The Legal-Economic Nexus

We interview Jessica A. Shoemaker and James Fallows Tierney about their article Trading Acres forthcoming in the Yale Law Journal in coordination with the Association for Promotion of Political Economy and Law’s “What is Capitalism” Reading Group

For the first episode of season five, we talk with Prof Jamee Moudud about his new book The Legal and Economic Foundations of Capitalism

We interview the 2025 AFEE Veblen Commons award winner Prof. Janice Peterson

We interview Professor Marianne Johnson who is the Thrivent University Endowed Professor from The University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh. We cover topics including original institutional economics and the history of economic thought.

We are interviewing Professor Emeritus Martha McCluskey from the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Law and President of the Association for the Promotion of Political Economy and Law and Board member of the LPE Collective

We interview David Dequech is an Economist from the University of Campinas in Brazil. We talk about his general thinking about institutions, norms and post Keynesianism.

We interview Peter Murrell of the University of Maryland and Peter Grajzl of Washington and Lee University to discuss their important work on measuring the history of legal change and evolution and its impact on the economy.

We sit down and interview the 2021 Commons-Veblen winner Professor Emeritus Deborah Figart of Stockton University.

We sit down and interview Fabrizio Esposito, Assistant Professor of Private Law at Nova Law School in Portugal. Fabrizio's important new book is called "The Consumer Welfare Hypothesis in Law and Economics" by Edward Elgar Publishing. Esposito challenges the conventional wisdom that total efficiency should be the goal and in fact in practice and theory consumer welfare should be the focus of law and public policy. His book is at: https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/usd/the-consumer-welfare-hypothesis-in-law-and-economics-9781800379640.html.

We interview F. Gregory Hayden, Professor Emeritus of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is a well known founder of the social fabric matrix and has made other important advances in our understanding of institutional economics.

An Interview with the 2014 Veblen-Commons winner Sam Bowles of the Santa Fe Institute about inequality, history and archaeology.

On this episode we interview Assistant Professor Luke Petach form Belmont University about his new work looking at the famous Buchanan-Samuels correspondence and what was learned and not learned from that correspondence.

This episode is an interview with Marc Paul of Rutgers University about his new book "The Ends of Freedom" from the University of Chicago Press. The book is about America's lost promise of economic rights and how we can reclaim such rights and the importance of achieving this outcome.

An interview with American university professor Jon Wisman who is the most recent winner of AFEE's Veblen Commons award and author of the recent book "The Origins and Dynamics of Inequality"

We interview Phil O'Hara former President of the Association for Evolutionary Economics about his new book Principles of Institutional and Evolutionary Political Economy which is available now.

In this episode, we speak with Professor and Author Charles Camic about his 2022 book, Veblen: The Making of an Economist who Unmade Economics. Its a fascinating dive into understanding the forces that shaped Veblen's thinking and scholarship.

We interview Clara Mattei of the New School for Social Research on her new book "The Capital Order" which is a history of how Italian economists in particular helped shape the ideas of austerity under facism in Italy

In episode two, we interview Prof. James Galbraith of the University of Texas. James won the AFEE's Veblen-Commons award in 2020. He has authored many works in the areas of economic inequality, macroeconomics and developed our general understanding of the economy. We talk about his works, his thinking on inflation in the Post Covid economy and his fathers legacy, John Kenneth Galbraith.

In the first episode of season two of the legal-economic nexus podcast, we interview Prof. Malcom Rutherford of the University of Victoria and well known economic historian.

In this episode, we talk with Harvard Law professor Joseph Singer and make connections between approaches to law and institutional economics

In this episode, we talk with professor emeritus Glen Atkinson of the University of Nevada Reno

Geoff Hodgson is one of the most well known institutional economists today. In this interviews etch on his new book about heterodox economics and where he sees the future for this strand of economic thinking.

This episode is an interview with Colorado State University graduate student and AFEE social media coordinator Emily Hrovat

In this episode we welcome Dr. Charles Whalen to talk about his journey as an institutional economist, discussing the influence and work of economists such as John R. Commons and Hyman Minsky. We also discuss Whalen's edited work "Institutional Economics: Perspectives and Methods in Pursuit of a Better World", which features a chapter on institutional economic methods in the tradition of Allan Schmid co-authored by Klammer, Scorsone, and Whalen.

On the legal-economic nexus podcast, we interview institutional economists Mary Wrenn from the University of the West of England. We cover a wide range of topics including her background, identifying some key Veblenian concepts and the economics of the prosperity gospel.