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Our workless future
Season 5 Episode 40
As intelligent autonomous machines become better at doing all our jobs, will there be enough work and income to go around? If only some of us work, w…
3 years, 7 months ago
The political economy of lockdown
Season 5 Episode 39
During the Covid-19 pandemic governments had to take unpopular measures to restrict our freedoms, and we had to choose whether we did what we were to…
3 years, 8 months ago
Divest or engage?
Season 5 Episode 38
When pension giant ABP faced protests about its fossil fuel investment strategy, did it choose to exert pressure on oil companies or divest from them…
3 years, 8 months ago
Yellow vests and carbon taxes
Season 5 Episode 37
Opposition to a carbon tax was at the root of the gilets jaunes protests in France. Did the protestors think the tax wouldn’t work, or that it wasn’t…
3 years, 8 months ago
Distracted donors and political violence
Season 5 Episode 36
When aid donors are distracted by domestic concerns, do aid recipients take advantage to suppress political opposition? Data from Africa suggest that…
3 years, 8 months ago
The global real interest rate
Season 5 Episode 35
Global real rates are stuck at a low level, and until recently policy rates everywhere were effectively zero. Can we use historical data to explain w…
3 years, 9 months ago
Covid-19’s impact on innovation
Season 5 Episode 34
The Covid crisis inspired extraordinary innovation. Carsten Fink and Reinhilde Veugelers are two of the editors of a new ebook from CEPR called Resil…
3 years, 9 months ago
Causes and costs of populism
Season 5 Episode 33
Recorded live at CEPR Paris Symposium 2022: Across Europe and beyond, populist movements have recently flourished. What does history teach us about t…
3 years, 9 months ago
Levelling up Europe’s left-behind places
Season 5 Episode 32
Recorded live at CEPR Paris Symposium 2022: In his resignation speech this week, Boris Johnson said that "we need to keep levelling up, to keep unlea…
3 years, 9 months ago
Closing the European data gap
Season 5 Episode 31
Recorded live at CEPR Paris Symposium 2022: Researchers and policymakers need data, but in Europe they often cannot access the right data at the righ…
3 years, 9 months ago