Chapter 1
Start-ups
Start-ups fail for many reasons. See what these experts on entrepreneurship say about success – and failure. ‘Why do so many start-ups fail?’, The Big Question from Chicago Booth, 30 November 2015.
Chapter 2
Globalization
This is a wide-ranging interview on the many facets of globalization by Joseph Stiglitz, former Senior Vice President and chief economist of the World Bank. The subject is ‘Globalization and its discontents revisited’. The interview is with New York Times reporter, Peter S. Goodman, and took place 22 November, 2017.
Chapter 3
Hofstede explains his ideas on culture
This is an interview, ‘Geert Hofstede on Culture’, an interview that took place 10 October, 2011. The interviewer is Gert Jan Hofstede.
Chapter 4
Inequality: Explanation and analysis
This is a lecture by Emmanuel Saez, Professor of Economics, at the University of California at Berkeley. He is speaking at the Canadian Centre of Policy Alternatives and University of British Columbia’s Vancouver School of Economics. The lecture is on wealth and income inequality: Evidence and policy implications, 28 November, 2014.
Chapter 5
Populism
A lecture by Cas Mudde, entitled, ‘The rise of populism: from Le Pen to Trump’, dated 29 May 2017. Professor Mudde is at the University of Georgia’s School of Public and International Affairs, Athens, Georgia, USA.
Brexit and beyond
This is a lecture by Sir Ivan Rogers, entitled ‘Where did Brexit come from, and where is it going to take the UK?’ It was delivered 23 January 2019, at the UCL European Institute. Sir Ivan Rogers is the former UK permanent representative to the EU.
Chapter 6
White collar crime
This video is about the business of white collar crime. It is a documentary published 11 January 2013, by InsideOut Ptv
Chapter 7
International trade tensions
This is a lecture by Professor Ralph Ossa of the University of Zurich, Geneva. It is in the WTO Dialogues series, and is entitled, ‘Trade talks and trade wars: How high are the gains and the costs?’ The lecture took place in Geneva, 14 June 2017. Professor Ossa talks about trade tensions and multilateralism.
Chapter 8
Argentina’s financial crises
‘Peso Pressure: Argentina faces another financial crisis’. This is a documentary produced by France 24 English, 6 September, 2018.
Chapter 9
Technology of energy
Economic development and green growth; Bob DiMatteo and Richard Schmalensee. This is a lecture in the series, MIT opencourse ware; 29/3/ 2013
Chapter 10
Climate change and the Paris agreement
This is a University of Oxford lecture, featuring Christiana Figueres, speaking on ‘What now? Next steps on climate change’, 19 November, 2018. This public lecture is at the Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford. She is from Costa Rica, and she is the former Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
Chapter 11
Corporate governance
This is an interview with Eric Berglof of the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development. It is on corporate governance and the financial crisis, with an emphasis on the European dimension. It took place on 5 November 2010, and it is published by Knowledge@Wharton.
Chapter 12
Inequality and globalization
This is a lecture by the distinguished economist, Thomas Piketty, Professor of the School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS), Paris School of Economics. It is entitled, ‘Rising Inequality and globalization’, and was delivered as the Angus Maddison lecture, on the 28 May, 2018, in the Faculty of Economics and Business, the Growth and Development Centre, in the University of Groningen, the Netherlands.
