We talk a lot about the need to innovate, but how do schools encourage intuitive leaps and, ultimately, new inventions? Jamie Hyneman, formerly co-host of Discovery Channel’s MythBusters, says students need hands-on experience. Like the kind you get in LUT University’s prototype lab in Finland, the Jamie Hyneman Center.

Host: Clara Young

Sound engineer: Iván Porras Sepulveda

Producer: Robin Allison Davis

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World Bank chief economist Penny Goldberg discusses how global trade has exacerbated inequality between rural and urban areas, and what to do about it.

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Host: Clara Young

Executive Producer: Robin Allison Davis

Team Lead: Rory Clarke

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The OECD goes to the theatre. Writer/director Alexander Zeldin’s play, “Love”, tells the story of lives lived under the poverty line. What happens when a system of social care falls short and austerity takes over? “Love” is co-produced by the National Theatre of Great Britain and Birmingham Repertory Theatre, and adapted for BBC Two.

Host: Clara Young

Producer: Robin Allison Davis

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Fatima, who is Nigerian, is a women’s rights activists. Caesar from Mali, just wants to live his life again. Journalist Daniel Trilling tells the stories of refugees who try to make a new life in Europe. Trilling is the author of Lights In The Distance: Exile and Refuge at the Borders of Europe and writes for The New York Times, Al Jazeera, London Review of Books, and New Statesman.

Host: Clara Young

Producer: Robin Allison Davis

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Migration integration is a vital issue - and a long-term investment that pays off, says Thomas Liebig of the OECD. If governments succeed in effectively integrating migrants, then everyone wins. The social and economic costs of migration drop and the benefits of migration grow, for migrants, communities and countries alike.

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https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/social-issues-migration-health

Host: Kate Lancaster

Sound engineer: Borja Ortuzar

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We have 12 years to make changes and keep the temperature rise under 1.5 °C. This was the message from the IPCC, which is the UN’s international scientific body on climate change. Economist John Roemer shares his blueprint on how to head off climate catastrophe.

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Host: Clara Young

Producer: Robin Allison Davis

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Specially tailored skills training is helping indigenous people get jobs, says Canadian indigenous businesswoman Dawn Madahbee Leach. This includes in the mining industry, which offers employment prospects in remote areas, home to many indigenous communities. And, Leach argues, indigenous involvement in mining can improve the sector’s environmental record.

Host: Clara Young

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Are humans better than the purely self-seeking, competitive, 100% rational agents Smith and Friedman make us out to be? Billionaire tech investor Nick Hanauer thinks not. He thinks it’s time to replace the zero-sum, trickle-down economic model with a kinder, gentler and more realistic one that takes into account humans’ capacity to cooperate.

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www.oecd.org/economy/

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Host: Clara Young

Producer: Robin Allison Davis and Lory Martinez

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Professor Robert Allen provides some historical context for the current upheavals in the world of work and discusses why adjusting to these changes may be more challenging than we think.

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Host: Kate Lancaster

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Our social world is incredibly nuanced and complex, says Maeve Cohen of Re-thinking Economics. It cannot be condensed into one economic model, we need to be holistic and humble, looking at different schools of thought and being prepared to acknowledge when we’re wrong.

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Host: Kate Lancaster

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