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Roonomics
Economics podcasts for ambitious A-level students.
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25. Is An Exchange Rate Depreciation Good News Or Bad News?
BBC Radio 4 Analysis - Does a falling currency help or harm the economy? It's an urgent question for the UK, as the pound fell sharply in value against other major currencies after the referendum on Britain’s membership of the European Union in June 2016. Market commentators put this down to...
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24. Behavioural Economics in Action - Halpern on Government Nudges
Placing more nutritious food on a more visible shelf, informing lagging taxpayers that their neighbours have already paid up, or asking job seekers what they plan to do next week (instead of what they did – or didn’t – do last week) – these are all well-known examples of behavioral spurs known as...
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23. Prof. Stephanie Kelton on MMT and the myth of budget deficits
Stephanie Kelton is a leading American economist and a Professor of Public Policy and Economics at Stony Brook University. Kelton was Chief Economist on the U.S. Senate Budget Committee and Economic Advisor to the Bernie 2016 presidential campaign. She's best known for being a pioneer of Modern...
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22. Keynes v Hayek - LSE Lecture (Nicholas Wapshott)
Speaker(s): Nicholas Wapshott | Eighty years ago at the LSE, Friedrich Hayek launched an assault upon the new economic thinking of John Maynard Keynes. The clash was so bitter and vituperative that it scandalized the cloistered world of academia. Eighty years on, the differences between the two…
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21. Keynes v Hayek - LSE Debate
Speaker(s): Professor George Selgin, Professor Lord Skidelsky, Duncan Weldon, Dr Jamie Whyte | How do we get out of the financial mess we're in? Two of the great economic thinkers of the 20th century had sharply contrasting views: John Maynard Keynes believed that governments could create...
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20. Making Money (Fran Boait on money creation) - BBC Radio 4
David Grossman asks how and when money is created in the modern economy, how that influences asset prices and financial stability and hears about a radical Swiss idea for monetary reform. Joining the debate are Positive Money director Fran Boait and Professor Sir Charles Bean, former chief...
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19. How Money Works (Ben Dyson) - BBC Radio 4
Ben Dyson, founder and director of Positive Money, tells how his disillusionment with mainstream economics led him to campaign for a proper understanding of how money works as the first step in fixing a failed banking system. Roonomics
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18. Cassandras of the crash (the people who predicted it) - BBC Radio 4
Ten years ago, in autumn 2008, the world watched as the biggest financial meltdown in history unfolded. The crash plunged the world into recession, lost millions of families their homes and its shadow still hangs over our politics today. And when the Queen went to the London School of Economics,...
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17. Shaking the Magic Money Tree (money creation) - BBC Radio 4
During the 2017 general election, Theresa May argued there was "No magic money tree" to pay for the things some voters wanted. Although she was chided for being unsympathetic to various worthy spending claims, a more fundamental criticism could have been levelled at the Prime Minister: There is...
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16. Economics With Subtitles - Interest Rates
In this edition, Ayeisha and Steve make sense of interest rates. Why did they lead to coffins full of car keys getting sent to the US Federal Reserve? What factors affect what you have to pay on your loans? And what do your film choices say about why you decide to borrow? Producers: Simon Maybin…
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15. The Entrepreneurial State - Mariana Mazzucato
Where do the boldest innovations, with the deepest consequences for society, come from? Many business leaders, entrepreneurs, and libertarians claim that the private sector leads the way always, and government at best follows by decades and at worst impedes the process with bureaucratic...
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14. The Value of Everything - Mariana Mazzucato
Professor Mariana Mazzucato (PhD) holds the Chair in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College London (UCL), and is Founder and Director of the UCL Institute for Innovation & Public Purpose (IIPP). She is winner of the 2014 New Statesman SPERI Prize in Political Economy,...
