Big Brains podcasts on economics

Ruins

Nobel laureate explains what makes countries fail or succeed, with James A. Robinson

A roll of bills on one side of a scale with people on the other

Does Welfare Reduce Crime? with Manasi Deshpande

A staircase leading up with lightbulbs on each step

Why big ideas fail to scale—and how to fix it, with John List

An illustration of a figure climbing a wall that is shaped like an arrow pointed to the sky

How to stick to your resolutions, with Ayelet Fishbach

Illustration of a police car with data symbols overlayed

Confronting gun violence with data, with Jens Ludwig

Air pollution

A Surprising Economic Solution To Climate Change, with Michael Greenstone

Migrant workers traveling down a road during the COVID-19 pandemic

Fighting Poverty And Pandemics, with Nobel Economist Michael Kremer

Coronavirus-1380

Why the coronavirus could send China’s economy back to the ‘80s, with Chang-Tai Hsieh

Facebook and Google

How Google and Facebook Are Ruining Capitalism, with Luigi Zingales

Ruins

Why Some Nations Prosper and Others Fail, with James Robinson

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