

New Economics Podcast
New Economics Foundation
Award-winning podcast about the economic forces shaping our world, with Ayeisha Thomas-Smith and guests. Brought to you by the New Economics Foundation – the independent think tank and charity campaigning for a fairer, sustainable economy.
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Oct 19, 2015 • 13min
Government Debt
Kirsty chats to special guest Ewa Karwowski, lecturer in economics at Kingston University, about government debt, and the Charter for Budget Responsibility, approved by MPs in parliament last week.
Weekly Economics Podcast on Twitter: www.twitter.com/weeklyeconpod
Ewa Karwowski on Twitter: www.twitter.com/ewakarwowski
Kirsty Styles on Twitter: www.twitter.com/kirstystyles1
Produced by James Shield. Programme editor for NEF: Huw Jordan.
Brought to you by the New Economics Foundation – the independent think tank and charity campaigning for a fairer, sustainable economy. Find out more at:
www.neweconomics.org.
Music by Podington Bear used under Creative Commons BY-NC Licence www.podingtonbear.com

Oct 12, 2015 • 10min
Steve Keen: Part 2 - Stopping The Next Crash
In the second of a two-part interview Kirsty chats to special guest Professor Steve Keen, Head of Economics, History and Politics at Kingston University, about the likelihood of another economic crash and how we can stop that from happening.
Weekly Economics Podcast on Twitter: www.twitter.com/weeklyeconpod
Steve Keen on Twitter: www.twitter.com/profstevekeen
Kirsty Styles on Twitter: www.twitter.com/kirstystyles1
Produced by James Shield. Programme editor for NEF: Huw Jordan.
Brought to you by the New Economics Foundation – the independent think tank and charity campaigning for a fairer, sustainable economy. Find out more at:
www.neweconomics.org.
Music by Krackatoa (www.freemusicarchive.org/music/krackatoa), Silence Is Sexy (www.freemusicarchive.org/music/Silence_Is_Sexy) and Podington Bear (http://www.soundofpicture.com) used under Creative Commons Licence.

Oct 5, 2015 • 11min
Steve Keen: Part 1 - Predicting The Crash
Back from our break, in the first of a two-part interview Kirsty chats to super special guest Professor Steve Keen, Head of Economics, History and Politics at Kingston University, about how he predicted the 2008 economic crash and whether we’re on the road to another one.
Part two with Steve Keen on stopping the next economic crash is out on Monday 12 October.
Weekly Economics Podcast on Twitter: www.twitter.com/weeklyeconpod
Steve Keen on Twitter: www.twitter.com/profstevekeen
Kirsty Styles on Twitter: www.twitter.com/kirstystyles1
Produced by James Shield. Programme editor for NEF: Huw Jordan.
Brought to you by the New Economics Foundation – the independent think tank and charity campaigning for a fairer, sustainable economy. Find out more at:
www.neweconomics.org.
Music by Podington Bear and Christian Bjoerklund used under Creative Commons BY-NC Licence

Sep 14, 2015 • 10min
Trade Unions
Kirsty chats to special guest Alice Martin, researcher at the New Economics Foundation, about trade unions.
Kirsty and James are back on 5th October with more special guests.
Weekly Economics Podcast on Twitter: www.twitter.com/weeklyeconpod
Kirsty Styles on Twitter: www.twitter.com/kirstystyles1
Produced by James Shield. Programme editor for NEF: Huw Jordan.
Brought to you by the New Economics Foundation – the independent think tank and charity campaigning for a fairer, sustainable economy. Find out more at:
www.neweconomics.org.
Music by Podington Bear used under Creative Commons BY-NC Licence www.podingtonbear.com

Sep 7, 2015 • 13min
Beginner's Guide to Neoliberalism #6: The Alternatives
In the final episode of a special six-part series for the Weekly Economics Podcast, Kirsty Styles chats to James Meadway, Chief Economist at the New Economics Foundation, about alternatives to neoliberalism.
Weekly Economics Podcast on Twitter: www.twitter.com/weeklyeconpod
James Meadway on Twitter: www.twitter.com/meadwaj
Kirsty Styles on Twitter: www.twitter.com/kirstystyles1
Produced by James Shield. Programme editor for NEF: Huw Jordan.
Brought to you by the New Economics Foundation – the independent think tank and charity campaigning for a fairer, sustainable economy. Find out more at www.neweconomics.org.
Music by Christian Bjoerklund (www.freemusicarchive.org/music/Christian_Bjoerklund), Oskar Schuster (www.freemusicarchive.org/music/Oskar_Schuster) and Broke For Free (www.freemusicarchive.org/music/Broke_For_Free) used under Creative Commons Licence.

