A podcast about books, money and power

Two friends. One book. Never the same read.

A Californian capitalist and a Bangladeshi bureaucrat argue their way through economics, history and politics, one book at a time. In Bangla, with English notes.

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  • 37Full episodes
  • 101Explainers
  • 14Books read
  • 15Songs, yes songs

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Ideas in Sound · music by Shakil

Economics you can hum

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One World, Many Answers album cover

Album · 14 songs · inspired by What Would the Great Economists Do?

One World, Many Answers Songs Inspired by the Great Economists

Twelve economists, twelve musical worlds, from a Scottish sea shanty to 1920s jazz that crashes with the market.

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The hosts

Same book. Opposite lives.

Shakil Ahmad

The Californian capitalist

Shakil Ahmad

Fulbright Scholar. CFA Charterholder. Business intelligence lead with over a decade of experience making sense of financial data, one dashboard, SQL query and Excel formula at a time. He builds models that don’t just report numbers but explain why they matter. Between Lines and Lands is where he finally gets to talk about the bigger questions behind the numbers, and a few good books.

Towheed Elahi

The Bangladeshi bureaucrat

Towheed Elahi

Laura Bush Fellow. Senior civil servant. A public-policy thinker navigating the machinery of governance from the inside out, with a master’s from Texas A&M and years of frontline experience in the civil service of Bangladesh. He turns bureaucratic labyrinths into plain-language insight, delivered with the calm of someone who has read the memo and drafted it.

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