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Barry's Economics

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Frequency: 1 episode/2d. Total Eps: 55

Barry’s Economics is about explaining the economy without the jargon. Using humour, storytelling, and behavioural science, Barry explores wealth, power, inequality, and the hidden forces shaping everyday life.

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19/05/2026
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The Wealth Tax Debate Is A Trap - Barry's Economics

Monday, May 18, 2026 • Duration 11:58

The Wealth Tax Debate Rages OnBack and ForthUp and DownBut what does it miss?And Why Is It Always so Circular and Never Ending?I’m Barry Ferns, a comedian whose personal journey through failure, homelessness, and rebuilding led me to explore the socio and behavioural economics of inequality.This channel digs into how systems of power shape our identity, behaviour, and beliefs, and how we can shift the stories we tell ourselves and each other about poverty, inequality, and who’s to blame.How to Support Barry’s EconomicsHelp us stay independent and keep making videos like this.https://www.buymeacoffee.com/barryseconomics https://ko-fi.com/barryseconomics https://www.patreon.com/barryseconomicsFollow and leave a review if you've enjoyed the episode!Mailing List: https://barryferns.co.uk/You can also follow me on Tiktok: tiktok.com/@barryseconomicsInstagram: instagram.com/barryseconomicsTwitter: twitter.com/barryseconomicsSubstack: https://substack.com/@barryseconomicsBlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/barryseconomics.bsky.socialReddit: https://www.reddit.com/user/barryferns/If you’re new to this, check out Gary's Economics first – his channel gives the structural and financial perspective. This one adds the lived, social and emotional side.Support Gary's Wealth Tax Campaign Here: https://buy.stripe.com/dRm4gs9Nl1L6eqWbUydjO00Want to see the stand-up side of all this?Find my live comedy and storytelling here:https://www.youtube.com/@mrbarryfernsTo learn more about my comedy club, Angel Comedy, and buy tickets for shows head here: https://www.angelcomedy.co.uk/

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Change Is Possible Here's How - Barry's Economics

Tuesday, May 5, 2026 • Duration 19:18

This is the only comedian in the world who has actually changed tax law. (as far as I know)Not highlighted it - Changed it. With jokes, a mahogany buffet, and a few hundred letters from members of the public.On Barry's Economics, we spend a lot of time talking about what needs to change; inequality, taxation, who owns what, who decides what. Mark Thomas spent decades actually doing it.This conversation is about how change works. Not in theory but in practice.And it starts with the most powerful weapon the people who benefit from inequality have - the belief that nothing can change. Mark Thomas is proof that belief is wrong.I’m Barry Ferns – a comedian whose personal journey through failure, homelessness, and rebuilding led me to explore the socio and behavioural economics of inequality.This channel digs into how systems of power shape our identity, behaviour, and beliefs, and how we can shift the stories we tell ourselves and each other about poverty, inequality, and who’s to blame.How to Support Barry’s EconomicsHelp us stay independent and keep making videos like this.https://www.buymeacoffee.com/barryseconomics https://ko-fi.com/barryseconomics https://www.patreon.com/barryseconomicsFollow and leave a review for future episodes!Mailing List: https://barryferns.co.uk/You can also follow me on Tiktok: tiktok.com/@barryseconomicsInstagram: instagram.com/barryseconomicTwitter: twitter.com/barryseconomicsSubstack: https://substack.com/@barryseconomicsReddit: https://www.reddit.com/user/barryferns/BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/barryseconomics.bsky.social

If you’re new to this, check out Gary's Economics first – his channel gives the structural and financial perspective. This one adds the lived, social and emotional side.Support Gary's Wealth Tax Campaign Here: https://buy.stripe.com/dRm4gs9Nl1L6eqWbUydjO00Want to see the stand-up side of all this?Find my live comedy and storytelling here:To learn more about my comedy club, Angel Comedy, and buy tickets for shows head here:

Why The Epstein Economy Needs You To Feel Hopeless - Barry's Economics

Tuesday, March 3, 2026 • Duration 22:48

Why does the system feel too big to fight?

In this final episode of the Epstein Economy series, Barry explores the neuroscience of learned helplessness.

Featuring research from:
– Maier & Seligman
– Damon Centola
– Christakis & Fowler

Large systems don’t just concentrate wealth.

They concentrate perceived power.

But your brain may be underestimating how much influence coordinated action actually has.

