In this podcast we meet Dr Michael Clemens from the Center for Global Development in Washington. Dr Clemens is a passionate advocate of greater migration flows due to the economic benefits such flows bring, be it in spillovers to education and

Briefing: Economic Complexity – of Robots, T-Shirts and Iron Ore

Jun 5th, 2012

Have you ever wondered what goes into the making of a t-shirt, business shirt or blouse – like the one you are most likely wearing right now? Recently, a collaboration between physicist, César Hidalgo and Economist, Ricardo Hausmann has seen th

The Economics of Prosperity on a Finite Planet – Pietro Peretto (Duke)

May 1st, 2012

Pietro Peretto, Professor of Economics, Duke University, is tackling the very biggest topic in Economics — How can humanity experience increasing living standards in a world of finite resources? Or more particularly, does the stabilisation of p

Rebecca Morton (NYU) on Voting and Personal Attributes

Aug 29th, 2011

What about you impacts on your voting choice? Professor Rebecca Morton, Professor of Politics at New York University joins us today on EconomicsNow! to talk voting. Specifically, she has recently finished a study on what contributes to a person

Andreas Lange (U Hamburg) on Why Fairness Principles Matter to International Climate Change Negotiations

Aug 25th, 2011

Why does fairness matter to international climate change negotiations? To help us answer this question, Andreas Lange, a Professor of Economics from the University of Hamburg joins us on EconomicsNow!

Markus Brueckner (U of Adelaide) on Economic Growth, Foreign Aid and Causality

Jul 15th, 2011

Markus Brueckner is a senior lecturer at the School of Economics, University of Adelaide, and has research interests including economic growth, political economy and applied econometrics. Along with a number of articles published in highly resp

Craig Mawdsley (OneSeed) on Sweatshops, Textiles, and Micro-business for development

Jun 6th, 2011

Craig Mawdsley is Director of OneSeed a textiles importing business bringing hand-made dresses, bags and other textiles from Cambodia to the markets of Australia. The business began around 6 years ago with Craig’s $500 tax return as seed capita

Glenn Harrison (Georgia State) on Experimental Economics

May 27th, 2011

Glenn Harrison is the C.V. Starr Chair of Risk Management & Insurance and Director of the Center for the Economic Analysis of Risk (CEAR), in the Department of Risk Management & Insurance, J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Georgia State Uni

Briefing: Is Economics a Science? Explaining the resurgence of Experimental Economics

May 10th, 2011

In this post, our Economist on the ground, Jeremy Kamil, brings us a background piece on Experimental Economics. Which reminds me, have you ever heard the one about the guy who asks you to push a button or pull a lever in the name of ‘science’

Andy Seltzer (University of London) on wages, glass-ceilings and business cycles

May 2nd, 2011

Andy Seltzer is a Professor in the Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London. Professor Seltzer is an Economic Historian first and foremost and has been working on questions in labour economics by studying, amongst other thi

Paul Raschky (Monash University) on where Foreign Aid Actually Ends Up

Apr 11th, 2011

For some, foreign aid, is the only great hope for ending poverty in the very poor nations of our world, whilst for others, foreign aid is a key part of the problem — fueling wars, corruption and inefficient allocations of capital — making bad s

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