Dr Linda Yueh on Inequality, China and the End of Poverty

TRIGGERnometry

Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.6 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2018

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Economist Dr Linda Yueh discusses the economics of inequality, the gender pay gap, China, North Korea, the death of the American Dream and ending poverty with the guys at TRIGGERnometry. Find us on Social Media: https://twitter.com/triggerpod https://www.facebook.com/triggerpod https://www.instagram.com/triggerpod About TRIGGERnometry: Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@failinghuman) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, the culture war, feminism, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers and notorious comedians.

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0:00.0	And Oh, Hello and this is a show for you if you were bored of people arguing on the
0:34.2	internet about subjects they know nothing about. At trigonometry we don't
0:38.6	pretend to be experts we ask the experts. We're here at the world famous angel comedy club and our amazing expert guest this week is an
0:46.7	economist author and the presenter of several series on economics. Linda you welcome to trigonometry. Thank you good to be here. Linda, you welcome to Trigonometry.
0:52.6	Thank you, good to be here.
0:54.3	Linda, would you tell us a little bit about your personal story about how you came to be
0:58.2	literally sitting on this seat in your career?
1:00.8	Well, I'm an economist. I'm also a broadcaster, so I am at Oxford University. I'm also at Oxford
1:09.8	University. I'm also at London Business School, but that's part of what I do. The other part of what I do is I'm also a broadcaster.
1:20.0	So I have presented a number of TV and radio programs for the BBC. I was the BBC's chief business
1:28.3	correspondent. I was economics editor at Bloomberg TV. So I find myself in a very, well, a very fun mix of things to do. So doing
1:41.1	teaching economics, economics,
1:43.0	but also getting to talk about economics.
1:46.0	And I have just finished a book that brings both of those
1:50.0	sides together talking about economics in an accessible way to a non-specialist audience, basically
1:56.1	normal people.
1:57.1	Like us, basically.
1:58.1	I finished a book called The Great Economist, How Their Ideas Can Help Us Today. And I'm reading at the moment. economists how their ideas can help us today.
2:03.0	And I'm reading it at the moment.
2:05.0	It's absolutely fascinating.
2:06.0	I was just saying to you before we started the show that it's eminently readable for people who are not a specialist
2:11.3	in economics.
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