Globalisation enables people and products to travel across the globe with relative ease. But in a time of coronavirus, some have argued our increasingly inter-connected world – with international travel and global supply chains – made a pandemic inevitable.

How much did globalisation cause our current troubles? Or it is actually the solution? After all, many of us are coping with self-isolation and social distancing by binge-watching Netflix and Skyping relatives – the internet is a key to globalisation and it’s making everything just a little bit more bearable.

On this week’s IEA podcast, Emma Revell, Head of Communications, is joined by our Head of Political Economy Dr Kristian Niemietz to discuss the connection between globalisation and global pandemics.