Big Brains podcasts on economics

Ruins

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

Oct 17, 2024
A roll of bills on one side of a scale with people on the other

Does Welfare Reduce Crime? with Manasi Deshpande

Aug 18, 2022
A staircase leading up with lightbulbs on each step

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

Feb 17, 2022
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

Jan 20, 2022
Illustration of a police car with data symbols overlayed

Confronting gun violence with data, with Jens Ludwig

Dec 9, 2021
Air pollution

A Surprising Economic Solution To Climate Change, with Michael Greenstone

Jun 17, 2021
Migrant workers traveling down a road during the COVID-19 pandemic

Fighting Poverty And Pandemics, with Nobel Economist Michael Kremer

Apr 8, 2021
Coronavirus-1380

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

Feb 25, 2020
Facebook and Google

How Google and Facebook Are Ruining Capitalism, with Luigi Zingales

Jan 13, 2020
Ruins

Why Some Nations Prosper and Others Fail, with James Robinson

Dec 2, 2019
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