What do companies owe their communities?
What are companies’ responsibilities to their local communities, how should they go about fulfilling them, and how should we reconcile those responsibilities with the rights of shareholders?
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Can employers change gender norms?
Overcoming cultural barriers to female employment could require long-term, sustained effort.
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On this episode of the Capitalisn’t podcast, hosts Kate Waldock and Luigi Zingales explain how to win the econ Nobel and why it’s important, and they make some predictions about who the winner might be this year.
How multinational companies help spread recessions
Parent companies in one country can transmit the effects of a local financial shock to their subsidiaries abroad.
Capitalisn’t: Economic research—nothing precisely or precisely nothing?
On this episode of the Capitalisn’t podcast, hosts Kate Waldock and Luigi Zingales offer a look at the process behind economic research as they investigate whether private equity is to blame for the retail apocalypse.
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How to speed up the next medical breakthrough
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Sendhil Mullainathan says AI can counter human biases
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Overcome the odds to become a great boss
Remember that the people who work for you are human.
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How low interest rates can hurt competition, and the economy
They help big companies more than small ones, depressing investment and productivity.
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Why the big banks aren’t safe yet
Banking and accounting rules need to synch up.