Paul Seabright | Archive | Lectures and Broadcasts

Podcasts, radio/TV interviews

Most recent first:

La matinale de Radio Notre Dame, with Pierre-Hugues Dubois (in French), 15th April 2026:

https://www.rcf.fr/actualite/le-grand-invite-de-lamatinalercf?episode=677382&share=1

Entendez-vous l’éco, with Aliette Hovine in France Culture (in French), 23rd March 2026:

https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/entendez-vous-l-eco/le-marche-de-la-foi-6238684

Understanding human societies, with TSE students Manon Bonnet and Antsa Rharijaona:

Business Talk with Deepak Bhatt:

https://businesstalkwithdeepakbhatt.com

My interview with Emmanuel Lechypre on BFM Business

Conflict and Cooperation: A History of Trade, new edition.

My podcast with Johan Fourie and Jonathan Schoots

My podcast with Louise Perry

My podcast with Michael Shermer

Should there be a compulsory retirement age for society’s leaders?

My interview with Emmanuel Lechypre on BFM Business

In French, here.

My podcast with Johan Fourie and Jonathan Schoots

A really fun time with these two great interviewers on their podcast series Our Long Walk. You can listen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_qSYAEneAQ

Conflict and Cooperation: A History of Trade, new edition.

In a nod to the renewed sexiness of the subject of trade policy, the BBC re-broadcast in April-May 2025 my ten-part series from 2018, with a new final episode broadcast on 2nd May 2025. Details here. The episodes will be available for at least a year after they go out.

Can Europe Ever Catch Up to the US in Technology?

Episode 6 of the 4th season of IAST’s Crossing Channels podcast, in which Diane Coyle, Jacques Crémer and I try to cut through to the essentials in asking what Europe should do about technological innovation, under the skilful chairmanship of Richard Westcott. Listen here.

My podcast with Louise Perry

You can listen here. Very thoughtful questions from Louise, who is an excellent interviewer.

My podcast with Michael Shermer

Competing for Souls: Paul Seabright Explores Religion’s Economic Power

Michael is a great interviewer – he’d read The Divine Economy carefully and thought hard about the arguments. It lasts a bit over an hour and a half.

Should there be a compulsory retirement age for society’s leaders?

The last episode in Season 3 of the wonderful IAST Podcast series Crossing Channels is now available here, in which I take part with the excellent Diane Coyle and Ruth Mace. It’s hosted by the incomparable Rory Cellan-Jones in his farewell appearance.

Watch this space for an announcement about my book project with Guido Friebel, provisionally entitled Alternatives to Assassination: How to persuade elderly leaders to concede power gracefully.

Teaching

In the academic year 2026-27 I am teaching the following courses at TSE. If you would like access to course materials you should use the Moodle. If for some reason you are unable to do so, please email me at Paul.Seabright@tse-fr.eu with “Access Course Materials” in the message head.

In the Fall semester I am teaching:

Evolution of Economic Behavior.

Understanding Real World Organizations.

Causal Inference – jointly with Maximilian Muller.

In the Winter semester:

Economics of Religious Competition, PhD program.

Module “The Economic Impact of Immigration”, in 2nd-year undergraduate program (in French).

Interview: Global supply chains: is the UK vulnerable?

This BBC Radio 4 broadcast, featuring an interview with me beginning at around the 21 minute 30 second mark, is available as a podcast from BBC Sounds here:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000twhw