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Economics In Ten is your go-to podcast if you want to learn about the lives, times and ideas of the world's greatest economic thinkers. Each episode is a fun exploration of a famous economis...
Behavioural economics can explain an awful lot about how governments, media and businesses can manipulate your day-to-day choices and habitu...
‘On Liberty’ by JS Mill is beloved by libertarians across the world - it championed the freedom of the individual in the face of growing sta...
Imagine a world where Santa was forced to put shareholder value ahead of spreading joy to millions of children across the world. In this new...
In 1925, on the 13th October, a daughter was born to Alfred Roberts and his wife Beatrice Stephenson - she was named Margaret Hilda Roberts....
In standard economic theory monopolies are generally seen as leading to "sub-optimal outcomes" (they are bad!). However in their own discipl...
The Rolling Stones once sang ‘You can’t always get what you want but sometimes you get what you need’ and when it comes to a rhyming history...
Paul Samuelson once said ‘I don’t care who writes a nation’s laws or crafts its advanced treatises if I can write its economics textbooks’ a...
In the post-war era in particular the orthodox view in economic and political circles has been that "free" trade is crucial in ensuring that...
All countries seem to have economic growth as their primary economic objective and the received opinion is that the best way to do this is t...
How do you achieve the magic formula of low inflation and economic growth? In the 1970s this was beginning to move further and further away...
What makes firms grow? This appears to be an important question, particularly with governments looking for GDP growth to be driven by firms....
Have you ever wanted to walk in the footsteps of the great economists? Do you want to breathe the same air they breathed? Do you want to be...
One of the fundamental principles of orthodox economics the idea that all economic agents "maximise" - consumers aim to maximise utility (ec...
A feature of our economic world is how dominated many markets are by a single firm. If you want to search for something, you ‘Google’ it, if...
Friedrich Engels was probably the most influential sidekick in the history of the world. He bankrolled his "bestie" Marx and without his dee...
What if rational economic man existed? How would they view the current state of the planet? How would they solve ‘the economic problem’? If...
Imagine looking at the world and seeing economics everywhere. Whether it was in family dynamics, discrimination in the workplace, the crimin...
Have you ever wanted to walk in the footsteps of the great economists? Do you want to breathe the same air they breathed? Do you want to be...
One could argue that the modern discipline that is Economics is, to a large degree, a branch of applied mathematics. This is a far cry from...
Abraham Lincoln once said “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all...
At the height of the financial crisis in 2008, the late Queen Elizabeth II asked economists at the London School of Economics the obvious qu...
In Shakespeare’s ‘As You Like It’, the seven ages of man are described by "melancholy Jacques" the professional misery-guts killing the mood...
Leon Walras was described as ‘the greatest economist’ by Joseph Schumpeter and in his own lifetime he struggled to have his unique voice hea...
Have you ever found yourself considering the "economic" view of the world with a sense that something vital is missing? This was very much H...
Irving Fisher was once lauded by fellow economist Joseph Schumpeter as the ‘greatest economist America has ever produced’. This is high prai...
When it comes to influencing the macroeconomy, governments have two big levers at their disposal - monetary policy and fiscal policy. In thi...
When economists discuss inequality, they often quote the Gini Coefficient, but who was the man behind the maths? In this episode, your frien...
When it comes to economic policy making, there are two big levers that a government can pull - monetary policy and fiscal policy. In this ne...
An economist that hunted crocodiles? An inventor who constructed prison camp radios and hydraulic models of the economy? An adventurer that...
George R R Martin once wrote “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies . . . The man who never reads lives only one.” Here at Economic...
In 1890, the British Economic Association was formed, which would later become the Royal Economic Society. At that meeting was Millicent Faw...
At the moment everyone seems to be talking about the cost of living crisis and it's not hard to see why. Drive past a garage forecourt in th...
What should governments do to stop problems such as consumers overeating or producers polluting? Many economists would encourage what is kno...
What do we expect from our public servants? We assume they do their jobs in order to make the world a better place and improve the welfare o...
It's Christmas!!! AGAIN! And what more could you want this festive season than another Economics In Ten Christmas Special...it's almost beco...
As they sing in Oliver! - Food, glorious food...and we LOVE our food. We love being in the kitchen, we love coming up with recipe ideas and...
'A Study of Economics as if People Mattered' was the subtitle of E F Schumacher's most famous work, 'Small is Beautiful'. It might seem jarr...
To establish whether you are in good shape a doctor might take your pulse. In economics, Gross Domestic Product (aka GDP) is the go-to metri...
“A word after a word after a word is power.” – Margaret Atwood. Many of the great economists we have looked at in our past episodes were vor...
Have you heard of the ‘Randomistas’? Seemingly they are taking the economics world by storm and at the heart of this group of research econo...
Quiz Question: Who is the only economist to win the Nobel Peace Prize? Answer: Muhammad Yunus.... and yet strangely he has never been in the...
How do you know if a country is "doing well" economically? How can we say that one country is "more developed" than another? For many years...
Are you lucky enough to own your own home or business? But do you ever stop and think about what you would do if someone tried to take it fr...
Have you ever wanted to know about inequality but didn’t know where to start? In this latest special by Pete and Gav, your friendly neighbou...
Did you hear about the psychologist that won the Nobel Prize for Economics? Sounds like the start of a joke doesn’t it? But in 2002 Daniel K...
It’s Christmas!!!! But slightly different in 2020. With the coronavirus still here and a full rollout of a vaccine still distant, there migh...
When Thomas Carlyle famously described Economics as ‘the dismal science’ it was said that it was inspired by the writing of Thomas Malthus....
Who is the founding father of Economics? Adam Smith you say? Who told you that? We did!?! Well…do you remember that famous quote attributed...
The summer of 2020 was the festival of sport that was never was. Many have tried to fill this gap, some with more success than others…I mean...
The chances are you have heard the phrase ‘creative destruction’ but what do you know about the man that coined it? In this podcast you will...