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Political Economy with Jim Pethokoukis — 200 episodes
Hal Brands: Allies, Autocrats, and AI
Tobias Peter: Solving the US Housing Shortage
Mackenzie Eaglen: The State of US Military Preparedness
Christopher Scalia: Literary Fiction for the Conservative Mind
Edward Glaeser: What's Hampering American Housing?
Deirdre McCloskey: Ideas that Sparked Independence
Andrew Biggs: American Retirement Readiness
Derek Scissors: Trump's Tariffs and the China Trade War
Mark Warshawsky: Sizing Up Social Security
Andrew Leigh: An Economist's Guide to Human History
Michael Strain: On the State of the US Economy
James Coleman: Unleashing American Infrastructure
Tony Mills: In Support of Science Policy
Chris Miller: Waging the High-Stakes 'Chip War'
Glenn Hubbard: A Pro-Growth Policy Agenda
Kyle & Shuting Pomerleau: The Case for a Carbon Tax
Tim Carney: A Family-Friendly Culture
Steven Kamin: The Dominant Dollar
Bronwyn Howell: Regulating AI
Kevin Corinth: The Child Tax Credit
Karlyn Bowman: American Nostalgia
Joseph Antos: The State of Medicare
Jennifer Burns: Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative
Melissa Kearney: The Importance of the Two-Parent Home
Chelsea Follett: Cities as Centers of Progress
Timothy Muris: The 'Big Is Bad' Approach to Antitrust
Jeremy Horpedahl: Are American Families Thriving?
Rick Hess: Rethinking America's Schools
Leah Boustan: Busting Immigration Myths
Andrew Biggs: The Necessity and Political Challenges of Social Security Reform
Beth Akers: Why College Is So Expensive
Ruy Teixeira: Understanding America's Shifting Political Coalitions
Brent Orrell: How Workers Can Prepare for the AI Economy
Angela Rachidi: Is Raising a Family Becoming Unaffordable?
Kevin Corinth: AEI's New Center on Opportunity and Social Mobility
Derek Scissors: US-China Economic Relations
Michael Strain: What You Need to Know About the Debt Ceiling
Bruce Caldwell: The Life and Ideas of F.A. Hayek
Scott Winship: Measuring Poverty
J.C. Bradbury: The Case Against Stadium Subsidies
James Capretta: Reforming US Health Policy
Stan Veuger: The State of the US Economy
Kyle Pomerleau: A Tax Policy Primer
Bryan Caplan: Free Markets, Demagoguery, and More
Mark Koyama and Jared Rubin: How the World Became Rich
Ali Hajimiri: Space-Based Solar Power
Anna Stansbury: Is the Productivity-Pay Link Broken?
Michael Strain: Is a Recession on the Horizon?
Neil Thompson: Is Moore’s Law Coming to an End?
Tony Mills: Thinking about Federal Science Investment
Tyler Cowen: Spotting Talent in the Modern Economy
Walker Hanlon: The Industrial Revolution and the Rise of the Engineer
Rick Hess: Post-pandemic Education Reform
Jimmy Soni: How PayPal Shaped Silicon Valley
Mark Jamison: Exploring the Metaverse
Virginia Postrel: Dynamism or Stasis?
Dan Sichel: Nails as a Window into Economic Change
Mark Muro: The geography of the tech sector
Melanie Mitchell: Thinking about artificial intelligence
Sebastian Mallaby: How venture capital creates the future
Alex MacDonald: The economic history of private space exploration
Glenn Hubbard: Building bridges in the wake of economic disruption
Ramez Naam & Christie Iacomini: Life in 2050
Ryan Streeter: The importance of dynamism
Robert Zubrin: The case for space expansionism
Didier Sornette: Risk-taking, scientific revolutions, and economic progress
Steven Koonin: Responding to a warming planet
Benjamin Jones: Are we investing enough in scientific research?
