On this week's Business podcast, Aditya Chakrabortty hears from Steven Levitt – the University of Chicago's self-styled 'rogue economist' and co-author of the bestselling Freakonomics – about the financial crisis, and everything from business models for prostitutes to a solution for climate change. Steven's new book, Superfreakonomics (what else?) is out now.
Also in the podcast Donald Shoup – UCLA's professor of urban planning and an expert on the economics of parking – talks to us about congestion charging, public transport and our love affair with the motor car.
Have a listen to both of these extended interviews, and tell us what you think on the blog below. There'll be more economics next week when our special studio guest is political economist Robert Skidelsky, award-winning biographer of John Maynard Keynes
