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#368 31 min 43 sec
Decision neuroscience: Emerging insights into the way we choose

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Decision science researcher Prof Peter Bossaerts argues that investigating brain activity as we make decisions is generating new insights into how we deal with uncertainty and risk. Once the domain of economists and psychologists, the study of human decision-making is increasingly taking a neuron-level view, with implications well beyond economics and finance. Presented by Eric van Bemmel.

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#321 32 min 57 sec
Accounting for the rest of us: Capturing important truths about business organizations

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Accounting standard setter and reformer Sir David Tweedie discusses the importance to national economies of global standards of corporate reporting and valuation. He also explains the challenges to having such common standards adopted by individual nation states. Presented by Eric van Bemmel.

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#318 38 min 13 sec
Banking on the brink: What to do about debt-addicted financial institutions

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Stanford economist Prof. Anat Admati talks about how poor regulation and a lack of political will are endangering the global banking system, and why banks remain “addicted” to debt to fund their often highly profitable business. Presented by Eric van Bemmel.

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#304 35 min 47 sec
Quash and prosper: How free market capitalism learned to quell dissent

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Law historian Prof Alasdair Roberts discusses the strategies implemented by the neoliberal establishment to contain dissent. Presented by Lynne Haultain.

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#300 41 min 10 sec
Does it pay to obey? Over-complying with financial regulations as a deliberate strategy

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Political economist Prof Andrew Walter talks about approaches to financial regulation in the long aftermath to the Global Financial Crisis, and what happens when banks over-comply with the new rules. Presented by Lynne Haultain.

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#297 36 min 27 sec
Crush hour: Explosive urbanization and its challenges for India

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Housing and real estate researcher Assoc Prof Piyush Tiwari discusses urbanization in India and its implications for policy makers. He also explains why Indian slums don’t always deserve the bad rap they get in popular culture. Presented by Lynne Haultain.

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#284 43 min 05 sec
Crowdfunding: How a radical new finance model is changing product development, research and the arts

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Crowdfunding researcher Dr Richard Swart describes the explosive growth of crowdfunding in its very short history, and explains how crowd-sourced funding is radically and irrevocably changing how business is done. Presented by Elisabeth Lopez.

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#271 34 min 27 sec
Embracing zero: Satyajit Das on the end of continued economic growth

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Global finance expert, author and commentator Satyajit Das warns us that the sustained economic growth we’ve come to believe is the norm is, in fact, unlikely to continue. Joined by host Peter Mares, Das ponders what a world of little or no growth would look like.

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#266 44 min 41 sec
All feasts must end: Satyajit Das on China at the crossroads

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Global finance expert Satyajit Das argues that the inherent -- and largely ignored -- fragility of China’s economy threatens to undo the fruits of decades of phenomenal export-led growth. Presented by Peter Mares.

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#230 38 min 50 sec
Sweet and sour: China in Africa, beyond the headlines

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Sino-African relations expert Prof Deborah Brautigam examines China’s involvement and investments in Africa, and highlights the nuances in relations that the news media often glosses over. Presented by Eric van Bemmel.

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