Podcasts by Economics

Rohinton Medhora: One Earth, One Family, One Future from 2023-11-02T11:19:40

Rohinton Medhora (INET's Board Chair, member of our Commission on Global Economic Transformation, and Distinguished Fellow at CIGI) discusses global social healing, India and the G20 with INET P...

Adair Turner: India’s Leadership and Global Challenges of Climate and Finance from 2023-10-26T10:57:22

If we're going to address environmental catastrophe, we need to support each other on a global scale. Rob Johnson checks in with Adair Turner about his work, and practical solutions to address t...

Angus Deaton: An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality from 2023-10-19T13:55:50

Economics Nobel laureate Sir Angus Deaton discusses his latest book, Economics in America, which takes an autobiographical approach to how the field of economics addresses the most pressing issu...

Michael Spence: A Plan to Fix a Fractured World from 2023-10-12T13:30:12

Mike Spence talks with Rob Johnson about his upcoming co-authored book "Permacrisis", India and the G20, and bringing the world together to address our shared challenges. Book: "Permacrisis: A ...

Alan Blinder: Looking Back and Looking Ahead: 15 Years After the Lehman Collapse from 2023-09-28T11:42:56

Former Fed vice chair and Princeton University economics professor Alan Blinder takes a close look at what lessons still remain to be learned in the aftermath of the Great Financial Crisis.

Thomas Ferguson: The Lehman Disaster and Why It Matters Today from 2023-09-13T12:04:25

On September 15, 2008, Lehman Brothers, a giant investment bank with a storied history, filed for bankruptcy. The shock was profound; world markets melted down.  

Over the next few days, ...

Christian Madsbjerg: How to Pay Attention in a Turbulent Distracted World from 2023-07-18T11:13:11

In a world that increasingly promotes distraction and isolation, the ability to pay attention to each other has become ever more important. Philosopher Christian Madsbjerg talks to Rob about his...

Steven Herrmann: The Shaman’s Call and Finding Your Inner Voice from 2023-06-08T13:05:59

Steven Herrmann, Jungian psychoanalyst and author of the books, William James and C. G. Jung and of William Everson: The Shaman’s Call, among others, engages in a wide-ranging conversation about...

Simon Johnson: Our Thousand-Year Struggle over Technology and Prosperity from 2023-05-16T08:00

Simon Johnson, the co-author of the just-released book Power and Progress (co-authored with Daron Acemoglu), discusses the book, what new technologies hold in store for us, and how societies mig...

Brendan Ballou: Plunder - Private Equity’s Plan to Pillage America from 2023-04-27T11:25:41

Brendan Ballou, talks to Rob about his forthcoming book, Plunder, about the growing harmful role of private equity in the US. Ballou is a federal prosecutor and served as Special Counsel for Pri...

Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway: The Big Myth of Market Fundamentalism from 2023-03-16T11:45:55

Historians Naomi Oreskes (Harvard University) and Erik Conway (Caltech) talk to Rob about their just-released book, The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love th...

Jim Chanos: The Golden Age of Fraud in Finance from 2023-02-23T11:49:27

Jim Chanos, the president and founder of Kynikos Associates and well-known investment manager talks to Rob about the post-pandemic financial system, which has become more steeped in a casino cul...

Survival of the Richest from 2023-02-16T12:02:17

Oxfam's Economic Justice Director, Nabil Ahmed, and Oxfam International's Inequality Policy & Advocacy Lead, Max Lawson, discuss their latest Global Inequality Report, which highlights the accel...

The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism from 2023-02-07T11:14:01

Financial Times columnist Martin Wolf discusses his just-released book, The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism, which explores the reasons why Liberal democracy is threatened by authoritarianism an...

Iconik: Beyond ESG from 2023-02-02T16:57:48

Alex Thaler, the CEO of the software platform Iconik, and Iconik advisor Adam Cummings discuss how the platform helps shareholders create personalized voting profiles for shareholder meetings, a...

Perry Mehrling: Charles P. Kindleberger and the Dollar System from 2023-01-26T13:07:57

Boston University economic professor Perry Mehrling discusses his recently released INET book, in collaboration with Cambridge University Press, "Money and Empire," which chronicles the life of ...

Time Bomb in Global Finance from 2023-01-12T14:12:01

A Bank for International Settlements study says 60+ trillion dollars of off-the-books currency swaps could be a profound, systematic risk. Rob Johnson joins Paul Jay on theAnalysis.news.

The Misguided Forces Driving Conflict Escalation Between the US and China from 2022-12-01T13:41:41

Yale Law School Fellow Stephen Roach, discusses his just-released book, Accidental Conflict. Roach explores how much of the adversarial nationalist rhetoric in both China and the USA is dangerou...

The New Economics of Debt and Financial Fragility from 2022-11-17T13:08:41

University of Bonn and Sciences Po economics professor Moritz Schularick talks to Rob about the soon-to-be-released book, Homecoming: The Path to Prosper...

Albert Wenger: The World After Capital from 2022-08-09T15:25:23

We are in the midst of another global transformation, but this time we might have the tools to get it right.

Frank McCourt: Trading Fear for Hope from 2022-07-21T11:20:07

Frank McCourt discusses his work to reinspire hope in the American experiment, and to build the framework necessary for that better tomorrow.

Alan Murray: The Search for the Soul of Business from 2022-07-14T10:21:31

Corporate responsibility needs to evolve if businesses are going to rebuild trust and provide real value for society.

Thomas Piketty: Quality of Life for Billions of People is at Stake from 2022-06-16T12:06:49

World-renowned economist and inequality researcher Thomas Piketty in conversation with Rob Johnson, about Piketty’s just-released book, A Brief History of Equality.

Gary Gerstle: The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order from 2022-06-09T11:12:21

Cambridge University's American History professor Gary Gerstle discusses his most recent book, about how the neoliberal order came about, why it is faltering, and the indeterminacy of what comes...

Jeffrey Sachs: Peace is the Result of Diplomacy, Never of War from 2022-06-02T15:00

Columbia University's renowned economist Jeffrey Sachs talks about the lessons he has learned from consulting with governments around the world, about how global problems, such as the war in Ukr...

Chen Long: Creating a Digital Circular Economy for Net Zero from 2022-05-19T11:11:16

Luohan Academy's Director Chen Long discusses the academy's latest report, on the benefits of creating a "digital circular economy," which would go a long way towards reaching net zero carbon em...

