Podcasts by 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 technical support from Nic and music from Jukedeck - create your own at http://jukedeck.com
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London Walk Special from 2023-12-04T05:30
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 by the ghosts of Economics past? Well now'...
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Season 7 - Episode 3 - William Stanley Jevons from 2023-10-17T07:13:17
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 roots found in the work of more philosophica...
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Season 7 - Episode 2 - Robert Lucas Jr from 2023-08-07T05:00
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 people all of the time.” This quote has been wh...
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Season 7 - Episode 1 - Hyman P. Minsky from 2023-06-03T06:54:21
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 "why did nobody notice it?". Doubtle...
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Shakespeare Special: The Seven Ages of Man from 2023-04-23T05:00:12
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 Forest of Arden. To celebrate the Ba...
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Season 6 - Episode 5 - Leon Walras from 2023-04-03T06:40:10
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 economists in his native France, let alone those...
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Season 6 - Episode 4 - Herman Daly from 2023-02-27T07:32:38
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's viewpoint. He wondered why economic model...
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Season 6 - Episode 3 - Irving Fisher from 2023-01-18T06:00:28
Irving Fisher was once lauded by fellow economist Joseph Schumpeter as the ‘greatest economist America has ever produced’. This is high praise indeed but one could easily argue that the most rec...
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Fiscal Policy Special from 2022-11-14T05:00:37
When it comes to influencing the macroeconomy, governments have two big levers at their disposal - monetary policy and fiscal policy. In this new special by Pete and Gav, your friendly neighbour...
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Season 6 - Episode 2 - Corrado Gini from 2022-10-21T05:17:42
When economists discuss inequality, they often quote the Gini Coefficient, but who was the man behind the maths? In this episode, your friendly neighbourhood economists, Pete and Gav investigate...
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Monetary Policy Special from 2022-10-03T05:00:05
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 by your friendly neighbourhood economists Pe...
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Season 6 Episode 1 - A W "Bill" Phillips from 2022-09-12T05:00:58
An economist that hunted crocodiles? An inventor who constructed prison camp radios and hydraulic models of the economy? An adventurer that could speak five different languages and was arrested ...
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Summer Reading Special 2022 from 2022-07-18T05:52:57
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 have always ...
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Season 5 Episode 5 - Millicent Fawcett from 2022-05-09T05:00:31
In 1890, the British Economic Association was formed, which would later become the Royal Economic Society. At that meeting was Millicent Fawcett and ten or eleven other women. Better known as on...
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Cost of Living Special from 2022-03-13T07:19:29
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 you'll see that petrol prices have reached th...
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Season 5 Episode 4 - Arthur Pigou from 2022-03-01T06:31:07
What should governments do to stop problems such as consumers overeating or producers polluting? Many economists would encourage what is known as a Pigouvian tax that increases the price, reduce...
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Season 5 Episode 3 - James M Buchanan from 2022-01-31T06:30:38
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 but James M Buchanan had other ideas. He saw...
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Christmas Special 2021 from 2021-12-06T15:45:40
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 tradition! So grab a mulled wine and a mince pi...
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Food and Drink Special from 2021-11-15T06:51:24
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 gifting food-related books like Snoop Dogg’s g...
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Season 5 Episode 2 - E F Schumacher from 2021-10-29T06:00
'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-economists that people might not "matter" i...
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Season 5 Episode 1 - Simon Kuznets from 2021-09-17T05:00
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 determining economic health. Governments can be ...
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Summer Reading Special 2021 from 2021-08-03T08:19:55
“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 readers, and whilst we in no way put ourselves ...
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Season 4 Episode 5 - Esther Duflo from 2021-07-02T15:29:52
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 French-American named Esther Duflo. With he...
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Season 4 Episode 4 - Muhammad Yunus from 2021-05-28T04:00
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 to win the equivalent Economics Prize. ...
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Season 4 Episode 3 - Amartya Sen from 2021-04-12T06:55:03
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 (GDP) and other measures of how much "stuff" a...
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Season 4 Episode 2 - Hernando de Soto from 2021-03-15T07:49:47
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 bulldoze it? Do you ever stop and reflect o...
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Inequality Special from 2021-02-12T07:00
Have you ever wanted to know about inequality but didn’t know where to start? In this latest special by Pete and Gav, your friendly neighbourhood economists, you will be guided through the econo...
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Christmas Special from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
It’s Christmas!!!! But what does Christmas have to teach us about economics? Well…quite a lot in fact as you’ll soon find out as you listen to this festive special by the Economics in Ten team. ...
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Season 4 Episode 1 - Daniel Kahneman from 2021-01-25T08:08:36
Did you hear about the psychologist that won the Nobel Prize for Economics? Sounds like the start of a joke doesn’t it? But in 2002 Daniel Kahneman won the award for the revolutionary work on "p...
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Christmas Special 2020 from 2020-12-19T07:24:25
It’s Christmas!!!! But slightly different in 2020. With the coronavirus still here and a full rollout of a vaccine still distant, there might be many who face Christmas on their own or not seein...
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Season 3 Episode 5 - Thomas Robert Malthus from 2020-10-19T06:49:29
When Thomas Carlyle famously described Economics as ‘the dismal science’ it was said that it was inspired by the writing of Thomas Malthus. His doom and gloom essay on population was to have a l...
