Beyond the Books is a podcast from the University of Edinburgh’s School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures (LLC) that gives you a behind-the-scenes look at research and the people who make it happen. This is the second episode in Series 3, which is hosted by Beth Price (PhD student in Asian Studies).
In this episode, Beth talks to Paul Crosthwaite, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Literature in LLC. Can fiction really predict the next economic trend? Can literature’s ‘what if’ questions help us reset our relationship with money, labour, finance and so on? They dive into speculative fiction and the emerging field of the Economic Humanities to find out.