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Development Dialogue: How can emerging economies break free from the sidelines of global trade? (podcast)

This episode of Development Dialogues addresses how lower-income countries have engaged with global trade. How have their approaches to trade differed based on their underlying institutional and economic structure? What ...Read more...

Amit Khandelwal, Isabela Manelici and Arvind Subramanian

17 December 2024

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The local economic development podcast:

Spatial rebalancing with Henry Overman - Econ 101 for local growth

Can 'Economics 101' and radical incrementalism reshape local economic development? David and Mike explore this and more with Professor Henry Overman. Tune in for a deep dive into practical economic strategies and their i...Read more...

Henry G. Overman

24 October 2024

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The Rest is Money:

The economics of happiness (podcast)

Robert and Steph are joined by Lord Richard Layard, a 90 year old economist who has dedicated his life to researching and encouraging politicians to consider the happiness of their populations when taking decisions. Th...Read more...

Richard Layard

30 September 2024

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Vox Talks (podcast):

The economics of strategy (podcast)

Organisations don't just provide employment: they solve, or attempt to solve, important problems in our society. Organizational economics has made some impressive strides in recent years to show what choices organisation...Read more...

Ghazala Azmat

6 September 2024

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Jam Tomorrow (Podcast):

The Green Belt: Fields forever? (podcast)

Ros Taylor talks to LSE professor Paul Cheshire and journalist Jonn Elledge about the problems facing Labour as it tries to persuade Britons of the need for more housing and infrastructure. And Paul Cheshire sets out a p...Read more...

Paul Cheshire, Jonn Elledge and Ros Taylor

16 July 2024

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The Rest is Money (podcast):

Bank of England Economist: Interest rates must be cut (podcast)

Economist and external member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee, Swati Dhingra talks to Robert and Steph about why she thinks the time has come to lower Bank Rate, the interest rate set by the Bank of En...Read more...

Swati Dhingra

14 July 2024

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IFS Zooms In (podcast):

Election 2024: How to grow the economy (podcast)

After years of sluggish growth and flatlining productivity, a rare political consensus has emerged that growing the economy is one of the key priorities of the next government. With an election on the way, we're bound to...Read more...

Anna Valero

24 May 2024

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Centre for Cities (podcast):

City Talks: Sharing the benefits of a high-tech economy (podcast)

Centre for Cities chief executive Andrew Carter is joined by Professor Neil Lee, professor of economic geography at the London School of Economics and author of Innovation for the Masses: How to Share the Benefits of the...Read more...

Neil Lee

7 May 2024

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The We Society (podcast):

Should governments care about wellbeing?

Professor Lord Richard Layard is one of the first economists to look at happiness as a metric that Governments worldwide should strive to improve in their population. He was the founder-director of LSE's Centre for Econ...Read more...

Richard Layard

13 March 2024

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VoxTalks Economics:

AI's impact on jobs (Podcast)

By automating non-routine tasks, AI may have a profound effect on the jobs we do, and even whether those jobs exist. How much should we fear, and how much should we welcome this change? In the second of our podcasts from...Read more...

John Van Reenen

13 November 2023

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The News Agents:

Is this Sunak's 'moment of shame'? (podcast)

Rishi Sunak was propelled into explaining his new position in a hastily arranged press conference after details of plans to adjust (water down) his commitment to green policies were leaked to the BBC. Anna Valero and Lor...Read more...

Anna Valero

20 September 2023

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LSE iQ:

Is AI coming for our jobs? (podcast)

Maayan Arad speaks to experts about Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the courtroom, and what might happen if robots take over the roles of judges. And explore how journalism and other professional fields could be affected...Read more...

Maayan Arad, Charlie Beckett, Giulia Gentile and Christopher A. Pissarides

7 September 2023

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IFS Zooms In:

Are differences between companies driving inequality and holding back growth? (podcast)

What do we mean when we talk about inequality between firms? Are inequalities between firms limiting UK business dynamism? And do governments need to step in and enforce competition rules? In this podcast episode, John V...Read more...

John Van Reenen

30 August 2023

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UK in a Changing Europe:

Daniel Chandler on rehabilitating liberalism and the political implications of economic inequality (podcast)

Daniel Chandler talked to Professor Anand Menon on this week's episode of the UKICE (I Tell) podcast about his new book, Free and Equal: What Would a Fair Society Look Like?, what his top two policy recommendations for K...Read more...

