The City View: Lyft Chief Economist John List on how an idea can make it big - a podcast by City A.M.

In this episode Andy Silvester talks to Lyft Chief Economist and University of Chicago professor John A. List for a chat about his latest book, The Voltage Effect. They discuss idea scaling; why this measure can decide whether or not an idea ends up performing well; the value of data; and John's background working for companies such as Uber and now Lyft.

Andy also goes through the headlines -- new figures from the ONS have been released demonstrating that inflation is rising at an unequal pace to wages; former Post Office sub-postmasters and mistresses have been calling for former bosses to face prison time in the wake of the Horizon scandal; and mining company Glencore reported an 84 per cent increase in earnings in 2021.

And finally, Andy talks to City A.M.'s Economics and Markets reporter Jack Barnett about the ONS inflation figures and US investment bank predictions about the UK's economic performance.

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