Video Podcasts – Social Europe

Watch Social Europe Editor-in Chief Henning Meyer in conversation with Philippe Pochet. They discuss the social policy record of the Juncker Commission and what one should expect from the new Commission. Philippe Pochet is the Director General of the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI).

Watch Social Europe Editor-in-Chief Henning Meyer in conversation with Katharina Pistor. They discuss “The Code of Capital – How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality”, the topic of Pistor’s most recent book published by Princeton University Press. Katharina Pistor is the Edwin B. Parker Professor of Comparative Law at Columbia Law School and Director of the Law School’s Center on Global Legal Transformation. Her research and teaching spans corporate law, corporate governance, money and finance, property rights, and comparative law and legal institutions.

Watch Social Europe Editor-in Chief Henning Meyer in discussion with Cas Mudde. They discuss the anatomy of the far right and far right populism and what progressive actors can do to counter the far right. Cas Mudde is the Stanley Wade Shelton UGAF Professor of International Affairs at the University of Georgia, a columnist for The Guardian newspaper and a world-leading expert on populism and the far right.

Watch Social Europe Editor-in Chief Henning Meyer in discussion with David Bach. They discuss the changing nature of the business – social stakeholder relationship and why companies have to be political as a result of this change. David Bach is Deputy Dean for Executive Programs and Professor in the Practice of Management at Yale School of Management. An expert in political economy, his research and teaching focus on business-government relations, non-market strategy and global market regulation.

Watch Social Europe Editor in Chief Henning Meyer in discussion with Diane Coyle. They discuss the development of technology and what challenges it poses to economics as a discipline and public policy more widely.
Diane Coyle is the Bennett Professor of Public Policy at the University of Cambridge and was previously Professor of Economics at the University of Manchester. She has held a number of public service roles including Vice Chair of the BBC Trust (2006-2014), member of the Competition Commission (2001-2009), and member of the Migration Advisory Committee (2009-2014).

Watch Anand Menon of King’s College London in discussion with Social Europe Editor-in-Chief Henning Meyer. They talk about the key drivers behind Brexit and what the cornerstones of a new EU-UK relationship could be.
Anand Menon is Professor of European Politics and Foreign Affairs at King’s College London in the United Kingdom and was appointed in January 2014 as director of the UK in a Changing Europe initiative. He was a special adviser to the House of Lords EU committee.

Watch Social Europe Editor-in-Chief Henning Meyer in conversation with Danny Blanchflower, the Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College. They talk about how the last economic and financial crisis was not spotted and why we are ill prepared for the next one.
The conversation is based on Danny’s new book “Not Working
Where Have All the Good Jobs Gone” published by Princeton University Press

Is technology destroying or creating jobs? Is today’s wave of new technology different from previous historic periods? If it is, what are the key characteristics that make our times unique? What should policy-makers do to shape how technology impacts our lives? Watch Social Europe Editor-in-Chief Henning Meyer discuss these and related questions with Carl Benedikt Frey. Carl Benedikt Frey is the Oxford Martin Citi Fellow at Oxford University where he directs the programme on Technology and Employment at the Oxford Martin School.

How can tax avoidance by corporations be tackled? What are the possible reforms that could make sure that companies pay their fair share of taxes? What can we do to shut down tax havens? What changes will the digital economy bring to the way we conceive of taxation and calculate taxes? These are just some of the questions that Social Europe Editor-in-Chief Henning Meyer discusses with Johannes Becker.
Johannes Becker is Professor of Economics and Director of the Institute of Public Economics at the University of Münster. He is a widely acclaimed expert on corporate taxation and international tax competition.

Will robots and AI replace human work? What has the historical impact of technology been on labour markets and what are the current trends that are shaping the present and future of work? Will quantum computing change this future? Watch David Autor discuss these and related questions with Social Europe Editor-in-Chief Henning Meyer.
David Autor is an American economist and Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he also acts as co-director of the School Effectiveness and Inequality Initiative.

Listen to Colin Mayer of Oxford University in discussion with Social Europe Editor-in-Chief Henning Meyer. They discuss the future of the corporation with a particular focus on why businesses are so often failing to fulfil their societal role and why rediscovering the historic purpose of business is the best way forward.
Colin Mayer, CBE, is Peter Moores Professor of Management Studies at the Said Business School, University of Oxford. He was a Harkness Fellow at Harvard University, a Houblon-Norman Fellow at the Bank of England, the first Leo Goldschmidt Visiting Professor of Corporate Governance at the Solvay Business School, Université de Bruxelles, and has had visiting positions at Columbia, MIT and Stanford universities.

Cass Sunstein, the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard University, talks to Social Europe Editor-in-Chief Henning Meyer about policies, nudging and freedom of choice (and what policy-makers could learn from Star Wars). From 2009 to 2012, Cass Sunstein was Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. He is also founder and director of the Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy at Harvard Law School.
The conversation is based on Cass Sunstein’s most recent book “On Freedom” published by Princeton University Press

Refugees and migrants are at the centre of political debates across the globe. Too often these vulnerable people are being instrumentalized by right-wing populists for their divisive political agendas designed to erode solidarity in society. So the key question is: what would a sustainable refugee and migration policy look like? We asked one of the world’s leading experts for his opinion. Watch Professor Paul Collier of Oxford University in conversation with Social Europe’s Editor-in-Chief Henning Meyer.

Ngaire Woods, Dean of the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford, talks to Henning Meyer, Editor-in-Chief of Social Europe, about the crisis of globalisation and what can be done in response to the backlash.

One of the world’s leading researchers on inequality, Branko Milanovic, talks to Social Europe Editor-in-Chief Henning Meyer about inequality and how the “defining issue of our time” (Barack Obama) relates to globalisation, migration and populism.

The year 2016 was a year of populist revolts. In June the UK decided to leave the European Union and a few months later in November Donald Trump was elected US President against all the odds. Since then there has been widespread confusion amongst political observers. How could this happen? In this spotlight video, Social Europe Editor-in-Chief Henning Meyer discusses the roots of populism with Peter Hall, Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies in the Department of Government and at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies of Harvard University. Why have so many people fallen for populists and what can mainstream parties do to counter the threat populist parties pose to the democratic substance of Western societies? This conversation provides answers.

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