As a build-up to this year’s Nobel Prizes – which will be announced 5-12 October – new episodes of the podcast series Nobel Prize Conversations are being launched. In these episodes, the listener will meet two Economic Sciences laureates: Daniel Kahneman and Esther Duflo.
In the podcast series ‘Nobel Prize Conversations’, the listener gets the chance to know some of the individuals who have been awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel a little better.
Daniel Kahneman was awarded the 2002 Prize in Economic Sciences for integrated economic analysis with fundamental insights from cognitive psychology, in particular regarding behaviour under uncertainty, thereby laying the foundation for a new field of research. He has written several best-selling books, such as ‘Thinking, Fast and Slow’. In the new podcast episode, he talks about his life in quarantine due to coronavirus and what role behavioural psychologists can play during a pandemic.
During the conversation, now available at Acast and other platforms, he comments on communication in times of coronavirus: “There are many aspects of compliance and how to communicate findings to the population – both to keep people properly worried; neither complacent nor terrified. And there may be a role to the extent that if people have to go into a lockdown again, there are going to be complexities in getting that done, and behavioural aspects will loom larger.”
Esther Duflo is one of last year’s laureates, and the second woman to receive the Prize in Economic Sciences. Her research has considerably improved our ability to fight global poverty. In ‘Nobel Prize Conversations’, she talks about how her research has been changed by the pandemics and expresses her worries about how it can affect societies in developing countries. It will be released on 24 September.
In earlier episodes the listener will meet Richard H. Thaler (2017 Economic Sciences laureate), Angus Deaton (2015 Economic Sciences laureate), Paul M. Romer (2018 Economic Sciences laureate) and Alvin E. Roth (2012 Economic Sciences laureate).
The podcast is produced by Filt Hinterland in collaboration with Nobel Media, with support from the Riksbank (Sweden’s central bank). The producer is journalist Fanny Härgestam, co-author of the Hans Rosling biography. The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (Prize in Economic Sciences) was instituted in 1968, at the tercentenary of the bank.
You find all podcast conversations at nobelprize.org: https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel-prize-conversations/