More or Less: Behind the Stats
Business
We investigate Oxfam’s claim that “since 2020, the five richest men in the world have seen their fortunes more than double, while almost five billion people have seen their wealth fall”.
With the help of Johan Norberg, Historian and Author of ideas and Felix Salmon, Financial Correspondent at Axios, we explore the figures behind the wealth of the richest and uncover what it really tells us about the world’s financial markets.
And Charles Kenny, senior fellow at the Centre for Global Development in Washington DC, helps us unpick why, when looking at the world’s poorest people, measurements of wealth don’t always tell us what we really need to know.
Presenter: Tim Harford Producer: Debbie Richford Production Co-ordinator: Brenda Brown Series Producer: Tom Colls Sound Mix: Hal Haines Editor: Richard Vadon
(image: Elon Musk at the Viva Tech fair in Paris June 2023. Credit: Nathan Laine/Getty Images)
Do one in five young Americans think the holocaust is a myth?
Has Milei fixed Argentina’s inflation problem?
98%: Is misinformation being spread about a review of trans youth medicine?
Tackling The Three-Body Problem
Is loneliness as bad for you as smoking?
Remembering Daniel Kahneman
Bonus episode: Daniel Kahneman on Thinking, Fast and Slow
What's happening to Arctic ice?
Does the Russian government really spend 40% of its budget on the military?
Is public speaking really our biggest fear?
Ultramarathons: Are women faster than men?
School spending, excess deaths and billions of animals at Heathrow
NBA basketball: Is height more important than skill?
Per capita GDP, MP claims and the entire EU budget
The digital ‘robots’ unlocking medical data
Debt, students, shark and chips
The global gender split in young people’s politics
Council tax weirdness: Hartlepool vs Westminster
A pocket-size history of the calculator
Measles, Traitors and the cost of Brexit
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
The Commercial Edge: Unleash the Power of People
The emPOWERed Half Hour
Global News Podcast
Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4
The Infinite Monkey Cage
You’re Dead to Me
Elis James and John Robins