The Economics Show

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Episodes

Total: 35

In 1962, then US president John F Kennedy committed his nation to reaching the Moon before the decad

The Eurozone’s economic recovery from Covid-19 has been anaemic compared with America’s, despite ach

Mass immigration is demographically essential but politically impossible – so argues Lant Pritchett,

The US has just overcome one abrupt spike in inflation, which may have cost Kamala Harris her bid fo

It’s a treacherous time for the Eurozone. Inflation is falling, yes, but at the same time signs of r

The UK is lagging behind its peers in the Eurozone. Its per capita GDP trails that of France and Ger

Politicians on both sides of the Atlantic are having heated conversations about whether or not gover

Trump is returning to office with many of the same policies that characterised his last term. And fo

Michael Clemens of George Mason University is an expert on the economics of migration, and a scholar

In 2025, some major provisions in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act are going to expire. Meanwhile, spending

Intuitively, research and development is a building block of a productive future. But exactly how im

With the US election in a matter of weeks, today Soumaya Keynes is joined by the FT’s Washington bur

The effective altruism movement has been on a wild ride over the past decade. EA started – in the po

Race and gender have dominated headlines about economic outcomes in the past decades, but class … no

Jamaica’s economy struggled for decades, and at one point it had amassed debts worth more than 140 p

This campaign, candidate Donald Trump is promising even more extreme versions of the policies that m

Jared Bernstein is the chair of President Biden’s Council of Economic Advisers. Today on the show, S

When presidential candidate Kamala Harris proposed legislation to ban price gouging, we naturally th

Daron Acemoğlu is an economics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the author

Computer chips power toys and control nuclear reactors. They are in phones, cars and planes, getting