025. What are futures and forwards?

Austrian economics focuses on individual choices and subjective value, arguing that markets work best with minimal government intervention. It rejects mathematical modeling and favors logical reasoning. Critics say it lacks empirical evidence and overlooks market failures, but it ...  عرض المزيد

In 2025, regulatory changes and compliance are central to the finance sector. Regulatory technology (RegTech) is rapidly advancing, using AI and real-time monitoring to automate compliance tasks like KYC and AML, reduce costs, and improve accuracy. Key trends include predictive a ...  عرض المزيد

John Taylor, the Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics at Stanford University and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, joins the podcast to discuss how he initial got interested in economics, his initial training in econometrics as a PhD student at Stanford which led ...  عرض المزيد

The Austrian School of Economics has been around since the 1870s, when Carl Menger wrote the Principles of Economics. They were a response to the conventional economic thought that prevails today. Phil Dobbie asks Professor Steve Keen whether there are elements of the Austrian sc ...  عرض المزيد

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the most influential work of Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929). In 1899, during America’s Gilded Age, Veblen wrote The Theory of the Leisure Class as a reminder that all that glisters is not gold. He picked on traits of the waning landed class of Americ ...  عرض المزيد

The great theories of economics seem to have great explanatory power, but the actual world is often far too complicated and messy to fully test them out. Professor Ignacio Palacios-Huerta, an economist at the London School of Economics has an answer – sport. In the contained sett ...  عرض المزيد