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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…
Victor Menaldo interviewed on PBS segment “Cancel Culture”
In this PBS segment, Prof. Victor Menaldo is interviewed on the topic of Cancel Culture. Northwest Now | Cancel Culture | Season 12 | Episode 24 | PBS
April 6, 2021
Forum Podcast “Beautiful game, troubling results?” – with Leah Rosenzweig and Yang-Yang Zhou
Guests:Leah Rosenzweig, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Stanford UniversityYang-Yang Zhou, Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia In this episode, Postdoctoral Research Fellow Dr. Leah Rosenzweig of Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business and Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Assistant Professor Dr. Yang-Yang Zhou of the Department of Political Science at the University of British Colombia discuss their…
April 2, 2021
Forum Podcast “Capitalism without Capital” – With Johnathan Haskel
Guest: Johnathan Haskel – Professor of Economics at Imperial College Business School, Imperial College London and Director of the Doctoral Programme. Prof. Johnathan Haskel and Forum Fellow Nicolas Wittstock discuss Johnathans’ book Capitalism without Capital – the rise of the intangible economy (with Stian Westlake). In it, the authors argue that that business investment in…
March 26, 2021
Forum Podcast: “Selling your Soul or Hedging? What are Income Pools?”
Guests: Professor Victor Menaldo, Morgan Wack, Amos Chi, and Nicolas Wittstock. In this episode, Forum fellows and friends discuss how income share agreements might enable people to pay for college and pool risk in the knowledge economy. Related work and links mentioned in the podcast: Morgan Wack and Nicolas Wittstock – Income pools to…
March 24, 2021
Forum Podcast “Why So Many Journalists are Killed in Democracies” with Sabine Carey
Guest: Sabine Carey – Professor and Chair of Political Science, International Relations at the University of Mannheim, Germany. In this episode, Professor Sabine Carey speaks to Forum host Nicolas Wittstock about her work on the killing of journalists. Perhaps counterintuitively, journalists are most at risk in democratic countries rather than autocracies. Professor Carey…
March 15, 2021
Forum Podcast: “How Dictators (ab)use Democratic Institutions” – with Anne Meng
Guest: Anne Meng – Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics at the University of Virginia. In this episode, Anne Meng – Assistant Prof. of Political Science at University of Virginia and Forum host Nicolas Wittstock discuss how dictators use seemingly inclusive political institutions to cement their power. Related work and links…
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…
March 2, 2021
Forum Podcast: “Automatic Voter Registration to the rescue?” with Ellen Seljan
Guest: Ellen Seljan – Professor of Political Science at Lewis & Clark In this episode, Professor Ellen Seljan from Lewis & Clark speaks to Forum Fellow Nicolas Wittstock on her recent work on the effects of automatic voter registration. You can find this episode on our “Political Economy Forum” series…
February 25, 2021
Prof. James Long on King 5 Morning News on Trump Impeachment
Prof. James Long was interviewed several times for Seattle King-TV – King 5 Early Morning News: Muck Rack | KING-TV (Seattle, WA) – King 5 Early Morning News Muck Rack | KING-TV (Seattle, WA) – King 5 Morning News Muck Rack | KONG-SEA – King 5 Morning News on KONG
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