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Season 3 Episode 4 - Ibn Khaldun from 2020-09-20T20:54:52
Who is the founding father of Economics? Adam Smith you say? Who told you that? We did!?! Well…do you remember that famous quote attributed to Keynes (via Paul Samuelson)? It was ‘when the...
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Sport Special from 2020-08-11T10:58:02
The summer of 2020 was the festival of sport that was never was. Many have tried to fill this gap, some with more success than others…I mean, who hasn’t enjoyed watching Simon Anthony complete a...
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Season 3 Episode 3 - Joseph Schumpeter from 2020-07-27T06:00
The chances are you have heard the phrase ‘creative destruction’ but what do you know about the man that coined it? In this podcast you will find out about Joseph Schumpeter, an economist who wa...
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Season 3 Episode 2 - Alfred Marshall from 2020-06-29T06:51:42
Demand and Supply – the cornerstone of economics! But how much do you know about Alfred Marshall, the first man to draw the ‘Marshallian Cross’ that we all use today? Some argue his ‘Principles ...
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Season 3 Episode 1 - Milton Friedman from 2020-06-01T07:08:28
Want to know more about Milton Friedman? The marmite of economics! You may have noticed that people either love him or hate him. Mrs Thatcher lauded him as the quintessential ‘intellectu...
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Positivity Special from 2020-05-05T07:03:09
The coronavirus has meant misery for many and lockdown has been unsettling for all but in many respects, it’s created an opportunity to stop and think about what kind of world we want to live in...
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Coronavirus Special from 2020-03-30T06:06:01
The coronavirus crisis represents a huge challenge for humanity. We are seeing policy making at the national level that is unprecedented outside of war-time - so what might it mean for t...
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Season 2 Episode 5 - Joan Robinson from 2020-03-02T10:20:32
George Bernard Shaw once noted: ‘The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unr...
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Love Special from 2020-02-01T21:30:09
What does the dismal science have to say about the affairs of the heart? More than you imagine... You will be amazed at how much economics can teach you about love, lust and other four letter wo...
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Season 2 Episode 4 - John Forbes Nash Jr from 2020-01-19T21:23:27
We all like games don’t we? But in order to win games you need the best strategy and there is one economist who is synonymous with games and more specifically ‘game theory’. You might know him f...
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Christmas Special 2019 from 2019-12-02T08:40:04
It’s Christmas!!!! But what does Christmas have to teach us about economics? Well…quite a lot in fact as you’ll soon find out as you listen to this festive special by the Economics in Ten team. ...
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Season 2 Episode 3 - Sir Arthur Lewis from 2019-11-18T09:31:46
Sir Arthur Lewis was a pioneer. The first black man to win the Economics Nobel Prize, the first black man to be a professor of any university and in any field in the UK and the economist largely...
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Season 2 Episode 2 - Elinor Ostrom from 2019-10-20T20:35:34
Traditionally economics has been a man’s world reflected in the fact that out of 84 Nobel Prize winners in Economics, only 2 (until last week only 1!) have been women. This dominance is starting to...
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Season 2 Episode 1 - Thorstein Veblen from 2019-09-22T15:50:34
Want to know why Cardi B has five super cars but can't drive? Economics has the answer! Or more specifically Thorstein Veblen does. Who is this man and why is he still so relevant today? From Russ...
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Summer Reading Special from 2019-06-10T07:56:18
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss
If you want to be a great student of economics or just...
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Season 1 Episode 5 - Karl Marx from 2019-05-13T18:16:57
Interested in Karl Marx? Want to know what Marxism might be? Ever wondered what the impact of 'The Communist Manifesto' and 'Das Kapital' have been on the world? And have you ever considered tha...
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Environment Special from 2019-04-30T07:09:25
This week we are once again moving away from our coverage of economic titans and sharing with you another of our topical "specials".
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Climate change…it’s a hot to...
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Season 1 Episode 4 - David Ricardo from 2019-04-14T19:09
Globalisation…it’s a hot topic in economics but why do so many economists emphasise the importance of trade? Many would argue that this began with David Ricardo and his Theory of Comparative Adv...
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Season 1 Episode 3 - Friedrich Hayek from 2019-03-18T08:03:04
Want to know who Friedrich Hayek was? Batman had the Joker. Holmes had Moriarty. Emu had Grotbags. And in the world of Economics, Keynes had Hayek. But who was this man? How did he contrib...
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Happiness Special from 2019-03-04T08:29:31
This week we are departing temporarily from our coverage of great economists for the first of our "Economics in Ten Specials" with a look at the growing field of Happiness Economics.
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Season 1 Episode 2 - John Maynard Keynes from 2019-02-17T08:50:44
Want to know who John Maynard Keynes was? How he contributed to the world of economics? And more importantly what was he chowing down on at his secret society? Listen to this episode to learn mo...
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Season 1 Episode 1 - Adam Smith from 2019-01-20T18:13:19
Want to know who Adam Smith was? How he contributed to the world of economics? And, more importantly, what would his walk on music be if he was a professional boxer? Listen to this episode...
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