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Learn about groundbreaking new research, commentary and policy ideas from the world's leading economists. Presented by Tim Phillips.
Content note: this episode discusses assisted dying, end-of-life choices, and suicide. Some listeners may find the content distressing. In A...
The standard story of American innovation features Silicon Valley, venture capital, and the heroic startup founder.When you trace the histor...
In 2003, Premier Wen Jiabao warned that China's growth model was unbalanced between supply and demand, over-reliant on investment and export...
A radical macroeconomic experiment is under way at exactly the moment the US external position is showing signs of real stress. Gilles Moëc,...
Three times since the 1970s, global imbalances have grown large. In the 1980s, the US trade deficit ballooned under Volcker's tight money an...
On 2 April 2025, the United States imposed tariffs on almost every country on earth. The next day, China responded with export controls on t...
"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 Co...
Two explanations circulated immediately after the March to Save America on January 6, 2021 turned into a riot: a mob manipulated by a demago...
Every Bitcoin transaction needs to be verified on the blockchain. There is no central authority that does this, but Bitcoin's blockchain has...
Could AI transform our economies to produce explosive growth? Most economists are sceptical at best. Anton Korinek of the University of Virg...
Financial repression forces banks and citizens to hold government debt on terms the market would never accept. Economists have called it dis...
Ukraine has lost close to a quarter of its civilian workforce since the invasion. Three and a half million workers left government-controlle...
Ukraine's cities were failing long before the Russian invasion began. Kyiv and Lviv ranked among the 40 most congested cities in the world,...
Ukraine will emerge from this war with enormous debt. The conventional wisdom treats that as an obstacle: investors weigh it before committi...
Recorded live at the CEPR Annual Symposium. We seem to be talking about the behaviour of alpha males on social media a lot recently. But wha...
What type of manager would you be? An experiment in Ethiopia set out to measure the management traits of young professionals by setting them...
Recorded live at the CEPR Annual Symposium in Paris. When VoxTalks Economics visits a symposium or conference, we try to find the most inter...
Another special episode recorded at the CEPR annual symposium in Paris. On 20 Jan 2025 when the Trump administration declared foreign aid “a...
Recorded at the CEPR Annual Forum in Paris. Many of the Trump administration policies have direct consequences for Europe. Some of them are...
Recorded at the CEPR Annual Symposium in Paris. As we expect to live longer, what does this mean for the choices we make, and for the econom...
After Liberation Day, the dollar fell by 6%. We would usually expect tariffs to send exchange rates in the other direction. So what happened...
In 2025, the trade story was about tariffs. And that story isn’t over. Does anyone know what happens next? Richard Baldwin of IMD Business S...
Another special episode recorded at the CEPR annual symposium in Paris. When does the level of debt in the US become a problem for the econo...
Stablecoins are digital tokens, pegged to a fiat currency. What could possibly go wrong? For one type of stablecoin the answer is: plenty, a...
In another of our special episodes recorded at the CEPR annual Symposium, we ask: is it time for Europe to rearm? The message from the US co...
In another of our episodes recorded at the CEPR Paris Symposium, we ask: When Gen AI can do an undergraduate’s problem set in seconds, how s...
Another special episode recorded at the CEPR annual symposium in Paris. The Trump administration says it wants America to lead in AI, but wh...
At the CEPR annual Symposium in Paris we sat down with Adam Posen, president of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, a distin...
Who would be a policymaker right now? The list of economic problems that we need to solve ranges from “very difficult” to “existential”. An...
Economic sanctions are the big geoeconomic bazooka. But what does history tell us about how well they work, and their relevance today. And d...
Biodiversity is essential for the wide range of economic activities that our planet needs. Yet, the economic consequences of its global decl...
In 2021, at COP26, the International Accounting Standards Board announced it would create a standard for this reporting. It wants to integra...
In Europe and beyond, populist politicians continue to gain ground. What message are voters sending? Are politicians from other parties list...
Our economy is embedded in nature, but nature is in danger. External funding is needed, especially in the Global South, to support the conse...
“ What is needed is non-marginal, transformative change to shift the economy, technology, and society”. That’s the typically forthright reco...
We are familiar with climate policy to reduce emissions. We know about the policies to adapt to climate change. But can we successfully redu...
"The Economics of Biodiversity” was published by the UK Treasury in 2021. It sets out how economic systems value biodiversity and natural ca...
Can COP 30 get the green transition back on track? It’s not a great time for international cooperation right now and, with hindsight, was th...
In the first of our special episodes from the first Hoffmann Centre / CEPR / ReCIPE Conference, we’re discussing what chances there are of s...
A decade ago, the UK voted in a referendum to leave the European Union. It was the culmination of years of partisan arguments over membershi...
The International Macroeconomic History Online Seminar Series, hosted by CEPR, is turning 100 this month — not years, but episodes. What beg...
In the second of our episodes based on the topics discussed at the conference “Addressing the Risks and Responses to Climate Overshoot”, org...
In the first of two podcasts recorded at the conference “Addressing the Risks and Responses to Climate Overshoot”, organised by the AXA Rese...
It’s cultural meme that teenagers in New York and Seoul will have more in common with each other than with their parents. Has where we come...
We are up to our necks in advice about how to innovate in business, how to succeed as a founder, or how to spot a great startup. Blogs, YouT...
Today generative AI makes it easy to create and distribute convincing fake news stories, pictures, even videos. We’ve all been hoodwinked –...
The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, in Davos, attended by thousands of business and policy VIPs – is one of those events that po...
The belief that women are in some way inferior to men has been around for centuries. And throughout that time, women have suffered the conse...
On 4 August, Paul Atkins, the chair of the US Securities and Exchange Commission, launched “Project Crypto”. The SEC wants to make the US “t...
How do criminals choose the weapons they carry, the number of accomplices, the types of business they target? Economists have long argued th...