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- S9 Ep63: Inflation and the polarisation of reality · 26 min · Stagione 9 Episodio 63In recent years, shoppers in Türkiye do not need the evening news to tell them prices have been rising, because they see it at the till. But the till only tells you about the…
- S9 Ep62: How well do bug bounties work? · 20 min · Stagione 9 Episodio 62For three decades years, software makers have paid bug bounty hunters to break their code so they can make it more secure. Recently, some software companies have decided that bug…
- S9 Ep61: Cooperatives in the 21st century · 27 min · Stagione 9 Episodio 61Go to work, follow orders all day, and your living standards will rise. That is the deal behind the capitalist economy. In his forthcoming book, Cooperatives in the twenty-first…
- S9 Ep60: The challenges to the international financial system · 27 min · Stagione 9 Episodio 60The 29th Geneva Report on the World Economy examines three pressures on the international financial system at once: global imbalances, the status of the dollar, and the stability…
- S9 Ep59: Life after divorce · 21 min · Stagione 9 Episodio 59Who gets the kids? Courts aim to decide custody in the child's best interests, but nobody has had the data to test how well those decisions work. Gordon Dahl (UC San Diego…
- S9 Ep58: Not wearing Prada · 19 min · Stagione 9 Episodio 58Since March 2022, it has been harder to buy an iPhone in Russia, because Apple chose to stop selling there. So did Prada, Renault, Starbucks, Nike and more than 1,000 other…
- S9 Ep57: Merit, masters and China's imperial exam · 21 min · Stagione 9 Episodio 57For more than 1,300 years, China chose its top officials by written exam. Its top officials were chosen meritocratic ally -- or were they? When the results came out, each…
- S9 Ep56: Decoupling from China after Trump's Trade Wars · 29 min · Stagione 9 Episodio 56In March 2025, Apple chartered cargo flights to deliver 600 tonnes of iPhones from India to the United States. A year earlier, four in five smartphones that imported to the US…
- S9 Ep55: Loosening inheritance law · 26 min · Stagione 9 Episodio 55In most of the world you do not get to choose who inherits your money. Across continental Europe, Latin America, and countries governed by Islamic law, a minimum share of your…
- S9 Ep54: Does sacking the manager work? · 18 min · Stagione 9 Episodio 54Your football team keeps losing. The season is slipping away. One thing can be changed by Friday, and the crowd is already singing about it: sack the manager. Jan van Ours…
- S9 Ep53: Lessons from Populism in Latin America · 33 min · Stagione 9 Episodio 53The new episode of VoxTalks Economics traces the effects of South Americans populism, left and right. Alejandro Werner (Georgetown Americas Institute) is one of the authors of a…
- S9 Ep52: The Dollar Anchor Is Slipping · 26 min · Stagione 9 Episodio 52April 2025: Liberation Day. President Trump announces sweeping new tariffs. And then, the dollar did something a safe haven currency is not supposed to do: it fell. Tarek Hassan…
- S9 Ep51: Fiscal Populism and Monetary Policy · 16 min · Stagione 9 Episodio 51There is a saying in Spanish: get burned by hot milk, and the sight of a cow makes you cry. New research implies that, decades after a populist government leaves office, the…
- S9 Ep50: Tariffs, Uncertainty, and the Exchange Rate · 24 min · Stagione 9 Episodio 50Textbook economics says a tariff should strengthen a country's currency. Since the start of 2025, as US tariffs rose ... and the dollar fell. In the first of four episodes of…
- S9 Ep49: Combatting sexual harassment in the military · 21 min · Stagione 9 Episodio 49Norwegian conscripts arrive at boot camp straight out of school. They are assigned at random to a shared room and they live in it for the next eight weeks. Whatever the culture…
- S9 Ep48: What price to save Japan's ghost towns? · 18 min · Stagione 9 Episodio 48In the oldest Japanese municipalities, close to half the residents are already over 65. As young people move to cities, the retailers close, then the clinics, then the bus that…
