The End of Google As We Know It?
This week we're taking a quick summer break, but in the meantime, we wanted to re-share a special episode that is relevant in the news again. With the recent federal court ruling that Google engaged i...
15 Aug 202451min
Dani Rodrik on the New Economics of Industrial Policy
Harvard professor of international political economy Dani Rodrik has long been skeptical of what he calls "hyperglobalization," or an advanced level of interconnectedness between countries and their e...
1 Aug 202445min
The Economic Costs of a Phone-Based Childhood, with Jonathan Haidt
In one of this year's bestselling books, "The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing An Epidemic of Mental Illness," New York University social psychologist Jonathan Haidt ...
18 Jul 202448min
Immigration in America: Data and Myths, Revisited With Leah Boustan
If democracy is a social contract, why don’t we allow everybody who is willing to sign it? Why don’t we have open borders for immigration?In their book "Streets of Gold: America's Untold Story of Immi...
4 Jul 202436min
Joseph Stiglitz's Vision of a New Progressive Capitalism
In the last 60 years, few economists have contributed more to exposing the failures of capitalism than Joseph Stiglitz. Formerly the chief economist of the World Bank and chair of the U.S. Council of ...
20 Jun 202449min
Capitalism-Was: What Happened to the American Dream? With David Leonhardt
Is the famed American Dream still attainable for the immigrants and working class of today? What made America the land of opportunity — and if it isn't the same anymore, what happened to it?Joining co...
6 Jun 202448min
The Money Behind Ultra-Processed Foods, with Marion Nestle
Critics of the food industry allege that it relentlessly pursues profits at the expense of public health. They claim that food companies "ultra-process" products with salt, sugar, fats, and artificial...
23 Mai 202447min
The Economics of Student Protests
Over the last few weeks, university politics has captured headlines as students across the country occupy sections of their campuses and demand that their schools divest from Israel in protest of its ...
9 Mai 202435min
