London Walk podcast
This is from Economics in Ten podcast, a special episode. Pete and Gav take you on a three-mile walk through central London, starting at the British Library and ending at the LSE, stopping along the way at landmarks connected to economic history, including sites associated with Marx, Keynes and Millicent Fawcett. It’s a fun format and a lovely piece of enrichment, not spec-focused but particularly good for students with an interest in the history of economics as a discipline.
Behavioural Economics podcast
This is from Economics in Ten podcast, a special episode. This special steps back from individual economists to look at behavioural economics as a field, specifically the heuristics and biases that shape everyday decision-making. Pete and Gav cover how governments, businesses and the media exploit predictable patterns in human thinking, from supermarket layout tricks to Ponzi schemes, and look at how nudge theory can be used to influence behaviour at scale. It’s a good compan
Thatcherism podcast
This is probably the episode of the Economics in Ten podcast I found most interesting. It’s from a feature-length special (just under an hour and a half) diving into the economics of Thatcherism: what it actually was, where the ideas came from, and what the evidence says about whether they worked. Pete and Gav cover monetarism and the quantity theory of money (MV=PT), the Laffer Curve, privatisation and supply-side reform. It’s a well-structured episode and a useful companion