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In Conversation with Costa Samaras (opens in a new tab)
In Conversation Jun 2, 2026
Equitable Growth in Conversation is a recurring series where we talk with economists and other academics to help us better understand whether and how economic inequality affects economic growth and…
In Conversation with Sabeel Rahman (opens in a new tab)
In Conversation Nov 18, 2025
Equitable Growth in Conversation is a recurring series where we talk with economists and other academics to help us better understand whether and how economic inequality affects economic growth and…
In Conversation with Omari Swinton (opens in a new tab)
In Conversation Sep 24, 2025
Equitable Growth in Conversation is a recurring series where we talk with economists and other academics to help us better understand whether and how economic inequality affects economic growth and…
In Conversation with Fenaba Addo (opens in a new tab)
In Conversation Dec 12, 2024
Equitable Growth in Conversation is a recurring series where we talk with economists and other academics to help us better understand whether and how economic inequality affects economic growth and…
In Conversation with Mishaela Durán (opens in a new tab)
In Conversation Sep 12, 2024
Equitable Growth in Conversation is a recurring series where we talk with economists and other academics to help us better understand whether and how economic inequality affects economic growth and…
In Conversation with Natalie Foster (opens in a new tab)
In Conversation Jul 2, 2024
Equitable Growth in Conversation is a recurring series where we talk with economists and other academics to help us better understand whether and how economic inequality affects economic growth and…
In Conversation with Miles Corak (opens in a new tab)
In Conversation Jun 6, 2024
Equitable Growth in Conversation is a recurring series where we talk with economists and other academics to help us better understand whether and how economic inequality affects economic growth and…
In Conversation with Sasha Killewald (opens in a new tab)
In Conversation Mar 27, 2024
Equitable Growth in Conversation is a recurring series where we talk with economists and other academics to help us better understand whether and how economic inequality affects economic growth and…
In Conversation with Timothy Smeeding (opens in a new tab)
In Conversation Jan 16, 2024
Equitable Growth in Conversation is a recurring series where we talk with economists and other academics to help us better understand whether and how economic inequality affects economic growth and…
In Conversation with Daron Acemoglu (opens in a new tab)
In Conversation May 8, 2023
Equitable Growth in Conversation is a recurring series where we talk with economists and other academics to help us better understand whether and how economic inequality affects economic growth and…
In Conversation with Lenore Palladino (opens in a new tab)
In Conversation Nov 16, 2022
Equitable Growth in Conversation is a recurring series where we talk with economists and other academics to help us better understand whether and how economic inequality affects economic growth and…
In Conversation with R. Jisung Park (opens in a new tab)
In Conversation Jul 25, 2022
Equitable Growth in Conversation is a recurring series where we talk with economists and other academics to help us better understand whether and how economic inequality affects economic growth and…
In Conversation with Lee Badgett (opens in a new tab)
In Conversation Jun 23, 2022
Equitable Growth in Conversation is a recurring series where we talk with economists and other academics to help us better understand whether and how economic inequality affects economic growth and…
In Conversation with Cecilia Conrad (opens in a new tab)
In Conversation Apr 26, 2022
Equitable Growth in Conversation is a recurring series where we talk with economists and other academics to help us better understand whether and how economic inequality affects economic growth and…
In Conversation with Jonathan Fisher (opens in a new tab)
In Conversation Dec 16, 2021
Equitable Growth in Conversation is a recurring series where we talk with economists and other academics to help us better understand whether and how economic inequality affects economic growth and…
In Conversation with Erica Groshen (opens in a new tab)
In Conversation Oct 25, 2021
Equitable Growth in Conversation is a recurring series where we talk with economists and other academics to help us better understand whether and how economic inequality affects economic growth and…
In Conversation with Carlos Fernando Avenancio-León (opens in a new tab)
In Conversation Sep 20, 2021
