Forward Thinking

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Forward Thinking on the tricky business of removing carbon from our world with Nan Ransohoff Dec 05, 2023

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Co-host Michael Chui talks with Nan Ransohoff. Ransohoff is the head of climate at Stripe and leads Frontier, an advanced market commitment for carbon removal. She answers questions including:

Is carbon removal a get out of jail free card for emitters?
What are the most promising carbon removal technologies?
Is it possible to scale up effective technologies quick enough?
How much do costs need to come down before scaling is possible?
What is an advanced market commitment?

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Forward Thinking on how geeks are changing the world with Andrew McAfee Nov 14, 2023

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Co-host Michael Chui talks with Andy McAfee. McAfee is a principal research scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management, co-founder and co-director of MIT’s initiative on the digital economy, and the inaugural visiting fellow at the Technology in Society organization at Google.

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Forward Thinking on why we ignore inflation—from ancient times to the present—at our peril with Stephen King Nov 01, 2023

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Co-host Janet Bush talks with Stephen King. King is a senior economic advisor to HSBC, having served as the bank’s group chief economist from 1998 to 2015. His latest book, very prescient in timing, is We Need to Talk About Inflation: 14 Urgent Lessons from the Last 2,000 Years. In this podcast, he covers topics including the following:

The root causes of the current resurgence of inflation
How long higher inflation may persist
What history tells us about the management of inflation
The main economic problem that lies ahead
Why inflation matters

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Forward Thinking on the existential issues facing the middle classes in every country with Homi Kharas Oct 11, 2023

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Co-host Janet Bush talks with Homi Kharas. Kharas is a senior fellow in the Center for Sustainable Development at the Brookings Institution and also cofounder of World Data Lab. He studies policies and trends influencing developing countries, the emergence of the world's middle class, and global governance. He's collaborated with the McKinsey Global Institute on research into consumers in emerging markets and economic empowerment, and his latest book is The Rise of the Global Middle Class: How the Search for the Good Life Can Change The World.

In this podcast, he covers topics including the following:

How the character of the world’s middle classes is changing
How the middle classes shape our world
What becoming middle class means for a household
The role of the middle class in climate change
How AI may affect the middle class

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Forward Thinking on funding a clean world with Ann Mettler Sep 05, 2023

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Co-host Janet Bush talks with Ann Mettler. Mettler is Vice President, Europe, at Breakthrough Energy, working on cleantech innovation in pursuit of a net-zero-emissions future. Before her current role, she worked for many years in European public policy. She was head of the European Political Strategy Center, the in-house think tank of the European Commission, from 2014 to 2019. In this podcast, she covers topics including the following:

Investing for climate impact
The challenges in Europe’s clean energy technological ecosystem
Useful innovation beyond new products
The new priority of energy security accelerating the net-zero transition

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Forward Thinking on the recipe for Asia’s success story with Justin Yifu Lin Aug 15, 2023

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Co-host Janet Bush talks with Justin Yifu Lin. Lin is dean of the Institute of New Structural Economics, dean of the Institute of South-South Cooperation and Development, and professor and honorary dean of the National School of Development at Peking University. He served as chief economist at the World Bank from 2008 to 2012, and he actually took up his World Bank position after serving for 15 years as professor and founding director of the China Center for Economic Research at Peking University. In this podcast, he covers topics including the following:

What is new structural economics?
How can emerging economies catch up?
Is globalization going into reverse?
Will the economies of China and Asia maintain momentum?

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Forward Thinking on how to live with our longer lives with Andrew J. Scott Jul 26, 2023

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Co-host Janet Bush talks with Andrew J. Scott. Scott is professor of economics at London Business School; his work focuses on the economics of longevity. He's co-founder of the Longevity Forum and a member of the World Economic Forum's Council on Healthy Aging and Longevity, topics that are very much the focus of the McKinsey Health Institute. His book The 100-Year Life has sold more than a million copies in 15 languages. In this podcast, he covers topics including the following:

What benefits could greater longevity offer to economies?
Redefining retirement
What could be done to help people live healthier for longer

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Forward Thinking on avoiding another false dawn for Africa and finally seizing the continent’s potential with Carlos Lopes Jul 12, 2023

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Cohost Janet Bush talks with Carlos Lopes. He is a professor in the Mandela School of Public Governance at the University of Cape Town. He’s also an affiliate professor at Sciences Po, Paris, an associate fellow in the Africa Program at Chatham House, and a member of the African Union reform team. Lopes was the policy director for UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and executive secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Africa. He serves as an advisor on MGI’s research on Africa, including our latest report, which discusses the continent’s human capital and natural resources and how they can help to accelerate productivity and reimagine Africa’s economic growth. His views are his own. In this podcast, he covers topics including the following:

The factors constraining Africa’s potential
The promise of AI for Africa
The threat and opportunity of climate change for Africa

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Forward Thinking on bringing the joy to economics with Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers Jun 28, 2023

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Cohost Michael Chui talks with Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers, both professors of public policy and economics at the University of Michigan. They cover topics including the following:

Subjective well-being
How the labor market has evolved since the pandemic
A decline in inequality
The potential impact of AI
Why write a new economics text book?

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Forward Thinking on the brave new world of generative AI with Ethan Mollick May 31, 2023

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Co-host Michael Chui talks with business professor Ethan Mollick. He is an associate professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Mollick covers topics including the following:

What is generative AI?
How substantial are the performance improvements workers can gain from using generative AI
How to use human management skills to get better results from generative AI
What generative AI means for the future of work and trust
What he learned when he made the use of generative AI mandatory in his classes

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