Barry's Economics
Hosted by Barry Ferns and Barry · Barry's Economics
4.9from 138 ratings
- 77
- Episodes
- 19
- Transcribed
- 138
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2026
- First episode
About Barry's Economics
Barry’s Economics is about explaining the economy without the jargon. Using humour, storytelling, and behavioural science, Barry explores wealth, power, inequality, and the hidden forces shaping everyday life.
- Publisher
- Barry's Economics
- Category
- society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 2 Feb 2026
- Latest episode
- 19 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
19 of 77 episodes have a transcript.
19 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
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Why “Don’t You Understand Economics?” Is a Con - Barry's Economics
Published 19 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Are you simple? And today I want to talk about that book Economics 101 because I've read it. And the really, really, really interesting thing about Economics 101 is that the people that wrote it keep winning prizes for proving that everything in that book is wrong. Economics 101. Let's look at it. So what does Economics 101 teach? Well, introductory economics teaches a basic handful of ideas. One, people are rational. Two, people respond to incentives. Three, prices get set where supply meets demand. And if you interfere with a price, something bad happens on the other side of that interference. […]
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