Peter Temin: Black and White America Always on Separate Trajectories from 2022-05-05T12:30:59

MIT economic historian Peter Temin discusses his new INET-CUP book, Never Together: The Economic History of a Segregated America, in which he shows how efforts to bridge the gap between races we...

Norman Solomon: The Ukraine War and the Madness of Militarism from 2022-04-28T11:28:25

Author and peace activist Norman Solomon talks about the double standards in US foreign policy that have smoothed the path for Russia's inexcusable invasion of Ukraine. The role of the military-...

Joanna Chiu—China vs. West: New World Disorder from 2022-04-21T14:29:56

The Toronto Star journalist Joanna Chiu discusses her book, China Unbound: A New World Disorder, which argues that we need to go beyond the typical over-simplifications of democratic West versus...

Kishore Mahbubani: The Return of Asia in the 21st Century from 2022-04-14T14:59:38

Distinguished Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, Kishore Mahbubani, discusses his latest book, The Asian 21st Century, in which he relates US decline to the...

Richard Kozul-Wright&Kevin Gallagher: Re-orienting Global Finance Towards Ecological and Social Goals from 2022-04-11T12:10:02

UNCTAD Director Richard Kozul-Wright and Kevin Gallagher, Global Development Policy professor at Boston University, discuss their book, The Case for a New Bretton Woods. Ever since the post-war ...

Peter Barnes: The Problem of Ownership in Capitalism from 2022-04-07T13:32:08

Peter Barnes, the entrepreneur and author of the recently published book, Ours: The Case for Universal Property, talks about how new conceptions of property - a universal commons - could fundame...

Michael Spence: We Are Entering a New Economic World from 2022-03-31T11:59:14

Economics Nobel Laureate Michael Spence discusses the profound changes that are rippling through the global economy as we emerge from the COVID recession, where economic growth will have to rely...

Sarita Mohanty: Investing in Compassion from 2022-03-24T11:43:17

The tradition of abandoning our elderly populations needs to end. Sarita Mohanty talks with Rob Johnson about her work at the SCAN Foundation, and the critical importance of combating "ageism" t...

Anand Giridharadas: How We Are Going to Live Together Is Up for Grabs from 2022-03-17T11:22:41

Anand Giridharadas, writer and author of the book, Winners Take All, discusses the multiple crises we are currently facing, how they could provide an impetus for real change, and how US and glob...

Patrick Lawrence: The US Doesn’t Pursue Foreign Policy, Only Security Policy from 2022-03-10T12:00:52

Patrick Lawrence, writer and executive editor of The Scrum, analyzes the roots of US foreign policy failures, how these are reflected in the current confrontation with Russia, which can be found...

Max Lawson: The Pandemic’s Billionaire Variant from 2022-03-03T10:57:40

Max Lawson, head of Oxfam International's Inequality Policy program, discusses Oxfam's latest inequality report, "Inequality Kills," which highlights the extreme growth in wealth of the billiona...

Ajay Chhibber: Unshackling India for Economic Revival from 2022-02-24T11:04:04

Ajay Chhibber, Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Institute of International Economic Policy, George Washington University, and India's first Director General of Independent Evaluation with t...

Wendell Potter: US Healthcare Strangled by Massive Insurance Profits and Money in Politics from 2022-02-17T15:34:20

Former health insurance executive turned whistleblower and investigative journalist Wendell Potter discusses the many ways in which the private health insurance system of the US is not serving a...

Adam Tooze: A Global Green New Deal from 2022-02-10T10:44:40

Rob Johnson interviewed Columbia University historian Adam Tooze in early 2020 about his work on financial history and how it relates to the Green New Deal.

Terrence McNally: On Finding Repair and Relief from the Commodification of Social Design from 2022-02-03T15:52:09

Terrence McNally, the host of the podcast Free Forum: A World that just Might Work, interviews Rob about the current state of the world and what needs to happen for us to get out of the mess in ...

John Fullerton: Regenerative Economics: A Necessary Paradigm Shift for a World in Crisis from 2022-01-27T11:26:11

John Fullerton, the Founder of the Capital Institute, discusses the urgent need for a new paradigm in economic thinking, modeled on living systems instead of Newtonian physics, which he calls re...

Peter Goodman: How Davos Man Devours the World from 2022-01-18T14:47:44

Peter Goodman, New York Times correspondent and author of the just-published book, Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World, talks to Rob about how inequality is not inevitable, but ha...

COP26: The Paralysis from Above from 2022-01-13T10:57:45

In a replay of INET Live's webinar, following the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow last December, Richard Kozul-Wright of UNCTAD, Patrick Bond of the University of Johannesburg, and author Ma...

Glenn Hubbard: The Antidote to the Wall is the Bridge from 2022-01-06T12:05:49

Professor Glenn Hubbard, professor of Finance and Economics at Columbia Business School, talks about his just-released book, The Wall and the Bridge: Fear and Opportunity in Disruption’s Wake, a...

The Pandemic‘s Opportunities and Challenges for Racial Justice from 2021-12-16T12:13:20

Prosperity Now CEO Gary Cunningham talks to Rob, in a wide-ranging discussion, about the many ways in which the pandemic has affected racial justice and injustice and how we might overcome the d...

Thomas Ferguson: Making Sense of the 2020 Presidential Election from 2021-12-09T11:09:56

INET's Research Director Thomas Ferguson talks about the research he and his collaborators Paul Jorgensen and Jie Chen conducted of the 2020 election and some of overlooked factors that were at ...

Yuen Yuen Ang: China & U.S. - A Clash of Two Gilded Ages from 2021-12-02T11:35:59

Yuen Yuen Ang, political science professor at the University of Michigan and author of the book, China's Gilded Age, argues that the US and China have more in common than we usually think and th...

Yuen Yuen Ang: China&U.S. - A Clash of Two Gilded Ages from 2021-12-02T11:35:59

Yuen Yuen Ang, political science professor at the University of Michigan and author of the book, China's Gilded Age, argues that the US and China have more in common than we usually think and th...

Tom Nichols: Our Own Worst Enemy from 2021-11-24T16:30:05

Tom Nichols, Professor of National Security Affairs, US Naval War College, columnist for USA Today, and contributing writer at The Atlantic, discusses his new book, Our Own Worst Enemy: The Assault...

Dan Breznitz: Innovation in the Service of Society from 2021-11-18T11:43:04

Dan Breznitz, author of the book Innovation in Real Places, Strategies for Prosperity in an Unforgiving World, and professor of public policy at the University of Toronto, talks about how innova...

