Works in Progress Podcast
Works in Progress is an online magazine devoted to new and underrated ideas about economic growth, scientific progress, and technology. Subscribe to listen to the Works in Progress podcast, plus Hard Drugs by Saloni Dattani and Jacob Trefethen.
Latest Episode
The first cancer vaccine (22.12.2025)
Previous Episodes
- The history of vaccines
- Should we ban ugly buildings?
- The economics of the baby bust with Jesús Fernández-Villaverde
- Will AI solve medicine?
- Treating cost disease with Congressman Jake Auchincloss
- The art of protein design with AI
- Hacking proteins with AI
- How traffic modernism ruined cities with Nicholas Boys Smith
- 100 years of insulin in 15 minutes
- Why feminism worked best in the West with Alice Evans
- Proteins: Weird blobs that do important things
- How to become President of China with Dan Wang
- The underrated economics of land with Mike Bird
- How Henry VIII accidentally started the Industrial Revolution, with Anton Howes
- Stian Westlake on the intangible economy and paying for social science
- Samuel Hughes on The Great Downzoning
- Lenacapavir: The miracle drug that could end AIDS
- Coming soon: The Works in Progress Podcast
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