Podcasts & videos

Jan 2026: A talk arguing that imaginative vision is central to economics, particularly which parts of the world are spotlighted by models and which parts are left in darkness. For the Economic Research Council (and chosen by The Syllabus as their video of the week):

Oct 2025: This one is a little different. A talk about what the connection between Ricardo’s Dream and the writings of British philosophy Mary Midgley (1919-2018) for the wonderful people at the Women in Parenthesis project.

Sept 2025: I listened to lots of Pitchfork Economics while researching Ricardo’s Dream so it was a thrill to be on the show and get to speak to Nick Hanauer and Goldy live. Here’s the link to listen or download on your podcast app.

Sept 2025: A few weeks after our interview (below), Cahal Moran of Unlearning Economics YouTube wrote to me to say that he was making a video on free trade for his channel heavily influenced by Ricardo’s Dream. He did a great job and as I write this it’s been seen by over 150k people. The bit on my book starts at 30 mins.

June 2025: A real pleasure to speak to Cahal Moran (aka ‘Unlearning Economics‘ on YouTube) one of the co-founders of Rethinking Economics and author of new book ‘Why We’re Getting Poorer’. It’s an hour and a half and covers a lot of ground. Audio also on Spotify and other podcast apps.

June 2025: This was an hour-long chat with Tom Pegram of UCL’s Global Governance Futures podcast, with a focus on the economics of climate change and the legacy of Susan Strange. It’s here on Spotify or Apple or wherever you get your podcasts or here on YouTube.

April 2025: I had a long, wide-ranging conversation with Morteza Hajizadeh for the New Books Network podcast. Find the audio on Spotify or Apple or wherever you get your podcasts. More info here: https://newbooksnetwork.com/ricardos-dream.

Jan 2025: Here’s a podcast interview I did with David Sloan Wilson, an American author, professor, and thinker, it’s called ‘Curing Economics’ Addiction to Unreal Theories’.

Jan 2025: A French TV discussion show on BFM TV aired a debat between Christian Chavagneux, editor of the magazine Alternatives Économiques and Jean-Marc Daniel, professor at ESCP Business School on Ricardo’s Dream. Click for the video in French or for a summary on Bluesky in English.

Dec 2024: Here’s an inteview I did with Henry Leveson-Gower from The Mint Magazine from December 2024 (disclaimer: I worked for Henry with his organisation Promoting Economic Pluralism a few years ago).

Nov 2024: An interview with Jess Miles from the Transforming Society podcast (part of Bristol University Press family). It’s on Spotify or Apple or below, or wherever you get your podcasts:

Nov 2024: To mark the publication of Ricardo’s Dream: How Economists Forgot the Real World and Led Us Astray, I’ve recorded 14 short YouTube videos (each lasting around 2 minutes) on various aspects of the book. They can all be accessed on YouTube.

This is an introduction to why I wrote the book:

And, this is another one that uses a famous drawing of Isaac Newton by William Blake to explain how mainstream economics of the past few decades has made real, important things disappear from the mind’s eye:

All 14 videos can be found on this YouTube playlist.

2015: An old Channel 4 News broadcast on Virunga National Park and the British oil company Soco International, where I’m interviewed: