In this podcast Ian Harwood talks about the economic impact of the coronavirus, comparisons with the Great Depression and why he hopes supportive fiscal and monetary policy isn’t withdrawn too soon. Ian also discusses what we can learn about the likely economic impact on the United States from recent economic indicators.

The next instalment of our new SPE podcast series is with Dame Kate Barker. Kate discusses how this crisis compares with the Global Financial Crisis, the speed and appropriateness of the policy response, possible impacts on inflation and growth in the longer-term, and what this means for globalisation.

Andrew Milligan OBE from Aberdeen Standard Investments discusses the economic impact of coronavirus, the appropriateness of the policy response and how this crisis might change the analysis which economists need to provide.

On 27 January 2020 Melanie Baker, Senior Economist, Royal London Asset Management and Philip Rush, Chief Economist, Heteronomics gave a dual perspective on that ever topical subject - the UK economy.

On 25 November, Vicky Pryce, CEBR, gave a Mastercass on the extent to which short-termism and bias in our liberal economic system creates market failures and a sub-optimal allocation of resources that need to be corrected by state intervention or other means.

Yael Selfin, KPMG's Chief Economist, talks to Sunil Krishnan on the sidelines of the Society's Annual Conference about why UK investment is struggling, and how economists can help businesses adapt and thrive.

Sir Ivan Rogers, former UK Permanent Representative to the EU, talks to Sunil Krishnan at the Annual Conference. They discuss how the immediate aftermath of the 2016 referendum cast a long shadow over the UK's subsequent negotiation struggles, and how economists should approach the task of adding insight to the political debate.

Professor Rachel Griffith, of the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) and the University of Manchester, is President of the Royal Economic Society, She talks to the Society's Catherine Connolly about the challenges economists face in communicating with the wider public, and what they can learn from other disciplines.

Professor Randall Kroszner, Deputy Dean for Executive Programs at Chicago Booth, and former Federal Reserve Governor, talks to Sunil Krishnan about a range of current international policy issues. They discuss strategic rivalry between the US and China, the challenge of managing global data, and the principles of regulating new financial technologies such as Facebook's Libra.

Janet Henry, Global Chief Economist at HSBC, and Osama Rahman, Chief Scientific Advisor and Director of Analysis at the Department for Education, talk to Sunil Krishnan about their careers in economics and the outlook for the profession, on the sidelines of the Society's Careers for Economists event held at Aviva.

Jonathan Athow, Interim National Statistician at the Office for National Statistics, and Jill Leyland, Member of the Advisory Panel on Consumer Prices, talk to Sunil Krishnan about the measurement of inflation in the UK. They discuss the challenges posed by modern consumption and price-setting behaviour, the development of new Household Cost Indices, and how modern "big data" techniques are starting to improve our collection of data.

Martin Wolf, Chief Economics Commentator for the Financial Times, and Stephanie Flanders, head of Bloomberg Economics, speak to Sunil Krishnan about the phenomenon of populism, and what it means for liberal democracy and market economics.

On the sidelines of the Society's Annual Conference, Robert discusses the changing environment for forecasting with fewer public sector staff having advanced sight of official data and countered by the challenges facing short-term forecasts against risks such as Brexit, trade and disruptive politics.

On the sidelines of the Society's Annual Conference, Sunil Krishnan talks to Philip Lane about how the European Central Bank has developed its policy strategy to govern the range of unconventional tools it has employed in recent years. They also discuss ways of gauging the effectiveness of different tools, and how multi-national policy can co-exist with localised labour markets.

On the sidelines of the Society's Annual Conference, Jari and Tom discuss the prospects for the US dollar and global supply chains in the fallout from the US-China trade war, and Tom explains the growth of thought leadership and economic thinking inside media groups.

On the sidelines of the Society's Annual Conference, Sunil Krishnan talks to Evan Davis about key lessons for economists from the Brexit referendum, when the profession's majority view went one way, and most of the voting public the other. How does the public make economic judgements? How do they weigh these against other considerations? And what can economists do to restore some of the credibility they seem to have lost?

On the sidelines of the Society's Annual Conference, Sunil Krishnan talks to the event's host about how the day's discussions reflect on the mood of the economics profession, the way forward for practitioners, and life at the intersection of journalism and financial markets.

Rebecca Harding talks to Rain Newton-Smith

Rebecca Harding talks to UK statistics regulator Ed Humpherson