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    • Season 03: The Use & Abuse of Economic Expertise
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    • Secondary Symptoms
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Economics sometimes feels like physics--so sturdy, so objective, and so immutable. At least, that is the way politicians tend to talk about economic research. Yet, behind every clean number or eye-popping graph, there is usually a rather messy story, a story shaped by values, interests, ideologies, and petty bureaucratic politics. In our new mini-series the Use and Abuse of Economic Expertise, we explore the hidden stories behind the economic ideas that shape our world.

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    May 20, 2025Front Page, Season 02: The Rationality Wars, The (ir)Rational Alaskans Mini-Series

    Cited Podcast Winner for Legal Media Award from American Bar Association

    Cited Podcast’s mini-series “the (ir)Rational Alaskans” is a winner of a 2025 Silver Gavel Awards for Media and the Arts from the American Bar Association. This is the ABA’s highest recognition for public understanding, and the most prestigious US-based legal journalism award.

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    March 25, 2025Front Page, Season 02: The Rationality Wars

    New York Festivals Shortlist Cited for Best Education Podcast

    The 2025 New York Festivals have shortlisted Cited Podcast’s returning season the Rationality Wars for best education podcast. This is one of our industry’s most prestigious honours, and it marks a continuation of Cited’s long history of award-winning journalistic excellence.

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    November 18, 2024RSS Feed, Season 03: The Use & Abuse of Economic Expertise

    Episode #4: The Secret Life of Central Bankers

    Trump scores big wins by taking cheap shots at experts. Now, some worry he could try to oust Fed Chairman Jerome Powell. The typical centrist position is to defend the supposedly impartial, apolitical expertise of such figures. Yet, we know that is not right. Is there a better way to imagine a better bank?

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    November 10, 2024RSS Feed, Season 03: The Use & Abuse of Economic Expertise

    Episode #3: The Disappearance & Return of Inequality Studies

    For much of the 20th century, few economists studied inequality. Today, it’s one of the most popular topics there is. Why is inequality back? Just as importantly, how could it have possibly disappeared? We survey the intellectual history of inequality studies in economics.

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    November 4, 2024RSS Feed, Season 03: The Use & Abuse of Economic Expertise

    The WEF is Actually Bad, But Not Like That (Darts Re-Run)

    We’re on break this week as everyone gears up for, and puzzles through, the results of this week’s US election. However, we have an old Darts & Letters episode that is especially relevant to our ongoing season, the Use & Use of Economic Expertise.

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    October 28, 2024RSS Feed, Season 03: The Use & Abuse of Economic Expertise

    Episode #2: From Rubinomics to Bidenomics

    Clinton’s Third Way Democrats moved the party away from the unionized industrial labour that typically made up its base. Today, Clintonism is out, and Bidenomics in. Bidenomics was marketed as a political and theoretical break. Yet, beyond November 5th, Bidenomics might too be out. We look at shifting landscape of economic thinking within the Democratic Party.

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    October 21, 2024RSS Feed, Season 03: The Use & Abuse of Economic Expertise

    Episode #1: Simon Kuznets & the Invention of the Economy

    We tell the story of the invention of the modern economy, or at least the idea of the economy. It starts with one measure: the GDP, or gross domestic product. Today, its a measure that dominates our politics. We have Simon Kuznets to thank for that. Yet, for Kuznets, the GDP was not what he hoped it would be.

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