In this episode of The Sound of economics, Rebecca Christie invites Georg Zachmann and Christian Zinglersen to talk about the ambitious idea of creating a more integrated European electricity market.
Channing Lee joins host Jeanne Meserve for a conversation on mapping the U.S.-PRC tech competition landscape of six technologies we use in our everyday lives.
In this episode, we are joined by leading economists Avi Goldfarb from the University of Toronto and Simon Johnson from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to discuss the impacts of artificial intelligence on the workforce.
Within this trillion-dollar partnership lies a complex history of agreements, conflicts, and transformative shifts that have altered its course throughout the years.
On Jan. 13, Taiwanese voters elected William Lai, a member of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party and a separatist in the eyes of Beijing, to be their next president.
Experts discuss what Lai’s victory means for the island’s energy policy, cross-strait relations, and push for sovereignty.
Sanctions have long been a staple in US foreign policy,
on the assumption that they are an effective alternative to war in shaping the behavior of U.S. adversaries.
But a new book by Narges Bajoghli, Vali Nasr, Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, and Ali Vaez,
How Sanctions Work: The Impact of Economic Warfare on Iran,
demonstrates that punishing sanctions are not only ineffective, but actually counterproductive.