Season 5 Episode 1 - Simon Kuznets
To establish whether you are in good shape a doctor might take your pulse. In economics, Gross Domestic Product (aka GDP) is the go-to metric for dete...
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Economics In Ten is your go-to podcast if you want to learn about the lives, times and ideas of the world's greatest economic thinkers. Each episode is a fun exploration of a famous economist using ten different questions. Presented by Pete and Gav, your friendly neighbourhood economists, with technical support from Nic and music from Jukedeck - create your own at http://jukedeck.com
Summer Reading Special 2021
“A word after a word after a word is power.” – Margaret Atwood. Many of the great economists we have looked at in our past episodes were voracious rea...
Season 4 Episode 5 - Esther Duflo
Have you heard of the ‘Randomistas’? Seemingly they are taking the economics world by storm and at the heart of this group of research economists is a...
Season 4 Episode 4 - Muhammad Yunus
Quiz Question: Who is the only economist to win the Nobel Peace Prize? Answer: Muhammad Yunus.... and yet strangely he has never been in the running t...
Season 4 Episode 3 - Amartya Sen
How do you know if a country is "doing well" economically? How can we say that one country is "more developed" than another? For many years incomes (G...
Season 4 Episode 2 - Hernando de Soto
Are you lucky enough to own your own home or business? But do you ever stop and think about what you would do if someone tried to take it from you, or...
Inequality Special
Have you ever wanted to know about inequality but didn’t know where to start? In this latest special by Pete and Gav, your friendly neighbourhood econ...
Season 4 Episode 1 - Daniel Kahneman
Did you hear about the psychologist that won the Nobel Prize for Economics? Sounds like the start of a joke doesn’t it? But in 2002 Daniel Kahneman wo...
Christmas Special 2020
It’s Christmas!!!! But slightly different in 2020. With the coronavirus still here and a full rollout of a vaccine still distant, there might be many ...
Season 3 Episode 5 - Thomas Robert Malthus
When Thomas Carlyle famously described Economics as ‘the dismal science’ it was said that it was inspired by the writing of Thomas Malthus. His doom a...