Society of Professional Economists - Econ Thoughts

Filippo Gaddo, Managing Director at A&M and SPE Councillor, interviewed Samuel Gregg, the Friedrich Hayek Chair in Economics and Economic History at the American Institute for Economic Research and author most recently of The Next American Economy: Nation, State and Markets in an Uncertain World (2022) . In the interview, Filippo and Sam discuss the principles for a flourishing and prosperous...

Filippo Gaddo, Managing Director at A&M and SPE Councillor, interviewed Greg Mankiw, Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics at Harvard University and author of popular Economics textbooks. In the interview, Filippo and Greg review and discuss the current status of the business cycle, looking back at the inflation surge of 2021 and 2022, what caused it [mostly down to fiscal policy and overheat...

Filippo Gaddo, Managing Director at A&M and SPE Councillor, discussed with Amity Shlaes, Chair of the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation and bestseller author, current trends in the US and Global economy and how it relates to historical precedents, in particular the the 'Roaring' 1920s and the Great Depression in 1930s. In the interview, Filippo and Amity explore the key themes of two of...

Filippo Gaddo, SPE Councillor, discussed demographic trends and changes in population structure with Lyman Stone, Director of the Pronatalism Initiative at the Institute for Family Studies, and Clara Piano, Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Mississippi. In the conversation, Lyman and Clara outlined the output of their recent paper, "The Fertility Gap and Economic...

Filippo Gaddo, SPE Councillor, held a discussion with Agathe Demarais, senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations. Demarais is the author of “Backfire”, a book on the global ripple effects of sanctions and export controls and is a regular columnist for Foreign Policy and a frequent commentator for the media. Geopolitics has risen to prominence in the news for a while and it...

Filippo Gaddo, SPE Councillor, held a discussion with Gauti Eggertsson, Professor of Economics at Brown University Economics Department and a recognised international finance and macroeconomics author - most recently he presented a paper on the inflation surge of 2020s at the August Jackson Hole Fed conference. See paper here In the opening interview of 2025, Filippo and Gauti reflect on the 'infl...

Filippo Gaddo, SPE Councillor, held a discussion with Adam Posen, President of the Peterson Institute for International Economics and former Bank of England's MPC member. Adam is a regular contributor to leading news and policy publications, including the Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Harvard Business Review and you can follow his writi...

Filippo Gaddo, SPE Councillor, held a discussion with Tera Allas, Director of Research and Economics at McKinsey where she leads research on the macroeconomic outlook, growth, and productivity. Tera is also very active on social media and can be found frequently posting data and analysis at:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/teraallas/ Tera starts the conversation describing her career outlining the di...

Filippo Gaddo, Managing Director at MAP and SPE member, held a discussion with John Cochrane, the Rose-Marie and Jack Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. John writes extensively on monetary and financial economics, the relationship between deficits and inflation, the effects of monetary policy, and the fiscal theory of the price level. He maintains the Grumpy Economist blog, and can...

Filippo Gaddo, Managing Director at MAP and SPE member, held a discussion with Dimitri Zenghelis, Senior Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and Special Advisor to the Wealth Economy project. Dimitri has written extensively on climate change and energy transition policy In the interview, Dimitri and Filippo discuss the current status of the energy transition and the progress made by...

Filippo Gaddo, Managing Director at MAP and SPE member, held a discussion with Spencer Dale, Chief Economist at BP and former Bank of England MPC Member. In the interview, Spencer and Filippo discuss the outlook for the energy sector and the value of scenarios in mapping future outcomes and how they can help to support decision making. The Energy Trilemma is alive and well, argues Spencer, and it...

Filippo Gaddo, Managing Director at MAP and SPE member, held a discussion with Sam Bowman, founding editor of Works in Progress. He writes extensively on the UK economy and most recently he co-wrote with Ben Southwood and Samuel Hughes an essay on reasons why Britain stagnated – called Foundations . In the interview, Sam and Filippo explores the reasons behind the relatively ‘poor’ performance of...

