Host, Ross Ashcroft, met up with Keen to discuss his new book, The New Economics: A Manifesto.
The Renaissance is known as a foundation stone of the modern world through both its art and ideas. But lesser known is that it was also a time when the modern banking system was created.
The Medici Bank was the most influential. Yet the trouble it attracted with the church and the state over using usury as a business model is a problem that our societies still face today.
Host, Ross Ashcroft, met up with Author of Medici Money, Tim Parks, to discuss the Medici banking dynasty and its legacy.
Paul Frijters is currently a Professor in Wellbeing Economics at the LSE, teaching the Masters Course in Wellbeing and Public Policy. He specializes in applied micro-econometrics, including labor, happiness, and health economics, though he has also worked on pure theoretical topics in macro and micro fields. He currently advises the UK government and others on […]
Rafe Hubris is the comic alto-ego of satirist and stand up, Josh Berry who, while studying at Oxford, regularly came across implacably self-confident, but horrific zero ability characters like Hubris. Berry says that his aim with the character is to mock that kind of Oxbridge self-confidence:
With Joe Biden set to be sworn in as president in January following one of the most underwhelming election campaigns in modern times, how will the US begin to re-engage a polarised society on the verge of collapse and what are the implications of this wanton campaign for the rest of the world?
Kweku Adoboli is a former UBS trader who served over three and a half years in prison for a white collar crime in the U.K. Under the hostile environment policy, the then Home Secretary decided that although he’d served his sentence and had lived in the UK for the majority of his life, Adoboli was to be deported to his native Ghana. Almost two years on, host Ross Ashcroft met up with Kweku to ask him about debt, deportation and developing economies.