Female Serial Killers, Secular Stagnation

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Society & Culture, Science

4.4 • 997 Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2015

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Female Serial Killers: Although there is much written on male serial killers, there's less analysis of their female equivalent, perhaps because of their comparitive rarity. Elizabeth Yardley, Associate Professor of Criminology at Birmingham City University, talks to Laurie Taylor about her new study into the social context in which such killings occur. They're joined by Lisa Downing, Professor of French Discourses of Sexuality at the University of Birmingham.

Also Secular Stagnation: the impossibility of an economic future for our grandchildren? Kevin O'Rourke, the Chichele Professor of Economic History at All Souls College Oxford, discusses the recent revival of the hypothesis that 'secular stagnation' - negligible or zero economic growth - could lead to permanently depressed economies, if no policy counter-measures are taken. What's the history of this theory and how applicable is it today?

Producer: Jayne Egerton.

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0:00.0	This is a Thinking Aloud Podcast from the BBC and for more details in our terms of use and much,
0:06.2	much more about thinking aloud. Go to our website at BBC.co. UK. Hello. Well, as a sociologist I've had to endure any number of jokes, you know, what do you
0:17.4	get if you cross a sociologist with a member of the mafia and offer you can't
0:20.7	understand? How many sociologist does it take to change a light bulb
0:24.4	none but you'll need six of them to sit down at a table and spend three years writing a paper
0:28.2	called coping with darkness. That sort of thing. So of course, of course I'm always delighted when other disciplines get it in the neck,
0:35.2	especially at disciplines such as economics which has always seen to me to contain
0:39.1	well more than its fair share of overpaid and over consulted experts. And ever since November the 5th, 2008,
0:46.3	I've been able to call upon the Queen as an ally in this respect, because that was the day
0:50.4	when she famously visited the London School of Economics and listened quietly as a leading
0:54.8	economist explained the origins and the effects of the recent economic crisis.
0:59.5	Only then did she ask, and I like to imagine a disingenuous look on her face at this moment, but if these
1:06.2	things were so large, how come everyone missed them? Of course, one reason that some economists may
1:12.4	be inclined to downplay or even overlook any overly pessimistic predictions about the economy
1:17.5	is because of the huge political investment in claiming that things can only get better. This year it was the turn of the
1:25.4	Chancellor of the Exchequer.
1:27.0	Mr Deputy Speaker, today I report on a Britain that is growing, creating jobs and paying its way.
1:36.0	Today I can confirm in the last year we have grown faster than any other major advanced economy in the world. Five years ago the deficit was out of
1:47.6	control. Today as a share of national income it is down more than a half. We will end this far of National Debt
1:57.4	Debt Share falling.
1:58.6	The sun is starting to shine and we are fixing the route.
2:03.0	Yes, George O'born speaking in March this year.
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