To tie in with Radio 4’s continuing focus on the biggest global economic slowdown for six decades, the BBC has set up the Economies in Crisis web page that brings together a range of Radio 4 programmes broadcast over recent months looking at the economy, business and economic theory – from bailing out the banks and crises in the Eurozone, to UK austerity measures and economic slowdown. These include:

• The New Global Economics in which Martin Wolf examines how the world has changed since the beginning of the financial crisis four years ago;
• Analysis: The Darwin Economy in which Professor Robert Frank explains why he thinks Darwin was a better economist than Adam Smith;
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  Stephanie Flanders (Image: BBC / Twitter)

  Stephanomics in which Stephanie Flanders discusses the global financial crisis with top economic thinkers;

• Capitalism on Trial in which Michael Portillo weighs up the costs and benefits of the economic system that governs our lives;
• Keynes vs. Hayek in which Paul Mason chairs a debate between followers of the contrasting liberal economists, John Maynard Keynes and Friedrich Hayek;
• The Story of Economics in which Michael Blastland lays out the history of economic ideas to understand why economics goes wrong and whether it can ever go entirely right;
• Analysis: Radical Economics – Escaping Credit Serfdom in which Paul Mason asks whether the expansion of credit created a new form of worker exploitation;
• Analysis: Radical Economics – Yo Hayek! examines why free market Austrian economics have inspired a rap video and attracted new fans;
• as well as programmes from the In Business and Bottom Line series.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/economics-slowdown/