Bill Janeway: What Is the Janeway Institute? from 2021-11-10T14:10:51

"I was considering what I was going to do, [and] what I decided I could not do, was stay within the confines of mainstream academic economics." Rob Johnson talks with INET Co-Founder Bill Janewa...

Patrick Bond: The Urgent Need for Climate Reparations from 2021-11-08T13:49:48

Patrick Bond, sociology professor at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa, discusses the urgent need for climate reparations for Africa, in light of the COP26 climate summit, and why mar...

Patrick Bond pt 1: Naïve Market Solutions for Climate Change Will Intensify the Looting of Africa from 2021-11-04T12:05:02

Patrick Bond, sociology professor at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa, discusses the urgent need for climate reparations for Africa, in light of the COP26 climate summit, and why mar...

Gus Speth: The US Federal Government‘s Fifty-Year Role in Causing the Climate Crisis from 2021-10-21T11:49:30

From LBJ to the present, the federal government has knowingly continued to expand the US fossil economy, not passively but as a major active player, endangering the future of young people.

Ann Pettifor: How Do We Create the Financial Conditions for a Green New Deal? from 2021-10-14T12:08:17

Political economist, author, and public speaker Ann Pettifor talks about her latest book, The Case for a Green New Deal, which not only lays out the urgency for such a deal, but also proposes a ...

Nancy MacLean: Milton Friedman‘s Collusion with Segregationists from 2021-10-07T12:28:53

Nancy MacLean, history professor at Duke University, talks about the ways in which neoliberal economic icon Milton Friedman collaborated with segregationists and with right-wing billionaires in ...

We Need a Resilient Society from 2021-09-30T11:01:02

Princeton economics professor Markus Brunnermeier discusses his recently released book, The Resilient Society, which argues that in crisis-prone situations societal resilience is a crucial compo...

Sam de Muijnck and Joris Tieleman: A New Vision for Economics Education from 2021-09-21T10:51:55

The education of the next generation of economists too often ignores the real crisis we face today: climate change, inequality, and financial instability. Sam de Muijnck and Joris Tieleman seek ...

Adam Tooze: Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World‘s Economy from 2021-09-13T15:57:14

Adam Tooze, director of Columbia University's European Institute, discusses his new book with Rob Johnson.

Maude Barlow: Water, The New Gold from 2021-09-07T14:55:18

The COVID pandemic highlighted the deepening water crisis. "Do we understand that over half the population of the world doesn't have a place to wash their hands with soap and warm water?" says w...

Gisele Huff and john a. powell: On Developing a Vision for a Better Society from 2021-08-30T12:39:37

Gisele Huff, education policy specialist and president of the Gerald Huff Fund for Humanity, along with john a. powell, director of UC Berkeley's Othering & Belonging Institute, talk about the m...

Stanislav Shmelev: The Economics of Ecological Sustainability from 2021-08-16T14:52:52

Stanislav Shmelev, the director of Environment Europe Foundation in Oxford, discusses the many dimensions we need to consider when preparing our cities, businesses, and economies to the demands ...

Geoff Mann: Transforming and Democratizing Institutions to Address Climate Change from 2021-08-09T12:08:54

Geoff Mann, professor of geography at Simon Fraser University and co-author of the book, Climate Leviathan, discusses the authoritarian dangers ahead, as the world tried to cope with climate cha...

Wallach and Ghosh: The Obscene Obstacles to Global Vaccine Distribution from 2021-08-02T14:37:44

Lori Wallach, of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch, and Jayati Ghosh, economics professor at UMass Amherst, discuss how first world countries are protecting pharma companies' exorbitant profit...

Ervin Laszlo: We Are in the Midst of a Global Transformation (pt. 2 of 2) from 2021-07-29T11:00:58

Prolific author and philosopher Ervin Laszlo discusses his most recent books, in which he outlines how the latest discoveries in science converge with spiritual insights and point to the ways in...

Ervin Laszlo: We Are in the Midst of a Global Transformation (pt. 1 of 2) from 2021-07-26T11:26:46

Prolific author and philosopher Ervin Laszlo discusses his most recent books, in which he outlines how the latest discoveries in science converge with spiritual insights and point to the ways in...

Andre Perry: We Need a Reparative Culture from 2021-07-22T10:42:35

Andre Perry, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and author of the book, Know Your Price: Valuing Black Lives and Properties in America's Black Cities, discusses the on-going problem of h...

Richard Vague: Myths and Landmarks in US Economic History from 2021-07-19T11:56:35

Economic historian and INET board member Richard Vague, talks about his latest book, The Illustrated Business History of the United States, which reveals a number of misconceptions and myths abo...

Jeffrey Sachs: America vs. Everyone from 2021-07-15T11:00:14

Jeff Sachs talks with Rob Johnson about US-China relations, the tragedy of modern geopolitics, and how our current race to the bottom could be reversed.

How China Escaped Shock Therapy from 2021-07-12T11:01:54

Isabella Weber, assistant professor of economics at UMass Amherst, discusses her new book on how China managed its transition from central planning to markets

Running Out of Time: Saving the World’s Oceans from 2021-07-08T11:36:23

World Ocean Observatory founder Peter Neill talks about the dire emergency in which the world’s oceans currently find themselves in and what must be done to save them.

The Vicious Cycle of Mass Incarceration and Racial Injustice from 2021-07-06T11:22:54

MIT economic historian Peter Temin discusses parts of his forthcoming book, focusing on the history of mass incarceration of uneducated Blacks and how it has created a permanent class of poor Bl...

The Rise and Fall of the Black Blue-Collar Middle Class, part 2 from 2021-07-02T11:29:07

Umass Lowell Economics professor William Lazonick, outlines the history of how government policy and economic conditions contributed to the rise and fall of a Black blue-collar middle class. Par...

The Rise and Fall of the Black Blue-Collar Middle Class, part 1 from 2021-07-01T11:53:04

Umass Lowell Economics professor William Lazonick, outlines the history of how government and economic conditions favored the rise of a Black blue-collar middle class from the 1960''s to the 197...

Revealing the Hidden Forces Behind Investment Decisions from 2021-06-28T12:06:15

Jim Nadler, CEO of the Kroll Bond Rating Agency, discusses the profound influence that bond ratings have on shaping social and economic outcomes, how they can contribute to environmental and soc...

