Corrado Gini podcast
This is from Economics in Ten podcast, season six, episode two. Every A-level student knows the Gini coefficient, but fewer know anything about the man behind it, and this episode is worth flagging to teachers precisely because it doesn’t shy away from the awkward parts. Gini’s association with Mussolini and his involvement in the discredited ‘science’ of eugenics are addressed directly, which makes for a useful discussion about how we evaluate the ideas of historically compl
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