In this episode with Naomi Brockwell, we discuss bitcoin, blockchain and initial coin offerings (ICOs).

This is our second conversation - 4 years on from our first back in 2014.

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Stephen Wright is Professor of Economics at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK.

Previously Professor Wright worked at the Bank of England and Cambridge University.

He is co-author of 'Valuing Wall Street: Protecting Wealth in Turbulent Times' - an informative book published in 2000 warning of the high valuation placed on stocks at that time.

In this episode we discuss his work on valuing the stock market using a variant of Tobin's q - a valuation method put forward by the late James Tobin (Nobel Prize in Economics, 1981).

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Nicholas Gruen is CEO of Lateral Economics and is a widely published policy economist, entrepreneur and commentator.

In this episode Professor Gruen discusses the need for reform in economics at both academic and policy level.

He also explains the importance of information and how information is poorly managed at the central planning stage but can be used effectively under the right direction if this information or data can be shareable both from the private and the public sector.

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Arjo Klamer is Professor of Cultural Economics at the Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands.

His recent book 'Doing the Right Thing: a Value Based Approach' looks at the human perspective in the economy and the firm. It focuses on the most important goods such as families, homes, communities, knowledge and art. It places economic processes in their cultural context.

Professor Klamer's other book 'The Value of Culture' is also discussed in this episode.

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