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Economics In Ten
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 techn...
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Thatcherism Special
In 1925, on the 13th October, a daughter was born to Alfred Roberts and his wife Beatrice Stephenson - she was named Margaret Hilda Roberts. The world...
Season 8 - Episode 5 - Jayati Ghosh
In standard economic theory monopolies are generally seen as leading to "sub-optimal outcomes" (they are bad!). However in their own discipline one co...
A Short History of Economics in Rhythm and Rhyme
The Rolling Stones once sang ‘You can’t always get what you want but sometimes you get what you need’ and when it comes to a rhyming history of econom...
Season 8 - Episode 4 - Paul Samuelson
Paul Samuelson once said ‘I don’t care who writes a nation’s laws or crafts its advanced treatises if I can write its economics textbooks’ and boy did...
International Trade Special
In the post-war era in particular the orthodox view in economic and political circles has been that "free" trade is crucial in ensuring that economies...
Season 8 - Episode 3 - James Meade
All countries seem to have economic growth as their primary economic objective and the received opinion is that the best way to do this is through int...
Supply Side Economics Special
How do you achieve the magic formula of low inflation and economic growth? In the 1970s this was beginning to move further and further away from the r...
Season 8 - Episode 2 - Edith Penrose
What makes firms grow? This appears to be an important question, particularly with governments looking for GDP growth to be driven by firms. The norma...
Cambridge Walk Special
Have you ever wanted to walk in the footsteps of the great economists? Do you want to breathe the same air they breathed? Do you want to be inspired b...
Season 8 - Episode 1 - Herbert Simon
One of the fundamental principles of orthodox economics the idea that all economic agents "maximise" - consumers aim to maximise utility (econ speak f...
Monopoly Special
A feature of our economic world is how dominated many markets are by a single firm. If you want to search for something, you ‘Google’ it, if you want...
Season 7 - Episode 5 - Friedrich Engels
Friedrich Engels was probably the most influential sidekick in the history of the world. He bankrolled his "bestie" Marx and without his deep pockets,...
Rational - A Play About Economics
What if rational economic man existed? How would they view the current state of the planet? How would they solve ‘the economic problem’? If it was to...
Season 7 - Episode 4 - Gary Becker
Imagine looking at the world and seeing economics everywhere. Whether it was in family dynamics, discrimination in the workplace, the criminal mind…ab...
London Walk Special
Have you ever wanted to walk in the footsteps of the great economists? Do you want to breathe the same air they breathed? Do you want to be inspired b...
Season 7 - Episode 3 - William Stanley Jevons
One could argue that the modern discipline that is Economics is, to a large degree, a branch of applied mathematics. This is a far cry from its early...
Season 7 - Episode 2 - Robert Lucas Jr
Abraham Lincoln once said “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the peo...
Season 7 - Episode 1 - Hyman P. Minsky
At the height of the financial crisis in 2008, the late Queen Elizabeth II asked economists at the London School of Economics the obvious question "wh...
Shakespeare Special: The Seven Ages of Man
In Shakespeare’s ‘As You Like It’, the seven ages of man are described by "melancholy Jacques" the professional misery-guts killing the mood in the Fo...
Season 6 - Episode 5 - Leon Walras
Leon Walras was described as ‘the greatest economist’ by Joseph Schumpeter and in his own lifetime he struggled to have his unique voice heard by econ...
Season 6 - Episode 4 - Herman Daly
Have you ever found yourself considering the "economic" view of the world with a sense that something vital is missing? This was very much Herman Daly...
Season 6 - Episode 3 - Irving Fisher
Irving Fisher was once lauded by fellow economist Joseph Schumpeter as the ‘greatest economist America has ever produced’. This is high praise indeed...
Fiscal Policy Special
When it comes to influencing the macroeconomy, governments have two big levers at their disposal - monetary policy and fiscal policy. In this new spec...
Season 6 - Episode 2 - Corrado Gini
When economists discuss inequality, they often quote the Gini Coefficient, but who was the man behind the maths? In this episode, your friendly neighb...
Monetary Policy Special
When it comes to economic policy making, there are two big levers that a government can pull - monetary policy and fiscal policy. In this new special...
Season 6 Episode 1 - A W "Bill" Phillips
An economist that hunted crocodiles? An inventor who constructed prison camp radios and hydraulic models of the economy? An adventurer that could spea...
Summer Reading Special 2022
George R R Martin once wrote “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies . . . The man who never reads lives only one.” Here at EconomicsInTen we...
Season 5 Episode 5 - Millicent Fawcett
In 1890, the British Economic Association was formed, which would later become the Royal Economic Society. At that meeting was Millicent Fawcett and t...
Cost of Living Special
At the moment everyone seems to be talking about the cost of living crisis and it's not hard to see why. Drive past a garage forecourt in the UK and y...
Season 5 Episode 4 - Arthur Pigou
What should governments do to stop problems such as consumers overeating or producers polluting? Many economists would encourage what is known as a Pi...
Season 5 Episode 3 - James M Buchanan
What do we expect from our public servants? We assume they do their jobs in order to make the world a better place and improve the welfare of society...
Christmas Special 2021
It's Christmas!!! AGAIN! And what more could you want this festive season than another Economics In Ten Christmas Special...it's almost becoming a tra...
Food and Drink Special
As they sing in Oliver! - Food, glorious food...and we LOVE our food. We love being in the kitchen, we love coming up with recipe ideas and we love gi...
Season 5 Episode 2 - E F Schumacher
'A Study of Economics as if People Mattered' was the subtitle of E F Schumacher's most famous work, 'Small is Beautiful'. It might seem jarring to non...
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...
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...