New Economics Podcast

With the election looming, Kirsty Styles chats to James Meadway, Senior Economist at the New Economics Foundation, about the deals each of the political parties might conceivably do on economic policy. (Recorded Friday 1st May) Weekly Economics Podcast on Twitter: www.twitter.com/weeklyeconpod James Meadway on Twitter: www.twitter.com/meadwaj Kirsty Styles on Twitter: www.twitter.com/kirstystyles1 Produced by James Shield & Huw Jordan Music by Podington Bear, used under Creative Commons BY-NC Licence www.podingtonbear.com Soundcloud image for this episode by UK Parliament, used under Creative Commons Licence www.flickr.com/photos/uk_parliament/2700549755/

Special guest Stephen Devlin, an environmental economist at the New Economics Foundation, joins Kirsty to chat about the carbon bubble and the growing momentum behind the divestment movement. Weekly Economics Podcast on Twitter: www.twitter.com/weeklyeconpod Stephen Devlin on Twitter: www.twitter.com/_stephendevlin Kirsty Styles on Twitter: www.twitter.com/kirstystyles1 Produced by James Shield & Huw Jordan Music by Podington Bear, used under Creative Commons BY-NC Licence www.podingtonbear.com Soundcloud image for this episode by zpeckler, used under Creative Commons Licence www.flickr.com/photos/zpeckler/3740470967

Last week the political parties launched their manifestos ahead of the election. Kirsty Styles chats to James Meadway, Senior Economist at the New Economics Foundation, about the differences between the parties' economic policies. Weekly Economics Podcast on Twitter: www.twitter.com/weeklyeconpod James Meadway on Twitter: www.twitter.com/meadwaj Kirsty Styles on Twitter: www.twitter.com/kirstystyles1 Produced by James Shield & Huw Jordan Music by Podington Bear, used under Creative Commons BY-NC Licence www.podingtonbear.com Soundcloud image for this episode by Ruaraidh Gillies, used under Creative Commons Licence https://www.flickr.com/photos/ruaraidhg/17192410805

Special Guest Polly Trenow from the Women's Budget Group chats to Kirsty about feminist economics and the gender impact of measures announced in the 2015 Budget. Behind-the-scenes podcast team selfie: https://twitter.com/kirstystyles1/status/586589212268482560 Weekly Economics Podcast on Twitter: www.twitter.com/weeklyeconpod Polly Trenow on Twitter: http://twitter.com/polly_trenow Kirsty Styles on Twitter: www.twitter.com/kirstystyles1 Women's Budget Group: http://wbg.org.uk WBG briefing: http://wbg.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/WBG-Budget-2015-Briefing.pdf Produced by James Shield & Huw Jordan Music by Podington Bear, used under Creative Commons BY-NC Licence www.podingtonbear.com Soundcloud image for this episode by Jay Morrison, used under Creative Commons Licence

Europe, the EU, the ECB, quantitative easing… this week we take on subjects that are usually seen as complicated, boring or even frightening. Kirsty Styles chats to James Meadway, Senior Economist at the New Economics Foundation, to break down the jargon. Weekly Economics Podcast on Twitter: www.twitter.com/weeklyeconpod Kirsty Styles on Twitter: www.twitter.com/kirstystyles1 James Meadway on Twitter: www.twitter.com/meadwaj Produced by James Shield & Huw Jordan Soundcloud image for this episode by Alf Melin, used under Creative Commons Licence https://www.flickr.com/photos/alfmelin/7035825939

Kirsty Styles chats to James Meadway, Senior Economist at the New Economics Foundation, about last week's Budget and what should have been in it. Weekly Economics Podcast on Twitter: www.twitter.com/weeklyeconpod Kirsty Styles on Twitter: www.twitter.com/kirstystyles1 James Meadway on Twitter: www.twitter.com/meadwaj Produced by James Shield & Huw Jordan Music by Podington Bear, used under Creative Commons BY-NC Licence www.podingtonbear.com Soundcloud image for this episode by HM Treasury, used under Creative Commons Licence

