Grid Lines
5 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 6 years ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsGrid Lines is a podcast about people who have pushed the boundaries of how we think about money, inequality, and markets. Some of these people are famous economists; most are not.
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4 Marilyn Waring
August 01, 2018 05:09 - 14.7 MBMarilyn Waring raised the alarm that women's unpaid labour is invisible in GDP. She pointed a challenge directly to the UN, and every bureaucracy around the world that used their system. And her book, Counting for Nothing, inspired a new generation to add a potent dose of unadulterated feminism to economics.
Joan Robinson
May 28, 2018 21:58Joan Robinson was one of the most important contributors to economics in the 20th Century. She used theory and graphs, but she also used poetry to expound the great debates between capitalism and socialism over the 20th Century.
3 Joan Robinson, Part II
May 28, 2018 21:21 - 20.6 MBJoan Robinson was one of the most important contributors to economics in the 20th Century. She used theory and graphs, but she also used poetry to expound the great debates between capitalism and socialism over the 20th Century. This is part II of a two-part series on the life of Cambridge economist Joan Robinson.
2 Joan Robinson, Part I
April 29, 2018 06:21 - 18.7 MBIn 1933, Joan Robinson popularised a word. That word was monopsony. It’s when you have only a single person or business that can buy something. This theory was outlined in Joan Robinson’s 1933 book, The Economics of Imperfect Competition.
1 Bill Phillips
March 14, 2018 07:46 - 27.3 MBThe author of the Phillips Curve, Bill Phillips, is almost unknown in his home country. But he has a crazy story.