How to Support Barry’s EconomicsHelp us stay independent and keep making videos like this.https://www.buymeacoffee.com/barryseconomics https://ko-fi.com/barryseconomics https://www.patreon.com/barryseconomicsFollow for future episodes! Join my mailing list: https://barryferns.co.uk/You can also follow me on Tiktok: tiktok.com/@barryseconomicsInstagram: instagram.com/barryseconomicTwitter: twitter.com/barryseconomicsSubstack: https://substack.com/@barryseconomicsReddit: https://www.reddit.com/user/barryferns/If you’re new to this, check out Gary's Economics first – his channel gives the structural and financial perspective. This one adds the lived, social and emotional side.Support Gary's Wealth Tax Campaign Here: https://buy.stripe.com/dRm4gs9Nl1L6eqWbUydjO00Want to see the stand-up side of all this?Find my live comedy and storytelling here:https://www.youtube.com/@mrbarryfernsTo learn more about my comedy club, Angel Comedy, and buy tickets for shows head here: https://www.angelcomedy.co.uk/

The Story You Care About Is The Distraction - Barry's Economics

Wednesday, February 25, 2026 • Duration 21:47

This video is about the gap between - what you feel about Epstein and what you feel about other, bigger news stories - and why it's not a moral failure. It's neuroscience.Featuring research from Paul Slovic (psychic numbing),Robin Dunbar (the Social Brain Hypothesis), Siddharth Kara (cobalt mining), and Shoshana Zuboff.This is the third video in the series. The first two:1 - Your Brain Won't Let You See What Epstein Really Was — https://youtu.be/sS33crOQvrM2 - Epstein Isn't an Aberration. He's an Inevitable Outcome — https://youtu.be/b1vFgUi4frUSupport this channel to help it become cost neutral and continue:https://www.buymeacoffee.com/barryseconomics https://ko-fi.com/barryseconomics https://www.patreon.com/barryseconomicsGet first dibs on live shows:▸ Mailing list - www.barryferns.co.uk▸ Instagram — @barrybarryfernsI’m Barry Ferns – a comedian whose personal journey through failure, homelessness, and rebuilding led me to explore the socio and behavioural economics of inequality and obsessed abotu the things that really influence our actions and livesThis channel digs into how systems of power shape our identity, behaviour, and beliefs, and how we can shift the stories we tell ourselves and each other about poverty, inequality, and who’s to blame.Follow and Subscribe for future videos!You can also follow me on Tiktok: tiktok.com/@barryseconomicsInstagram: instagram.com/barryseconomicTwitter: twitter.com/barryseconomicsSubstack: https://substack.com/@barryseconomicsReddit: https://www.reddit.com/user/barryferns/If you’re new to this, check out @garyseconomics first – his channel gives the structural and financial perspective. This one adds the lived, social and emotional side.Support Gary's Wealth Tax Campaign Here: https://buy.stripe.com/dRm4gs9Nl1L6eqWbUydjO00Want to see the stand-up side of all this?Find my live comedy and storytelling here:To learn more about my comedy club, Angel Comedy, and buy tickets for shows head here:

Your Brain Won't Let You See What Epstein Really Was - Barry's Economics

Tuesday, February 17, 2026 • Duration 20:10

Why are we so addicted to hunting monsters - and what does that addiction protect?In this video, I explore the neuroscience and psychology behind our obsession with the Epstein scandal. And how the structure that created Epstein remains invisible

This is part 2 of a series. Part 1: "Epstein Isn't an Aberration. He's an Inevitable Outcome" Part 3 coming next Sunday.

