Simon Evans Goes to Market

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Simon Evans presents comedy lectures on economics.

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Simon Evans

Tim Harford

Merryn Somerset Webb

Kevin Cahill

Benjamin Partridge

Guy Venables

Andy Wolton

Tilusha Ghelani

Simon Evans Goes to Market: Series 1: Land

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Simon and guests ask how land came to be traded and who really owns the land we buy.

Simon asks why bricks and mortar are deemed a safe investment, and who really owns land we buy? With Kevin Cahill. From May 2014.

How do you make economics funny? How do you put the comedy in commodity? 

Simon Evans has the answer in this series which asks us to get involved in investment.

Uncowed by an apparently complicated and overwhelming system, Simon focuses on four commodities so intrinsic to our lives they have an almost elemental significance - land, gold, oil and grain. 

Yet, despite us encountering them everywhere we look, very few people have been able to build a fortune on them. But that's set to change as, Simon enlists help from the experts - Tim Harford, Merryn Somerset Webb and a guest specialist as they examine the chequered social and economic histories of these commodities. 

By looking at four such fundamental products, Simon brings us to a closer understanding of how global economic forces have a far-reaching and often surprising impact on our lives.

In this first episode, Simon looks at Land. How did it come to be traded, why we think bricks and mortar are a safe investment and who really owns the land we buy? 

Performed by Simon Evans, with regular guests Tim Harford and Merryn Somerset-Webb, and Land expert Kevin Cahill 

Written by Simon Evans with Benjamin Partridge, Guy Venables and Andy Wolton. 

Producer:  Tilusha Ghelani.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2014.

Simon Evans Goes to Market: Series 1

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