Jan van Vugt - Selected

Professor of psychology, Jan van Vugt, talked to us from his home in Amsterdam about his latest book, Selected, which looks at why human groups function best with leaders, but why we don't always choose the best people to fill the role, whether in the workplace or as heads of state.

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Paul Collier - The Plundered Planet

Paul Collier is Professor of Economics at Oxford University. When he released The Bottom Billion, he significantly changed the way that poverty in world's poorest countries is perceived. Now, with The Plundered Planet, he is back with an even bigger ambition: to reconcile the needs of the ever-growing global population with a sustainable environmental future. Collier provides an ethical framework on which to agree future policy and based on his own ground-breaking research into these issues, offers realistic and sustainable solutions.

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John Kay - Obliquity

John Kay is one of Britain's leading economists. His new book Obliquity shows how many goals are more likely to be achieved through indirect, rather than direct means. Kay applies his concept to everything from international business to town planning to show why the most profitable companies are not always the most profit-oriented; why the richest men and women are not the most materialistic; and why the happiest people are not necessarily those who focus on happiness.

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Tristram Stuart - Waste

In Waste, Tristram Stuart looks at the global food crisis and reveals some shocking facts about the amount of food that is discarded unnecessarily worldwide, while suggesting what can be done to fix the problem.

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Chris Anderson - Free

Listen to Chris Anderson, author of the bestseller The Long Tail and editor of Wired as he discusses his latest title Free. The book asks what happens when advances in technology allow things to be produced for next to nothing and looks at how business models are changing as a result.

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Tim Harford - The Logic of Life

Tim Harford discusses his latest book The Logic of Life in which he argues that all human behaviour, even in the unlikeliest of individuals, complies with economic logic.

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David Craig - The Great European Rip-off

David Craig, co-author of The Great European Rip-off, speaks of the bureaucracy and kleptocracy of the officials in the Brussels EU headquarters and explains how the general European public are suffering as a result.

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