Peter Martin's podcasts

Wayne Swan, May 13, 2009

noreply@blogger.com (Peter Martin) — Thu, 14 May 2009 03:23:07 PDT

60 minutes Post-Budget address to the National Press Club

"The speech wasn't perfect. But it gave us a simple and authoritative, even human account of what's been going on, all this time. It's impossible not to respect the hard work that both Kevin Rudd and Swan have put in since this whole mess started. But too often they miss the opportunities to bring people along with them; to explain simply these vast decisions to the very voters in whose name they are made." - Annabel Crabb

Gillian Tett, April 30, 2009

noreply@blogger.com (Peter Martin) — Thu, 14 May 2009 03:24:12 PDT

82 minutes, "Fools Gold," London School of Economics

Gillian Tett takes us inside the shadowy world of complex finance and derivatives and explains how the business of slicing and dicing debt led us to the devastating global credit crunch. Gillian Tett has worked as a journalist for the Financial Times for fifteen years. In 2008 she won the British Press Award for the Financial Journalist of the Year. This event marks the publication of her latest book Fool's Gold :How Unrestrained Greed Corrupted a Dream, Shattered Global Markets and Unleashed a Catastrophe.

Peter Martin, ABC NSW, April 29 2009

noreply@blogger.com (Peter Martin) — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:31:38 PDT

26 minutes, What'll be in the budget, Suzanne Hill, ABC NSW Statewide afternoons

Peter Martin, Adelaide ABC, April 29 2009

noreply@blogger.com (Peter Martin) — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:14:04 PDT

26 minutes, What'll be in the budget, Matt and Dave, ABC Adelaide 891

Richard Epstein, November 3, 2008

noreply@blogger.com (Peter Martin) — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 16:06:52 PDT

56 minutes, Happiness, Inequality, and Envy, EconTalk.

Richard Epstein of the University of Chicago talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the relationship between happiness and wealth, the effects of inequality on happiness, and the economics of envy and altruism. He also applies the theory of evolution to explain some of the findings of the happiness literature.

Details here.

Glenn Stevens, April 21, 2009

noreply@blogger.com (Peter Martin) — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 02:41:19 PDT

40 minutes, The Road to Recovery, Australian Institute of Company Directors, Adelaide.

Text here.

Warwick McKibbin, April 8, 2009

noreply@blogger.com (Peter Martin) — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 19:05:07 PDT

50 minutes, Causes and consequences of the Global Financial Crisis, Lowy Institute.

At the Wednesday Lunch at Lowy on 8 April 2009, Professor Warwick McKibbin explored how well the global financial crisis can be understood as a series of unexpected shocks, what these shocks were and how conventional economic models explain the global adjustment and the implications of alternative policy responses.

His PowerPoint presentation is available here.

Ric Battellino, March 31, 2009

noreply@blogger.com (Peter Martin) — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 19:04:37 PDT

40 minutes, An Update on the Economy and Financial Developments, Brisbane

The talk in which the Reserve Bank Deputy Governor concedes its a recession.

Bernie Fraser, Steve Keen, Gary Weiss, March 29, 2009

noreply@blogger.com (Peter Martin) — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 19:04:21 PDT

50 minutes, The Global Financial Crisis: Its Origins and Consequences, Radio National Big Ideas

Excellent evocation of Steve Keen's thinking.

Glenn Stevens, March 25, 2009

noreply@blogger.com (Peter Martin) — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:10:23 PDT

40 minutes, Public Policy and the Payments System - Melbourne

Will Hutton and Martin Wolf, October 20, 2008

noreply@blogger.com (Peter Martin) — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 19:24:05 PST

91 minutes, The Global Financial Crisis: In conversation, London School of Economics

Will Hutton is chief executive of the Work Foundation. Prior to this, he spent four years as editor-in-chief of The Observer and continues to write a weekly column for the paper. Martin Wolf is associate editor and chief economics commentator at the Financial Times, London. Wonderful listening. Many good ideas.