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On this week’s episode of the Governance Podcast, Mark Pennington, the Director at the Study of Governance and Society here at King College London, interviews Andy Haldane. This episode is titled ‘Complexity and the Politics of Regulation’, and discusses the governance of financial risk in conditions where it’s hard to predict how agents will respond to a given situation and the possibility of error, whether by private agents or by those who regulate their behavior.
On this latest episode of the Governance Podcast, Mark Pennington, the Director at the Study of Governance and Society here at King College London, interviews Professor Terry Flew. This episode is titled “‘Too much’ and ‘too little’ content moderation”, and discusses the question of content moderation on digital platforms as a case study in Foucauldian approaches to governmentality.
On this episode of the Governance Podcast, Mark Pennington, the Director at the Study of Governance and Society here at King College London, interviews Professor Diane Coyle. This episode is titled “The data that is and that data the isn’t: the pitfalls of using big data”, and discusses the various uses and implications of big data in society, and the many pitfalls that may arise.
In the latest episode of the Governance Podcast, our Associate Director Sam DeCanio interviews Dr. Zeynep Pamuk from the London School of Economics, on the topic ‘Politics and Expertise’.
In this episode of the Governance Podcast, Mark Pennington, the Director at the Study of Governance and Society here at King College London, interviews Professor Cass R. Sunstein. This episode is titled “The Use of Algorithms in Society”, and discusses the various ethical and moral dilemmas and implications of increasing AI use in society, and its impact on both social and economic factors.
On this week’s episode of the Governance Podcast, Dr. Steven Klein interviews Prof. Martin Weale from the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London. This episode is titled “UK Pensions Crisis and Central Banking”.
This episode explores Prof McCloskey’s criticism of the way the discipline of economics has unfortunately been separated from matters of ethics, the importance of liberal values for human progress, and her calls for a human-centred approach to economics called ‘humanomics’.
This podcast episode explores the way in which the discipline of Economics has evolved over the years, the way economists achieved their status as scientific experts, and how pluralism and diversity may be promoted within the wider discipline.
On this week’s episode of the Governance Podcast, our Director Prof. Mark Pennington interviews Dr. Erwin Dekker from the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. This episode is titled “Governing Markets as Knowledge Commons”, which features Erwin’s recently co-edited volume with Cambridge University Press, Governing Markets as Knowledge Commons.
On this week’s episode of the Governance Podcast, our Associate Director Dr. Samuel DeCanio interviews historian Niall Ferguson from the Hoover Institution. This episode is titled “Counterfactual History with Niall Ferguson”.
On this week’s episode of the Governance Podcast, our Director Prof. Mark Pennington interviews Prof. Carmen Pavel from the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London. This episode is titled “Sovereignty and International Law”, which features Carmen’s recently published book with Oxford University Press Law Beyond the State.