- S9 Ep47: The Next Generation: PSE 2026 · 33 min · Stagione 9 Episodio 47Travel broadens the mind. So the Voxtalks visits a conference, we find the most interesting research from economists just starting out, and hand three of them a microphone. Ad…
- S9 Ep46: Absorbing shocks since 1891 · 20 min · Stagione 9 Episodio 46Recorded at the PSE-CEPR Policy Forum 2026. A country wants a stable exchange rate, it wants money to move freely across its borders, and it wants to set its own interest rates…
- S9 Ep45: Tariff Confusion · 31 min · Stagione 9 Episodio 45If you run a business that exports to the United States, how big is the tariff you have to pay? In 2025 that question was hard to answer. Between February and December, 53…
- S9 Ep44: How superpowers shape trade · 16 min · Stagione 9 Episodio 44Recorded at the PSE-CEPR Policy Forum, Paris School of Economics. Tariffs move trade around, but so does economic power. When one economy dominates, other countries fall into…
- S9 Ep43: Navigating industrial policy · 21 min · Stagione 9 Episodio 43Recorded at the PSE-CEPR Policy Forum, Paris. In 2019 the IMF called the increasing adoption of industrial policy: "The return of the policy that shall not be named". No one is…
- S9 Ep42: The Safety Paradox · 20 min · Stagione 9 Episodio 42Recorded at the PSE-CEPR Policy Forum, Paris School of Economics, June 2026. In 1941 the United States banned oil exports to Japan, to punish aggression without fighting a war…
- S9 Ep41: Making teenagers read newspapers · 20 min · Stagione 9 Episodio 41French teenagers carry a smartphone with access to almost anything, but few of them have been using it to read the news. Julia Cagé (Sciences Po, CEPR) ran an experiment to test…
- S9 Ep40: Are net zero commitments greenwash? · 24 min · Stagione 9 Episodio 40Sixty-three percent of large companies worldwide had made a net zero commitment by 2023, up from close to none in 2018. But if the target date is 2050, that's several corporate…
- S9 Ep39: Europe in 2050 · 21 min · Stagione 9 Episodio 39Recorded at the Paris School of Economics-CEPR Policy Forum 2026. Europe is under attack from the US, and under a different kind of attack from China. That is Olivier…
- S9 Ep38: Europe in the Middle · 21 min · Stagione 9 Episodio 38China cannot sell as much as it used to in the United States. That trade has to go somewhere, and somewhere might be Europe. In this week's VoxTalk, Tim Phillips asks Pol Antràs…
- S9 Ep37: Addressing Global Imbalances · 25 min · Stagione 9 Episodio 37Episode recorded on 19 June 2026 at the PSE-CEPR Policy Forum in Paris. Twice before, the world's savings and debts have piled up in the wrong places, and twice the imbalance…
- S9 Ep36: Helping the over-50s find work · 19 min · Stagione 9 Episodio 36Lose your job at 25 and someone will help you find another. Lose it at 55 and the talk quietly turns to how you might wind down towards retirement. Policymakers tend to assume…
- S9 Ep35: The success of the embedded state · 20 min · Stagione 9 Episodio 35Who kept the courts sitting and the streetlights lit when the state had almost no money to pay anyone? Two hundred years ago, British local government ran on unpaid labour. In a…
- S9 Ep34: Making defence spending pay · 26 min · Stagione 9 Episodio 34Defence spending is rising whether voters like it or not. The UK has committed to 2.5% of national income and aims for nearer 3.5% over the next decade, £30bn a year for each…
- S9 Ep33: Did the sewing machine liberate women? · 19 min · Stagione 9 Episodio 33In January 1860 the New York Times gave its blessing to a new machine: the sewing machine. These "iron needle-women", it wrote, were the only invention that could be claimed…
- S9 Ep32: The digital money supply · 27 min · Stagione 9 Episodio 32Every day, billions of transactions settle between strangers who have no idea which bank the other uses. That lack of friction is not automatic. Nine-tenths of the money in daily…
- S9 Ep31: How well does patent screening work? · 33 min · Stagione 9 Episodio 31Someone once held a patent on the swing. A piece of wood. Two ropes. The US Patent Office granted it. How often does that actually happen, and what does it cost when the system…
