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 complex figures. The economics itself (measuring inequality, what the Gini coefficient actually captures and what it misses) is core spec content and accessible to all students. Worth giving students a heads-up that the episode touches on eugenics and fascism, which the podcast handles responsibly but is good to flag in advance.  Listen here