What an Economist Sees When He Travels | Prof Adrian Saville

I asked an economist to lend me his eyes. Prof Adrian Saville has been to almost 100 countries. He also studies how countries work, which means he walks through the same airports and streets we do and sees something completely different. We talk about what he notices first when he lands, whether travel is money well spent, what our spending actually does in the places we visit, and why it is still so hard for Africans to move around Africa. Prof Adrian Saville is Professor of Economics, Finance and Strategy at the Gordon Institute of Business Science and can be found on X /Twitter: @ AdrianSaville 00:00 Ipanema 01:20 Seeing a place versus describing it 02:45 London, New York, Rio at 14 07:45 Almost 100 countries 09:20 Chile, Japan, Estonia 11:15 If you could only travel Africa 12:00 The post office that works 14:00 What he notices when he lands 16:15 Is travel a good use of money 18:00 Why travel slows down time 19:45 Where the money actually goes 22:20 Where to invest, rewritten for travellers 25:15 Africa in ten years 28:30 Why it's so hard to travel our own continent 34:40 Home 39:50 Go somewhere