All Episodes

Ep. 121 - Siddharth Kara on How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

Ep. 120 - Philip Howard on The Faliure of Public Employee Unions

Ep. 119 - Dakin Campbell on How Silicon Valley Broke The IPO

Ep. 118 - Dr. Mordecai Kurz on The Market Power of Technology

Ep. 117 - Connor Boyack on Liberty and Education

Ep. 116 - Senator Phil Gramm on The Myth of American Inequality

Ep. 115 - Dr. Frank Dikötter on China’s Rise After Mao

Ep. 114 - Dr. Allen Morrison on Business Success in China

Ep. 113 - Dr. Ethan Chorin on The Benghazi Fiasco

Ep. 112 - Dr. Marion Laboure on The Radical Promise of Fintech

Ep. 111 - Lynn Greenky on First Amendment Rights

Ep. 110 - Rafael Mangual on What the Push for Decarceration and Depolicing Gets Wrong

Ep. 109 - Katherine Blunt on The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric

Ep. 108 - Edward Chancellor on The Story of Interest

Ep. 107 - Dr. Joseph Wong on Democratization Through Strength

Ep. 106 - Dr. Douglass Rushkoff on The Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires

Ep. 105 - Dr. Lawrence C. Marsh on a Dynamic-Growth Economy

Ep. 104 - Dr. Per Espen Stoknes on A Guide to Creating Healthy Green Growth

Ep. 103 - Dr. Michael Bernstam on The Russian Economic Collapse

Ep. 102 - James Bessen on How Corporations Use Software to Dominate Industries

Ep. 101 - Dr. Steven Miller on Real Stories of Human-Machine Collaboration

Ep. 100 - Dr. J. Bradford DeLong on An Economic History of the Twentieth Century

Ep. 99 - Dr. Maureen Perry-Jenkins on How Parents’ Jobs Shape Children’s Well-Being

Ep. 98 - Dr. Kimberly Kay Hoang on How Global Elites Exploit Frontier Markets

Ep. 97 - Dr. Stephen Bell on China’s Troubled Pursuit of Financial Reform

Ep. 96 - Dr. Joseph Fishkin on Reconstructing the Economic Foundations of American Democracy

Ep. 95 - Dr. Satish Nambisan on Navigating the New Normal in Global Business

Ep. 94 - Dr. Phillip Levine on How the Complexity of College Pricing Hurts Students and Universities

Ep. 93 - Dr. Emma Saunders-Hastings on Philanthropy and Democratic Equality

Ep. 92 - Dr. Dan Slater on The Transformations of Modern Asia

Ep. 91 - Tomer Rabinovich on The Pro Seller’s Guide to Amazon Success

Ep. 90 - Dr. Nate G. Hilger on How to Stop Overloading Parents and Fix Our Inequality Crisis

Ep. 89 - Dr. Masaaki Higashijima on Electoral Manipulation, Economic Maneuvering, and Political Order in Autocracies

Ep. 88 - Dr. George DeMartino on How Economists Cause Harm (Even as They Aspire to Do Good).

Ep. 87 - Dr. Jacob Soll on The History of Free Markets

Ep. 86 - Dr. Tara Watson on The Economics of Immigration in an Age of Fear

Ep. 85 - Dr. Mark Pack on The History, Uses and Abuses of Political Opinion Polls

Ep. 84 - Dr. Ian McManus on The Repoliticization of the Welfare State

Ep. 83 - Dr. Kevin Munger on Why the Baby Boomers Still Dominate American Politics and Culture

Ep. 82 - Michael Gordon on The Inside Story of the War Against the Islamic State

Ep. 81 - Dr. Stein Ringen on Power, Statecraft, and Freedom in Modern Societies

Ep. 80 - Brett Scott on Cash, Cards, Crypto, and the War for Our Wallets

Ep. 79 - Dr. Daveed Gartenstein-Ross on How Jihadist Groups Strategize, Plot, and Learn

Ep. 78 - Dr. John LaMattina on Balancing Innovation, Medicine, and Drug Prices

Ep. 77 - Dr. David Dranove and Dr. Lawton Burns on Megaproviders and the High Cost of Health Care in America

Ep. 76 - Dr. Robin Goldstein and Dr. Daniel Sumner on The Blunt Realities of Cannabis Economics

Ep. 75 - Omid Malekan on The Curse of History and the Crypto Cure for Money, Markets and Platforms

Ep. 74 - Dr. Paul Oyer on Insights From The Economics of Sports

Ep. 73 - Dr. Leah Boustan on America’s Untold Story of Immigrant Success

Ep. 72 - Dr. Mark Koyama on The Historical Origins of Economic Growth

Ep. 71 - Dr. Elizabeth Popp Berman on How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy

Ep. 70 - Dr. Richard Holden on Liberalism after Covid

Ep. 69 - Dr. Vito Tanzi on The Uncertain Economics of Disasters, Pandemics, and Climate Change

Ep. 68 - Bill McKibben on The End of Nature

Ep. 67 - Dr. Christopher Blattman on The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace

