Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK.

Find out how to listen to other BBC stations

Episode details

World Service,24 Oct 2012,18 mins

Inflation: Past, present and future?

Business Daily

Available for over a year

Business Daily explores how rising prices have defined out history and could shape our future. Armand D'Angour, Professor of Classics at Oxford University explains how inflation played a key role in the demise of the Roman Empire. Justin Rowlatt talks to economist Steve Hanke at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore about Iran's inflation problem. Plus former government advisor to George W. Bush- Pippa Malmgren tells us why she thinks we need to start preparing for rising prices now.

Programme Website
More episodes