Framers: Human Advantage in an Age of Technology and Turmoil from 2021-06-24T10:49:48

Kenneth Cukier, senior editor at The Economist and co-author of the book Framers, talks about how mental models, or frames, enable humanity to find the best way through a forest of looming probl...

Digital Transformation, Opportunity and Social Sustainability from 2021-06-21T10:50:51

INET at the Trento Economics Festival 3: A dialogue between Michael Spence and Robert Johnson

The governance of technology is a new challenge. The Recovery Plans is encouraging the digita...

Nobody is Safe if Someone is Unsafe from 2021-06-18T11:20:58

INET at the Trento Economics Festival 2: A dialogue between Jayati Ghosh, Rohinton Medhora, Joseph E. Stiglitz, coordinated by Robert Johnson

The world won’t emerge from the pandemic unti...

Fanta Traore: Sadie Alexander Received her Ph.D. in Economics 100 Years Ago from 2021-06-17T16:00:17

Fanta Traore, the CEO of the Sadie Collective, in an ode to Alexander’s legacy, is leading the next generation of Black women economists in the pursuit of social change

INET at the Trento Economics Festival: Values: Building a Better World for All from 2021-06-16T10:30:40

INET at the Trento Economics Festival 1: A dialogue between Mark Carney and William Janeway, coordinated by Robert Johnson

Our world is full of fault lines—growing inequality in income an...

A Society Designed to Incentivize Criminal Behavior at the Highest Level from 2021-06-14T11:23:29

Matt Stoller, Director of Research at the American Economic Liberties Project and author of Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy, talks about the many ways in which the...

Rana Foroohar: New Ground Rules for Digital Markets from 2021-06-10T14:12:35

FT columnist and associate editor Rana Foroohar discusses how the disruptions and excessive complexity of digital markets are benefitting the powerful and why we need clear new values and ground...

The Power of Desire in Everyday Life: Wanting and Social Change from 2021-06-07T10:53:52

Luke Burgis, the author of the just-released book "Wanting," talks about his book, how we come to desire what we desire, and how we can transform desire so as to make the world a better place.

Tim Jackson: Life After Capitalism from 2021-06-03T10:31:35

Rob Johnson talks with Tim Jackson about his new book, "Post Growth: Life after Capitalism," and how we might break free of the cycle of restrictive thinking which has plagued economics, and the...

Arjun Jayadev and Achal Prabhala: Are Intellectual Property Rights Exacerbating the Pandemic in India? from 2021-06-01T13:11:19

Arjun Jayadev, economics professor at Azim Premji University in Bangalore, India, and Achal Prabhala, coordinator of the AccessIBSA project, discusses the urgency of waiving intellectual propert...

Tito Boeri: The Return of the State from 2021-05-27T10:34:27

Tito Boeri, professor of economics at Bocconi University, Milan, and Scientific Director of the Trento Economics Festival (June 3-6), talks about the meaning behind this year's festival topic, T...

Destin Jenkins: The Bonds of Inequality from 2021-05-24T12:52:20

Destin Jenkins, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Chicago, discusses his book on municipal debt and its role in fostering racial capitalism in American cities.

Gillian Tett: Anthro-Vision: A New Way to See in Business and Life from 2021-05-20T10:08:52

Financial Times columnist and US editorial board chair Gillian Tett talks about her new book, Anthro-Vision, which makes the case for how anthropological intelligence can help us make better sen...

Elizabeth Kolbert: How to Control the Control of Nature? from 2021-05-17T15:47:26

Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer for The New Yorker, discusses her latest book, Under a White Sky, which explores how technological solutions don't always lead where we think the...

Chen Long: The Privacy Paradox from 2021-05-13T13:59:37

Can big data strengthen global inclusivity and trust? Information exchange has historically been the most powerful tool at humanity's disposal, so what makes data different? Dr. Long Chen (Luoha...

Music, its Commercialization, and Politics from 2021-05-06T11:32:56

Activist and poet John Sinclair and Rob Johnson discuss the early days of the counterculture, Sinclair's role in MC5, and the transformation of music from art to commodity when the music industr...

The New Climate War from 2021-04-22T10:34:05

Climate scientist Michael Mann discusses his new book, The New Climate War, in which he outlines the many ways in which powerful interests deflect, divide, and delay, to prevent real action that...

Indian Development History and New Horizons for Asia from 2021-04-15T10:12:32

Former Deputy Chairman of India's Planning Commission, Montek Ahluwalia, and Nobel Laureate Michael Spence discuss Ahluwalia's book BackStage: The Story Behind India's High Growth Years, and exp...

The Origins and Significance of "Identity Economics" from 2021-04-08T10:28:34

Nobel laureate George Akerlof and Duke University economist Rachel Kranton talk about their book, Identity Economics and the insights that the concept continues to provide for economic analysis....

The Future of Economics from 2021-03-25T10:34:51

Tiger Gao, brilliant young host of the Princeton University podcast, Policy Punchline, interviews Rob Johnson about INET's aims, the function of economics in academia, and the relationship betwe...

The Master Algorithm from 2021-03-22T10:20:53

Tim O'Reilly, the founder of O’Reilly Media and author of the book, What's the Future?, talks about how new technology can either be considered a scapegoat or a mirror and what this means for ou...

Podcasting and the Fragile Public Discourse from 2021-03-18T12:56:02

Tiger Gao, founder and host of the podcast “Policy Punchline” at Princeton University, talks about the potentials of podcasting for challenging the fragmented and changing media landscape.

For Benjamin: Songs of Power, Innocence and Experience from 2021-03-15T15:27:18

Influential music and film producer Shep Gordon (named among the 100 most influential people by Rolling Stone) discusses how he helped bring the art of cooking to public awareness, what makes fo...

A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism from 2021-03-11T14:10:04

Mariana Mazzucato talks with Rob Johnson about her new book, The Mission Economy, and what we need to do to make innovation work for global shared prosperity.

How Digital Technology and the Pandemic will Accelerate Transformations from 2021-03-08T10:58:18

Economics Nobel laureate Michael Spence discusses the many changes that await us in the wake of digital technology developments and the pandemic, which are combining in unexpected ways

The Pandemic Has Masked as Much as it Unmasked from 2021-03-03T11:51:09

Canadian investment manager and Levy Institute fellow Marshall Auerback surveys the current political and economic landscape, from the pandemic bailouts to climate change and the changing role o...

