Presentations
How to help left behind regions and workers with Professor Gordon Hanson, The Ballpark podcast/London School of Economics, January 7, 2026
Gordon Hanson on Shifting Trade Alliances, IMF Podcasts, November 14, 2025
Ep. 331: Gordon Hanson on US Manufacturing Fetishisation, Job Loss, and the Middle Class, Macro Hive Conversation with Bilal Hafeez, October 23, 2025
Debate on the Global Economy: Shaping Economic Policies Amid a Shifting Global Landscape IMF Connect, October 16, 2025
China Shock 2.0 and the end of U.S. technological dominance, Harvard Kennedy School, July 30, 2025
How can policymakers help communities left behind by globalization and automation? (Commentary Podcast, June 18, 2025)
Will President Trump's tariffs bring back jobs? Harvard economist weighs in, Harvard Kennedy School, June 3, 2025
Short: China Shock w. Gordon Hanson of Harvard (Riches and Power Podcast, April 11, 2025)
Taking stock of Place Based Policies, Harvard Kennedy School Event, January 14, 2025
Handbook Talks: What is the future of globalization and trade? Handbook of Labor Economics, Rockwool Foundation Berlin Podcast, July 11, 2024
The U.S. and China: Trade and Trade Wars, Econofact Podcast, June 9, 2024
Gordon Hanson on US-China Trade War, Immigration and US Elections, Episode 218, Conversations with Bilal Hafeez, May 31, 2024
Trade wars and talent shortages, The Indicator from Planet Money, NPR, May 17, 2024
The Story Behind Biden’s New Tariffs, On the Media, NPR, May 15, 2024
Climate Politics and the Energy Transition, Harvard Speaks on Climate Change - Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability January 22, 2024
Place-based policies and development Season 4, Episode 2, VoxDev Development Economics, January 10, 2024
Transitioning to clean power without workers absorbing the shock. Harvard Kennedy School PolicyCast, April 6, 2023
Harvard economist: We were too optimistic about free trade & globalization. It's time to fix that, Harvard Kennedy School, March 15, 2023
Labor Market Impacts of the Energy Transition, Aspen Economic Strategy Group, Aspen Institute February 2, 2023
Six Questions about “Local Labor Market Impacts of the Energy Transition: Prospects and Policies Aspen Economic Strategy Group, Aspen Institute January 9, 2023
Growth Lab Research Seminar: Closing Regional Economic Divides, Center for International Development, June 28, 2022
Immigration, Innovation, Labor: Insights into the Global Economic Ecosystem, Center for International Development Beyond Covid Podcast, June 24, 2022
Helping Economically Distressed Regions, Harvard Kennedy School Executive Education, April 22, 2022
'The China Shock' and the downsides of globalization, Planet Money, NPR, November 15, 2021
Q & A with Gordon Hanson, Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy, May 2021
Regional Economic Divides in America, Mosbacher Institute for Trade, Economics, and Public Policy, The Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University, March 25, 2021
5 BIG IDEAS IN INEQUALITY - CONCLUDING SESSION. Harvard Inequaltity and Social Policy Program, Dec 7, 2020
Industrial, Innovation and Environmental Policies, Economics for Inclusive Prosperity, December 1, 2020
Importing Polarization, AEA Research Highlights Podcast, October 28, 2020
Challenges to Contain COVID-19 in Latin America: Lessons from Chile & Peru, Harvard Kennedy School Center for International Development, and David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, October 19, 2020
Discussion of the China Trade Shock with Larry Summers and Robert Lawrence, Harvard Kennedy School, September 29, 2020
Rearticulating Development Strategies: COVID-19, human development & the environment, Harvard Kennedy School Center for International Development and United Nations Development Programme, June 24, 2020
Teasing out the disruptive effects of globalization, Faculty Focus, Harvard Kennedy School, May 2020
Immigration and the Global Labor Force Before and After COVID-19 Harvard Kennedy School Center for International Development, May 18, 2020
The Coronavirus and Prospects for Economic Recovery in Mexico, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies and Harvard Kennedy School Center for International Development, May 6, 2020
Defensa de la economía y protección de la salud: cómo enfrentar la encrucijada (Seminar on Covid-19 and the Mexico-US Relationship) UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy, April 10, 2020