S1 E9: Taxation, Inequality, and Innovation with Stefanie Stantcheva from Harvard University
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In this episode, our guest is Stefanie Stantcheva and we talked about taxation, incentives for inventors, history, slavery and wealth accumulation, zero-sum attitude towards immigrants, and more!
Hosts: Ruveyda Gozen (@ruveyda_gozen) and John Van Reenen (@johnvanreenen)
08:30 Taxation and Innovations
13:30 Policy Implications of Taxes and Innovation Incentives
22:17 Historical Facts on Wealth Inequality in the US
28:08 Social Economics Lab: Attitudes towards Climate Change
38:15 Social Economics Lab: Zero-Sum Attitude, and Income Inequality
44:30 Cheezy Questions!
Our guest in this episode is Philippe Aghion! We talk about Marx, Schumpeter, creative destruction, capital accumulation, history, middle income countries, political economy, and more!
Published 04/01/24
In this episode, our guest is Daron Acemoglu from MIT and we talked about innovation dynamics, automation, elitism, institutions, history, and more!
06:05 Automation and declining labor share
17:20 But why do firms choose (so-so) automation?
25:00 Education is a solution! Or is it...
Published 02/13/24