Dr Alice Evans and leading experts discuss growth, governance, & gender inequalities.
Alice is a Senior Lecturer at King's College London, and Faculty Associat...
Professor Agustina Paglayan has a fascinating new book: “Raised to Obey”!
She contends that mass primary education systems were primarily established to consolidate state authority and maintain social order.
But what about industrialisation, democratisation or the Protestant Reformation?
And why should education experts consider Political Economy?
Book: https://www.amazon.com/Raised-Obey-Education-Princeton-Economic/dp/069126127X/
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How does Low Fertility Affect Economic Growth, Worldwide? Jesús Fernández-Villaverde
How exactly does low fertility affect economic growth, are UN population predictions accurate, what’s driving the decline in fertility, and what can be done?
To answer these questions, I’m joined by the brilliant macro-economist, Jesús Fernández-Villaverde
Read his recent paper: The Wealth of Working Nations https://www.nber.org/papers/w31914
Professor Daron Acemoglu is famous for his careful empirical research, demonstrating the economic importance of institutions. But actually, he’s done a 180 to embrace culture!
In this podcast we discuss his new theory of culture, what drives liberty and prosperity, the limits of democracy, and the importance of geography!
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How did East Asia Get Rich?
Dr Oliver Kim has completed his PhD at Berkeley, recently appointed at Open Philanthropy. He does awesome research, carefully examining the drivers of structural transformation. We discussed:
Why do you think East Asia is the only world region to have converged with the West?
How have big data and computational tools changed our understanding of structural transformation?
Oliver's website: https://oliverwkim.com/
His substack: https://www.global-developments.org/
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Netflix and Change: Tracking Cultural Flux in Autocracies
“Vikings is no. 1 from all the Saudi men 😂”.
Leila chuckled as we browsed top hits on Netflix. For only 30 Riyals (8 USD) a month, Saudis can tune into stories about uncovered pagans. A global feast of delights are now on offer - from Western films to women’s football.
Rapid cultural change is afoot in Saudi Arabia, a unique experiment in top-down secularisation. But how can we as social scientists study such rapid cultural evolution in real-time, especially in an autocracy?
In this podcast, I’ll highlight some exciting new methodologies. Buckle up.
Dr Alice Evans and leading experts discuss growth, governance, & gender inequalities.
Alice is a Senior Lecturer at King's College London, and Faculty Associate at the Harvard Kennedy School.
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