A Warning From Italy with Erik Jones

04/03/20 • 29 min

This week's episode of The Global Cable features Professor Erik Jones, Director of European and Eurasian Studies at Johns Hopkins University. He is based at the university's Europe campus in Bologna, Italy, and is therefore on the ground in one of the places hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. He talks to us about what daily life has been like in Italy during the crisis, what the U.S. and other nations should learn from the Italian experience, and what the economic ramifications of COVID-19 will be across Europe and around the world.

Music & Produced by Tre Hester.

Music & Produced by Tre Hester.

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Fighting Coronavirus with Martin O'Malley

In this week's episode of our podcast, The Global Cable, Governor Martin O'Malley talks to us about the three things every citizen needs to hear from government during a pandemic; how policymakers can use data to tackle society's biggest problems, from coronavirus to climate change; and his dream of meeting Bruce Springsteen.

Martin O'Malley served as Governor of Maryland and Mayor of Baltimore. Throughout his time in office, Governor O'Malley championed new ways of thinking about city and state government. He introduced systems called 'CitiStat' and 'StateStat' to improve performance management in government, and 'BayStat' to help turn around a 300-year decline in the health of the Chesapeake Bay. He recently published his second book, Smarter Government: How To Govern for Results in the Information Age.

In the Franklin Few, Governor O'Malley recommended what he's been reading recently:

'White House Warriors' by John Gans: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40180107-white-house-warriors

'Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind' by Yuval Noah Harari: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23692271-sapiens

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Music & Produced by Tre Hester.