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
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