Eric Berger: Elon Musk and the rise of SpaceX
Mark Mills: Will the cloud revolution unleash the next economic boom?
Beth Shapiro: Synthetic biology, conservation, and de-extinct woolly mammoths
John Logsdon: The Apollo program and the future of space exploration
Charles Pappas: How World's Fairs changed the world
Kyle Pomerleau: Tax hikes and paying for Biden's Build Back Better agenda
Michael Strain: The state of the labor market
Neil Chilson: Emergent order in a complex world
Jamie Beard: Geothermal energy as a climate solution
Arthur Turrell: Is fusion power the energy source of the future?
Adrian Wooldridge: Defending meritocracy
Charles Fishman: Was the Apollo program a failure?
Azeem Azhar: The age of exponential technology
Ed Glaeser: How cities can thrive in a post-COVID age
Nicholas Bloom: Do innovation hubs work?
John Roth, Rich Boling, Michael Gold, & Matthew Weinzierl: The space economy
Brad Stone: The age of Amazon
John Haltiwanger: American entrepreneurship during the pandemic
Ed Glaeser: Did capitalism cause the opioid epidemic?
Michael Strain: The post-pandemic economy
Ramez Naam: The future of clean energy
Mark Jamison: Is Big Tech anticompetitive?
Alex Edmans: Is capitalism a zero-sum game?
Daniel Deudney: The case against space expansionism
Elizabeth Kolbert: Should environmentalists change nature to save it?
Ryan Bourne: Economics in one virus
Richard Geddes: How to update US infrastructure policy
Matt Hourihan: Reversing the decline in public science support
Jeffrey Clemens: What do economists know about the minimum wage?
David Dollar: China's economic future
Emily Hamilton: Fixing America's housing problem
Mauro F. Guillén: Forecasting the world of 2030
Tyler Cowen, Michael Strain, Catherine Tucker, & Dietrich Vollrath: Is the great stagnation over?
Charles Goodhart & Manoj Pradhan: Predicting a global inflation revival
Scott Lincicome: Why America shouldn't embrace industrial policy
Alex Brill: US spending and tax policy after the COVID recession
Alex Nowrasteh: How does immigration affect developed countries' institutions?
Daniel P. Gross: Lessons in crisis innovation from World War II
Tim Fernholz, Sara Seager, Stan Veuger, & Matt Weinzierl: The future of space exploration
Leah Brooks: Why does US infrastructure cost so much?
Don Braben: The importance of scientific freedom
Korok Ray: How higher education can further contribute to innovation
Joshua D. Wright: The conservative case against weaponizing antitrust
Darrell M. West: Policymaking in the era of artificial intelligence
Michael Strain: Evaluating Biden's $1.9 trillion economic relief plan
Claude Barfield: Trade policy challenges for the Biden administration
Johan Norberg: The history and psychology of progress
Jeff Kosseff: Setting the record straight on Section 230
Best of the year — Ronald D. Moore: The sci-fi optimism of ‘For All Mankind,’ ‘Battlestar Galactica,’ and ‘Star Trek’
Nicolas Petit: Big Tech and the moligopoly scenario
Amitabh Chandra: Can America improve its health care system?
Jim Tankersley: The riches of this land
Michael Clemens: What have economists learned about immigration?
Philip Coggan: How did the world get so rich?
Mervyn King: How to handle radical uncertainty
Richard Reeves, Isabel Sawhill, & Michael Strain: A new contract with the middle class
Ronald D. Moore: The sci-fi optimism of ‘For All Mankind,’ ‘Battlestar Galactica,’ and ‘Star Trek’
Scott Winship: Poverty, inequality, and opportunity in America
Casey Mulligan & Michael Strain: Has Trumpian populism succeeded?
