We've cut the workweek before – what history says about 4-day week
Juliet Schor , professor at Boston College, bestselling author and global advocate for worktime redesign, returns to the podcast following t...
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Welcome to the expert podcast series on the post-COVID reset. That is, a reset along a more inclusive and smart path. The series introduces listeners to leading thinkers as they debate concr...
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Institutions fuel prosperity, make them inclusive and capable
Daron Acemoglu, the newly minted Nobel prize laureate in Economics and distinguished Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of T...
Too risk averse, too path dependent – redesign governance systems to face shocks
Mark Esposito , Professor at Hult International Business School and Adjunct Professor of Public Policy at Georgetown University, joins us to...
Infantilized and unequal – the public sector is struggling when it’s needed the most
Charles Landry, author and president of the Creative Bureaucracy Festival, talks to us about how the public sector has been weakened from wi...
Social media and trust in science – “it’s complicated”
Much guilt for the erosion of public trust in science is laid at the feet of social media. Does data support such fears? Homero Gil de Zuñig...
There is no refuge in the lab, science needs to reach out
Sudip Parikh , CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and Executive Publisher of the Science journals, talks to us a...
Stand on the shoulders of giants, take the next leap on climate
Mark Howden , a Vice Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, talks abo...
Recast your economic rulebook, deliver for people
Dani Rodrik, Professor at Harvard Kennedy School and the visionary who predicted the risks of unfettered globalisation, tells us how we need...
Is the 4-day workweek the solution we've been looking for?
Juliet Schor, Sociology Professor at Boston College and a bestselling author, says the traditional approaches to work need redesigning. The...
We live in times of abundance, yet our incapacity to govern it is tearing societies apart
Manuel Muñiz, the Provost of IE University in Madrid and the former Spanish Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs, talks to us about the massive...
Data value: to share, or not to share
Diane Coyle , Professor of Public Policy at the University of Cambridge and Director of the Productivity Institute, talks to us about data v...
Social safety nets catch us in crisis, invest in those
Nadia Calviño , Vice-President and Minister for Economy and Digitalization of Spain, talks to us about inequalities, and how our exit from t...
We embraced dysfunctional growth, change course
Mariana Mazzucato, professor at University College London and a bestselling author, explains how the current systems are geared towards the...
Recalibrate - our policies were too heavy on efficiency, too light on equity
Douglas Elmendorf , Dean of Harvard Kennedy School, tells us what it would take to reset equitably after COVID-19, how herd thinking (amongs...
Polarisation kidnapped science, the price is paid by all
Peter Gluckman , the President of the International Science Council and the former Chief Science Advisor to the Prime Minister of New Zealan...
From ivory towers to glass houses, science is transforming
Gloria Origgi , Director of Research at the CNRS in Paris, tells us that science is power and public trust in it is key. There is no hiding...
From reactive to proactive: Shaping AI for a just future
Vilas Dhar, president of the Patrick McGovern Foundation and a leading voice on global AI policy, discusses how rapid and profound technolog...
Universal Basic Services vs. Universal Basic Income - let's talk
This podcast is on Universal Basic Services (UBS). The experts are Anna Coote of the New Economics Foundation and Maeve Cohen of the Social...
We politicised science and scientised politics – is that a problem?
Gil Eyal , Professor of Sociology at Columbia University, talks to us about trust in science, trust in expertise, and the slow demise of suc...
Our relations around data are broken - why and how to fix them
Our thinking on the true value of data is not where it should be this far into the game. Maria Savona looks with us into the economic and so...