The Economists is a Radio National program that uses the tools of Economics to shine a light on life. The program is presented by Peter Martin (economy editor at The Conversation and a visiting fellow at the Crawford School of Public Policy at the ANU and the former economics editor of The Age) and Gigi Foster (one of Australia’s leading economics communicators and a Professor at the UNSW School of Economics and the ESA’s 2019 Young Economist of the Year).

It airs Thursday 5.30pm. Repeated: Friday at 1.30pm and Wednesday midnight. Another convenient way to listen is to download the podcast at:

https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/the-economists/

The first program for 2020 is a winner - Peter and Gigi look at two ‘hot’ topics - coronavirus and wage theft - get in and have a listen!