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13. Economics With Subtitles - Inflation
Economics with Subtitles is your everyday guide to economics and why you should care. In this show, Ayeisha and Steve make sense of inflation. They’ll explain how hyperinflation is affecting how Venezuelans have sex, why you can’t afford a ticket to see your favourite band in concert anymore and...
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12. Fixing Finance - Adair Turner and John Kay at the RSA
In this exclusive ‘in conversation’ event at the RSA, Adair Turner and John Kay will respond to each other’s work and to the sometimes contrasting, sometimes complementary conclusions and policy recommendations they arrive at – and tackle the key questions: What does ‘good’, socially useful…
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11. The productivity puzzle - Andy Haldane LSE Lecture
Speaker(s): Andrew G Haldane | Productivity growth has weakened across a number of economies over recent years, particularly in the UK. Does this reflect a slowing of innovation? What role can public policy play in supporting productivity growth? Andrew G Haldane is the Chief Economist at the…
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10. Did Keynes have a better plan for exchange rates? (SK)
Economies are susceptible to the vagaries of international exchange rates. In theory, in the long term exchange rates find a level that helps balance the prices of goods across borders. In reality the mechanism is more volatile than that, as we’ve seen in the fall in the value of Sterling in...
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9. Does QE benefit the poor as well as the rich? (SK)
The US Federal Reserve is getting rid of it, the European Central Bank has talked about it and could go next. Quantitative Easing, it seems, is falling out of favour. But was it doing any good anyway? In this podcast Phil Dobbie asks Professor Steve Keen whether QE helps the broader economy or…
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8. Is a trade deficit a bad thing? (SK)
In this podcast series Prof Steve Keen has repeatedly argued the importance of keeping an economy in surplus. But, Alex Howlett, a regular listener and Patreon supporter, asks why this might be. He suggests a trade surplus is a good thing, because it means companies overseas are willing to accept...
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7. Monetary v fiscal policy - which one works best? (SK)
Central banks like to control inflation using monetary theory (managing the cost of borrowing) as their way to control inflation and unemployment and avoid recessions. Whereas Keynes argues that government spending is the way to avoid recessions – pump prime the economy and “she’ll be right…
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6. Inflation - New Economics Foundation
Kirsty Styles chats to James Meadway, Senior Economist at the New Economics Foundation (NEF), about the Bank of England's inflation report and what it means for the UK economy and real wages in 2015. Jargon of the week: Inflation and deflation Listener question of the week: What are hedge funds?...
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5. The Economist asks - who was Adam Smith?
Anne McElvoy investigates the life of the Scottish philosopher now known as the father of modern economics. What does an author who died in 1790 have to teach us about trade wars and crony capitalism in the 21st century? And which American television villain kept a copy of “The Wealth of Nations”...
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4. Inflation - is it a good thing or a bad thing? (SK)
Recently the inflation rate in the UK hit one percent. It’s a long way from the high teens of the late seventies and early eighties. In this inaugural episode of The Debunking Economics Podcast, Phil Dobbie suggests that low inflation is a good thing. It means prices aren’t going up. But, Prof....
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3. GDP a brief but affectionate history - Diane Coyle LSE Lecture
Why did the size of the U.S. economy increase by 3 percent on one day in mid-2013 - or Ghana's balloon by 60 percent overnight in 2010? Why did the UK financial industry show its fastest expansion ever at the end of 2008 - just as the world's financial system went into meltdown? And why was...
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1. Economics With Subtitles - GDP
From the BBC Economics With Subtitles series. In this edition, Ayeisha and Steve look at how we quantify economic success. Should dodgy drug deals be included? What is Steve's contribution to GDP? And should we ban people who pinch too many of your crisps? Roonomics
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2. Economics With Subtitles - Government Debt
From the BBC Economics With Subtitles series. In this edition, Ayeisha and Steve look at how we quantify economic success. Should dodgy drug deals be included? What is Steve's contribution to GDP? And should we ban people who pinch too many of your crisps?...
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