The Visible Hand Jordi Blanes i Vidal
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The Visible Hand is a podcast about organisations, economics, and management, hosted by Jordi Blanes i Vidal.
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Episode 78: Marta Serra-Garcia on Cognitive Flexibility and Moral Commitment
Marta Serra-Garcia discusses whether individuals seek to limit or enable their ability to distort beliefs, and how these choices affect behaviour.
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Episode 77: Nicola Mastrorocco on State Capacity as an Organizational Problem
Nicola Mastrorocco discusses how the organization of the state evolves over the process of development of a nation, using data from the U.S. in the 19th century.
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Episode 76: Soledad Giardili on Managers and Productivity in the Automobile Industry
Soledad Giardili discusses the causal effect of plant managers on productivity in the automobile industry.
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Episode 75: J. Carter Braxton on Technological Change and the Consequences of Job Loss
J. Carter Braxton examines the role of technological change in explaining the large and persistent decline in earnings following job loss.
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Episode 73: Kailing Shen on Gender Requirements in Job Ads
Kailing Shen discusses the consequences of preventing employers from specifying gender requirements in job ads.
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Episode 72: Daniela Vidart on Electrification and Female Labour Force Participation
Daniela Vidart discusses how electrification triggered a rise in female labour force participation by increasing market opportunities for skilled women, using microdata from the United States.
Customer Reviews
Great podcast
Good discussions of important ideas in economics.
Great way of staying on top of literature
This is a fantastic podcast and gives us a way of staying on top of the literature in an easier way. Well done!