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Policy@McCombs
by The Salem Center
A data-driven conversation on policy and economics. Policy@McCombs is produced by the Salem Center for Policy at The McCombs School of Business.Texas Podcast Network is brought to you by The University of Texas at Austin. Podcasts are produced by faculty members and staffers at UT Austin who work with University Communications to craft content that adheres to journalistic best practices. The University of Texas at Austin offers these podcasts at no charge. Podcasts appearing on the network and this webpage represent the views of the hosts, not of The University of Texas at Austin.
Episodes
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The Judeo Christian Tradition Lecture 4: The Sexual Ethics of the Judeo-Christian Tradition
In the late 1980s, philosopher George Walsh gave this six-hour course on Judaism and Christianity. With his characteristic erudition and humor, he covers the history and ideas of these two uber-influential religions. How did the most influential religion of all time spring out of the faith of a...
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The Judeo Christian Tradition Lecture 3: The Ethical, Political, and Economic Teaching of the Judeo-Christian Tradition
In the late 1980s, philosopher George Walsh gave this six-hour course on Judaism and Christianity. With his characteristic erudition and humor, he covers the history and ideas of these two uber-influential religions. How did the most influential religion of all time spring out of the faith of a...
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The Judeo Christian Tradition Lecture 2: Christianity and Its World OutlookThe Judeo Christian Tradition
In the late 1980s, philosopher George Walsh gave this six-hour course on Judaism and Christianity. With his characteristic erudition and humor, he covers the history and ideas of these two uber-influential religions. How did the most influential religion of all time spring out of the faith of a...
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The Judeo-Christian Tradition – Lecture 1: Judaism and Its World Outlook
In the late 1980s, philosopher George Walsh gave this six-hour course on Judaism and Christianity. With his characteristic erudition and humor, he covers the history and ideas of these two uber-influential religions. How did the most influential religion of all time spring out of the faith of a...
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Why Government Is the Problem – Milton Friedman
Circa 1990, the late great Milton Friedman gave this eloquent half-hour introduction to his views on economic policy. David Boaz, Cato’s executive vice-president, then moderates a free-wheeling policy conversation between Friedman, David Henderson of the Naval Post-Graduate School, Sally Pipes of...
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The Role of Religion in History – Lecture 4: Islam
In the late 1980s, philosopher George Walsh gave this six-hour course on history’s most influential religions. With his characteristic erudition and humor, he covers so-called “primitive religion,” followed by Indian religion (Hinduism, Jainism, and Buddhism), Judaism and Christianity, and…
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The Role of Religion in History – Lecture 3: Judaism and Christianity
In the late 1980s, philosopher George Walsh gave this six-hour course on history’s most influential religions. With his characteristic erudition and humor, he covers so-called “primitive religion,” followed by Indian religion (Hinduism, Jainism, and Buddhism), Judaism and Christianity, and…
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The Role of Religion in History – Lecture 2: Indian Religion
In the late 1980s, philosopher George Walsh gave this six-hour course on history’s most influential religions. With his characteristic erudition and humor, he covers so-called “primitive religion,” followed by Indian religion (Hinduism, Jainism, and Buddhism), Judaism and Christianity, and…
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The Role of Religion in History – Lecture 1: Primitive Religion
In the late 1980s, philosopher George Walsh gave this six-hour course on history’s most influential religions. With his characteristic erudition and humor, he covers so-called “primitive religion,” followed by Indian religion (Hinduism, Jainism, and Buddhism), Judaism and Christianity, and…
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Which Is Better: Capitalism or Socialism?
The John V. Roach Honors College at Texas Christian University sponsored this 2023 debate between Prof. Bryan Caplan of George Mason University and Prof. Scott Sehon of Bowdoin College.
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Caplan Family School Graduation Podcast
In 2017, 8th graders Aidan and Tristan Caplan talked to their dad, Bryan Caplan, about their homeschooling experience in middle school. Spoiler: After three weeks of regular high school, they resumed homeschooling and are now at Vanderbilt University.
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The Myth of Left and Right: Caplan and Hanson Interview the Lewis Brothers
Brothers Hyrum Lewis (BYU – Idaho) and Verlan Lewis (Utah Valley University)’s new *The Myth of Left and Right* attacks the “essentialist” view that “left” and “right” are coherent political philosophies in favor of a “social” view that “left” and “right” are incoherent bundles of issue…
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Bryan Caplan Interviews Chris Rufo
Bryan Caplan interviews Chris Rufo on his best-selling *America's Cultural Revolution*. In this wide-ranging interview, Rufo tackles some tough questions, including: How bad were the founders of critical theory, really? How fake is Continental philosophy? What would Rufo had done if he'd had...