In a special pre-budget episode, Kirsty Styles chats to James Meadway, Senior Economist at the New Economics Foundation, about what will (and won't) be in the budget. Plus, we imagine what Chancellor Meadway would do differently. Jargon of the week: trade deficit and current account deficit Links: Weekly Economics Podcast on Twitter: www.twitter.com/weeklyeconpod Kirsty Styles on Twitter: www.twitter.com/kirstystyles1 James Meadway on Twitter: www.twitter.com/meadwaj Produced by James Shield & Huw Jordan Music by Podington Bear, used under Creative Commons BY-NC Licence www.podingtonbear.com Music by Christian Bjoerklund, used under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA Licence http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Christian_Bjoerklund/Skapmat/christian_bjoerklund_-_skpmat_ep_-_04_-_the_professors_lab Soundcloud image for this episode by HM Treasury, used under Creative Commons Licence http://flickr.com/photos/hmtreasury/4720955639www.flickr.com/photos/w4nd3rl0st/5454805481

Kirsty Styles chats to James Meadway, Senior Economist at the New Economics Foundation (NEF), about the Institute for Fiscal Studies' report on living standards. — Jargon of the week: Debt and deficit Listener question of the week: Robin Hood tax — Links and reading list: Cribb, J., Hood, A., Joyce, J. (March 2015), “Living Standards and Future Challenges”, London: Institute for Fiscal Studies: www.ifs.org.uk/publications/7615 ONS (March 2015), “Economic Review”, London: Office for National Statistics: www.ons.gov.uk/ons/dcp171766_397535.pdf Kirsty Styles on Twitter: www.twitter.com/kirstystyles1 James Meadway on Twitter: www.twitter.com/meadwaj Like this week's music? Find us on Spotify: sptfy.com/4rg Soundcloud image by Jason Mrachina, used under Creative Commons licence www.flickr.com/photos/w4nd3rl0st/5454805481 — Produced by James Shield & Huw Jordan

A month on from the Greek election, Kirsty Styles chats to James Meadway, Senior Economist at the New Economics Foundation (NEF), about the Syriza-led government's deal with the Eurogroup and whether it needs a Plan B. Jargon of the week: Troika Links and reading list: Letter from Yanis Varoufakis to Eurogroup, leaked 24 February 2015: http://bit.ly/17Y5umG Kasinos, A., Mariolis, T. (2012), “Switch to devalued drachma and cost-push inflation: a simple input-output approach to the Greek case”, Modern Economics 3: http://bit.ly/1EsAh86 Kouvelakis, S. (2015), “The Alternative in Greece”, Jacobin: http://bit.ly/1Dkgbex Lapavitsas, C., et al. (2011), Breaking up? A route out of the euro crisis, London: Research on Money and Finance Lapavitsas, C. and Flassbeck, L. (2015), Against the Troika: crisis and austerity in the eurozone, London: Verso Mason, P. (2015), “Missing from Greek deal: figures”, Channel 4 blog: http://bit.ly/1FXKWtc Kirsty Styles on Twitter: www.twitter.com/kirstystyles1 James Meadway on Twitter: www.twitter.com/meadwaj Like this week's music? Find us on Spotify: http://sptfy.com/4rg Music by Podington Bear, used under Creative Commons BY-NC Licence www.podingtonbear.com Soundcloud image by Council of the European Union, used under Creative Commons BY-NC-ND Licence www.flickr.com/photos/92227533@N07/16517729795 Produced by James Shield & Huw Jordan

Kirsty Styles chats to James Meadway, Senior Economist at the New Economics Foundation (NEF), about the Bank of England's inflation report and what it means for the UK economy and real wages in 2015. Jargon of the week: Inflation and deflation Listener question of the week: What are hedge funds? Links: Matthew Whittaker, “Boom time for wages?”, Resolution Foundation blog (17 February 2015): www.resolutionfoundation.org/media/blog/boom-time-for-wages-how-realistic-is-a-doubling-of-wage-growth-by-the-end-of-the-year Bank of England, “Overview of the Inflation Report”, February 2015: www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/Pages/inflationreport/infrep.aspx CIPD, “Labour Market Outlook”, Winter 2014-15: www.cipd.co.uk/hr-resources/survey-reports/labour-market-outlook-winter-2014-15.aspx Kirsty Styles on Twitter: www.twitter.com/kirstystyles1 James Meadway on Twitter: www.twitter.com/meadwaj Music by Podington Bear, used under Creative Commons BY-NC Licence www.podingtonbear.com Soundcloud image by Bank of England, used under Creative Commons BY-ND Licence https://www.flickr.com/photos/bankofengland/14721059548/ Produced by James Shield & Huw Jordan