The Long-Overdue Revolution in Economic Thinking from 2021-03-01T10:24:33

University of Texas economist James K. Galbraith engages in a wide-ranging discussion of the many ways in which conventional economics has failed us, ranging from how to manage the post-pandemic...

The Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal from 2021-02-25T10:18:33

UMass Amherst professor and PERI Co-Director Robert Pollin discusses his latest book that he co-authored with Noam Chomsky, about the Global Green New Deal and the opportunities and challenges t...

Changing the Conversation on the Climate Emergency from 2021-02-22T12:07:56

David Fenton, the founder of the progressive PR firm Fenton Communications, takes a close look at what needs to be done to improve how we talk about the climate emergency so that everyone listen...

Can Biden Successfully Govern? from 2021-02-18T10:18:48

American Prospect editor Robert Kuttner talks about how the faith in Democracy and in the state have suffered tremendously over the past two decades, how it can be restored, and what impact this...

Linear Relationship Between Money and Election Outcomes Continued in 2020 from 2021-02-16T11:46:39

INET's Research Director Thomas Ferguson discusses the latest analysis he and his colleagues have conducted of campaign spending in the 2020 election cycle. The result dispels the myth that mone...

There is no Alternative Beyond Cooperation or Extinction from 2021-02-11T10:31:14

Andrew Sheng, Distinguished Fellow at the Asia Global Institute, University of Hong Kong, talks about the love-hate relationship between the US and China and how both sides must learn to coopera...

What the West Can and Cannot Learn from China from 2021-02-08T11:16:22

Rodney Jones, a long-time Asia analyst, colleague of Rob Johnson's, and currently Principal of Wigram Capital Advisors in New Zealand, discusses how China and other Pacific Rim countries succeed...

Robert Akerlof: How the Study of Meaning-Making Will Enrich Economic Analysis from 2021-02-04T10:21:12

Robert Akerlof, economics professor at the University of Warwick, discusses his research into issues of self-esteem and values and how such a focus can greatly improve efforts to make sense of e...

Robert Borosage: There Is No Going Back to Normalcy from 2021-02-01T10:07:03

The co-founder of the Campaign for America’s Future, Robert Borosage, discusses the many potential pitfalls the Biden administration must deal with, from a new cold war with China, to the persis...

Dina Srinivasan: Tech Monopolies Need to Be Broken Up from 2021-01-28T10:32:30

Digital technology researcher and lawyer Dina Srinivasan discusses the ways in which digital tech companies such as Facebook and Google take advantage of their monopoly positions to the detrimen...

john powell: The Pandemic is a Missed Opportunity to Address Racial Disparities from 2021-01-25T10:39:09

INET board member and Othering & Belonging Institute Director john a. powell discusses the ways in which the pandemic intersects with racial inequality and how government policy could address bo...

What Can Sanders Do as Budget Chair? – Rob Johnson and Paul Jay from 2021-01-20T18:07:19

As Chair of the Senate Budget Committee, Bernie Sanders can force votes on Medicare for All and cuts to the military budget. He will face opposition from the GOP and within the Democratic Party....

Chris Hedges: How Republicans, Democrats, and the Media Have Weakened US Democracy from 2021-01-19T10:11:30

Renown journalist and author Chris Hedges talks about the many ways traditional media, digital media, and the two political parties have worked to prevent progressive movements and give rise to ...

Saikat Chakrabarti: Biden's Many Options for Creating Real Change from 2021-01-14T10:05:32

New Consensus president Saikat Chakrabarti talks about what Biden can do, even without Congress, to make a real difference in the lives of ordinary Americans

William Janeway: Government's Role in R&D and in Addressing Climate Change from 2021-01-11T10:02:04

Cambridge University professor and INET co-founder William Janeway discusses the crucial role that government has always played in generating technological innovation, how this role has been dimini...

Alan Light: Looking Back and Looking Ahead in the World of Music from 2021-01-07T10:50:10

Alan Light, veteran music journalist and host of “In The Light” on SiriusXM, discusses how the pandemic affected the world of music, what we gained and what we lost, and what we might look forward ...

Trita Parsi: How US Foreign Policy Makes Everyone, Including the US, Less Safe from 2021-01-05T09:49:42

Quincy Institute Vice President Trita Parsi talks about the incredible amount of destruction that US foreign policy has wrought in Iran and in many other places, and how it has actually made the US...

Michael Hirsh: Multinationals Exploited the Community of Nations and Both Parties Enabled Them from 2020-12-30T00:00

Foreign Policy editor Michael Hirsh talks about how both Republicans and democrats allowed multinational corporations to exploit international trade while allowing local communities to be devastate...

Jayati Ghosh: Developed World Monopolizes COVID Vaccine at its Own Peril from 2020-12-28T00:00

UMass Economics Professor Jayati Ghosh points out how pharmaceutical companies not only received massive subsidies for developing a vaccine, but are now trying to hold on to patent monopolies, whic...

Seth Klein: How WWII Preparation Sets an Example for Confronting Climate Change from 2020-12-23T00:00

Public policy researcher and writer Seth Klein discusses his new book, A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency, which looks at the example that the mobilization for World War II set...

Jayati Ghosh: Rescue Packages for Wealthy Corporations, not for Developing Countries from 2020-12-21T00:00

UMass Amherst Economics professor Jayati Ghosh talks about the massive unjustness of the so-called pandemic economic rescue packages, which continue to favor the world's wealthiest while ignoring t...

Rise Up and Stop the Doomsday Machine! from 2020-12-17T12:00

In the final part of his conversation with Rob Johnson, Daniel Ellsberg talks about his hopes for this generation and why he wrote The Doomsday Machine.

The Unfathomable Willingness to Destroy the World from 2020-12-15T12:04:23

Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg continues the conversation about his book, The Doomsday Machine, talking about the changes in military strategy that allowed the targeting of civilians and how the ...

A History of the Nuclear Danger that the Military Industrial Complex Engineered from 2020-12-14T12:01:40

Famous whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg discusses his book, The Doomsday Machine, which chronicles the tremendous threat to humanity that US nuclear war planners deliberately considered and whose p...

Challenging the Conventional Development Wisdom of Both the Left and the Right from 2020-12-10T09:54:40

Christopher Cramer and John Sender, authors of the book, African Economic Development: Evidence, Theory, and Policy, discuss their book (co-written with Arkebe Oqubay) and how economic policy ne...

