Mostly Economics Podcast #40: Greenspan's Legacy and the New Fed Chair with Jared Bernstein
...ean Baker and Jared Bernstein reflect on Alan Greenspan's legacy, from his bold full employment experiment in the 1990s to his failure to address financial bubbles. Jared and ...
What makes a job “good”? Is it pay, flexibility, progression, security, purpose, autonomy, or the people you work with?
Policy debates about inequality often focus on wages and getting people into...
“It does not take a very high unemployment rate to fundamentally disrupt a country and its politics and its institutions… And it happens fast,” says CFR expert Gina Raimondo, discussing the politic...
In this episode of The Spillover, host Sebastian Mallaby and CFR President Michael Froman speak with former U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and World Bank President Ajay Banga about the globa...
The 2026 Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE) opens with a keynote on on the urgent need for good jobs across the world, featuring World Bank Group Chief Economist Indermit Gill ...
Top Economist argues full employment and worker mobility is required to make the market work better.
Top economist argues full employment and worker mobility is required to make the market work better.
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As 1.2 billion young people are projected to enter the workforce in developing countries over the coming decades, this discussion explored a central economic question: how to create enough producti...
Worry about job losses in general, not AI job losses
We should worry about job losses in general, not AI job losses.
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Improving job quality takes many forms and tactics — as does the funding that supports it. Some businesses need access to capital or technical assistance to build better jobs. Workers and advocates...
There is much panic around AI’s impact on the labor market. Efforts to blame inequality and unemployment on AI and technology divert attention from the root cause: excess employer power.
The best...
... are falling short — not for lack of effort, but because the systems were never fully designed with job quality as a goal.
In response, a growing number of practitioners are ...
Winning on affordability
"Winning" on affordability means raising wages, putting more money in everyday people's pockets, ending profit-driven healthcare, ending unjust wars, and ceasing policies that cater to the interest...
In this clip from the Policy Fix, Jill Rutter from the Institute for Government delivers one of the sharpest observations in the episode. Through the furlough scheme, the UK state effectively guara...
What will historians see as the defining issue of our time?
In this talk, Dalberg Advisors Partner Joe Dougherty explores the idea of the “K-shaped economy,” a growing divide in economic opportun...
Workers and communities know very well what good jobs – or bad jobs – look like, because they live this reality every day. Yet our labor market and policies are often designed without the input or ...
...s, investment, and the public and private sectors all work together. Watch the full speech of Ajay Banga, President of the World Bank Group: worldbank.org/live
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Workers and communities know very well what good jobs – or bad jobs – look like, because they live this reality every day. Yet our labor market and policies are often designed without the input or ...