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
Paul Samuelson podcast
This is from Economics in Ten podcast, season eight, episode four. 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. Paul Krugman nominates Paul Samuelson, widely regarded as the most influential economist of the 20th century, and this episode covers a lot of ground as a result. Samuelson essentially modernised economics by formalising it mathematically and cont
James Meade podcast
This is from Economics in Ten podcast, season eight, episode three. 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. Angus Deaton nominates James Meade, a Nobel laureate whose contributions ranged remarkably widely. He was behind early thinking on international trade organisations, worked extensively on unemployment, and had a lifelong commitment to full employ