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, inequality and development economics offers a perspective that’s genuinely different from most of what students will encounter on the A-level course, and the episode prompts really good discussion about whose voices shape economic theory. It goes beyond standard spec content, but raises questions that are genuinely engaging for students and is good for stretching high-attainers or sparking discussion about economic methodology and whose perspectives matter.  Listen here