4 episodes
Grid Lines Darian Woods
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Grid 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. Each episode is out monthly.
Grid Lines is produced and hosted by Darian Woods.
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4 Marilyn Waring
Marilyn 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.
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3 Joan Robinson, Part II
Joan 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.
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2 Joan Robinson, Part I
In 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.
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1 Bill Phillips
The author of the Phillips Curve, Bill Phillips, is almost unknown in his home country. But he has a crazy story.