Daniel Chandler

25 August 2023

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Social Science Space:

Raffaella Sadun On effective management (Podcast)

In this Social Science Bites podcast, Raffaella Sadun discusses her research findings with host David Edmonds, on what exactly we mean by 'management' and what effective management looks like in a workplace....Read more...

Raffaella Sadun

1 August 2023

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VoxTalks Economics:

Is green growth possible? (Podcast)

Is innovation our best hope for dealing with climate change and, if so, how can we stimulate the sort of innovation that we need to make the green energy transition? Philippe Aghion tells Tim Phillips that we need both c...Read more...

Philippe Aghion and Tim Phillips

19 July 2023

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Trade Talks:

Did responsible sourcing by multinationals help workers in poor countries? (podcast)

A series of industrial accidents that killed workers in the supply chains of multinational corporations triggered backlash by Western consumers. In response, many global companies committed to treat workers in poor count...Read more...

Jose P Vasquez

16 July 2023

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Fire & Wire Podcast:

Fire & wire: wellbeing in the workplace (podcast)

Professor Jan-Emmanuel De Neve discusses why wellbeing matters in the workplace and shares some of the latest findings coming out of the Wellbeing Research Centre, in the second episode of the Fire & Wire podcast....Read more...

Jan-Emmanuel De Neve

10 July 2023

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Trade Talks:

Industrial policy and the rise of Romania's Silicon Valley (podcast)

In 2001, Romania gave an income tax break to a select group of software programmers. Isabela Manelici explains how this particular industrial policy helped stem Romania's "brain drain" problem, transformed the country's ...Read more...

Isabela Manelici

9 July 2023

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Working on Wellbeing:

Lord Richard Layard on putting wellbeing top of the policy agenda (podcast)

Richard Layard talks to Sarah Cunningham about how wellbeing science has developed over the past half-century, and how he is calling on policymakers and business leaders to put wellbeing at the heart of decision-making....Read more...

Richard Layard

28 June 2023

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Centre for Cities City Talks:

City talks: what are the signs that the UK is levelling up? (Podcast)

Henry Overman speaks to Chief Executive Andrew Carter about how to measure the scale of the underperformance of cities in the UK and search for evidence that could point us towards the right solutions, in this podcast ep...Read more...

Andrew Carter and Henry G. Overman

22 June 2023

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LSE IQ:

How can we make homes more affordable? (Podcast)

In this LSE IQ episode on how we can make homes more affordable, Christian Hilber shares the reasons behind the UK's current housing affordability crisis, explaining the obstacles to building more houses as a way of over...Read more...

Christian A. L. Hilber

4 April 2023

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VoxEU Talk:

Slavery and the industrial revolution (podcast)

Did slaveholding accelerate the industrial revolution in Britain? This controversial theory was first argued by Eric Williams almost 80 years ago but has lacked strong supporting evidence - until now. Stephan Heblich and...Read more...

Stephan Heblich and Hans-Joachim Voth

3 February 2023

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The Work Goes On:

Richard Layard on his life in public service and his pioneering research on happiness (podcast)

Richard Layard joins Orley Ashenfelter on podcast 'The Work Goes On', to talk about his life in public service, his advocacy on behalf of the unemployed, and his pioneering research on happiness, life satisfaction, and m...Read more...

Orley Ashenfelter and Richard Layard

8 January 2023

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Vox Ukraine:

"What about the economy?": Vernon Henderson on the challenges of Ukraine's recovery (podcast)

Yulia Mincheva, the Analytics Society at VoxUkraine, and J. Vernon Henderson discuss how to rebuild destroyed cities and create conditions for their repopulation in this podcast, "What about the economy?"...Read more...

J. Vernon Henderson and Julia Mincheva

20 December 2022

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BBC Radio 4:

Understand The Economy: 9. International Trade and Currency Markets (podcast)

Richard Davies is a guest speaker in this episode of Understand: The Economy, Episode 9. International Trade and Currency Markets. Tim Harford explains who wins and who loses if the pound is cheap against the dollar....Read more...