2023 interview, Severin de Wit speaks with Tom Tyler, professor of law and psychology at Yale and founding director of the Justic…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Why Trust Matters
Episode 137
In this replay of a 2023 interview, Severin de Wit speaks with Economist Benjamin Ho - Professor of Economics at Vassar College and author of Why Tru…
4 months, 1 week ago