The Innovation and Diffusion Podcast The Innovation and Diffusion Podcast

Our guest in this episode is Philippe Aghion! We talk about Marx, Schumpeter, creative destruction, capital accumulation, history, middle income countries, political economy, and more!

In this episode, our guest is Stefanie Stantcheva and we talked about taxation, incentives for inventors, history, slavery and wealth accumulation, zero-sum attitude towards immigrants, and more!



Hosts: Ruveyda Gozen (@ruveyda_gozen) and John Van Reenen (@johnvanreenen)



08:30 Taxation and Innovations

13:30 Policy Implications of Taxes and Innovation Incentives

22:17 Historical Facts on Wealth Inequality in the US

28:08 Social Economics Lab: Attitudes towards Climate Change

38:15 Social Economics Lab: Zero-Sum Attitude, and Income Inequality

44:30 Cheezy Questions!

In this episode, our guest is Daron Acemoglu from MIT and we talked about innovation dynamics, automation, elitism, institutions, history, and more!



06:05 Automation and declining labor share

17:20 But why do firms choose (so-so) automation?

25:00 Education is a solution! Or is it NOT?

27:20 First Industrial Revolution, Social Change, Elitism

30:50 Democracy and automation

34:40 What will governments do then?

Cheezy Questions:

40:40 What is Daron's production function?

42:00 Which economist or philosopher had the largest impact on your thinking?

43:30 Privilege to write a non-causal paper in Economics

In this episode, we talk about lost talents or lost Einsteins and Marie Curies in an economy, the relationship between inequality, innovation, and inflation, and more! Let us know your thoughts, comments, and questions!



05:00 Lost Einsteins and Marie Curies

12:00 Creative Destruction and Inequality

20:00 Inflation, Inequality, and Innovation

25:00 Cheezy Questions!



Hosts: Ruveyda Gozen (@ruveyda_gozen) and John Van Reenen (@jvanreenen)

In this episode, our guest is Naomi Lamoreaux from Yale University. We dive into history to talk about big corporations, patent trolls and sharks, and litigation wars between companies! Take a look at this episode and let us know your thoughts @POID_cast on X or email us at lsepoidcast@gmail.com!



Hosts: Ruveyda Gozen (@ruveyda_gozen) and John Van Reenen (@johnvanreenen)



02:55 Patents or Prizes for Innovations?

07:07 Litigation Wars and Property Rights

11:10 Who are Patent Trolls? 

19:24 Standard Oil Company, Innovations, Mergers 

28:55 What Does an Ideal Patent System Look Like? 

38:04 Cheezy Questions! Any Strategies to Publish a Paper?

43:12 Mean (!) Comments by Referees

In this episode, our guest is Ben Jones from Northwestern University. We are talking about how production of knowledge has changed over time, whether gender-diverse teams perform better, whether we have a bias towards multi-authored papers, immigration, age, and entrepreneurship, and more! Take a look at this episode and let us know your thoughts @POID_cast on X or email us at lsepoidcast@gmail.com!



Hosts: Ruveyda Gozen (@ruveyda_gozen) and John Van Reenen (@johnvanreenen)



06:00 Production of Knowledge

09:40 Multiple Co-authors and Gender: Who Gets the Credit?

25:00 Burden of Knowledge

33:00 Immigration and Entrepreneurship

41:00 Age and Entrepreneurship

46:30 Cheezy Questions!