Friedrich Hayek podcast
This is from Economics in Ten podcast, season one, episode three. Hayek is framed as Keynes’s great intellectual rival and the episode earns that framing. It covers The Road to Serfdom, the knowledge problem (the argument that no central authority can aggregate enough dispersed information to plan an economy effectively), and Hayek’s influence on Thatcherism and Reaganomics. His ideas are important for evaluation: the case against government intervention, the risk of governme
John Maynard Keynes podcast
This is from Economics in Ten podcast, season one, episode two. Keynes is probably the economist whose ideas appear most consistently throughout A-level economics, and this episode covers his life and thinking in real depth. There’s good material on aggregate demand, the multiplier effect, the case for government intervention during recessions, and his role at Bretton Woods shaping the post-war international economic order. Pete and Gav also spend time on the Cambridge Circus
Adam Smith podcast
This is from Economics in Ten podcast, season one, episode one. The obvious starting point: Adam Smith is the patron saint of the discipline and Pete and Gav treat him accordingly. The episode covers both major works, The Theory of Moral Sentiments and The Wealth of Nations, and does a good job of separating the real Smith from the cartoon version that appears in textbook summaries. Key ideas include the division of labour, the invisible hand, and the argument that markets ha