Why we're getting poorer

我们为何变得越来越贫穷

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2025-10-13

1 小时 26 分钟
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Contributor(s): Dr Cahal Moran | As the UK economy struggles along while the US seems destined for chaos, evaluating why we’re getting poorer has never seemed more relevant. Join us for this event at which LSE's Cahal Moran will talk about their new book, Why We’re Getting Poorer: A Realist’s Guide to the Economy and How We Can Fix it. Did you know that while we think of money as notes issued by the government, the truth is that the overwhelming majority of money today is credit created by private banks? Did you know that the reason housing keeps getting less accessible is because we haven’t found a way to separate houses from land in our policies? Cahal Moran delves into the key topics in economics showing that what we think we know about these things is wrong, and teaching us what we really need to know. Deciphering the jargon and complexity of economic thinking, with examples ranging from the Simpsons to the German football league to The Inbetweeners, Cahal shows us why our economy set us up to fail, and offers suggestions for how we can make positive changes.
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  • Welcome to the LSE Events podcast by the London School of Economics and Political Science.

  • Get ready to hear from some of the most influential international figures in the social sciences.

  • My name is Ganga Sridhar.

  • I am assistant professor in the Department of Psychological and Behavioral Sciences at the LSE,

  • colleague of CAHALS.

  • It's my great honor to chair this event today.

  • First of all, a big welcome to all of you and thank you for making it out.

  • It's fantastic to see so many people here and a full-up auditorium.

  • Still welcome.

  • I'm looking forward to an amazing discussion afterwards.

  • A few notes on housekeeping.

  • The event will be live-streamed.

  • A bad concept will be up later if everything goes well and we have no technical issues.

  • And we're hoping that we had around a couple hundred people signed up for the live,

  • apart from the number of people here in this nearly full auditorium.

  • So it's going to be a good discussion, I think.

  • So I'll just do a quick introduction to Kahal.

  • And then I'll just give the floor to him so he can talk about this book.

  • So Kahal Moran is a visiting fellow at the Department of Psychological and Behavioral Sciences and a behavioral economist who looks at how bias is in heuristic affect consumer behavior.

  • He's also the creator of a YouTube channel called On Learning Economics,