Words & Numbers
Hosted by James and Ant · Free the People
4.8from 537 ratings
- 532
- Episodes
- 151
- Transcribed
- 537
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2017
- First episode
About Words & Numbers
Words & Numbers is one of the highest-rated economics podcasts in the world. Each episode, Antony Davies and James R. Harrigan dig into economics, political science, and current events to explain what’s actually happening and why it matters.
- Publisher
- Free the People
- Category
- education
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- Yes
- First episode
- 15 Feb 2017
- Latest episode
- 8 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
151 of 532 episodes have a transcript.
8 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 527: David Friedman Returns!
1 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 526: Nature Has a Normative Standard?
24 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 525: Athens v Berlin
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Episode 527: David Friedman Returns!
Published 8 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] But most of those are ones in which there is one subpopulation, which is under one. And so that, for example, in Wales for quite a while, Welsh were under Welsh law in some issues and English were under English law. And again, I don't know in that case what happens if you have a case between a Welshman and an Englishman. But there have been a number of situations. For that matter, in Spain, in Muslim Spain, You had Jews being tried in Jewish courts under Jewish law and Muslims being tried in Muslim courts. And one of the weird things that I came across, which I think is true, although all of this stuff, it's not as if I've spent years on any one of these legal systems. […]
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- David Friedman
- Tom Krannawitter
- James Martin
- Clark Neily
- Wes Westmoreland
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 369 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 168 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 57 / 100
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- Quality
- 75
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 96
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