Research Highlights Podcast

Autocracies in the information age

July 8, 2020

UCLA professor Daniel Treisman discusses how today’s dictators retain their power and how to fight back.

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Rethinking racial discrimination

June 24, 2020

Harvard professor Mario Small discusses how sociology can help economics diversify its perspective.

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The enduring effect of communism

June 22, 2020

East Germany hasn’t caught up with the rest of the country. Why?

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Supplying a fiscal lifeline

May 13, 2020

Valerie Ramey discusses what economists have learned about stimulus since the 2008 financial crisis.

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Keeping the lights on

April 27, 2020

Should electricity be a right?

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A puzzling development

March 2, 2020

India has grown a lot in the past three decades, but it’s been uneven. Can that continue?

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Navigating reality

February 26, 2020

How do maps shape economic decisions with the information they convey?

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Kicking the can down the road

December 6, 2019

The AEA interviews Pierre Yared about why government debt keeps rising and how we can get it under control.

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The price tag for the trade wars

November 25, 2019

How much did the 2018 tariffs raise the cost of imports?

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The factions of populism

November 20, 2019

Economic nationalist and isolationist policies being championed in western Europe include groups across the political spectrum.