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Learn about groundbreaking new research, commentary and policy ideas from the world's leading economists. Presented by Tim Phillips.

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On 2 April 2025, the United States imposed tariffs on almost every country on earth. The next day, China responded with export controls on the entire world. In the space of one week, world trade had been weaponised as it has never been in peacetime. more

"When you look at the world now, does it look more uncertain or less uncertain?" In December 2025, the Bank of England's Financial Policy Committee (FPC) answered that question by cutting the equity capital requirement for UK banks. David Aikman (NIE... more

Two explanations circulated immediately after the March to Save America on January 6, 2021 turned into a riot: a mob manipulated by a demagogue, or ordinary citizens defending democracy against a stolen election. Konstantin Sonin, David Van Dijcke, a... more

Every Bitcoin transaction needs to be verified on the blockchain. There is no central authority that does this, but Bitcoin's blockchain has run uninterrupted since 2009 and now carries a market capitalisation of $1.3 trillion, roughly 4% of US GDP. ... more

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Recent Guests

David Aikman
Economist, former Bank of England staffer, VoxEU columnist
National Institute of Economic and Social Research / Bank of England alumni
Episode: S9 Ep21: The Bank of England's capital mistake?
John Vickers
Former Bank of England Chief Economist, chair of the Independent Commission on Banking (2010-2011)
University of Oxford
Episode: S9 Ep21: The Bank of England's capital mistake?
Konstantin Sonin
Professor at the University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy; economist who studies information and misinformation in politics
University of Chicago; Harris School of Public Policy
Episode: S9 Ep20: What triggered January 6?
Bruno Biais
Professor at HEC Paris and CEPR report author
HEC Paris; CEPR
Episode: S9 Ep19: Can blockchain decentralise money, contracts, and finance?
Anton Korinek
Economist, University of Virginia; CEPR; Anthropic Economic Advisory Council member
University of Virginia; CEPR; Anthropic
Episode: S9 Ep18: Will AI transform economic growth?
Oleg Itskhoki
Professor of Economics
Harvard University
Episode: S9 Ep17: Sanctions and financial repression
Giacomo Anastasia
Economist, co-author of A Wartime Labor Market, The Case of Ukraine
Episode: S9 Ep16: What's next for Ukraine: The labour market
Mario Carillo
Researcher at the Autonomous University of Barcelona
Autonomous University of Barcelona
Episode: S9 Ep13: The alpha political male
Justin Sandefur
Economic growth expert at Coefficient Giving
Coefficient Giving
Episode: S9 Ep10: How many people die when the US cuts foreign aid?

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Tim Phillips
Host of VoxTalks Economics, known for guiding insightful discussions with prominent economists and researchers.

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    The host is great at drawing out interesting info from his interviewees while sticking to a compact timeline of around 20 minutes. Ideal for commutes.

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S8 Ep50: The hidden cost of invasive species
Q: What policy or insurance implications arise from quantifying these costs?
With reliable metrics and tools like Invacost, policymakers can design legal frameworks to prevent invasions and insurers can price risk more accurately, prioritizing interventions where impacts are highest.
S8 Ep50: The hidden cost of invasive species
Q: How do you estimate the economic costs and compare them to other natural hazards?
Costs are categorized by sector (agriculture, infrastructure, health, tourism, real estate), then standardized into a single metric, revealing that biological invasions often rival or exceed other natural hazards in magnitude and are growing exponentially.
S8 Ep50: The hidden cost of invasive species
Q: Franck, how do you collect the data for measuring the economic costs of biological invasions?
We combine existing data from millions of papers with automated information extraction to build a large, coherent database, using statistical imputation to fill gaps and standardize costs across GDP, inflation, and area to enable cross-country comparisons.
S9 Ep22: World War Trade
Q: Are we really in World War Trade, like your title says?
Richard Baldwin explains that while there is no shooting war, the level of economic weaponization—tariffs, export controls, and strategic exclusions—has created a global order that behaves like a war-by-other-means, with lasting systemic impacts.
S9 Ep18: Will AI transform economic growth?
Q: What is the goal of the Economics of Transformative AI Initiative?
To shift the research culture toward future-facing, speculative questions about transformative AI, encourage collaboration across technologists and policymakers, and explore how AI can accelerate economic research while ensuring societal preparedness and shared prosperity.

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