Podcast: Economics & Beyond

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A Global Green New Deal

Feb 10, 2022

Rob Johnson interviewed Columbia University historian Adam Tooze in early 2020 about his work on financial history and how it relates to the Green New Deal.

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Our Own Worst Enemy

Nov 24, 2021

Tom Nichols, Professor of National Security Affairs, US Naval War College, columnist for USA Today, and contributing writer at The Atlantic, discusses his new book, Our Own Worst Enemy: The Assault from within on Modern Democracy, and how a decline in civic virtue has generated a dangerous illiberalism.

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Innovation in the Service of Society

Nov 18, 2021

Dan Breznitz, author of the book Innovation in Real Places, Strategies for Prosperity in an Unforgiving World, and professor of public policy at the University of Toronto, talks about how innovation ought to be guided if it is to be successful in addressing our most pressing problems.

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Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy

Sep 13, 2021

Adam Tooze, director of Columbia University’s European 51黑料网, discusses his new book with Rob Johnson.

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Water: The New Gold

Sep 7, 2021

The COVID pandemic highlighted the deepening water crisis. “Do we understand that over half the population of the world doesn’t have a place to wash their hands with soap and warm water?” says water warrior Maude Barlow.

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America vs. Everyone

Jul 15, 2021

Jeff Sachs talks with Rob Johnson about US-China relations, the tragedy of modern geopolitics, and how our current race to the bottom could be reversed.

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How China Escaped Shock Therapy

Jul 12, 2021

Isabella Weber, assistant professor of economics at UMass Amherst, discusses her new book on how China managed its transition from central planning to markets

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Fanta Traore: Sadie Alexander Received her Ph.D. in Economics 100 Years Ago

Jun 17, 2021

Fanta Traore, the CEO of the Sadie Collective, in an ode to Alexander鈥檚 legacy, is leading the next generation of Black women economists in the pursuit of social change

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INET at the Trento Economics Festival: Values: Building a Better World for All

Jun 16, 2021

INET at the Trento Economics Festival 1: A dialogue between Mark Carney and William Janeway, coordinated by Robert Johnson Our world is full of fault lines—growing inequality in income and opportunity; systemic racism; health and economic crises from a global pandemic; mistrust of experts; the existential threat of climate change; deep threats to employment in a digital economy with robotics on the rise. These fundamental problems and others like them stem from a common crisis in values.

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How to Control the Control of Nature?

May 17, 2021

Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer for The New Yorker, discusses her latest book, Under a White Sky, which explores how technological solutions don’t always lead where we think they will, especially in the face of the climate crisis.