81. Prof Adrian Saville on What An Economist Sees When He Travels
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I asked an economist to lend me his eyes.
Prof Adrian Saville has been to almost 100 countries. He also studies how countries work, which means he walks through the same airports and streets we do and sees something completely different.
We talk about what he notices first when he lands, whether travel is money well spent, what our spending actually does in the places we visit, and why it is still so hard for Africans to move around Africa.
Prof Adrian Saville is Professor of Economics, Finance and Strategy at the Gordon Institute of Business Science and can be found X: @AdrianSaville
Prof Adrian Saville has been to almost 100 countries. He also studies how countries work, which means he walks through the same airports and streets we do and sees something completely different.
We talk about what he notices first when he lands, whether travel is money well spent, what our spending actually does in the places we visit, and why it is still so hard for Africans to move around Africa.
Prof Adrian Saville is Professor of Economics, Finance and Strategy at the Gordon Institute of Business Science and can be found X: @AdrianSaville
Chapters
- 00:00 Ipanema
- 01:20 Seeing a place versus describing it
- 02:45 London, New York, Rio at 14
- 07:45 Almost 100 countries
- 09:20 Chile, Japan, Estonia
- 11:15 If you could only travel Africa
- 12:00 The post office that works
- 14:00 What he notices when he lands
- 16:15 Is travel a good use of money
- 18:00 Why travel slows down time
- 19:45 Where the money actually goes
- 22:20 Where to invest, rewritten for travellers
- 25:15 Africa in ten years
- 28:30 Why it's so hard to travel our own continent
- 34:40 Home
- 39:50 Go somewhere
