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In this third podcast exploring the underlying assumptions of economics, Victoria Bateman explains how economists have ignored the importance of sex and gender. She argues that the status and freedom of women are central to making the west rich, overtaking other parts of the world that had long been ahead. She shows hot obsession with women’s bodily modesty has made women dependent on men, and how this cult of modesty has changed over time and between countries. She calls for a fundamental change in modern economics which has neglected women, lacked historical understanding, and ignored the wider social sciences.

Victoria Bateman studied economics at the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford, She returned to Cambridge in2009 as Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, before leaving to become an independent scholar and consultant. Her work links economic history and economics, and above all the role of women. She is a regular broadcaster, contributor to newspapers, public speaker.

Books we discuss are:
The Sex Factor: How Women Made the West Rich Cambridge, 2019.
Naked Feminism: Breaking the Cult of Female Modesty Cambridge, 2023.

https://www.vnbateman.com/

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TIn this second podcast exploring the underlying assumptions of economics, Avner Offer explains how the post-war age of economic growth was built on American and European welfare states and social democracy. This settlement was challenged in the 1970s by a coalition of business, taxpayers, consumers, ideologists and social scientists. The result of this discontent was the intellectual and political dominance of market liberalism. In this conversation, Martin Daunton and Avner Offer explore how this shift came about, what role was played by the Nobel Prize in economics, and what explains the divide between the public and private sectors.

The key books we discuss are:

The Challenge of Affluence: Self Control and Well-Being in the United States and Britain since 1950, Oxford, 2006.
With Gabriel Soderberg, The Nobel Factor: The Prize in Economics, Social Democracy and the Market Turn Princeton and Oxford, 2016.
Understanding the Private-Pubic Divide: Markets, Governments and Time Horizons Cambridge 2022.

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How do we know light is constant throughout the universe? What new technology or theory would we need to further develop our understanding of the beginnings of the universe? How do you know that the galaxies are made of certain elements?

These and many more questions were put to Professor Chris Lintott for episode 13 of our new series!

This podcast followed his lecture ‘First Light: Revealing the Early Universe’ which was given on 29th May 2024.

You can find information about his lecture and others in his series here:

https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/first-light

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