WHATEVER IT TAKES: economics in times of crisis

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In this episode:

We're in different places but will keep bringing you episodes during these strange and challenging times. This week we’re exploring the economic response to coronavirus. Former Obama adviser Jason Furman discusses the scale of the current crisis and his plan for universal cash payments in the US. Economist Birthe Larsen explains why Denmark moved so fast on supporting wages. Then Lord Stewart Wood shares lessons from his time in Downing Street at the height of the 2008 financial crisis.

AND podcasting legend Andrew Hunter Murray chats about QI, fish facts and writing his first novel.

Guests

Birthe Larsen (@BirtheLarsenCph), Associate professor of economics at Copenhagen Business School

Jason Furman (@jasonfurman),Professor of practice at Harvard University Kennedy School of Government

Stewart Wood (@StewartWood), Member of the House of Lords

Andrew Hunter Murray (@andrewhunterm) ,host of No Such Thing as a Fish

More info

Ideas for economic response to coronavirus

• Danish govt: Tripartite employment retention agreement (translated) (Mar 2020)

• Tribune: Denmark’s answer to the coronavirus recession (Mar 2020)

• Resolution Foundation: Doing what it takes (Mar 2020)

• Vox: Obama’s chief economist on coronavirus’s economic threat (Mar 2020)

• Pairagraph: How Should the U.S. Government Respond to Coronavirus? (Mar 2020)

Economics in times of crisis

• NY Times: A Taxonomy of Bailouts: Comparing the Coronavirus Rescues With Rescues Past (Mar 2020)

• Jason Furman: Responding to the global financial crisis (Sept 2018)

• Stewart Wood: Twitter thread on Brown’s response to the financial crisis