Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHaakon Gjerløw and Carl Henrik Knutsen, "One Road to Riches?: How State Building and Democratization Affect Economic Development" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Episode 97
Building effective state institutions before introducing democracy is widely presumed to improve different development outcomes. Conversely, proponen…
4 years, 6 months ago
Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake, "Restarting the Future: How to Fix the Intangible Economy" (Princeton UP, 2022)
Episode 36
The past two decades have witnessed sluggish economic growth, mounting inequality, dysfunctional competition, and a host of other ills that have left…
4 years, 6 months ago
Robert Buderi, "Where Futures Converge: Kendall Square and the Making of a Global Innovation Hub" (MIT Press, 2022)
Episode 314
Kendall Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has been called “the most innovative square mile on the planet.” It's a life science hub, hosting Biogen,…
4 years, 6 months ago
Megan Tobias Neely, "Hedged Out: Inequality and Insecurity on Wall Street" (U of California Press, 2022)
Episode 273
Is the finance industry fair? In Hedged Out: Inequality and Insecurity on Wall Street (University of California Press, 2022) Megan Tobias Neely, an …
4 years, 7 months ago
Michael J. Graetz and Ian Shapiro, "The Wolf at the Door: The Menace of Economic Insecurity and How to Fight It" (Harvard UP, 2020)
Episode 163
This is an age of crisis. That much we can agree on. But a crisis of what? And how do we get out of it? Many on the right call for tax cuts and dereg…
4 years, 7 months ago
Joseph Fishkin and William E. Forbath, "The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution: Reconstructing the Economic Foundations of American Democracy" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Episode 154
Oligarchy is a threat to the American republic. When too much economic and political power is concentrated in too few hands, we risk losing the “repu…
4 years, 7 months ago
Alexander Zaitchik, "Owning the Sun: A People's History of Monopoly Medicine from Aspirin to COVID-19 Vaccines" (Counterpoint, 2022)
Episode 141
Although the dividing line between private life and public responsibilities can never be definite and clear, there is a moral threshold which is cros…
4 years, 7 months ago
The Future of Rational Decision Making: A Discussion with Olivier Sibony
Episode 6
In this podcast Owen Bennett-Jones discusses the future of rational decision making with Professor Olivier Sibony who after 25 years with McKinsey & …
4 years, 7 months ago
The Future of Disorder: A Discussion with Helen Thompson
Episode 5
In her book Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century (Oxford UP, 2022), Cambridge academic Helen Thompson gets beyond the ephemeral and analyses inst…
4 years, 7 months ago
Vikrant Pande, "The SBI Story: Two Centuries of Banking" (Westland, 2021)
Episode 96
From princes to peasants, musicians to masons, cement plant owners to casual labourers—the State Bank of India (SBI) has been the go-to bank for the …
4 years, 7 months ago