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COVID 2025: Changing the rules of international relations
04.29.20
Our world in the next five years: Political scientist Paul Poast on how coronavirus will change the global economy, US-China relations and the World Health Organization.
Institutions, development economics and modernization theory
03.20.20
Our guest is James Robinson. He is the University Professor and institute director of The Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflicts at the University of Chicago. We talked about "Why Nations Fail", the current state of development economics, why economists started writing books, modernization theory, coauthorship with Daron Acemoglu, why British universities are lagging behind American ones and whether Milton Friedman is overrated.