Curated playlist
Academics of the London School of Economics
- T. S. AshtonEconomic historian T. S. Ashton turned down a knighthood in 1957. It stayed private until 2012.
- Tim DysonTim Dyson wrote a 2018 book on India's population from the earliest modern humans to today.
- Michael Cox (academic)Michael Cox co-founded LSE's Cold War Studies Centre in 2004 with Professor Odd Arne Westad.
- Odd Arne WestadOdd Arne Westad argues the Cold War was not mainly a European story. His work made "global Cold War" a standard term.
- Clement AttleeClement Attlee told the King, "I've won the election," and the King replied that he already knew.
- George AkerlofGeorge Akerlof showed why good used cars can vanish from a market.
- Friedrich HayekThree days before the 1929 Wall Street crash, Friedrich Hayek wrote that no sudden collapse was expected.
- Paul KrugmanPaul Krugman turned to economics because psychohistory was fiction. Asimov's novels inspired him.
- Bronisław MalinowskiBronisław Malinowski pitched a tent in the middle of a village and stayed.
- Janet YellenJanet Yellen is the only person to have led the Fed, the White House economic advisers and the Treasury.
- Nicholas CraftsNicholas Crafts, a British economist born in Nottingham on the 9th of March 1949, spent his career trying to put numbers on one of the most famous turning points in history. The Industrial Revolution is usually told through steam,…
- John HicksEconomist John Hicks called his own famous diagram a classroom gadget. He made the IS-LM model in 1937.
- Oliver Hart (economist)Economist Oliver Hart was called as a government expert witness in two tax cases.
- Amartya SenAmartya Sen carries a name that was chosen for him by a Nobel laureate. Rabindranath Tagore, the first Asian to win a Nobel Prize, gave the newborn the name অমর্ত্য. The boy was born on the 3rd of November 1933 in Santiniketan, Bengal,…
- Ronald CoaseRonald Coase faced twenty skeptical senior economists in 1960 and gradually won them over.
- Lionel RobbinsLionel Robbins refused to sign John Maynard Keynes's Depression-era draft. They later reconciled.
- Nicholas BarrNicholas Barr's book "The Economics of the Welfare State" has run to six editions since 1987.
- Bertrand RussellAt 89, philosopher Bertrand Russell went to jail for an anti-nuclear protest. Asked to behave, he said, "No, I won't."
- David StarkeyHistorian David Starkey lost many honors within days in July 2020. A podcast remark on slavery set it off.
- A. L. RowseA china clay worker's son from Cornwall claimed to name Shakespeare's Dark Lady.