🎙️ NEW PODCAST 🎙️
From empire to Soviet planning to post‑1991 capitalism, Russia’s economy has been rebuilt more than once. In today’s Marginal Babble Podcast episode, I sat down with Professor Richard Ericson to break down the forces that shaped Russia.
https://t.co/60cMVEhay6
Education is pivotal to a nation’s development, but the balance between public/private sectors has long been debated. I sat down with Professor Panu Pelkonen to discuss the state of education in Peru and how increased public spending affected outcomes.
https://t.co/QAyqcCCcSY
Rome wasn’t built in a day, but it was built by the 90%!
The Economy of the Roman Empire was as complex and interesting as the lives of the everyday Romans who worked within it.
If you want to know more about it, check out the podcast below!
https://t.co/0nVuFcJkJv
New podcast on the future of FinTech, recorded (half) live from the Singapore FinTech Festival!
Th Future of FinTech (Singapore FinTech Festival 2025) | Marginal Babble Ep.21 with Dr. Daniel Broby
https://t.co/xa6GJ6ncuI
What Drives House Price Cycles… In light of increasing housing pressures across the west, I sit down with Professor John Duca to discuss housing supply and the factors affecting the property market!
https://t.co/GVH5qBc6kB
My conversation with Professor Toman Barsbai on how migrants are affected by moving in recessions and financial crisis’s is available now on YouTube & Spotify. Great conversation and some great insights on how to maximise the economic impact of migrants!
https://t.co/WJiyKfPOGt
I sat down with Professor Barsbai to discuss the effects recession have for migrants moving in these time periods, as well as the economic effects of migrants across America and Europe in the current day.
https://t.co/WJiyKfPOGt
Sorry to rain on your parade @Telegraph
1. We haven't issued a denial
2. We aren't cloud seeding in UAE
3. Our weather and climate scientists are providing evidence-based comments to explain what happened
4. Read more from them at https://t.co/i1JpOMXu9t
5. Jog on
My discussion with Proffesor Sid Bandyopadhyay on the socio-economic effects of domestic violence is now live at the link below!
Please check it out if you get the opportunity!
@unibirmingham
https://t.co/sCiod4QddO
Today, we have lost one of the greatest contemporary thinkers.
Daniel Kahneman shattered the glass palace of science and became famous worldwide in 2011 with the publication of "Thinking, Fast and Slow”, in which he popularized the dual-process theory. This theory suggests that human decisions arise from a complex interplay between two cognitive systems: one more intuitive and the other more deliberative. Despite many critiques and refinements, this theory remains one of the main reference points for scholars studying human decisions.
But this was not Kahneman's only contribution. His 1979 paper in Econometrica, introducing prospect theory, is one of the most cited articles in economics and is one of the main reasons he, a psychologist, was able to win the Nobel Prize in Economics. In this paper, Kahneman and Tversky introduce a utility function aimed at explaining how people make decisions under risk. Personally, I found this article to be one of the most inspiring I have ever read. The day I read it, I understood that human behavior could be captured through a mathematical formula. I was a pure mathematician at the time, now I study human decisions.
In another article from 1986, Kahneman, Knetsch, and Thaler introduced an economic game that later became known as the “dictator game”, which has become the official measure of human altruism. The game is very simple: you have 10 dollars and the recipient has nothing. You can give any amount to the receiver, ranging from 0 to 10. The recipient is passive and only gets what you decide to give. How much would you give?
But this is not even the tip of the iceberg. Any summary of his work would inevitably be incomplete. I have just gone on his Google Scholar page. His work has more than half a million citations! He reshaped psychology and economics by inventing entirely new fields of research.
My conversation with former Morgan Stanley & Merrill Lynch Chief UK Economist and Monetary Policy Committee Member David Miles CBE on UK House Price Inflation was
is now live on all platforms.
Please take a look if you are interested!
https://t.co/OixIzSA7Yb
….The full conversation will be available to watch on YouTube and all podcasting platforms this Monday from the Marginal Babble channels. Please take a look when it does if you are interested!
I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to sit down with former Morgan Stanley Chief UK Economist and Monetary Policy Committee Member David Miles CBE last week, to discuss his research and other factors behind the increased levels of UK house price inflation…
…David provided me with some excellent insight into how several factors, in particular interest rates, have led to some the largest increases we have seen with regards to real house price growth in the UK…