Podcasts

The Horizon of the University of Economics in Prague is a scientific and educational podcast. The host Niclas Berggren talks with Magnus Henrekson about some of today’s most pressing economic challenges.  

The Horizon of the University of Economics in Prague is a scientific and educational podcast. The host Niclas Berggren talks with Magnus Henrekson about some of today’s most pressing economic challenges.  

Michael Sherman of Skeptic Magazine and Daniel Waldenström, a researcher at IFN, discuss the contents of Waldenström’s new book, ‘Richer and More Equal.’

Stone Center Affiliated Scholar Daniel Waldenström argues in his new book, Richer and More Equal: A New History of Wealth in the West, that Western society — particularly the middle class — is not only wealthier now than a century ago, but that wealth inequality has declined. 

Daniel Freeman of the Institute of Economic Affairs interviews Professor Daniel Waldenström, researcher at IFN, about his new book, "Richer & More Equal: A New History of Wealth in the West".  Waldenström's research suggests that wealth inequality has decreased over the past century, with the middle class experiencing significant growth in wealth accumulation.

Daniel Waldenström, a professor of economics and reasearcher at the Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), joins Human Progress podcast to discuss the decline of wealth inequality in the Western world.

Niclas Berggren talks about his research "Trust, tolerance and religion in the context of globalization".

When suddenly it became quicker and cheaper to travel by train, did this help inventors to work together, and did it mean more and better innovation? Thor Berger and Erik Prawitz – who work 1 hour 50 minutes apart by train, investigated the impact of Sweden’s rail network.

The maternal mortality rate in the US is three to four times higher than in comparable rich countries. Moreover, it is much higher for African American women than for white women, as well as for low-income African American women. How does this come about? Petra Persson, affiliated researcher at IFN, discusses this in the podcast Econofact.

What is entrepreneurship, and how do you become a successful entrepreneur? Professor Saras Sarasvathy gives us a brief version of her award-winning theory on effectuation and tells us more about what made her interested in entrepreneurship both as an entrepreneur herself and as an academic. She also provides governments worldwide with policy suggestions on making entrepreneurship a skillset taught to children.

In this podcast Boyan Jovanovic, the winner of the Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research 2019, reveals what he will do with the prize money and that he every year goes back to his birth country Serbia to teach a masters class in finance. 

Olav Sorenson, winner of the Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research 2018, grew up in a small town in South Dakota and set out wanting to be a consultant. Today he is professor at Yale School of Management and has in his research shown how important social networks are to entrepreneurship. In this podcast he reveals what he would wish for if he was granted a wish that would be fulfilled during his lifetime.

Former US President Bill Clinton has described Hernando de Soto as “the world’s most important living economist.” Mr. de Soto visited Sweden in May 2017 to receive the Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research. In this pod he takes the listeners into the world where he grew up and tells us why he returned to Peru to start his today renowned think tank the Institute for Liberty and Democracy (ILD).  And he explains how property rights can eradicate poverty!

Professor Philippe Aghion, Collège de France, received the Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research 2016. Professor Aghion is one of today’s most influential researchers in the field of economics. In this interview he talks about entrepreneurship and economic growth, why higher education is so important for prosperity, and how the state can best promote entrepreneurship, etcetera.

The former Swedish Government launched Etableringsreformen, stipulating that refugees be placed in municipalities where there are job opportunities. Özge Öner and Johan Wennström, IFN, have analyzed where new arrivals are placed and find that it is in municipalities with a declining population and high unemployment – in other words, where the conditions for job growth are weak. These findings and more are discussed in this podcast.

The 2015 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research was awarded to Professor Emeritus Sidney G. Winter, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, at a ceremony in Stockholm on May 20, 2015.  Prior to the ceremony, Sidney Winter sat down with IFN-podcasts and answered questions about his research and what enticed him to go into research about entrepreneurship.

In this podcast Diane Coyle gives a lecture telling the story about GDP and how we in today’s globalized world must make sure that we get a more truthful picture of long-term economic prospects, with the development of official statistics on national wealth in its broadest sense, including natural and human resources.