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
Jayati Ghosh podcast
This is from Economics in Ten podcast, season eight, episode five. Season 8 of Economics in Ten has the theme “The Economists’ Economist”: each episode, a well-known living economist nominates their favourite economist from history. Kate Raworth’s pick is Jayati Ghosh, an Asian female economist who challenges the dominance of Western economic orthodoxy and argues that the monopolisation of one approach to economics has crowded out better ideas. Her work on unpaid care work, i
Paul Samuelson podcast
This is from Economics in Ten podcast, season eight, episode four. Season 8 of Economics in Ten has the theme “The Economists’ Economist”: each episode, a well-known living economist nominates their favourite economist from history. Paul Krugman nominates Paul Samuelson, widely regarded as the most influential economist of the 20th century, and this episode covers a lot of ground as a result. Samuelson essentially modernised economics by formalising it mathematically and cont