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Since Dec 2019
Latest Episode Jun 2025

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a podcast about ideas on growth, progress, and prosperity

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Big Ideas with Robin Hanson

Jun 11, 2025 1h 15m

Welcome to Ideas Untrapped podcast. In this episode, I talk with economist Robin Hanson. This episode is about an everyday exploration of some of Robin's biggest ideas. We discussed the hidden…

Power to the People

May 27, 2025 52m

Welcome to Ideas Untrapped podcast. In this episode, I speak with economist Sugandha Srivastav about the hidden political economy of electricity in developing countries. Using examples from her study…

Free Markets in Africa

Mar 20, 2025 46m

Hello, everyone, and this is Ideas Untrapped podcast. In this episode, I explored the challenges of acceptance of free market ideas in Africa with my guest, Tinashe Murapata. We talked about how the…

America's New Deal

Mar 07, 2025 38m

Welcome to another episode of Ideas Untrapped podcast. My guest on this episode is Raymond Fisman, who is the Slater Family Professor in Behavioural Economics at Boston University. He is one of the…

Global Value Chains

Feb 08, 2025 47m

Happy New Year to our listeners. This is the first episode of the year, and I had a conversation with Oliver Harman about global value chains (GVCs), foreign direct investment (FDI), and regional…

Moving from Promise to Progress

Nov 29, 2024 1h 12m

In this episode of Ideas Untrapped we discussed the challenges and complexities of education, economic growth, and public health systems in developing countries with two brilliant guests James…

Learning from East Asia

Nov 25, 2024 46m

In this episode of Ideas Untrapped, I sit down with economist Oliver Kim to explore the complexities of African economic growth and the challenges surrounding industrialisation. We discuss why Africa…

Trade-offs and Tensions

Sep 11, 2024 50m

In the episode, Tobi talks to Dmitry Grozoubinski about the politics and complexities of global trade, emphasizing the tension between free trade and protectionism. Dmitry explains how trade policy…

The Case for Parliamentarianism

Jun 28, 2024 48m

Tiago Santos joins Tobi on this episode of the podcast to discuss Parliamentarianism. Tiago believes that if African countries had adopted parliamentary systems during their democratization wave,…

Beyond GDP

May 10, 2024 1h 3m

In this episode, Tobi talks to David Pilling, Africa editor for the Financial Times. They discussed his book "The Growth Delusion", exploring the significance and limitations of economic growth,…

The Dynamics of Growth

Apr 27, 2024 47m

In this podcast episode, Tobi interviews Rasheed Griffith - who is the CEO of The Caribbean Progress Institute, and host of The Rasheed Griffith Show explores the adaptability and policy…

History and the Future of Prosperity

Mar 20, 2024 57m

In this episode, I had a conversation with economic historian Johan Fourie, who is a professor of economics at Stellenbosch University, and the author of one of the most enjoyable books on economic…

The Promise and Challenges of Charter Cities

Mar 13, 2024 50m

In this episode, I had a conversation with Kurtis Lockhart who is the executive director of Charter City Institute - a non-profit that thinks and executes governance models for cities to power…

Rethinking Good Governance

Mar 05, 2024 1h 24m

Welcome to another episode of Ideas Untrapped podcast.In this episode, I spoke to Portia Roelofs who is a Lecturer in Politics at the Department of Political Economy at King's College London, and…

SCIENCE, SKEPTICISM, AND TRUTH

Mar 11, 2023 45m

Hello everyone, and welcome to Ideas Untrapped podcast. My guest for this episode is Decision Scientist, Oliver Beige - who is returning to the podcast for the third time. Oliver is not just a…

The Illusion of Autocracy

Feb 18, 2023 33m

Welcome to Ideas Untrapped. My guest today is Vincent Geloso who is a professor of economics at George Mason University. He studies economic history, political economy, and the measurement of living…

Why Education, Electricity, And Fertility Matter for Development

Jan 21, 2023 1h 21m

Welcome to another episode of Ideas Untrapped. My guest today is Charlie Robertson, who is the chief economist of Renaissance Capital - a global investment bank - and in this episode we talked about…

MUDDLING THROUGH - BANGLADESH'S DEVELOPMENT JOURNEY

Dec 23, 2022 1h 25m

Bangladesh has transformed tremendously in the last twenty-five years. Average incomes have more than quadrupled, and many of its human development indicators have improved alongside. It has also…

MUDDLING THROUGH - BANGLADESH'S DEVELOPMENT JOURNEY

Dec 12, 2022 1h 25m

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.ideasuntrapped.comBangladesh has transformed tremendously in the last twenty-five years. Average incomes have more than quadrupled,…

PRODUCTIVITY, EXPORTING, AND DEVELOPMENT

Nov 29, 2022 48m

We often speak of economic development as a phenomenon of sovereign national countries, but the process by which that happens is through what happens at individual firms in the economy. The decisions…

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