Money & Macro Talks

How do the wealthiest people get so rich? Did they inherit it? Earn it? Save more than everyone else? Or simply invest better?Our guest, Joachim Hubmer, co-authored “Why Are the Wealthiest So Wealthy?”, a paper that uses Norway’s detailed tax records to weigh these pathways against each other. We talk about how much of top wealth comes from inheritance, earnings, saving and returns, and what really separates old money from new money.

Interview with FT Alphaville editor Robin Wigglesworth about his new book: A Fabulous Debt: How Bonds Built the Modern World.

In Sweden, Norway and Finland, women have more freedom and opportunity than almost anywhere else on Earth. Yet these are also the places where fewer women choose to study engineering or computer science. Economists and psychologists call this the gender-equality paradox, and it is one of the most hotly debated findings in social science.In this episode, I talk to Manuel Bagues, Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick, about his new research with Natalia Zinovyeva. Their answer starts somewhere unexpected: the playground and the extra-school activities, which are usually highly gender-segregated.

Interview with Ilyaz Nasrullah (computer scientist & columnist) about his new book. The book in Dutch can be found here: https://www.nieuwezijds.nl/boek/dit-is-ai/Research mentioned in the conversation: https://fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf & https://youtu.be/kopoLzvh5jY?si=AHDAGAFmSk5K004B

In just a couple of years, South Korea turned from one of the world's largest defense importers to exports. In this interview, Korean expert HG Hong (Platoon Magazine) explains why.