On this episode, Kate and Luigi talk with Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman about his new book Arguing with Zombies: Economics, Politics, and the Fight for a Better Future, why he thinks the US economy has failed the middle class, and how we can create a better economic future for our children.
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In this episode, Kate and Luigi give an economist’s view of the coronavirus outbreak: How should we think about the economic trade-offs of interventionist quarantine measures? Could this virus change the way we work? And should you or should you not be buying up stocks?
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A sneak video preview of next week’s episode of Capitalisn’t, the podcast hosted by Luigi Zingales and Kate Waldock, in which Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman discusses his concerns over coronavirus.
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Are economists to blame for our current state of affairs? That’s the argument Binyamin Appelbaum makes in his book “The Economists’ Hour.” In this episode, Kate and Luigi debate the history of economists, the problems with economics today, and what changes could lead to a better economic future.
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The draft SEC regulation on shareholder proposal and proxy advisory firms will curb the initiative of individual shareholders to improve corporate governance and transparency of public firms, a ProMarket reader writes in the comment he sent to the SEC. “Progress on best practices often depends on the initiative of a few.”
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Twitter banned political ads from its platform but has full discretion in deciding what constitutes a “political ad.” The Stigler Center tried to promote a tweet announcing a new podcast by Luigi Zingales and Kate Waldock on health care, but Twitter refused to approve it because it allegedly violated its policy regarding political ads. Yes, health care is a topic with political implications, but should we allow digital platforms to silence public debate?
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A judge ruled this month that Harvard does not discriminate against Asian-American applicants, according to its own criteria. But what kind of students do those criteria select? Kate Waldock and Luigi Zingales discuss the Harvard case in a new episode of Capitalisn’t.
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