Link: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2009/08/hear_how_the_gold_standard_fue.html
Summary: Liaquat Ahamed, author of Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World, blames that economic collapse of the Great Depression on the boneheaded policies of the leading central bankers. Ahamed says much of the problem stemmed with a return to the gold standard.
Original Air Date: August 5, 2009
Length: 18:43
Main story content begins: 3:16
Link: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/02/18/133874462/the-friday-podcast-gold-standard-r-i-p
Summary: FDR removes the United States from the gold standard
Original air date: February 18, 2011
Length: 21:54
Main story content begins: 2:22
Link: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/02/15/133781593/the-tuesday-podcast-the-gold-standard
Summary: Finance writer James Grant argues for a return to the gold standard.
Original air date: February 15, 2011
Length: 17:25
Main story content begins: 3:12
Summary: An illustration of Keynes’ explanation of the origin of asset bubbles using videos of cute animals.
Original air date: January 11, 2011
Length: 21:43
Main story content begins: 2:44
Link: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2009/09/podcast_economics_for_medieval.html
Summary: Discussion of the economics of life in pre-industrial China in the lower Yangtze River Valley. Also compares the experiences of living in China vs. in Europe in the middle ages.
Original air date: September 4, 2009
Length: 17:00
Main content story begins: 1:18
Link: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2009/07/hear_bloody_miserable_medieval.html
Summary: Discussion of the economics of a French village in the middle ages.
Original air date: July 27, 2009
Length: 21:55
Main story content begins: 3:18
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