How Local Projects Can Change People's Notion of What Is Possible from 2020-12-07T10:04:02

Hilary Doe, the founder and president of the Michigan-based organization Scout, talks about the ways in which successful local projects can have profound effects on people's consciousness about wha...

Matt Morrison: Rising Insecurity and Focus on Identity Politics Helped Propel Trump from 2020-12-03T10:08:32

Executive Director of Working America, Matt Morrison, talks about the political and economic factors that originally helped Trump succeed and how Democrats can build on their 2020 victory

Protecting People Against COVID-19 Protects the Economy from 2020-11-30T16:58:44

Phillip Alvelda, Thomas Ferguson, and John C. Mallery discuss their latest research into how the pandemic is related to the economy and how protecting against the virus also protects societies from...

Jacqueline Novogratz: Why We Need a Moral Revolution from 2020-11-23T15:06:21

Social entrepreneur Jacqueline Novogratz discusses her book Manifesto for a Moral Revolution and the crisis facing a pandemic-riddled world.

Richard Kozul-Wright and Orsola Costantini Discusses UNCTAD’s Trade and Development Report 2020 from 2020-11-20T11:08:41

The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development’s Richard Kozul-Wright and Orsola Costantini say we can continue misguided policy choices or collectively chart a new path that leads from ...

Sarah Chayes: How Corrupt Elites Extract Wealth From Ordinary Americans from 2020-11-17T13:36:02

National security expert Sarah Chayes discusses her new book, On Corruption in America: and What Is at Stake. Chayes explores how corruption in U.S. state and society furthers and deepens inequality.

Abigail Disney: We Need to Tell a Better Story of What America Could Be from 2020-11-12T09:49:56

Abigail Disney, filmmaker, founder of Peace, So Loud, and podcast host of All Ears, discusses how changes among the country's elite, towards the "Greed is Good" ethic and a blind faith in markets h...

Joel Bakan: How "Good" Corporations Mislead Us from 2020-11-10T09:50:18

Filmmaker and law professor Joel Bakan talks about his book and film, The New Corporation, where he dissects how corporations have tricked the public into believing that corporations can regulate t...

David Sirota: Progressives Failed to Channel the Anger; Trump Did from 2020-11-04T11:15:14

Jacobin Magazine Editor-at-Large David Sirota discusses how Trump is a concentrated expression of the Republican Party. If Democrats hope to beat Republicans, they cannot afford to believe that a v...

Young Scholars Initiative: What Are the Most Important Economic Questions? from 2020-11-02T11:42:38

INET's Young Scholar's Initiative (YSI) is holding its third plenary conference this November, this time all online. However, unlike most online conferences, the 2020 YSI Plenary is a true workshop...

Pavlina Tcherneva: The Many Benefits of a Jobs Guarantee from 2020-10-29T09:58:42

Pavlina Tcherneva, Associate Professor of Economics at Bard College, discusses her new book, The Case for a Jobs Guarantee, outlining why society would benefit tremendously from such a program.

Eugene McCarraher: The Religion of Capitalism from 2020-10-26T12:38:22

Eugene McCarraher, Associate Professor of Humanities at Villanova University and author of the book, The Enchantment of Mammon, talks about his book and how society has not really become more secul...

Martin Wolf: On Rebuilding Trust in Uncertain Times, Pt 2 from 2020-10-22T09:58:13

Financial Times economics commentator Martin Wolf continues the conversation about how societal fragmentation benefits the well-off and that only greater equality can reestablish trust between s...

Martin Wolf: On Rebuilding Trust in Uncertain Times, Pt 1 from 2020-10-19T11:47:27

Financial Times economics commentator Martin Wolf discusses how the loss of faith and trust in government and in experts leads many to believe in anything, resulting in disunity and polarization

Paul Street: The Trump Presidency Was Decades in the Making from 2020-10-15T11:29:21

Historian Paul Street talks about how the roots of the Trump presidency lie in the continuous rightward drift in US politics since the 1970's, to which the Democrats contributed as much as the Repu...

Dennis Kelleher: A Financial System That Extracts Wealth Instead of Creating It from 2020-10-13T10:49:04

Dennis Kelleher, President of the NGO Better Markets, outlines how the financial system is serving the wealthy, how it has been reformed in the past and how it can be reformed again to serve Main S...

Chen Long: Information Technology for a More Inclusive Development Strategy from 2020-10-07T16:57:27

Chen Long, the director of China's Luohan Academy, talks about the ways in which information technology can jump start economic development in the developing world.

Stephanie Blankenburg: $1 Trillion Debt Relief Needed for Developing World from 2020-10-05T11:12:09

Stephanie Blankenburg, who heads up the Debt and Development Finance Branch of the United Nations Commission on Trade and Development, talks about the urgent need for the world to provide massive l...

Steve Clemons: Both Democrats and Republicans Sold Out Ordinary Americans from 2020-10-01T09:33:53

Steve Clemons, Editor at Large at The Hill, talks about how the Democrats' focus on neoliberal globalization opened the door for Trump's election and that only bold new policies that ...

Dean Baker: China and the Problem with Patent Monopolies from 2020-09-28T10:23:31

Dean Baker, senior economist with the Center for Economic and Policy Research, talks about how geopolitical and economic tensions between the US and China benefit powerful elite sectors in the US, ...

Jeffrey Sachs: How the US Botched the Pandemic Response from 2020-09-24T10:05:20

Jeffrey Sachs, Director of Columbia University's Center for Sustainable Development and Chair of the Lancet's COVID-19 commission, talks about the many challenges and shortcomings of US policy towa...

Doug Carmichael: On the Need for Real Dialogue to Address the Crises of Our Time from 2020-09-21T14:56:15

INET's Strategy Consultant Doug Carmichael talks about how many of our institutions, such as the economics profession, our political system, and our education system, are inadequate for dealing wit...

Eisuke Sakakibara: Japan, China, India, and the US - Strategies and Tensions from 2020-09-17T15:08:40

Former Deputy Finance Minister of Japan, Eisuke Sakakibara, contrasts Japan's and the US's response to the pandemic and talks about the different roles and economic strategies of some of the world'...

Michael Sandel: The Tyranny of Merit from 2020-09-14T15:06:04

Renowned Harvard University professor of philosophy Michael Sandel talks about his new book and how centrist Democrat insensitivity to inequality and the ideology of meritocracy have contributed to...

