Angus Deaton on his Nobel prize-winning career (encore)
Season 3 of Alphachat starts next week, but today we’re re-upping a wonderful conversation we had with Angus Deaton in October 2015, just after he’d won the the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel — or just the economic Nobel, to the non-pedants among you. Further down is a time guide to the topics we discuss. And as we wrote at the time of the interview, several threads run consistently throughout his academic work and his writing (copied from our original post), including:
Next stop, decentralised criminal marketplaces..?
Legal enforcement authorities have shut down two of the biggest criminal marketplaces on the dark web, Alphabay and Hansa, in an operation of unprecedented international scale. But will the Feds be able to keep up once the market evolves, as it surely will, into entirely decentralised form?
Tim Harford on the lessons of new technologies in economic history
Tim Harford joins the show this week to talk about his new book, 50 Things that Made the Modern Economy (US, UK), a companion to his delightful podcast series for the BBC World Service. Tim also shares the lessons of past inventions that we often miss, the topic of his recent FT Magazine cover story. Here’s an excerpt: