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Intelligence Squared

Linda Yueh and Jesse Norman on the Economists That Shaped History

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🗓️ 6 September 2018

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Linda Yueh, renowned economist, broadcaster and author of The Great Economists, in conversation with Jesse Norman, MP for Hereford and South Herefordshire and author of Adam Smith: What He Thought, and Why it Matters, discussed the transformative legacies of history's great economists, from Adam Smith to Karl Marx. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared.  See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Hello, I'm Linda Yu, economist broadcaster, and the author of the great economists how their ideas can help us today.

1:07.5

Welcome to this week's Intelligence Squared Podcast.

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intelligence squared dot com. I'm here with Jesse Norman MP for Hereford and

1:20.0

South Herefordshire and author of Adam Smith what he thought and why it matters.

1:27.2

So Jesse we have to start with why Adam Smith. Well, you will know this as well as I do, probably better having written a book about the great economists yourself.

1:39.0

I start with Adam Smith as well, I should immediately say it.

1:41.0

No, no, exactly. I mean why Smith? Not because there was no economics before

1:46.4

Adam Smith, because there was a lot of economics before Adam Smith and if you think about names

1:50.4

like Josiah Tucker or William Petty or Richard Cantillon or even John Law or any of the great figures of the 17th and early 18th century.

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