Charles Goodhart and Manoj Pradhan: The Upcoming Demographic Shift and What it Means for our Economic Future from 2020-09-11T10:17:43

Charles Goodhart, professor emeritus of the financial markets group at the London School of Economics, and Manoj Pradhan, founder of the research firm Talking Heads Macro, talk to Rob about their j...

Fred Ledley: How US Taxpayers Subsidize Pharma Research and Companies Reap the Profits from 2020-09-08T11:25:27

Fred Ledley, professor at Bentley University and co-author of an INET-funded  research paper on pharma research funding, discusses the research and how US taxpayers might get more social benefit ou...

Louis Kuijs: The Contradictions in China's Economic and Foreign Policies from 2020-09-03T11:02:47

Louis Kuijs, Head of Asia Economics at Oxford Economics, based in Hong Kong, talks about China's current economic strategy in the context of the pandemic and how China relates to the US, to the res...

Eileen Appelbaum and Rosemary Batt: Private Equity Takeover of Healthcare from 2020-09-01T11:01:40

Eileen Appelbaum, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, and Rosemary Batt of Cornell University, talk about an INET-supported study on the dramatic impact that private equity ...

James Boyce: How Carbon Pricing and Carbon Dividends Address Both Climate Change and Social Justice from 2020-08-27T12:12:25

James Boyce, Senior fellow at the Political Economy Research Institute, talks about the many benefits that carbon dividends and carbon pricing would have for a transition towards a greener and more...

Robert Borosage: Trump Voters Believe He May Be A Jerk, But He's Their Jerk from 2020-08-24T12:51

Robert Borosage, co-founder of the Campaign for America's Future, talks about the what went well and what did not go well at the Democratic Convention and the Democrats' failure to recognize that t...

Richard Vague: China's Greater Preparedness in the Face of Economic Crises from 2020-08-21T10:04:22

Richard Vague, Secretary of Banking and Securities for the state of Pennsylvania and INET board member, discusses with Rob Johnson the need for stronger economic measures, the different economic st...

Yide Qiao: US and China - Competitors, Collaborators, or Enemies? from 2020-08-17T12:40:06

Yide Qiao, the Secretary General of Shanghai Development Research Foundation, talks about the political, economic, and military dimensions of US-China relations

John Kay and Mervyn King: Origins and Future Implications of Radical Uncertainty for Economic Thinking from 2020-08-13T10:47:03

John Kay, an economist at Oxford University, and Mervyn King of the London School of Economics, discuss their recently published book, Radical Uncertainty: Decision-Making Beyond the Numbers

Peter Temin: The Racist Roots of US Political and Economic Polarization from 2020-08-10T15:24:01

MIT economic historian Peter Temin talks to Rob Johnson about his forthcoming book, Never Together, which looks at the economic history of how Blacks have been systematically excluded from US so...

Robert Dugger: An Economics for Future Generations from 2020-08-07T10:23:36

Rob Johnson talks to Robert Dugger, former member of the INET Board and founder of Ready Nation, about how society can safeguard its accomplishments and rights for posterity.

Thomas Ferguson: Government for, of, and by the Wealthy from 2020-08-05T10:32:24

INET’s Research Director Thomas Ferguson talks to Rob Johnson about the many ways in which money corrupts our politics, contributes to ever-greater inequality, and what can be done about it

Robert Skidelsky: Keynes on “The Road to Serfdom” from 2020-08-03T14:32:01

Historian Lord Robert Skidelsky reads a letter that John Maynard Keynes wrote to Friedrich Hayek about “The Road to Serfdom,” and then discusses with Rob Johnson the tense relationship between the ...

Sony Kapoor: The Real Challenge Still Lies Ahead from 2020-07-31T10:13:05

Sony Kapoor, Managing Director of the Nordic Institute for Finance, Technology, and Sustainability, talks to Rob Johnson about the real problems that the pandemic exposes and whether a Green New De...

Margaret Heffernan: Our Uncharted and Uncertain Future from 2020-07-29T10:21:06

Margaret Heffernan, a writer and former CEO, talks to Rob about her latest book, Uncharted: How to Map the Future Together, on the art of thinking about the future in the context of uncertainty

John O’Neil: A WPA of the Mind and Soul from 2020-07-27T12:53:50

Author and psychologist John O’Neil talks to Rob Johnson about America’s moral and educational crisis.

Christine Passarella: What Kids Can Learn From John Coltrane from 2020-07-24T10:54:28

Rob Johnson talks to educator Christine Passarella about her program Kids for Coltrane, and the educational value of the jazz great.

Justin Lin: A New, Structural Economics from 2020-07-22T11:03:39

Justin Lin, Director of the National School for Economic Development in Beijing, talks to Rob Johnson about how economists can work together internationally for shared prosperity.

Fatima Denton: What the Pandemic Means for Global Solidarity from 2020-07-20T17:33:28

Dr. Fatima Denton, Director of the Institute for Natural Resources in Africa at the United Nations University, Ghana, talks to Rob Johnson about the need for global cooperation and coordination in ...

Orville Schell: With China, The West Is Reaping the Bitter Harvest of Imperialism from 2020-07-17T10:43:31

Orville Schell, the Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society, talks to Rob Johnson about the future of Chinese relations with the West, and how the former vict...

Thomas Sugrue: Why 2020 Is not 1968 from 2020-07-15T10:25:33

Thomas Sugrue, Professor of History at NYU, talks to Rob Johnson about why the multiracial protests against police brutality make 2020 different from 1968.

William Spriggs: How Economic Theory and Policy Reinforce Racism from 2020-07-13T16:03:39

William Spriggs, the AFL-CIO’s chief economist, talks about the inadequacies of the pandemic economic rescue package and how mainstream economic theory continues to fail everyone, but especially Bl...

Thea Lee: The Roots of the Crisis from 2020-07-10T09:52:22

Thea Lee, President of the Economic Policy Institute, talks to Rob Johnson about the roots of the COVID-19 economic crisis in America’s dysfunctional labor market.

Paul Jay: Can Capitalism Deal with the Climate & Nuclear Threats? from 2020-07-08T11:38:06

Documentarian Paul Jay talks to Rob Johnson about how major investment fund managers, such as BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street, exercise enormous control over public companies, where they use ...

David Sirota: Socialism in America from 2020-07-06T14:37:45

David Sirota, Jacobin Magazine editor-at-large and former speechwriter for Bernie Sanders, talks to Rob Johnson about the future of democratic socialism in America after the Sanders campaign.

