Episodes

  • Pasi Sahlberg: lessons from Finnish education

    Pasi Sahlberg: lessons from Finnish education
    Feb 7 2022
    24 mins
  • Philipp Ther: The Outsiders

    Philipp Ther: The Outsiders
    Aug 16 2021
    Philipp Ther, professor of central-European history at the University of Vienna and director of its Research Centre for the History of Transformations, talks to Robin Wilson of Social Europe about how societies which show hospitality to refugees in the long run benefit from their openness. Prof Ther is author of The Outsiders: Refugees in Europe Since 1492 (Princeton University Press).
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    39 mins
  • Albena Azmanova: Capitalism on Edge

    Albena Azmanova: Capitalism on Edge
    Jan 29 2021
    Albena Azmanova is an associate professor in political and social thought at the University of Kent’s Brussels School of International Studies and author most recently of Capitalism on Edge: How Fighting Precarity can Achieve Radical Change without Crisis or Utopia (Columbia University Press). She talks to Robin Wilson, acting editor-in-chief of Social Europe.
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    30 mins
  • Thomas Piketty: Capital and Ideology

    Thomas Piketty: Capital and Ideology
    Jan 10 2021
    Thomas Piketty is a French economist who is professor of economics at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS), associate chair at the Paris School of Economics and centennial professor of economics in the International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics.
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    36 mins
  • Vivien A. Schmidt: Europe's Crisis of Legitimacy

    Vivien A. Schmidt: Europe's Crisis of Legitimacy
    Dec 5 2020
    Vivien A. Schmidt, Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration, Professor of International Relations, and Professor of Political Science at Boston University talks to Social Europe about Europe's crisis of legitimacy and the interrelationship between democratic legitimacy at the European level and the ongoing Eurozone crisis.
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    48 mins
  • Mary Daly: Gender Inequality and Welfare States in Europe

    Mary Daly: Gender Inequality and Welfare States in Europe
    Oct 9 2020
    Mary Daly, professor of sociology and social policy at the University of Oxford and author of Gender Inequality and Welfare States in Europe, talks to Social Europe about how applying a gender lens changes our understanding of the welfare state and how it should be reconstructed after the pandemic.
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    33 mins
  • Social Europe Talk: Financing the EU Budget and the Recovery Plan

    Social Europe Talk: Financing the EU Budget and the Recovery Plan
    Jul 15 2020
    Listen to the latest episode of Social Europe Talk on the politics surrounding the negotiations of the EU's next multiannual financial framework and the Recovery Plan. The show, hosted by Social Europe's editor Robin Wilson, brought together Margarida Marques (Member of the European Parliament and co-rapporteur on the MFF), Kimmo Kiljunen (Member of the Grand Committee at the Parliament of Finland) and Miguel Costa Matos (Member of the Portuguese National Parliament and rapporteur on Own Resources). The show was organised in cooperation with the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Europe office.
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    1 hr and 1 min
  • Gabriel Zucman: The Triumph of Injustice

    Gabriel Zucman: The Triumph of Injustice
    Mar 19 2020
    Listen to Social Europe Editor-in-Chief Henning Meyer in conversation with Gabriel Zucman. They discuss wealth and income inequality as well as potential policy solution to address the widening gap between rich and poor. Gabriel Zucman is the Director of the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Center on Wealth and Income Inequality at the University of California at Berkeley. He received his PhD in 2013 from the Paris School of Economics and taught at the London School of Economics before joining the Berkeley faculty in 2015. You might also find our regular articles, blogs and other written publications of interest. Just visit our website www.socialeurope.eu to read our latest output. If you want to stay up-to-date with all things Social Europe just sign up to our regular newsletter. You can do so on our website.
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    34 mins