Laura Alfaro, a Harvard Business School professor and former Costa Rica cabinet minister, on global supply chains, sentiment about trade, and what the U.S. can learn from Latin America.

Economist Raghuram Rajan on leading a central bank, creating a digital payment system, and India's future in professional services.

University of California, Berkeley professor Ulrike Malmendier on the long-term effects of inflation and the remembrance of crises past.

The Nobel Prize winner on the increase in deaths of despair, skepticism of randomized controlled trials, and the relevance of national boundaries.

The University of Maryland's Melissa Kearney, author of The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind, on the American fertility decline, the role of social norms, and the link between single-parent households and economic gaps.

MIT's Daron Acemoglu, the author of Why Nations Fail and Power and Progress, on Henry Ford, making AI worker-friendly, and how democracy improves economic growth.

Annamaria Lusardi on financial literacy, seniors versus scammers, and learning from the mistakes of NFL players.

University of Chicago economist on remote work, changes in recruiting, and business startups after the pandemic.

Columbia University economist on inflation, capital controls, and finding research topics.

George Mason University economist on credentialism, the new math of causation, and the lasting economic influence of youthful experiences.

Yale University economist on developing countries, measuring economies by satellite, and the learning crisis.

Harvard University economist on urbanization, the future of small towns, and "Yes In My Back Yard."

University of Texas at Austin economist on wage growth, labor's share of income, and the gender unemployment gap

Stanford University economist on human networks, the friendship paradox, and the information economics of protest movements

UC San Diego economics professor on fiscal stimulus, technological lull, and the rug-rat race.

University of Toronto economist on managing pandemics, allocating vaccines, and low-cost prediction with artificial intelligence.

MIT economist on charter schools, the elite illusion, and the "Stones Age" of econometrics.

Northwestern University economist on firms' investment decisions, intangible capital, and the college premium

Harvard University economist on the world monetary system, the demand for safe assets, and measuring productivity growth

UC Berkeley economist on agglomeration economies, the "Great Divergence" among cities, and how housing rules affect economic growth

Microsoft's former chief economist on conducting research at tech companies, entrepreneurship within large firms, and the effects of artificial intelligence on markets

MIT economist on angel investing, the economics of private equity and venture capital funds, and big data in consumer lending

University of Chicago economist on innovations behind productivity growth, productivity differences among firms, and how auto companies learn from mistakes

University of Pennsylvania economist on the state of macroeconomics, the zero lower bound, and the future of the eurozone

French economist on the economics of online platforms, the future of jobs, and life after the Nobel Prize

Dartmouth College economist on the history of trade policy and protectionism, Brexit, and Chinese import competition

Brown University economist on media bias, online political polarization, and the evolution of politicians' rhetoric

Princeton University economist on pollution, tort reform, and the effect of recessions on fertility

MIT economist on "cash for clunkers," the life-cycle theory of consumption, and supporting the housing market

Harvard University economist on venture capital, open-source software, and doing economic research in a business school

University of Chicago economist on nonfinancial reasons for entrepreneurship, young men staying out of the labor force, and gentrification

Indiana University economist on following monetary policy rules, FDR and the gold standard, and market limits on public debt

Columbia University economist on the stickiness of prices, natural experiments in macroeconomics, and measuring Chinese inflation

MIT economist on the home mortgage interest deduction, changes in retirement finance, and the university's rise in the economics profession

Duke University economist on the future of bitcoin, the overconfidence of CEOs, and index funds

Harvard University economist on the history of women's employment, mapping the gender wage gap, and for-profit colleges

Harvard University economist on risks of financial globalization in developing countries, the role of the nation-state, and local culture in economics

Stanford University economist on the effects of economic uncertainty, the role of management practices in economic performance, and fostering good management

Retired economist and monetary history expert on the gold standard, monetary policy rules, and how a central bank should respond in a crisis