ENCORE: The life of Alan Greenspan
Author Sebastian Mallaby produced the definitive account of the former Federal Reserve chairman's life, career, and the context in which he operated in the book "The Man Who Knew". In this encore epis...
26 Jan 20181h 6min
Michele Wucker explains the 'gray rhino'
Most of the things that hurt us are easy to identify and avoid in advance. Yet rather than deal with these problems, we tend to live in terror of inchoate and unpredictable dangers. Journalist and aut...
19 Jan 201839min
ENCORE: Keynes v Hayek
In this encore episode, writer Nicholas Wapshott talks to Cardiff Garcia about his 2011 book "Keynes Hayek: The Clash that Defined Modern Economics". The two discuss which economist's ideas are ascend...
12 Jan 20181h 7min
James Heckman on human capital development
How do societies help people fulfill their potential? And how do you make sure the programs meant to help people grow - like education and job retraining - are actually working? Nobel Prize-winning ec...
5 Jan 201857min
Hernando de Soto on the economics of property rights
Economist Hernando de Soto joins the FT's John Authers to discuss his work documenting property rights in developing countries, the philosophical influences on his thinking and a lofty goal to create ...
22 Des 201744min
'The wisdom of finance'
What happens when you take the principles of finance and use them to answer some big philosophical questions? Author and Harvard business and law professor Mihir Desai joins Matt Klein to talk about t...
15 Des 20171h
Unorthodox economics
Author and crowd-funded economist Steve Keen joins Izzy Kaminska to talk about his criticism of neoclassical economics, and whether the global financial system can avoid another crisis.Music by Poding...
8 Des 201748min
Hirschmania, the final chapter
Historian and biographer Jeremy Adelman joins Cardiff Garcia to discuss the life and ideas of economist Albert O. Hirschman one last time. In this episode, the two cover Hirschman's "The Rhetoric of R...
1 Des 20171h 7min