- S9 Ep30: Redefining the monetary standard · 26 min · Stagione 9 Episodio 30The fiat money system has survived the Great Inflation, the global financial crisis, and a pandemic. But can it survive digital currencies? Bitcoin and the blockchain solved a…
- S9 Ep29: Guns and Butter · 21 min · Stagione 9 Episodio 29Europe's NATO members have pledged 3.5% of GDP to rearmament. The political argument is already about which social programmes will be sacrificed to pay for this, when the…
- S9 Ep28: Immigration and integration in Europe · 25 min · Stagione 9 Episodio 28More than one in eight people living in the EU today was born in another country. In fourteen of the bloc's largest economies, it is closer to one in six. For ten years, the same…
- S9 Ep27: The right to choose to die · 23 min · Stagione 9 Episodio 27Content note: this episode discusses assisted dying, end-of-life choices, and suicide. Some listeners may find the content distressing. In April 2024, Daniel Kahneman — one of…
- S9 Ep26: The public origins of American innovation · 31 min · Stagione 9 Episodio 26The standard story of American innovation features Silicon Valley, venture capital, and the heroic startup founder.When you trace the history of the internet, GPS, mass-produced…
- S9 Ep25: Rebalancing the Chinese economy · 28 min · Stagione 9 Episodio 25In 2003, Premier Wen Jiabao warned that China's growth model was unbalanced between supply and demand, over-reliant on investment and exports. More than 20 years later, the…
- S9 Ep24: Stablecoins and Global Imbalances · 31 min · Stagione 9 Episodio 24A radical macroeconomic experiment is under way at exactly the moment the US external position is showing signs of real stress. Gilles Moëc, Chief Economist at AXA, has written a…
- S9 Ep23: Global imbalances redux · 34 min · Stagione 9 Episodio 23Three times since the 1970s, global imbalances have grown large. In the 1980s, the US trade deficit ballooned under Volcker's tight money and Reagan's tax cuts and military…
- S9 Ep22: World War Trade · 27 min · Stagione 9 Episodio 22On 2 April 2025, the United States imposed tariffs on almost every country on earth. The next day, China responded with export controls on the entire world. In the space of one…
- S9 Ep21: The Bank of England's capital mistake? · 25 min · Stagione 9 Episodio 21"When you look at the world now, does it look more uncertain or less uncertain?" In December 2025, the Bank of England's Financial Policy Committee (FPC) answered that question…
- S9 Ep20: What triggered January 6? · 21 min · Stagione 9 Episodio 20Two explanations circulated immediately after the March to Save America on January 6, 2021 turned into a riot: a mob manipulated by a demagogue, or ordinary citizens defending…
- S9 Ep19: Can blockchain decentralise money, contracts, and finance? · 33 min · Stagione 9 Episodio 19Every Bitcoin transaction needs to be verified on the blockchain. There is no central authority that does this, but Bitcoin's blockchain has run uninterrupted since 2009 and now…
- S9 Ep18: Will AI transform economic growth? · 31 min · Stagione 9 Episodio 18Could AI transform our economies to produce explosive growth? Most economists are sceptical at best. Anton Korinek of the University of Virginia, leader of the CEPR research…
- S9 Ep17: Sanctions and financial repression · 18 min · Stagione 9 Episodio 17Financial repression forces banks and citizens to hold government debt on terms the market would never accept. Economists have called it distortionary for fifty years. It never…
- S9 Ep16: What's next for Ukraine: The labour market · 17 min · Stagione 9 Episodio 16Ukraine has lost close to a quarter of its civilian workforce since the invasion. Three and a half million workers left government-controlled areas: mobilised into the armed…
- S9 Ep15: What's next for Ukraine: Reconstruction · 17 min · Stagione 9 Episodio 15Ukraine's cities were failing long before the Russian invasion began. Kyiv and Lviv ranked among the 40 most congested cities in the world, yet neither makes the top 100 by…
- S9 Ep14: What’s next for Ukraine: Investment · 21 min · Stagione 9 Episodio 14Ukraine will emerge from this war with enormous debt. The conventional wisdom treats that as an obstacle: investors weigh it before committing capital, and the burden slows the…
