Episode 27: American capitalism and incarceration
May 12, 2021
Anita Mukherjee discusses the consequences of private prisons for inmates in the United States.
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Episode 26: Creating Africa’s own Green Revolution
April 28, 2021
Dean Yang discusses how temporary farming subsidies in Mozambique are giving a massive boost to food production and economic well-being.
Episode 25: Why the United States has the best research universities
April 14, 2021
Miguel Urquiola discusses the history of higher education in America and why it surpassed Europe.
Episode 24: Climate change and migration
March 31, 2021
Klaus Desmet discusses how accounting for spatial shifts changes estimates of how rising sea levels will affect the economy.
Episode 23: How much do local leaders matter?
March 17, 2021
Christian Dippel discusses the Forty-Eighters and their role in the US antislavery movement.
Episode 22: Supreme polarization
March 03, 2021
University of Chicago law professor Daniel Hemel discusses whether the nation’s highest court is facing a legitimacy crisis and, if so, what to do about it.
Bonus episode: Tech: economists wanted
February 17, 2021
Susan Athey and Michael Luca discuss the mutual influence between economics and the tech sector.
Episode 21: The consequences of school choice
February 03, 2021
Harvard professor Chris Avery discusses how allowing students to leave their neighborhood for their education may undercut policymakers' goals.
Episode 20: Rereading the The Road to Serfdom
January 20, 2021
Bruce Caldwell discusses Friedrich Hayek and the history of economic ideas.
Episode 19: Social well-being and academic success
January 06, 2021
Northwestern’s Kirabo Jackson discusses how schools can help their students by fostering socioemotional development.