Research Discussed in Episode:de Quervain et al. (2004) "The Neural Basis of Altruistic Punishment" , ScienceChester & DeWall (2016) Retaliatory aggression and the reward network, Social Cognitive and Affective NeuroscienceGoudarzi et al. (2020) Economic system justification and numbing to inequality in Nature CommunicationsVaughan, D. (1996) The Challenger Launch Decision: Normalisation of Deviance, University of Chicago PressLeach et al. (2025) Moral outrage, virality and petition signing, Social Psychological and Personality ScienceOxfam Inequality Report (2026)I'm Barry Ferns. Comedian, founder of Angel Comedy, and behavioural economics obsessive. I spent 17 years in comedy, went bankrupt, built one of London's most popular comedy clubs, and somewhere along the way got obsessed with why the system needs you to blame yourself. New videos episodes every week!Support on Patreon: patreon.com/BarrysEconomicsOne-off support: buymeacoffee.com/barryseconomicsGary's Economics (the channel that inspired this one): youtube.com/@garyseconomicsFollow for future episodes and leave a review to help it be seen!Sign-up to my mailing list: https://barryferns.co.uk/You can also follow me on Tiktok: tiktok.com/@barryseconomicsInstagram: instagram.com/barryseconomicsTwitter: twitter.com/barryseconomicsSubstack: https://substack.com/@barryseconomicsReddit: https://www.reddit.com/user/barryferns/If you’re new to this, check out Gary's Economics first – his channel gives the structural and financial perspective. This one adds the lived, social and emotional side.Support Gary's Wealth Tax Campaign Here: https://buy.stripe.com/dRm4gs9Nl1L6eqWbUydjO00Want to see the stand-up side of all this?Find my live comedy and storytelling here:To learn more about my comedy club, Angel Comedy, and buy tickets for shows head here:

Epstein Isn’t an Aberration. He’s an Inevitable Outcome - Barry's Economics

Monday, February 9, 2026 • Duration 18:13

The Epstein Scandal Should Be Called "The Billionaire Scandal"Everyone thinks Jeffrey Epstein was an aberration. The science says he was inevitable.This video breaks down the neuroscience, psychology, and economics that explain how extreme wealth concentration doesn't just create inequality. but manufactures monsters. I’m Barry Ferns – a comedian whose personal journey through failure, homelessness, and rebuilding led me to explore the socio and behavioural economics of inequality.This channel digs into how systems of power shape our identity, behaviour, and beliefs, and how we can shift the stories we tell ourselves and each other about poverty, inequality, and who’s to blame.How to Support Barry’s EconomicsHelp us stay independent and keep making videos like this.- https://www.buymeacoffee.com/barryseconomics- https://ko-fi.com/barryseconomics- https://www.patreon.com/barryseconomics

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The Prejudice That Links Race and Class, Gary Stevenson and Desmond Tutu - Barry's Economics

Monday, February 9, 2026 • Duration 15:57

Your accent isn't just how you sound.It's how you're judged.Within seconds of hearing someone speak, we make snap judgments about intelligence, trustworthiness, class, and competence.And we pretend we don't.What happens for you when Gary Stevenson's working-class voice has a posh accent?Why received pronunciation makes people sound more trustworthy (even when they're lying)How accent bias affects everything from job interviews to courtroomsThis is how our brains work - and how it encompasses Archbishop Desmond Tutu's uncomfortable but moving confession about his own unconscious prejudiceThe psychological research that proves this is how all human brains workThis isn't about snobbery. It's not about bad people.It's about how your brain takes shortcuts. And how those shortcuts create real consequences for working-class people – even when their ideas are better, their arguments stronger, their intelligence higher.This isn't opinion. It's behavioural science.You might not like what you discover about yourself. But once you see it, you can't unsee it.Also - I recommend Jimmy The Giant's Channel here:https://www.youtube.com/jimmythegiantand also if you want to know more about Desmond Tutu you can hear him speak here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV2LURTu3eQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2zFB1BromEI’m Barry Ferns – a comedian whose personal journey through failure, homelessness, and rebuilding led me to explore the socio and behavioural economics of inequality.This channel digs into how systems of power shape our identity, behaviour, and beliefs, and how we can shift the stories we tell ourselves and each other about poverty, inequality, and who’s to blame.How to Support Barry’s EconomicsHelp us stay independent and keep making videos like this.- https://www.buymeacoffee.com/barryseconomics- https://ko-fi.com/barryseconomics- https://www.patreon.com/barryseconomics

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How Money Turns Good People Bad - Barry's Economics

