Understand: The Economy
4.0/5
Critic Rating
NEW in Understand - Derailed: The Story of HS2Over 10 episodes, Kate Lamble starts from the beginning, and uncovers the real inside story behind the journey of HS2. From the railwaymen who dreamed it up, through the political crises and politicians who shaped it, the fight to halt it and the mistakes that came to define it.High Speed Two is the remarkably matter of fact name for Europe's largest infrastructure project. The rail project that started life in 2009 promised to join up London and Birmingham, before splitting into two legs towards Manchester and Leeds. It was a straight line...
Critic Reviews
Score: 4
James Marriot • The Times UK • Nov 25, 2022
"Harford (“the Undercover Economist”, as his Financial Times column terms him) is one of our most popular exponents of economic ideas. He is not (and I think even he would admit this) a blisteringly charismatic man. But, frankly, what economist is? It should be said that understanding: the economy will not necessarily make you feel any better about the economy."
