Hello welcome to money talks the economists weekly finance and economics

podcast I'm Simon Long an editor at the paper, and coming up this week.

A new approach to economics?

I'm not sure that an economics undergrad, even equipped with this wonderful new textbook,

would be able to have predicted the financial crisis.

But it does mark a departure from old ways of teaching.

And we have a special item on how Latin music is making a comeback.

We've seen some growth in the past two years in the

industry as a whole and Latin has outpaced all other genres. And we welcome

Colombian reggaeton master Jay Balvin to the podcast with a bit of exclusive news.

You know it's a sexy sound I think we're creating a new wave worldwide that really people just want to get to know more about.

But you'll have to wait and listen for the scoop.

First, we go to China, where a new generation of entrepreneurs is emerging.

The country's 100 plus unicorns, that start-ups with the value of a billion dollars or more,

are worth over 400 billion, that surpasses the value of all American unicorns put together.

But why?

What's happening to encourage such a huge growth spurt?

That's something I want to discuss with Vijevite Swarin

who's just wound up five years as the economist China business editor and joins

be from Hong Kong.

Hello, V.

Hello there.

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