Interview with Meir Kohn: Wealth of Nations Redux

Podcast: Ideas and LivesEpisode: Interview with Meir Kohn: Wealth of Nations ReduxPub date: 2021-03-22Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn this first episode of Ideas and Lives, Professor Meir Kohn of Dartmouth College describes his historically-based theory of economic growth, based on his manuscript,Commerce, predation, and production: a new theory of economic progress. His interview with fellow economists Bob Lerman and Zvi Bodie not only offers an in-depth discussion of this theory but also deals with Meir's life journey from birth in Czechoslovakia, to growing up in England, to joining a kibbutz in Israel, and to becoming an accomplished economist in the US.  In addition, Meir describes his intellectual journey from econometrics, to finance and banking, and finally to the lessons of economic history for inform economic progress. The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Bob Lerman and Zvi Bodie, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.