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Rousseau and the Collectivist Concept of Freedom pt. 2
George Walsh (c.1923-2001) was one of those old-school professors who wrote little but read everything. This two-lecture series on Rousseau, delivered in the late 1980s, shines a spotlight on the great intellectual outlier of the Enlightenment. While Voltaire, the Physiocrats, Locke, Smith, and...
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Rousseau and the Collectivist Concept of Freedom pt. 1
George Walsh (c.1923-2001) was one of those old-school professors who wrote little but read everything. This two-lecture series on Rousseau, delivered in the late 1980s, shines a spotlight on the great intellectual outlier of the Enlightenment. While Voltaire, the Physiocrats, Locke, Smith, and...
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Adversaries of Classical Liberalism
Historian and polymath Ralph Raico explores the classic criticisms and seminal critics of classical liberal thought.
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Foundations of Classical Liberalism
Historian and polymath Ralph Raico explores the basic ideas and seminal thinkers of classical liberal thought.
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George Walsh on The Enlightenment
George Walsh (c.1923-2001) was one of those old-school professors who wrote little but read everything. This lecture on the Enlightenment, delivered c.1992, gives a typically insightful and humorous intellectual tour of the Enlightenment. The Salem Center’s Bryan Caplan, who heard Walsh live in...
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George Walsh on Protestant Fundamentalism, Lecture 2: Ethics and Politics
George Walsh (c.1923-2001) was one of those old-school professors who wrote little but read everything. These two lectures on Protestant Fundamentalism, delivered in the late-80s, distill decades of study of Protestant Fundamentalism with great insight and humor, handling the ideas with the same...
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George Walsh on Protestant Fundamentalism
Lecture 1: Theology and Epistemology George Walsh (c.1923-2001) was one of those old-school professors who wrote little but read everything. These two lectures on Protestant Fundamentalism, delivered in the late-80s, distill decades of study of Protestant Fundamentalism with great insight and...
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George Smith: The Good, the Bad, and the Puritans
George Smith (1949-2022) was a learned and extraordinarily charismatic autodidact. A wunderkind, or close to it, Smith published his most famous book, *Atheism: The Case Against God* when he was only 25. He once bragged that he dropped out of high school to start college, dropped out of college…
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Fossil Future: The Epstein/Caplan/Hanson Conversation
Bryan Caplan and Robin Hanson interview – and challenge - Alex Epstein about his controversial new book, *Fossil Future*. How many “climate denialists” really exist – and what should they take away from Epstein’s book? How widespread is the view that “nature is sacred” – and what’s the best way…
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Lecture #4 Marxist Politics
George Walsh (c.1923-2001) was one of those old-school professors who wrote little but read everything. These four lectures on Marxism, delivered in the mid-80s a few years before the collapse of the Soviet bloc, distill decades of study of Marxist ideas with great insight and humor. Lecture 1...
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Lecture #3 Marxist Economics
George Walsh (c.1923-2001) was one of those old-school professors who wrote little but read everything. These four lectures on Marxism, delivered in the mid-80s a few years before the collapse of the Soviet bloc, distill decades of study of Marxist ideas with great insight and humor. Lecture 1...
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Lecture #2 Marxist Philosophy
George Walsh (c.1923-2001) was one of those old-school professors who wrote little but read everything. These four lectures on Marxism, delivered in the mid-80s a few years before the collapse of the Soviet bloc, distill decades of study of Marxist ideas with great insight and humor. Lecture 1...
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Lecture #1 The Precursors of Marxism
George Walsh (c.1923-2001) was one of those old-school professors who wrote little but read everything. These four lectures on Marxism, delivered in the mid-80s a few years before the collapse of the Soviet bloc, distill decades of study of Marxist ideas with great insight and humor. Lecture 1...
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Bryan Caplan Interview’s Princeton Dissident Sergiu Klainerman
Sergiu Klainerman is Princeton University’s most vocal and articulate dissident professor. Find out what this famed mathematician, a refugee from Communist Romania, thinks about (a) how the Marxist-Leninism education of his youth compares to the woke education of today, (b) the decline of…
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Policy@McCombs with Alex Tabarrok
Alex Tabarrok is a professor of economics at George Mason University. He joins the podcast to talk to Richard Hanania about his involvement in Operation Warp Speed, a uniquely successful federal government project. Richard asks how broadly applicable its lessons are, whether or not we could do...
