A.W. “Bill” Phillips podcast
My favourite economist! This is from Economics in Ten podcast, season six, episode one. This one is a real treat. Bill Phillips has been described as the ‘Indiana Jones of Economics’ and the episode earns that billing: he built radios in a Japanese prisoner of war camp, spoke five languages, was arrested for spying, and constructed a hydraulic machine (the MONIAC) that physically modelled the flow of money through the economy using water. Oh, and he also gave us the Phillips
Millicent Fawcett podcast
This is from Economics in Ten podcast, season five, episode five. Better known as a leader of the women’s suffrage movement, Fawcett was also a serious economist who wrote one of the most widely used economics textbooks of the 19th century and was present at the founding of the British Economic Association in 1890. The episode recovers this side of her work and raises broader questions about the women who contributed to the development of economics but have been largely writt
Arthur Pigou podcast
This is from Economics in Ten podcast, season five, episode four. Pigou is responsible for one of the most important ideas in welfare economics: the Pigouvian tax, the argument that externalities should be corrected by taxing activities that generate negative external costs and subsidising those that generate positive external benefits. He was Marshall’s student and successor at Cambridge and shaped welfare economics into a coherent field. The episode connects his ideas to re