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FT Alphachat

FT Alphachat

By: Financial Times
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 Alphachat is the conversational podcast about business and economics produced by the Financial Times in New York. Each week, FT hosts and guests delve into a new theme, with more wonkiness, humour and irreverence than you'll find anywhere else

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Episodes
  • Jay Shambaugh on the tools to fight the next recession

    Jay Shambaugh on the tools to fight the next recession
    Jun 14 2019
    The economist and Brookings Institution senior fellow talks to FT contributor Megan Greene about the fiscal policies that lawmakers could arrange now that would automatically kick in when some of the early signs of a slowdown start to appear.

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    41 mins
  • Joel Mokyr and the curse of Adam

    Joel Mokyr and the curse of Adam
    Jun 7 2019
    Man must work. But how man works matters. Brendan Greeley sat down with Joel Mokyr, an economist and economic historian at Northwestern University, at an event on the future of work at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. Policymakers tend to focus on the binary question of a job — do people have one, or not. But the quality of that work, the questions of meaning and satisfaction, are important to people, in a way that has political consequences. They wandered all the way back to Adam Smith, and eventually the curse of Adam himself, to talk about how the meaning and definition of "work" has changed, and why that matters now.

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    49 mins
  • Will Davies on populism, data and experts

    Will Davies on populism, data and experts
    May 31 2019
    The political economist sits down with Alphaville's Jamie Powell and Thomas Hale to discuss how we should think about expertise in a post-truth world.

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    43 mins
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