Sep 10

Can Capitalism Serve the Common Good? - ft. Mariana Mazzucato

The drugs in your medicine cabinet were probably discovered on your dime, in a university lab, with NIH money. You don't hold the patent. You don't set the price. Same story with the touchscreen, the GPS and the voice assistant in your pocket.The public often helps fund breakthro ... Show More

57m 27s

Aug 27

The One Thing That Could Decide If AI Takes Your Job - Ft. Luis Garicano

AI is coming for your job; AI isn't coming for your job. Economist Luis Garicano thinks both camps are asking the wrong question. In Messy Jobs: The Work That AI Cannot Reach, Garicano and co-authors Jin Li and Yanhui Wu argue that all knowledge work varies along a dimension of “ ... Show More

1 h

Aug 13

Can Liberalism Survive This Kind of Capitalism? - ft. Daron Acemoglu

For most of the last century liberal democracies offered a simple deal: the economy grows and, if you work hard, you get a fair shot at the rewards. According to 2024 Nobel Prize-winning economist Daron Acemoglu, that deal is broken. Acemoglu joins Bethany McLean and Luigi Zingal ... Show More

53m 31s

Nov 2020

Episode 3: Why economic and health models get it wrong

How will the COVID-19 pandemic change the global economy? In this episode, Rita speaks with Branko Milanovic, a Serbian-American economist and author, who is an expert on income inequality. The former lead economist at the World Bank discusses the pitfalls of economic modelling a ... Show More

37m 31s

Dec 2024

A Nobel prize for explaining why there's global inequality

Why do some nations fail and others succeed?In the late 1990s and early 2000s, three economists formed a partnership that would revolutionize how economists think about global inequality. Their work centered on a powerful — and almost radically obvious — idea: that the economic f ... Show More

28m 29s

Jan 2000

Economic Rights

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss economic rights. Is democracy the truest conduit of capitalism, or do the forces that make us rich run counter to the democratic institutions that safeguard our rights? The economist Milton Friedman once said, “If freedom weren’t so economically ef ... Show More

27m 41s

Feb 2019

FIND OUT HOW CENTRAL BANKS CREATE INCOME INEQUALITY- Robert & Kim Kiyosaki featuring Nomi Prins

Income inequality has mushroomed into a political and social problem. Nomi Prins joins Robert & Kim to discuss how Central Banking policies have fueled income inequality. Prins gives an insider’s view of how the elites around the world view and deal with income inequality, and ho ... Show More

53m 14s

Apr 2023

What Is The Most Equal Country on Earth?

Income and wealth inequality are two of the most debate issues in the world of economics. In this video we look at some of the most equal countries in the world to see what they are doing right Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

19m 33s

Aug 2023

Global Inequality - Interview with Francisco Ferreira (London School of Economics)

Global inequality is one of the biggest economic issues facing the world today. Global wealth is now thousands of times what it has been for the vast majority of human history, and yet a lot of that wealth is being hoarded by a smaller and smaller group of people. We were lucky e ... Show More

58m 30s

Oct 2020

#185 - Is It Time to Redistribute the Wealth?

Robert Reich, Yanis Varoufakis, Lawrence Summers and Allison Schrager join us for a debate on economic inequality in the premiere episode of “That’s Debatable," our new series presented in partnership with Bloomberg Media and sponsored by IBM. As nations around the world grapple ... Show More

52 m

Why Economists Should Care About Inequal...