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    The Business: Choice

    Choice is at the foundation of our economic system, but is having lots of it always a good thing? Sheena Iyengar, Andrew Lilico, Renata Salecl and Julian Glover discuss

    Presented by Aditya Chakrabortty and produced by Phil Maynard, guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 1 September 2010

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  • The Business: Reasons to be cheerful

    Palm trees on Gili Air, an island off Lombok in Indonesia. Photograph: Paul Owen Audio (34min 54sec), 28 Jul 2010:

    With economic growth better than expected and Britain's banks passing the 'stress tests' we look for more reasons to be cheerful. Plus our selection of summer reading. With Larry Elliott, Jill Treanor and Brendan McSweeney

  • The Business: Labour's economic legacy

    Alistair Darling with Prime Minister Gordon Brown Audio (31min 51sec), 20 Jul 2010:

    After 13 years, three election wins, a boom and then a bust, we assess the economic legacy of Labour's time in office. With Aditya Chakrabortty, Larry Elliott, Julian Glover and Maurice Glasman

  • The Business: Niall Ferguson and the morality of modern banking

    Niall Ferguson Audio (35min 21sec), 13 Jul 2010:

    Author and Harvard academic Niall Ferguson is in the pod to discuss what modern bankers could learn from Siegmund Warburg; plus the funding crisis in universities and the independence of the growth forecasts from the Office for Budget Responsibility

  • The Business: Immigration to Britain

    Little Britons, the UK's youngest immigrants and their new lives here Audio (36min 12sec), 6 Jul 2010:

    We've had an unprecedented number of new arrivals to the UK. How has it affected the economy?

  • The Business: Clay Shirky, Facebook and Lolcats

    LOLcats Audio (25min 24sec), 29 Jun 2010:

    The Business: Clay Shirky, Facebook and Lolcats

  • Budget 2010: business podcast special

    Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne Audio (32min 29sec), 22 Jun 2010:

    Ruth Sunderland, Julian Glover and Seumas Milne test George Osborne's claims that today's budget was unavoidable and progressive, while Michael White gets reaction from Westminster

  • Business podcast: 'Cuts are ideologically driven and masochistic'

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    Aditya Chakrabortty discusses Alan Budd's report, the coming budget, banking reform and CEOs, with Larry Elliott, Phillip Inman and Will Straw, in our business podcast

  • The Business: Is industrial strategy back?

    Car industry Audio (33min 56sec), 9 Jun 2010:

    Ha-Joon Chang discusses industrial strategy, plus David Cameron's cuts, BP's ongoing problems and Tesco's chief executive plans to stand down

  • The Business: Trouble at the Treasury

    David Laws Audio (31min 07sec), 1 Jun 2010:

    David Laws resigns, where will growth come from in the eurozone, and what will happen to BP?

  • The Business: £6bn of penny pinching

    George Osborne and David Laws Audio (26min 25sec), 25 May 2010:

    The impact of the government's spending cuts, plus Justin Fox on why the markets aren't always right

  • The Business: BA squeezes the unions

    British Airways planes parked at Heathrow airport Audio (27min 55sec), 18 May 2010:

    The high court decides to block a strike by BA's cabin crew; the coalition's first economic announcements; plus Osborne v Cable

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