Category: Interviews

Business and Technology, International, Interviews

Interview with Gerard Lyons: the future of semiconductors

Gerard B Lyons is a Business Researcher at the Centre for Policy Studies, the UK’s most influential centre-right think tank, which produces reports and advises the Government on a host of domestic policy areas – ranging from taxation and economic growth to welfare policy and the green agenda.  He covers financial regulation, tax and innovation policy. Coming from a financial communications background in the City of London … Continue reading Interview with Gerard Lyons: the future of semiconductors

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Behavioural, Interviews, Long Read, Politics, US

An interview with Professor Cass Sunstein: Nudges, economic systems, and freedom

Cees Armstrong and I had the pleasure of interviewing Professor Sunstein, the Robert Walmsley Professor at Harvard Law School. Professor Sunstein is the best-selling author of many books, including the critically acclaimed Nudge, as well as the most cited law scholar of all time. He now works with the US government. Continue reading An interview with Professor Cass Sunstein: Nudges, economic systems, and freedom

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International, Interviews

An interview with Elliot Harris: UN Chief Economist

Elliot Harris is particularly notable for his studies on the African Continent, but is also more generally a very successful economist from who we all have a lot to learn as he presented his opinions on a number of issues facing the world today. What role do you think international institutions should be playing in guiding foreign and domestic policy, especially as the 21st century … Continue reading An interview with Elliot Harris: UN Chief Economist

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Environment, Interviews

An interview with Bob Massie: Global warming, economic growth and the future of capitalism

Bob Massie has been working on business, finance, governance, and sustainability for more than thirty years. Massie has served as the executive director of Ceres, a powerful coalition of institutional investors and environmental and public interest groups in the United States.  In 1997 he proposed the creation of generally accepted guidelines for corporate sustainability performance. In 2002 he conceived of the first Institutional Investor Summit … Continue reading An interview with Bob Massie: Global warming, economic growth and the future of capitalism

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Interviews

An interview with Peter Diamond: Economics Nobel Prize Winner

I had the privilege of interviewing Peter Diamond, a professor at MIT and winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2010. He is especially known for his analysis of US Social Security policy, serving as an advisor to the Advisory Council on Social Security in the late 1980s and 1990s. Nominated by Barack Obama in 2010 to serve on the Federal Reserve … Continue reading An interview with Peter Diamond: Economics Nobel Prize Winner

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Development, Interviews

An interview with Aart Kraay: Acting Head of the World Bank

I was lucky enough to be able to have a brief conversation with Aart Kraay, the acting Head Economist at the World Bank. He is Director of Research in the Developmental Research Group, and an expert on international capital movements, growth and inequality, governance, and the Chinese economy. Our discussion was largely centered around a paper, published by the World Bank in January 2020, that … Continue reading An interview with Aart Kraay: Acting Head of the World Bank

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Interviews

An interview with Jere Behrman: Professor of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania

I want to begin with your work in certain states in sub-Saharan Africa, where there is a preference towards having boys rather than girls. That is especially the case during famine – how can this be best resolved? The first thing is to distinguish between preferences and incentives – that is, if markets reward men more than women, parents will be incentivised into having boys. … Continue reading An interview with Jere Behrman: Professor of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania

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