Intute: Social Sciences has been featuring a series of podcasts supporting the Royal Economic Society Conference 2008 that includes a range of interviews with researchers in economics talking about their work.

They have been produced in association with the Economics Network as part of their Why Study Economics initiative.

Topics covered include:

• Promotional piracy – did the Arctic Monkeys save the music business?
• How to prevent another Northern Rock
• EU policies have kept alcohol and tobacco taxes low
• The MMR controversy and vaccination levels
• Children of socially active parents have better exam results
• How Incapacity Benefits may keep us out of recession

There is also an archive of podcasts from the 2007 RES Conference on the Economics in Action blog.

Intute: Social Sciences features more academic podcasts and more Internet resources in economics.