Equitable Growth in Conversation is a recurring series where we talk with economists and other academics to help us better understand whether and how economic inequality affects economic growth and…
In Conversation with Michelle Meagher (opens in a new tab)
In Conversation Aug 11, 2021
Equitable Growth in Conversation is a recurring series where we talk with economists and other academics to help us better understand whether and how economic inequality affects economic growth and…
In Conversation with Mark Rank (opens in a new tab)
In Conversation Apr 14, 2021
Equitable Growth in Conversation is a recurring series where we talk with economists and other academics to help us better understand whether and how economic inequality affects economic growth and…
In Conversation with Jake Rosenfeld (opens in a new tab)
In Conversation Mar 22, 2021
Equitable Growth in Conversation is a recurring series where we talk with economists and other academics to help us better understand whether and how economic inequality affects economic growth and…
In Conversation with Alexander Hertel-Fernandez (opens in a new tab)
In Conversation Oct 6, 2020
Equitable Growth in Conversation is a recurring series where we talk with economists and other academics to help us better understand whether and how economic inequality affects economic growth and…
In Conversation with Mehrsa Baradaran (opens in a new tab)
In Conversation Jun 9, 2020
“Equitable Growth in Conversation” is a recurring series where we talk with economists and other academics to help us better understand whether and how economic inequality affects economic growth and…
In Conversation with Trevon Logan (opens in a new tab)
In Conversation May 14, 2020
“Equitable Growth in Conversation” is a recurring series where we talk with economists and other academics to help us better understand whether and how economic inequality affects economic growth and…
In Conversation with Adia Harvey Wingfield (opens in a new tab)
In Conversation Feb 25, 2020
“Equitable Growth in Conversation” is a recurring series where we talk with economists and other academics to help us better understand whether and how economic inequality affects economic growth and…
In Conversation with Fabian Pfeffer (opens in a new tab)
In Conversation Nov 13, 2019
“Equitable Growth in Conversation” is a recurring series where we talk with economists and other academics to help us better understand whether and how economic inequality affects economic growth and…
In Conversation with Gabriel Zucman (opens in a new tab)
In Conversation Aug 7, 2019
“Equitable Growth in Conversation” is a recurring series where we talk with economists and other academics to help us better understand whether and how economic inequality affects economic growth and…
In Conversation with Leemore Dafny (opens in a new tab)
In Conversation Jul 10, 2019
“Equitable Growth in Conversation” is a recurring series where we talk with economists and other academics to help us better understand whether and how economic inequality affects economic growth and…
In Conversation with Janet Currie (opens in a new tab)
In Conversation May 21, 2019
“Equitable Growth in Conversation” is a recurring series where we talk with economists and other academics to help us better understand whether and how economic inequality affects economic growth and…
In Conversation with Raj Chetty (opens in a new tab)
In Conversation Apr 24, 2019
“Equitable Growth in Conversation” is a recurring series where we talk with economists and other academics to help us better understand whether and how economic inequality affects economic growth and…
In Conversation with Bhash Mazumder (opens in a new tab)
In Conversation Mar 4, 2019
“Equitable Growth in Conversation” is a recurring series where we talk with economists and other academics to help us better understand whether and how economic inequality affects economic growth and…
In Conversation with Emmanuel Saez (opens in a new tab)
In Conversation Feb 25, 2019
“Equitable Growth in Conversation” is a recurring series where we talk with economists and other academics to help us better understand whether and how economic inequality affects economic growth and…
In Conversation with Atif Mian (opens in a new tab)
In Conversation Jan 14, 2019
“Equitable Growth in Conversation” is a recurring series where we talk with economists and other academics to help us better understand whether and how economic inequality affects economic growth and…
In Conversation with Karen Dynan (opens in a new tab)
In Conversation Dec 12, 2018
Equitable Growth Executive Director and Chief Economist Heather Boushey talks with Equitable Growth Steering Committee member Karen Dynan, a professor of the practice of economics at Harvard University.
