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In this interview, Eric Weinstein explores many creative ways that physics and more sophisticated forms of math can be used to rescue economics from itself and restore its now tarnished reputation.

In standard economics, inequality in outcomes is typically attributed to inequality of inputs, for example, from differences in education. Yakovenko thinks about inequality in a different way by extending some ideas from statistical physics.

This episode features grantee D’Maris Coffman of the Centre for Financial History talking about her organization’s commitment to a New Financial History and what the fruits of their approach can tell us about modern debt crises and sustainable debt levels.

This episode features Pier Carlo Padoan, Chief Economist and Deputy Secretary-General of the OECD, talking about the euro zone crisis, Europe’s structural problems, and how uncertainty has damaged economic growth in Europe.

This episode features David Vines of Oxford University talking about the euro crisis. Can the monetary union survive the crisis?

How does economic theory match up with reality?

Anat Admati, author of The Bankers’ New Clothes: Whats Wrong with Banking and What to Do about It, talks about how to fix our broken banking sector.

What do we need to do to get the financial sector back on track?

What was the political dynamic driving post-crisis economic policy?

Kiel Institute President Dennis Snower talks about the euro zone crisis

Institute for New Economic Thinking grantee Hans-Joachim Voth talks about the crisis in Europe.

William White, chairman of the Economic Development and Review Committee (EDRC) at the OECD in Paris

How can we get the financial sector back to serving its intended function?

Why didn’t central banks see the financial crisis coming?

Should China internationalize the RMB? Will it take the lead on sustainable development? Can it maintain growth and productivity?