Nat Dyer is an author, journalist, and economist. His recent (and first) book is Ricardo’s Dream: How Economists Forgot the Real World and Led Us Astray. I’ve seen Nat’s work with the organisation/website Promoting Economic Pluralism, but I didn’t realise he had a book in the works! He emailed me offering to send a copy over and we agreed to chat about this topic. Obviously, the idea of economists getting lost in modelling is one that I’ve spoken about plenty.
Nat's book was excellent, as I told him in the interview, and it was a fun and freewheeling discussion about some really important stuff. Enjoy!
You can get Nat’s book here:
https://www.natdyer.com/ricardos-dream/
Originally Recorded on Jun 18, 2025
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