The Debt Reckoning: Rodrigo Valdés and Era Da...

When esteemed economist and author Eswar Prasad set out to write his latest book, it was to be about the promise of some recent trends within the world's economic and power structures, but he found something darker. The Doom Loop is about what happens when the positive forces tha ...  Show more

While it is true that death and taxes are unavoidable, good tax policies can help delay the inevitable. So-called sin taxes on alcohol, tobacco, sugar, and other harmful products can raise revenues and reduce public healthcare spending. In this podcast, economist Christoph Rosenb ...  Show more

I had no idea how wild human history was before chatting with the geneticist of ancient DNA David Reich.

Human history has been again and again a story of one group figuring ‘something’ out, and then basically ...

Myths. We tend to think they’re a thing of the past, fabrications that early humans needed to believe in because their understanding of the world was so meagre. But what if modern civilisation were itself based on a set of myths? This is the big question posed by Professor Yuval ...  Show more

Discover how humans evolved from insignificant animals to Earth's rulers in our Sapiens summary. Learn the three revolutions that transformed our species according to Yuval Noah Harari. 🎧 ⁠⁠Exclusive Extended Ad-free Audiobook Summary ⁠⁠/ 📝 ⁠⁠Show notes⁠⁠, ⁠⁠PDF & Infographic⁠⁠ ...  Show more

How much could our relationship with technology change by 2027? In the last few years, new artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT and DeepSeek have transformed how we think about work, creativity, even intelligence itself. But tech experts are ringing alarm bells that powe ...