Podcast: What are we getting wrong about economics? With Angus Deaton

Angus Deaton, emeritus professor of economics at Princeton University, won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2015. So when he says he is rethinking many of his assumptions about the field, it matters.

On this week’s episode of The Economics Show with Soumaya Keynes, he joins Soumaya to discuss what we are getting wrong about everything -from inequality to immigration to the role of globalisation in the reduction of poverty.

The Economics Show with Soumaya Keynes is a new weekly podcast from the Financial Times packed full of smart, digestible analysis and incisive conversation. Each week, Soumaya digs into the hottest topics in economics along with a cast of FT colleagues and special guests, giving listeners a deeper understanding of the most complex economics subjects, in an easy-to-digest format.

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Soumaya Keynes writes a column each week for the Financial Times. You can find it here.

Listen to episode 7 -

Angus Deaton:

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Listen to episode 6 - John Burn-Murdoch:

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Listen to episode 5 - Zoe Cullen and Pilita Clark:

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Listen to episode 4 - Olivier Blanchard:

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Listen to episode 3 - Martin Wolf:

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Listen to episode 2 - Emily Oster:

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Listen to episode 1 - Jason Furman:

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Soumaya Keynes is an economics columnist at the Financial Times.

Prior to joining the FT she worked at The Economist for eight years as a staff writer, where as well as covering trade, the US economy and the UK economy she co-hosted the Money Talks podcast. She also co-founded the Trade Talks podcast.