Luigi Zingales

Luigi Zingales

47 Interviews

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Luigi Zingales + Bethany McLean & Kenneth Rogoff 24 Jul 2025 • EN

Can The Dollar Be Dethroned?, with Ken Rogoff

Americans are often told that they benefit from the privilege of the dollar serving as the world's currency. A strong dollar makes imports cheaper, facilitates demand for American companies, and is tied to cheap government borrowing. But what happens when this powerful privilege weakens? What does it even mean for the

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Luigi Zingales + Bethany McLean & Niall Ferguson 21 Nov 2024 • EN

The Fertility Crisis: Capitalism's Next Challenge, with Sir Niall Ferguson

For years, the world worried about overpopulation and our capacity to sustain ever-increasing numbers of people. Now, the worry is underpopulation—and recent numbers are stunning. Fertility rate is the average number of children that are born to a woman over her lifetime. According to the United Nations, this number is

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Luigi Zingales + Bethany McLean & Jonathan Haidt 18 Jul 2024 • EN

The Economic Costs of a Phone-Based Childhood, with Jonathan Haidt

In one of this year's bestselling books, "The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing An Epidemic of Mental Illness," New York University social psychologist Jonathan Haidt argues that today's childhoods spent under the influence of smartphones and overprotective parenting has led to the repo

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Luigi Zingales + Bethany McLean & Joseph Stiglitz 20 Jun 2024 • EN

Joseph Stiglitz's Vision of a New Progressive Capitalism

In the last 60 years, few economists have contributed more to exposing the failures of capitalism than Joseph Stiglitz. Formerly the chief economist of the World Bank and chair of the U.S. Council of Economic Advisers under President Bill Clinton, Stiglitz won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2001 for his work showing t

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Bethany McLean + Luigi Zingales & Matthew Desmond 29 Jun 2023 • EN

Why America's Poor Remain Poor, With Matthew Desmond

"Poverty will be abolished in America only when a mass movement demands it," writes Princeton sociologist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Matthew Desmond in his new book, "Poverty, by America." Building on his own lived experiences of growing up poor and continued contact with impoverished communities that "forces [h

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Bethany McLean + Luigi Zingales & Daron Acemoglu 18 May 2023 • EN

Is Technological Progress Good For Everyone? With Daron Acemoglu

In his new book, "Power and Progress: Our 1000-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity", renowned MIT Professor of Economics Daron Acemoglu (with co-author Simon Johnson) argues that the benefits from technological progress are shaped by the distribution of power in society.  In this episode, Acemoglu joins Bethan

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