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The Answer Is Transaction Costs — 87 episodes
God Speaks Hebrew But Understands Yiddish
The Main Course was Transaction Costs: Milton's Dinner with Ronald
Regime Uncertainty: Political Risk is Transaction Cost!
The Senate Is The Enemy And Other Friction Stories
Two Bakers Walk Into A Cartel
Contracting with Yourself: Akrasia and Transaction Costs
When Mass Outrage is Cheap: TC Origins of Cancel Culture
You are NOT "Sorry I'm Late"!!
Transaction Costs Killed the Medical Stars
Parasites And Property Rights
Books Don't Bet, They Match
Hereditary Monarchy: At Least You Know Which Idiot Is Next
Swollen Permits? Call Chile!
Honor Among Thieves: Anja Shortland and Ransomware
Are Transaction Costs Really Just Human Distance
Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations Episode 10: Always Contemporary
Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations Episode 9: Spending, Taxing, and Debt
Adam Smith Episode 8: A Nation of Shopkeepers
Parts is (Not) Parts: The Life Cycle Problem for Heavy Equipment
Money Killed Barter; Can a Platform Bring It Back?
Adam Smith Episode 7: The Errors of Mercantilism--Bullion, Balances, and Bounties
Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations Episode 6--Division of Land
Little's Law: The Transaction Costs of (Re)Drawing Lines
Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations: Episode 5--The Text of Book II
Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations: Episode 4--Capital and Book II: Introduction
The Innovation is the Exchange Itself!
When Bribes Become the System: Understanding Lock-In
Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations: Episode #3--Introduction and Book I
Second Place Is The First Loser: Strategy Over Speed
When Bats Attack: Understanding Insurance
Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations: Episode #2--The "Model"
Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations: Episode 1 (Background)
Nnnnooooo one expects transaction costs!! The economics of Monty Python
The Engineers of Exchange: Middlemen, Part Deux
FA Hayek: Price Whisperer
The Price of Pennies: Make or Buy?
Pretty Pigs and Talking Dogs
Barking Cats: On the "Nature" of Bureaucracy
Pins: Division of Labor is Limited by Transaction Costs
Commerce and Sociology: Novak on Entangled Political Economy
The Paradox of Political Rationality: Lynch
Curation Bubbles, Verification, and the Splintering of Ideology: Green
The Socialist Generation Debate: Boettke
Transaction Costs and Constitutions: India's Balancing Act, with Shruti Rajagopalan
Political Capitalism and the Power of Elites: Randall Holcombe
Prison Gangs and Governance: David Skarbek
Certainty, Common Law, and Statutory Law: Todd Zywicki of Scalia Law
From Law to Legislation: A Natural Process
Why Bosses Don't Wear Bunny Slippers: TAITC
Price Gouging or Price Information?
All Housing is Affordable Housing
We Get Letters!
Shibumi! Legit Idea, or Shady Dealings?
Slavery, Indentured Servitude, and the Problem of Financing Education
Bees, Oranges, and Externalities: The Answer is Transaction Costs
Parking Lots, Transaction Costs of the Price Mechanism, and the Pork Pie Fedora Rogue
Monkey See, Monkey App! And IP Walks Into a Bar....
Baseball, Dollar Dogs, Apple Pie and Transaction Costs
Dam Shame: It's not easy being government
Corner Crossing Conundrum: Trespassing, Airspace, and Property Rights
The Riddle is Transaction Costs: That's What the Money is For!
From Commons to Coase and Beyond, With Steven Medema
Desert Town Dilemmas and the Problem of Property Rights
Caldwell: Hayek's Intellectual Journey
Making Deals With Shadows: The Economics of Ransomware and Cybersecurity
Current Event: Smart Grids, DERs, and the Economics of Energy
The 5G Revolution, Huawei Controversy, and Global Trade Dynamics
Permissionless Innovation: Unshackling Potential or Unleashing Chaos?
Neutrality, Security, and Ethereum: the Future of Global Transaction Costs
Effective Altruism and the Transaction Costs of Maximizing Expected Value
Motives and Morals of Taxes, and an Homage to Bob Barker
All You Can Eat, or By the Ounce?
The Devil Went Down to Grievance: Tuh, Taxes, and HOAs
The Red Dots Three, Parsley, and Counting Sheep
Packing Out Your Trash, Brown M&Ms, and $100 Bills on the Sidewalk
Academic Publishing, Talking Frogs, and Nailing Your Head to the Floor
Faith and Loyalty through the TC Lens
Lettuce Again, and Lumber
Conventional Wisdom, Chesterton Fences, and "Excuse me"
Dollar Hot Dogs, Coupons, and Bidding for Wallets
Women in Prison, and ALL Costs are Transaction Costs
Dating, Marriage, and the Costs of Search
Roads, Public Goods, and Focal Points
Middlemen: From Mancgere to Amazon
Propriety, Norms, and Traffic Congestion: Episode 3
Exchange Takes "Place," and the Strange Case of Lettuce
TAITC: Episode 1