A bonus episode from the annual meeting of the American Economic Association in Atlanta this past weekend. Brendan Greeley caught up with Yale economist and Nobel laureate Robert Shiller, who argues that if you want to understand markets you have to understand stories — how they start and how they spread. They talked about the stories driving share prices down in December, about Jim Cramer and about the narrative power of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Angela Nagle on the online culture wars
Nouriel Roubini on the US-China Thucydides Trap
Jay Shambaugh on the tools to fight the next recession
Joel Mokyr and the curse of Adam
Will Davies on populism, data and experts
Robert Kaplan on jobs, oil and credit
Ajay Royan searches for the next growth frontier
Banking culture since the crisis
Kimberly Clausing makes the case for open economies
Alphachat Live! Raghuram Rajan and Ashley Putnam on community
The IMF's Tobias Adrian on stability
Bonus: IMF's Vitor Gaspar on debt
Odette Lienau on the most complicated debt restructuring in history
Yanis Varoufakis: "Democracy is a very fragile flower"
Brexit: Too late now to get the milk out of the tea
Immigration: comparing this wave to the last
Andrew Keen on the internet: misery is not the answer
Waltraud Schelkle and Ashoka Mody: Is the eurozone fixable?
What China wants: Brad Setser, and Freya Beamish
Germany's China shock
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