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Palestine, Poverty, and Neoliberalism: The Journey with Luigi Achilli Continues
Part one of the conversation with Luigi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKwZqNOeGg4 Luigi Achilli's CV: https://me.eui.eu/luigi-achilli/publications-other/
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Human Smuggling: Just the Facts! A Journey with Luigi Achilli
Human Smuggling is Underrated substack Luigi Achilli
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When Science Goes Wrong: The Case of Epidemiology
Philippe Lemoine joins Salem Center visiting scholar Richard Hanania to discuss epidemiology in the US and across the globe.
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Matt Ridley on Viral, The Origin of COVID-19
Matt Ridley's books have sold over a million copies, been translated into 31 languages and won several awards. His books include The Red Queen, The Origins of Virtue, Genome, Nature via Nurture, Francis Crick, The Rational Optimist, The Evolution of Everything, and How Innovation Works. His TED...
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Richard Hanania: The Politics of Everything
Bryan Caplan interviews Richard Hanania, head of the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology, on international relations, war, peace, sanctions, grand strategy (and the lack thereof), partisanship, ideology, wokeness, academia, discrimination, civil rights, legal reform, and Hanania’s...
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Jay Bhattacharya on 18 months into the Covid-19 pandemic
Jay Battacharya is a Professor of Economics and Professor of Medicine at Stanford University.
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Tale of Two Recoveries
Dr. Tyler Goodspeed is the Kleinheinz Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. From 2020-21 he was Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers in the Executive Office of the President, having previously served as Member, Chief Economist for Macroeconomic Policy, and Senior...
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Jason Brennan on Getting Rich, Alternative to Democracy and the Moral Failures of Universities
Jason F. Brennan is an American philosopher and business professor. He is currently the Robert J. and Elizabeth Flanagan Family Professor of Strategy, Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. Brennan writes about democratic theory, the...
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Charles Calomiris on FinTech
Dr. Charles Calomiris joins Dr. Scott Bauguess and Dr. Cesare Fracassi to discuss FinTech. Charles W. Calomiris is the Henry Kaufman Professor of Financial Institutions at Columbia Business School and a Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia’s School of International and Public...
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America’s Response to 9/11: Looking Back on 20 Years of Foreign Policy
Three writers with different approaches to foreign policy reflect on 20 years of America’s military response to 9/11. Speakers: Peter Brookes, (Heritage Foundation) Senior Research Fellow, Weapons of Mass Destruction and Counter Proliferation, Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign...
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Valentin Bolotnyy on the Gender Pay Gap
Valentin Bolotnyy is an economist at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. He works on topics across public and labor economics, often partnering with government agencies to improve public services and gain insight into social behavior.
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Casey Mulligan on the Book “You’re Hired! Untold Successes and Failures of a Populist President”
Casey B. Mulligan is an American economist and author. He is a Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago. From 2018 to 2019 he served as the chief economist of the Council of Economic Advisors at The White House.
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Tom Gilligan on Stakeholder Capitalism
Tom Gilligan is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is a scholar in economics and political science
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Tyler Cowen on the Economics of Big Business, Progress, and Pandemics
Tyler Cowan discusses the anti-hero of Big Business, how history can help businesses, and how we should prepare for the next pandemic.
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Glenn Loury on The Role of Universities in America’s Social Unrest Over Race and Inequality
Glenn Loury joined the Salem Center for Policy for this discussion during Free Speech Week.
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Jennifer Doleac Discusses the General State of Policing in the United States
Jennifer Doleac is an Economist at Texas A&M University. She is also the Director of the Justice Texas Tech Lab.
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Jay Battacharya – COVID-19 Interview
Dr. Jay Battacharya discusses how his research points to a new hypothesis on the severity and spread of COVID-19.
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Amesh Adalja – COVID-19 Interview
Dr. Adalja is a Senior Scholar at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security. His work is focused on emerging infectious disease, pandemic preparedness, and biosecurity. Dr. Adalja has served on US government panels tasked with developing guidelines for the treatment of plague,...
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Bryan Caplan – COVID-19 Interview
Bryan Caplan is a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center and a professor of economics at George Mason University. He specializes in public economics, public choice, psychology and economics, public opinion, economics of the family and education, genoeconomics, and Austrian economics.
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Emily Oster – COVID-19 Interview
Emily Oster is a Professor of Economics at Brown University. She holds a PhD in Economics from Harvard. Prior to being at Brown she was on the faculty at the University of Chicago Booth School.
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A data-driven conversation on policy and economics. Policy@McCombs is produced by the Salem Center for Policy at The McCombs School of Business.Texas Podcast Network is brought to you by The University of Texas at Austin. Podcasts are produced by faculty members and staffers at UT Austin who work with University Communications to craft content that adheres to journalistic best practices. The University of Texas at Austin offers these podcasts at no charge. Podcasts appearing on the network and this webpage represent the views of the hosts, not of The University of Texas at Austin.
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