Filippo Gaddo, Managing Director at MAP and SPE member, held a discussion with Nicholas Eberstadt who holds the Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), and is the author of many books including “ Men Without Work: America’s Invisible Crisis ” (Templeton Press, 2016). In the interview, Nick and Filippo discuss the fundamentals of growth as they relate to t...

Filippo Gaddo, Managing Director at MAP and SPE member, held a discussion with David Beckworth, senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University whose research focuses on the targets, tools, operating system, and governance of the Federal Reserve. David is also the host of the widely known Macro Musings podcast.   In the interview, David and Filippo discuss the performance...

Filippo Gaddo, Managing Director at MAP and SPE member, held a discussion with Stephen Millard, Deputy Director at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR), whose research interests are centred around macroeconomics in general and central banking in particular.  In the interview, Stephen and Filippo discuss the current state of UK economy and the first 2 months of the new Lab...

Filippo Gaddo, Managing Director at MAP and SPE member, held a discussion with Shannon O’Neil, Vice President, Deputy Director of Studies, and Senior Fellow for Latin America Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and most recently author of The Globalisation Myth where she argues that regionalization, not globalization, has been the biggest economic trend of the last forty years. In the inte...

Filippo Gaddo, Managing Director at MAP and SPE member, held a discussion with Vicky Pryce, Chief Economic Adviser and a board member at the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) and author of Women vs Capitalism. and most recently How to be a Successful Economist .    In the interview, Vicky and Filippo review the landscape of UK and European economies following the recent elections i...

Filippo Gaddo, Managing Director at MAP and SPE member, held a discussion with Michael Strain, director of Economic Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute and author of  The American Dream Is Not Dead: (But Populism Could Kill It)  (Templeton Press, 2020), in which he examines long-term trends in economic outcomes for typical workers and households.  In the interview, Mike and Filippo...

Filippo Gaddo, Managing Director at MAP and SPE member, held a discussion with Marian Tupy, senior fellow at the Cato Institute’s Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity and co-author of  Superabundance: The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet , around prosperity, abundance and the different ways to measure progress. In the interview, Ma...

Filippo Gaddo, Managing Director at MAP and SPE member, held a discussion with Jared Rubin, Professor of Economics at Chapman University and co-author of “How the world became rich”, around the role and impact of religion and culture on economic growth and prosperity. In the interview, Filippo and Jared explore how religion has affected growth and the debate around economic development over the pa...

Filippo Gaddo, Managing Director at MAP and SPE member, held a discussion with Jonathan Haskel, Professor of Economics at Imperial College Business School, Imperial College London and External Member of the Monetary Policy Committee, Bank of England. In the interview, Jonathan explained the difference between short-term productivity, which shows quite a lot of variability, and long-term productivi...

Filippo Gaddo, Managing Director at MAP and SPE member, held a discussion with Diane Coyle, Bennett Professor of Public Policy at the University of Cambridge, on the future of productivity, what are the key drivers and obstacles going forward and how we could find a better way to measure progress and flourishing. During the interview, Diane expressed her concerns about the slowdown of productivity...

Filippo Gaddo, Managing Director at MAP and SPE member, held a discussion with Ricardo Reis, from the London School of Economics, on the causes of the recent inflation cycle, the role played by expectations in moderating the impact of inflation, and the future of interest rates and r*, the natural rate of interest. During the interview, Ricardo outlined four explanations for the burst of inflation...

Jonathan Cribb is an Associate Director at the IFS and Head of the Retirement, Savings, and Ageing sector. Jonathan firstly examines how there was a broad brush expansion in labour demand since the pandemic began to end, albeit with some sectoral and regional differences. The discussion moved onto various factors which have affected the supply of labour since 2020: Brexit, a proportion of the popu...

Mark Cliffe is currently a Senior Adviser to KPMG on environment, social and corporate governance and climate risk matters, having spent years prior as a senior economist at several major banks. In the course of his conversation with Andrew Milligan, he explains how and why his experience as a banking economist, and a growing interest in market failures, led him to focus on sustainability issues....