Joe Boyd: Music in a Time of Social Change from 2020-07-02T10:43:57

Rob Johnson talks to music producer Joe Boyd about the musical inflection point of the 1960’s, and how social change affects art and artists.

Cathy O’Neil: Will Colleges Reopen? from 2020-07-01T10:25:59

Cathy O’Neil, founder of O'Neil Risk Consulting and Algorithmic Audit and author of the book Weapons of Math Destruction, talks to Rob Johnson about the crisis facing universities in the pandemic.

Alex Gibney: The Great Crimes of Our Society from 2020-06-29T11:27:22

Alex Gibney, documentarian and director of Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, talks to Rob Johnson about the crimes perpetuated by American government and society today, including systemic racis...

Elaine Brown Pt. 2: Music and Activism in the Struggle for Racial Justice from 2020-06-26T10:06:56

In the second of a two-part interview, Rob Johnson talks to author, activist, and former Black Panther Party chairwoman Elaine Brown about her music, her housing work and entrepreneurship in Oaklan...

Elaine Brown Pt. 1: The 400-year Struggle for Racial Justice in the US from 2020-06-24T12:39:31

In the first of a two-part interview, Rob Johnson talks to author, activist, and former Black Panther Party chairwoman Elaine Brown about the killing of George Floyd and the protests sweeping th...

Brian Barnier: The Future of the Central Bank from 2020-06-22T09:18:18

Brian Barnier, Director of Analytics at ValueBridge Advisors, talks to Rob Johnson about how the pandemic could change the mission of central banks.

Michael Pettis: Global Fracture - Nationalism on the March from 2020-06-19T10:21:04

Michael Pettis, Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy, talks to Rob Johnson about how trade wars really are class wars and how nationalist conflict is shaping...

Wendy Brown: A Neoliberal Pandemic from 2020-06-18T10:18:44

UC Berkeley political theorist Wendy Brown talks to Rob Johnson about how the pandemic and protests against police brutality lay bare a crisis of neoliberalism.

Chong-En Bai: The Future of International Governance from 2020-06-17T10:57:25

Chong-En Bai, professor of economics at Tsinghua University, talks to Rob about how the U.S. can improve global governance, and what lays ahead for China’s relationships with the U.S., Europe, and ...

Jamil Anderlini: The Legacy of the Opium Wars from 2020-06-16T10:59:53

Financial Times Asia editor Jamil Anderlini talks to Rob about the lasting legacy of the Opium Wars on Chinese foreign policy, and the future of Hong Kong.

William Overholt: What Happened to Hong Kong? from 2020-06-15T15:35:12

William Overholt, Senior Research Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, talks to Rob Johnson about how China expanded its power over Hong Kong, and the state of US-China...

Zach Carter: Keynesian Inspiration for the Pandemic's Economic Crisis from 2020-06-12T09:50:36

Zach Carter, Huffington Post reporter and author of the new book, The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes, talks to Rob Johnson about Keynes’s vision of maintainin...

Lynn Parramore & Jeffrey Spear: On George Floyd and John Ruskin from 2020-06-11T14:10:29

INET Senior Research Analyst Lynn Parramore and NYU Professor of English Jeffrey Spear talk to Rob Johnson about what Victorian art critic John Ruskin’s writings on the collective have to do with t...

Michael Sandel: A Spirit of Civic Activism from 2020-06-10T11:41:57

Harvard political philosopher Michael Sandel talks to Rob Johnson about the implications of the wave of protests sweeping the U.S. and their role in fomenting a spirit of civic activism.

Warrington Hudlin: The Civil War Never Ended from 2020-06-10T09:53:04

Filmmaker Warrington Hudlin taks to Rob Johnson about the protests against police brutality, the long history of racial oppression in the U.S., and his adaptation of Les Misérables set in the outsk...

Sarah Kendzior: Authoritarianism in a “Democracy” from 2020-06-08T17:01:33

Journalist and author Sarah Kendzior talks to Rob Johnson about how the Uzbekistan’s experience of authoritarianism within a nominally democratic framework could be the future of the U.S.

Evan Osnos: How Greenwich Republicans Learned to Love Trump from 2020-06-05T12:21:35

New Yorker staff writer Evan Osnos talks to Rob Johnson about his recent article, “How Greenwich Republicans Learned to Love Trump,” as well as the state of US-China relations.

Gael Giraud: Will COVID Lead to Authoritarianism? from 2020-06-04T12:33:02

Gael Giraud, founder and leader of the Georgetown University Center for Environmental Justice, talks to Rob Johnson about how liberal democracies will fare in facing the pandemic, whether we could ...

Yanis Varoufakis & Danae Stratou: Europe’s Dereliction of Duty from 2020-06-03T11:51:26

Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis and artist Danae Stratou talk to Rob Johnson about Europe’s failures for working people, both before and during the pandemic.

Arjun Jayadev & Achal Prabhala: The Imperative of Access to Drugs from 2020-06-02T15:17:16

INET Senior Economist Arjun Jayadev and Shuttleworth Foundation fellow Achal Prabhala talk to Rob Johnson about the global need for access to affordable pharmaceuticals, especially in India and the...

Gaurav Dalmia & Jayant Sinha: India’s Post-Pandemic Path to Prosperity from 2020-06-02T15:11:43

INET board member Gaurav Dalmia and former Indian Finance Minister Jayant Sinha discuss how India can emerge from the pandemic with greater prosperity

Anna Deavere Smith: Stories of Crisis from 2020-06-01T12:17:46

Dramatist and NYU professor Anna Deavere Smith talks to Rob Johnson about the power of storytelling in times of crisis.

Rana Foroohar: The Surveillance Economy from 2020-05-29T11:51:35

Financial Times columnist Rana Foroohar talks to Rob Johnson about how the pandemic opens the door to more surveillance technology from Silicon Valley, but also to a growing consensus on reigning i...

James Manyika: Towards a 21st Century Social Contract from 2020-05-28T13:44:06

James Manyika, Chairman of the McKinsey Global Institute, talks to Rob Johnson about the merits of protecting people, not jobs, in the face of the pandemic and automation.

Jacqueline Edwards: Technology, Inspired Learning and Opportunity from 2020-05-27T12:05:47

Education innovator Jacqueline Edwards talks to Rob Johnson about how technology has the potential to bring people from less fortunate backgrounds onto an inspired path of learning that creates opp...