In Conversation with Hilary Hoynes (opens in a new tab)
In Conversation Nov 14, 2018
Equitable Growth’s Executive Director and Chief Economist Heather Boushey talks with Hilary Hoynes, an economist and Haas Distinguished Chair in Economic Disparities at the Richard and Rhoda Goldman School of…
In Conversation with Herbert Hovenkamp and Ioana Marinescu (opens in a new tab)
In Conversation Oct 11, 2018
“Equitable Growth in Conversation” is a recurring series where we talk with economists and other academics to help us better understand whether and how economic inequality affects economic growth and…
In Conversation with Michael Strain (opens in a new tab)
In Conversation Jun 14, 2018
“Equitable Growth in Conversation” is a recurring series where we talk with economists and other social scientists to help us better understand whether and how economic inequality affects economic growth…
In Conversation with Richard Reeves (opens in a new tab)
In Conversation Dec 26, 2017
“Equitable Growth in Conversation” is a recurring series where we talk with economists and other social scientists to help us better understand whether and how economic inequality affects economic growth…
In Conversation with Kimberly Clausing (opens in a new tab)
In Conversation Oct 18, 2017
“Equitable Growth in Conversation” is a recurring series where we talk with economists and other social scientists to help us better understand whether and how economic inequality affects economic growth…
In conversation with Joan Williams (opens in a new tab)
In Conversation Sep 28, 2017
“Equitable Growth in Conversation” is a recurring series where we talk with economists and other social scientists to help us better understand whether and how economic inequality affects economic growth…
In conversation with Robert Solow (opens in a new tab)
In Conversation Jul 20, 2017
“Equitable Growth in Conversation” is a recurring series where we talk with economists and other social scientists to help us better understand whether and how economic inequality affects economic growth…
In Conversation with David Weil (opens in a new tab)
In Conversation Jun 22, 2017
“Equitable Growth in Conversation” is a recurring series where we talk with economists and other social scientists to help us better understand whether and how economic inequality affects economic growth…
In Conversation with Sandra Black (opens in a new tab)
In Conversation May 24, 2017
John Schmitt, then Equitable Growth’s research director, talks to Sandra Black about her experience as a member of former President Barack Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers, her transition from academia…
Equitable Growth in Conversation: Brad DeLong and Marshall Steinbaum (opens in a new tab)
In Conversation Apr 27, 2017
In this installment, Equitable Growth’s Executive Director and Chief Economist Heather Boushey talks to Brad DeLong of the University of California, Berkeley and Marshall Steinbaum of the Roosevelt Institute, her…
Equitable Growth in Conversation: an interview with William A. Darity Jr. (“Sandy”) of Duke University (opens in a new tab)
In Conversation Mar 21, 2017
Equitable Growth’s Research Director John Schmitt talks with economist William A. Darity Jr. (“Sandy”), the Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy,…
Equitable Growth in Conversation: an interview with the OECD’s Stefano Scarpetta (opens in a new tab)
In Conversation Nov 3, 2016
Equitable Growth’s executive director and chief economist Heather Boushey talks with Stefano Scarpetta, the Director of Employment, Labour and Social Affairs at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development in…
Equitable Growth in Conversation: An interview with Claudia Goldin (opens in a new tab)
In Conversation May 31, 2016
Equitable Growth’s Executive Director and Chief Economist Heather Boushey talks with economist Claudia Goldin of Harvard University about her research on the gender wage gap, how it stems from the…
Equitable Growth in Conversation: An interview with David Card and Alan Krueger (opens in a new tab)
In Conversation Apr 25, 2016
Card and Krueger discuss the origins of empirical techniques they advanced, how the United States is falling behind when it comes to data, and two conflicting threads of contemporary economic…
Equitable Growth in conversation: An interview with Byron Auguste (opens in a new tab)
In Conversation Apr 6, 2016
Heather Boushey and Byron Auguste, Managing Director of Opportunity@Work, discuss current problems with the labor market, how the problems may be mostly on the demand side, and how we might…
Equitable Growth in Conversation: An interview with Lawrence H. Summers (opens in a new tab)
In Conversation Feb 11, 2016
In the first installment of the “Equitable Growth in Conversation” interview series, Equitable Growth’s own Heather Boushey talks with former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers about secular stagnation, market…
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