Monday, February 9, 2026 • Duration 10:16

There's a story running in the background of your mind right now. You didn't start it. You didn't agree to it. And it's ruining your life.That story has a headquarters: Wall Street. A place where the myth that "greed is good" isn't just believed, it's acted out, every single day.But here's what most people don't know: stories aren't just entertainment. Stories are software. We run on them. And behavioral science has proven, again and again, that the story you believe about human nature literally becomes the person you turn into.In this video, I look at:1- The Kathleen Vohs experiments that showed how just being REMINDED of money makes people less helpful, more isolated, and physically move their chairs further apart from others2- The Paul Piff Monopoly study where researchers rigged a game to give one player all the advantages — and watched them become louder, greedier, and more entitled within minutes (even though they knew it was rigged)3 - How economics students become measurably more selfish the longer they study mainstream economics — not because they were born that way, but because the story they're taught becomes a self-fulfilling prophecyThis isn't a video about Wall Street. This is a video about the invisible story controlling your behavior, your empathy, and your life — without you even realizing it.RESEARCH CITED:• Vohs, K. D., Mead, N. L., & Goode, M. R. (2006). The psychological consequences of money. Science.• Piff, P. K., et al. (2012). Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior. PNAS.• Frank, R. H., Gilovich, T., & Regan, D. T. (1993). Does studying economics inhibit cooperation?I’m Barry Ferns – a comedian whose personal journey through failure, homelessness, and rebuilding led me to explore the socio and behavioural economics of inequality.This channel digs into how systems of power shape our identity, behaviour, and beliefs, and how we can shift the stories we tell ourselves and each other about poverty, inequality, and who’s to blame.How to Support Barry’s EconomicsHelp us stay independent and keep making videos like this.- https://www.buymeacoffee.com/barryseconomics- https://ko-fi.com/barryseconomics- https://www.patreon.com/barryseconomics

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We're Measuring the Wrong Economy - Barry's Economics

Monday, February 9, 2026 • Duration 05:11

Your rent is up. Your bills are unpaid. But the government says the economy is FINE. Why?The answer is one of the simplest mathematical illusions in politics: GDP and averages.GDP was invented in the 1940s to measure wartime tank production. It doesn't care about your quality of life. It doesn't care who gets the money. It just measures "busy-ness" - and billionaires walking into rooms can make the average skyrocket while you're still on £25k.In this video, I break down:Why GDP is a wartime metric that makes no sense in peacetimeHow averages hide the real economy from viewThe two numbers that actually tell us how people are doing Why we can't fix what we refuse to measureEvery major economist - Piketty, Saez, Zucman, even the IMF - is sounding the alarm. The pie is growing, but your slice is shrinking. And the reason nobody's fixing it? We're measuring the billionaire economy, not the one you actually live in.We're not measuring the economy wrong. We're measuring the wrong economy.Barry Ferns – a comedian whose personal journey through failure, homelessness, and rebuilding led me to explore the socio and behavioural economics of inequality.This channel digs into how systems of power shape our identity, behaviour, and beliefs, and how we can shift the stories we tell ourselves and each other about poverty, inequality, and who’s to blame.How to Support Barry’s EconomicsHelp us stay independent and keep making videos like this.- https://www.buymeacoffee.com/barryseconomics- https://ko-fi.com/barryseconomics- https://www.patreon.com/barryseconomics

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Why the Science Says Rory Stewart Is Wrong - Barry's Economics

Monday, February 9, 2026 • Duration 20:55

This video isn’t about attacking Rory Stewart, or about bad faith, stupidity, or intent.It’s about something more uncomfortable... and much more common.Some of the biggest mistakes in modern politics and economics aren’t made by extremists or idiots.They’re made by intelligent, well-meaning people who all make the same mistake at the same time, and don’t notice it.Decision science has a word for this: homophily.When people with similar backgrounds, training, and assumptions cluster together, their errors stop cancelling out. They line up.That’s when consensus starts to feel like evidence.Using Rory Stewart and The Rest Is Politics as a case study, this video looks at:1 - Why expert agreement can become unreliable in complex systems2 - How dismissal replaces critique3 - And why voices from outside elite circles often sound “dangerous” rather than informativeThis isn’t a call to shout louder.And it isn’t a rejection of expertise.It’s a reminder that when everyone around you agrees, that’s often the moment you should check what you might be missing.I’m Barry Ferns, a comedian whose personal journey through failure, homelessness, and rebuilding led me to explore the socio and behavioural economics of inequality.This channel digs into how systems of power shape our identity, behaviour, and beliefs, and how we can shift the stories we tell ourselves and each other about poverty, inequality, and who’s to blame.How to Support Barry’s EconomicsHelp us stay independent and keep making videos like this.- https://www.buymeacoffee.com/barryseconomics- https://ko-fi.com/barryseconomics- https://www.patreon.com/barryseconomics

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