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CEPR's RPN on Populism
CEPR Programme Area on Political Economy (POE)
What does history teach us about the economic impact of populism – and is our taste for populists a bug or a feature of democracy? Tim Phillips talks to Moritz Schularick and Massimo Morelli.
During the Covid-19 pandemic governments had to take unpopular measures to restrict our freedoms, and we had to choose whether we did what we were told. Were governments in countries with free media more likely to act – and were their citizens more likely to comply? Tim Besley and Sacha Dray talk to Tim Phillips about their new research.
Beata Javorcik talks about her research on the impact of the 2016 Brexit referendum and the consequent prospect of higher barriers to services exports on the UK job market.
Sergei Guriev looks at whether mobile broadband internet is a liberation or disinformation technology.
What does history teach us about the economic impact of populism – and is our taste for populists a bug or a feature of democracy? Tim Phillips talks to Moritz Schularick and Massimo Morelli.