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The Economist Asks: Herbert Diess
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When will the electric car rule the road? Herbert Diess, the chief executive of Germany's Volkswagen Group, talks to Ann... Read more
18 Feb 2021
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28mins
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The Economist asks: Richard Thaler
The Economist asks: Richard Thaler
Anne McElvoy, with Buttonwood columnist Philip Coggan, quiz renowned behavioural economist Richard Thaler on how his the... Read more
21 Jul 2016
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We ask the author of '12 Rules for life' what is wrong with modern liberalism. And he discusses #MeToo, whether people ... Read more
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The Economist asks: How do you win the AI race?
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Artificial intelligence is developing fast in China. But is it likely to enable the suppression of freedoms? One of Chin... Read more
3 Aug 2017
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The Economist asks: Thirty years on, is Germany still divided?
The Economist asks: Thirty years on, is Germany still divided?
On November 9th 1989, Anne McElvoy and Conny Günther were in East Berlin watching the impossible—the fall of the Berlin ... Read more
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Anne McElvoy, our Senior Editor, and Zanny Minton-Beddoes, The Economist's Editor-in-Chief, ask the former Democratic Pr... Read more
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The Economist asks: Is conservatism in crisis?
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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, George Will, and Adrian Wooldridge, The Economist’s political editor, deba... Read more
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