Co-host Janet Bush talks with Ed Glaeser, the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics and the chairman of the Department of Economics at Harvard University. His latest book, coauthored with health economist David Cutler, is Survival of the city: The future of urban life in an age of isolation, written to make sense of what might be the impact of the pandemic on cities. They covers topics including:

• Has the pandemic changed cities temporarily or permanently?
• What does the hybrid building look like?
• Do developing world cities teach us something new?
• How can homelessness be tackled?

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Co-host Michael Chui talks with Nan Ransohoff. Ransohoff is the head of climate at Stripe and leads Frontier, an advanced market commitment for carbon removal. She answers questions including:

• Is carbon removal a get out of jail free card for emitters?
• What are the most promising carbon removal technologies?
• Is it possible to scale up effective technologies quick enough?
• How much do costs need to come down before scaling is possible?
• What is an advanced market commitment?

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Co-host Michael Chui talks with Andy McAfee. McAfee is a principal research scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management, co-founder and co-director of MIT’s initiative on the digital economy, and the inaugural visiting fellow at the Technology in Society organization at Google. 

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