Kevin Davies: Genome editing and the CRISPR revolution
Sanjai Bhagat: Shareholder capitalism vs. stakeholder capitalism
Matthew Yglesias: One billion Americans
Glenn Hubbard: Looking back and ahead on the US economy
Caleb Watney: America’s slowing innovation engine
Jonathan Gruber, Tony Mills, Margaret O’Mara, & Bret Swanson: Boosting economic growth by funding science
Jason Crawford: Lessons from studying the roots of progress
Ronald Bailey: Global trends every smart person should know
Scott Gottlieb, Rick Hess, & Michael Strain: COVID-19 this fall
Ed Finn: Telling stories of a better future
Arthur Diamond: Sustaining innovative dynamism
Douglas Irwin: The post-COVID future of international trade
Nicholas Crafts: Is the age of fast economic growth really over?
John Van Reenen: Why America needs a ‘Grand Innovation Challenge Fund’
Toby Ord: Existential risk and the future of humanity
Nicole Gelinas: Can cities weather the pandemic?
Mike Masnick: Exploring the future of work through science fiction
Adam Thierer: How ‘evasive entrepreneurship’ can beat the regulatory state
Michael Strain: Assessing the economy, post-COVID lockdown
Matt Ridley: How innovation works
Anton Howes: Human progress and the Royal Society of Arts
Eli Dourado: How to make America innovate again
Tony Mills: World War II shows the importance of basic science research
Chad Syverson: The COVID crisis and economic growth
Lane Kenworthy: The case for social democratic capitalism
James Robinson: The narrow corridor to liberty
Roger Bootle: The AI economy
Matt Frost: An alternative to climate despair
Dietrich Vollrath: Is America’s economy fully grown?
Garett Jones: The case for ‘10 percent less democracy’
Stan Veuger: Handle the coronavirus recession by preventing a business collapse
Ben Thompson: Big Tech monopoly, data privacy, and the rise of China
Kyle Pomerleau: What’s next for taxes? Coronavirus stimulus, the Trump tax cuts, and beyond
Branko Milanovic: The future of capitalism
Hal Varian: In defense of Big Tech
Erik Brynjolfsson: Can AI help us overcome the productivity paradox?
Paul Vigna: How blockchain could change the world
Michael Strain: The American Dream is not dead
Thomas Philippon: How America gave up on free markets
Alain Bertaud: How markets shape cities
Kimberly Clausing: The progressive case for globalization
Peter Klenow: Reflections on a decade of slow economic growth
Lori Ann LaRocco: Trade wars have consequences
Will Rinehart: Big Tech, broadband access, and artificial intelligence
Daniel Shoag: Reduce inequality and boost growth by building more housing
Dalibor Rohac on globalism, nationalism, and conservatism
Stephen Davies on the origins and future of the wealth explosion
Bryan Caplan on open borders
Enrico Moretti on tech hubs and economic opportunity
Carl Benedikt Frey on the technology trap
Stian Westlake on the rise of the intangible economy
Deirdre McCloskey on why liberalism works
Scott Lincicome on the trade war
Andrew McAfee on capitalism, tech progress, and the environment
Michael Strain on inequality in America
Margaret O’Mara on Silicon Valley’s past, present, and future
Matt Weinzierl on the economics of space
Binyamin Appelbaum on the economists’ hour
Desmond Lachman on Brexit, trade wars, and the future of the global economy
Adrienne Mayor on ancient visions of the future
Alan Viard on America’s tax system after the TCJA
Ryan Bourne on Joseph Schumpeter, the tech giants, and the case against monopoly fatalism
Avi Loeb on the search for life beyond Earth
Jeff Kosseff on the twenty-six words that created the internet
Scott Kupor on venture capital and how to get it
Alex Trembath on the Green New Deal, climate change, and the case for nuclear energy
Jonathan Gruber on jump-starting America
Tyler Cowen on big business
Safi Bahcall on nurturing the next ‘loonshot’
Benedict Evans on where the tech industry is taking us next
Huawei and the battle to build the 5G backbone
Will artificial intelligence change the economy for the better?
Who’s protecting the consumer in the age of Big Tech?