Aug 31, 2015 • 11min
Bank Holiday Special: Shorter Working Week
Kirsty and James are away for the bank holiday, but the show must go on. Guest host Polly Trenow is joined by Sarah Lyall, NEF social policy researcher, to talk about how shorter, more flexible hours of work could be transformative for our economy and society.
Next week, Kirsty and James return with the final episode of our six-part Beginner's Guide to Neoliberalism miniseries. Catch up with previous episodes in your podcast app of choice or on SoundCloud: www.soundcloud.com/weeklyeconomicspodcast/sets/neoliberalism
Weekly Economics Podcast on Twitter: www.twitter.com/weeklyeconpod
Sarah Lyall on Twitter: www.twitter.com/sarahglyall
Polly Trenow on Twitter: www.twitter.com/polly_trenow
Produced by James Shield. Programme editor for NEF: Huw Jordan.
Brought to you by the New Economics Foundation – the independent think tank and charity campaigning for a fairer, sustainable economy. Find out more at www.neweconomics.org.
Music by Podington Bear used under Creative Commons BY-NC Licence www.podingtonbear.com

Aug 24, 2015 • 12min
Beginner's Guide to Neoliberalism #5: The End of History?
In the penultimate episode of a special six-part series for the Weekly Economics Podcast, Kirsty Styles chats to James Meadway, Chief Economist at the New Economics Foundation, about how neoliberalism lives on today.
Weekly Economics Podcast on Twitter: www.twitter.com/weeklyeconpod
James Meadway on Twitter: www.twitter.com/meadwaj
Kirsty Styles on Twitter: www.twitter.com/kirstystyles1
Produced by James Shield. Programme editor for NEF: Huw Jordan.
Brought to you by the New Economics Foundation – the independent think tank and charity campaigning for a fairer, sustainable economy. Find out more at www.neweconomics.org.
Music by sanmi (www.freemusicarchive.org/music/sanmi) and Hogan Grip (www.freemusicarchive.org/music/Hogan_Grip) used under Creative Commons Licence.

Aug 17, 2015 • 13min
Beginner's Guide to Neoliberalism #4: Acceptable in the 80s
In the fourth of a special series for the Weekly Economics Podcast, Kirsty Styles chats to James Meadway, Chief Economist at the New Economics Foundation about how neoliberalism took hold in the UK in the 1980s.
Weekly Economics Podcast on Twitter: www.twitter.com/weeklyeconpod
Kirsty Styles on Twitter: www.twitter.com/kirstystyles1
James Meadway on Twitter:www.twitter.com/meadwaj
Produced by James Shield. Programme editor for NEF: Huw Jordan.
Brought to you by the New Economics Foundation – the independent think tank and charity campaigning for a fairer, sustainable economy. Find out more at www.neweconomics.org.
Music by Chris Zabriskie (www.chriszabriskie.com), sanmi (www.freemusicarchive.org/music/sanmi) and Christian Bjoerklund (www.freemusicarchive.org/music/Christian_Bjoerklund) used under Creative Commons Licence.

Aug 10, 2015 • 12min
Power Failure
What's at fault with our energy system? Kirsty Styles is joined by Stephen Devlin, Natural Resource Economist at the New Economics Foundation to find out.
Weekly Economics Podcast on Twitter: www.twitter.com/weeklyeconpod
Music credits this week are Podington Bear as usual and Candlegravity, used under Creative Commons Licence (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Candlegravity/).
Photo credit: Simon Grubb (https://www.flickr.com/people/mrgrubb/)

Aug 3, 2015 • 13min
Resilience and the Crash
Financial system resilience - what is it, and why does it matter? Should we be worried about another crash?
Kirsty Styles chats to Josh Ryan-Collins, Associate Director of Economy & Finance at NEF, to find out.
Weekly Economics Podcast on Twitter: www.twitter.com/weeklyeconpod
Josh Ryan-Collins on Twitter: www.twitter.com/jryancollins
Kirsty Styles on Twitter: www.twitter.com/kirstystyles1
Produced by James Shield. Programme editor for NEF: Alex Jones
Brought to you by the New Economics Foundation – the independent think tank and charity campaigning for a fairer, sustainable economy. Find out more at:
www.neweconomics.org.
Music by Podington Bear (www.podingtonbear.com) and Flex Vector (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Flex_Vector) used under Creative Commons BY-NC Licence
Image by WhatNot, via Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/whatknot/2804669838/