According to The Economist Gary Loveman was teaching at Harvard Business School when he went to consult with Harrah's casino chain in Las Vegas in the late 1990s. Despite knowing nothing about gambling.
He spoke with MIT economics professor David Autor about what went wrong in economics about trade, how the profession is improving itself and why policy is still catching up.
Award-winning economist and writer Benn Steil talks with Matt Klein about the history of the post-World War II European recovery plan, which was implemented by then-Secretary of State George C Marshall as a means of defending himself against co
We Don't care what the UK Parliament decides, for almost three years the UK, Ireland and the EU have been dealing with the realities of the Leave vote.
The United States may not experience an infrastructure crisis. It may even have too much infrastructure. And what does the word "infrastructure" mean? We talked about the history of internal improvement, public works, and the power of the group
Tim Harford joins Cardiff Garcia to talk about how 50 different inventions are shaping how the economy works today, from video games to computing. It is the subject of his book, "Fifty things that make up the modern economy", and the BBC audio
Award-winning economist and writer Benn Steil spoke with Matt Klein about the history of the post-World War II European recovery plan, which was implemented by then secretary of state George C Marshall as a means of defending himself against co
BetaChat will be on hiatus for a while. When we come back in a few weeks, we'll be doing some great new interviews. But before we take a break, we'd like to share a new FT podcast called Behind The Money. Each week host (and Alphachat producer)
The Current tax cut in the US includes provisions that would forgive capital gains taxes, if invested over ten years in "opportunity zones" - low-income areas designated by state governors. But the idea of encouraging investment in poor and m
Economist and University College London professor joins Betachat's Jemima Kelly to discuss the question of value: who creates it and who uses it. He also lays out his arguments for rethinking the relationship between markets and government. Thi
Crowd-funded author and economist Steve Keen joins Izzy Kaminska to talk about his critique of neoclassical economics, and whether the global financial system can avoid another crisis.
In this episode of Betachat, Cardiff Garcia previews an interview with Anne-Marie Slaughter about her newly released book, Unfinished Business, on gender equality in the workplace and at home.
The new memoir of former Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke, titled The Courage to Act, is discussed by US economics editor Sam Fleming and Cardiff Garcia, and how Mr Bernanke's legacy might affect the way in which the current Federal Reserv
Media correspondent Shannon Bond asks San Francisco correspondent Hannah Kuchler and management editor Andrew Hill what Jack Dorsey's dual CEO roles at the messaging company and payments group Square mean for both companies' future.
Host Cardiff Garcia sits down with Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel Prize-winning economist and professor at Columbia University, to discuss a new report from the Roosevelt Institute titled “Rewriting the rules of the American economy: An agenda for
Host Cardiff Garcia sits down with Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel Prize-winning economist and professor at Columbia University, to discuss a new report from the Roosevelt Institute titled “Rewriting the rules of the American economy: An agenda for