Economic Development
April 12, 2021
Forum Podcast “Invention, Innovation, and the British Industrial Revolution” with Anton Howes
Guest: Anton Howes – Historian of Innovation In this episode, Anton Howes – head of innovation research at The Entrepreneurs Network, discusses the history of invention in Britain with host Nicolas Wittstock. Anton argues that Britons were infected with an “improving mentality” some time in the 15-hundreds. As a result, inventors created networks, shared…
March 12, 2021
Say it Ain’t So, Joe: Please Don’t Mess with the U.S. and China’s Shared Prosperity
By Victor Menaldo and Nicolas Wittstock On February 24th, Joe Biden signed an executive order to review U.S. supply chains. The review seeks to establish if the U.S. relies too heavily on foreign suppliers in four key industries: computer chips, large-capacity batteries, pharmaceuticals, and rare earth minerals used in electronics. The problems it seeks to address are growing…
February 23, 2021
UW Political Science Faculty Panel Winter 2021: The Biden Agenda
Joe Biden has assumed the Presidency during some of the most turbulent times in the nation’s history. With both Congress and the nation closely divided between the parties, can Biden govern? What are the prospects for his agenda on immigration, racial justice, climate change, economic stimulus, confronting the coronavirus, and other issues? We…
February 7, 2021
Long and Menaldo on digital platforms & algorithmic amplification
In this piece, UW Political Economy co-founders James Long and Victor Menaldo think about this issue from first principles (in this case, market externalities) and consider potential solutions in light of tradeoffs and the quest to maximize social welfare, not score political points. https://venturebeat.com/2021/02/06/from-the-election-lie-to-gamestop-how-to-stop-social-media-algorithms-from-hurting-us/ While in the piece they voice skepticism about whether…
February 1, 2021
Forum Podcast – “Understanding Adam Smith” with Glory Liu
Guest: Harvard Social Studies Fellow Glory Liu. In this episode, Glory Liu and Forum Fellow Nicolas Wittstock discuss Glory’s work on the perception of Adam Smith in the United States and how Smith’s work relates to contemporary academic social science and social problems. Related work and links mentioned in the podcast: Adam Smith…
January 25, 2021
Forum Podcast – “Economic Perceptions and Policy Preferences” – with Asli Cansunar
Guest: Assistant Professor Asli Cansunar, from the Political Science Department at the University of Washington. In this episode, Assistant Professor Asli Cansunar and Forum Affiliate Morgan Wack discuss how perceptions shape individual policy preferences. They also touch on the role social media and local conditions play in shaping economic perceptions. Related work and links mentioned in the podcast:…
January 9, 2021
What do we know about dictatorships?
What do we know about dictatorships? A lot, it turns out. They differ from democracies. They are usually characterized by irregular transfers of power between rulers. Smaller groups have greater political influence and power. A dictator’s supporters are wracked by rampant uncertainty about his intentions and, vice-versa, the dictator tends to mistrust the organizations that…
December 21, 2020
Forum Podcast – “Populist Economic Policy” with Magistro and Menaldo
Guests: Beatrice Magistro, PhD Candidate, and Professor Victor Menaldo, both from the Political Science Department at the University of Washington. In this episode, Beatrice Magistro and Victor Menaldo make the case that populist political actors pursue similar economy policies — no matter their professed ideological persuasion. Populist economic policies often produce disastrous outcomes, especially…
October 30, 2020
Forum Podcast: Beatrice Magistro on Economic Literacy
https://soundcloud.com/political-economy-forum-at-university-of-washington/9-beatrice-magistro-on-economic-literacy Guest: Beatrice Magistro is a PhD Candidate in the UW Political Science Department and a Fellow at the UW Political Economy Forum. In this episode, Nicolas Wittstock hosts UW PhD Candidate Beatrice Magistro. They discuss Beatrice’s dissertation on the relationship between financial and economic literacy and policy preferences in Italy and the UK….
September 25, 2020
#5 Political Economy Forum Podcast – Populism vs. Liberal Democracy
https://soundcloud.com/political-economy-forum-at-university-of-washington/5-populism-vs-liberal-democracy-1 In this episode, Professor Victor Menaldo and Nicolas Wittstock discuss the meaning and virtues of Liberal Democracy and the political earthquakes that Populists have provoked across contemporary democracies. The conversation mentions works by North, Wallis, and Weingast, Levitsky and Ziblatt, John Wallis, Cas Mudde, Magistro and Menaldo, and Munger and Munger, as well as…
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