Ep. 66 - Dr. Oded Galor on The Origins of Wealth and Inequality

Ep. 65 - Dr. Marc F. Bellemare on What You Should Have Learned in Grad School–But Didn’t

Ep. 64 - Dr. Paul Sagar on Reconsidering Adam Smith

Ep. 63 - Seth Godin on The Carbon Almanac and Blogging

Ep. 62 - Dr. Alex Dreher on The Aims and Impacts of China’s Overseas Development Program

Ep. 61 - Dr. Lily Geismer on The Democrat’s Failed Attempt To Solve Inequality

Ep. 60 - Dr. Kathryn Olivarius on Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom

Ep. 59 - Dr. Adam Iqbal on Practical Asset Pricing and Macroeconomic Theory

Ep. 58 - Dr. John List on How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale

Ep. 57 - Dr. Lubos Pastor on Mutual Funds and High-ESG Investing

Ep. 56 - Dr. Dinsha Mistree on Meritocracy, US-India Relations, and Documented Dreamers

Ep. 55 - Dr. Peter Arcidiacono on Affirmative Action

Ep. 54 - Markos Kounalakis on the Russia-Ukraine War

Ep. 53 - Daniel Alpert on Labor Shortages and Inflation

Ep. 52 - Dr. Jason Abaluck on Health Insurance Market Design

Ep. 51 - Shahin Vallée on The Consequences of The Russia-Ukraine War For Europe

Ep. 50 - Dr. Branko Milanović on Inequality and The Future of the System That Rules the World

Ep. 49 - Sebastian Mallaby on Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future

Ep. 48 - Dr. Karen Vaughn on Austrian Economics in America

Ep. 47 - Dr. Andrew Biggs on Social Security Privatization

Ep. 46 - Dr. Daniel Carpenter on Democracy by Petition

Ep. 45 - Dr. Rakesh Vohra on Game Theory Applications to Electrical Engineering

Ep. 44 - Dr. Per Bylund on Austrian Economics and Deregulation

Ep. 43 - Dr. Scott Burns on the Mobile Money Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa

Ep. 42 - Dr. Steven Kamin on Interest Rate Hikes and Rising Inflation

Ep. 41 - Tom Hegna on Annuities and Retirement Investing

Ep. 40 - Dr. Scott Sumner on Market Monetarism, the Great Recession, and the Future of Monetary Policy

Ep. 39 - Dr. Yuri Maltsev on Russian Politics Post-USSR

Ep. 38 - Dr. Nikhil Agarwal on Market Design for Kidney Transplants

Ep. 37 - Dr. Peter Boettke on The Struggle for a Better World

Ep. 36 - Alex J. Pollock on Finance and Philosophy: Why We’re Always Surprised

Ep. 35 - Dr. Edward Glaesar on Megacities and Population Collapse

Ep. 34 - Dr. Robert E. Wright on The Best of Thomas Paine and Financial Exclusion

Ep. 33 - Michael Barone on The Biden Presidency and 2024 Predictions

Ep. 32 - Timothy Taylor on Proposed Tax Hikes and the National Debt

Ep. 31 - Dr. Caleb Fuller on Six Economic Lies You’ve Been Taught And Probably Believe

Ep. 30 - Dr. Jay Bhattacharya on The Great Barrington Declaration

Ep. 29 - Andrew Winston on How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More than They Take

Ep. 28 - Todd Buchholz on Why Rich Nations Fail and How to Renew Them

Ep. 27 - Dr. Benjamin M. Friedman Religion and The Rise of Capitalism

Ep. 26 - Dr. John L. Campbell on The Forgotten Lessons of Great Economists

Ep. 25 - Dr. Patrick Newman on the Infrastructure Bill and Taxes on Unrealized Gains

Ep. 24 - David Bahnsen on 250 Untold Economic Truths

Ep. 23 - Dr. Anthony Davies on Limited Government and Individual Liberties

Ep. 22 - Dr. Walter Block on Libertarian Legal Philosophy

Ep. 21 - Dr. Eric Mason on Budget Management for the City of Quincy, Massachusetts

Ep. 20 - Dr. Phillip Cross on the Canadian Economy and Budget Balancing

Ep. 19 - California‘s Affordable Housing Crisis

Ep. 18 - The Role Of Federal Regulations In Collective Bargaining

Ep. 17 - Who Actually Pays The Corporate Taxes?

Ep. 16 - Healthcare Savings Accounts

Ep. 15 - Dr. Brian Lee Crowley on The Macdonald-Laurier Institute

Ep. 14 - The Economic Recovery And The Rise Of The Gig Economy

Ep. 13 - The Filibuster & The For The People Act

Ep. 12 - Global Minimum Corporate Tax

Ep. 11 - The Scandinavian Economic System

Ep. 10 - Medicare For All

Ep. 9 - Why Social Security Needs Reform Now

Ep. 8 - Economic Evaluation Of The Green New Deal

Ep. 7 - The Problem With The Welfare State

Ep. 6 - The Case For A Flat Tax System

Ep. 5 - The Biden Infrastructure Plan

Ep. 4 - The Economic Perspective Of Student Loan Debt Cancellations

Ep. 3 - Review Of The Proposed Biden Administration Tax Hikes

Ep. 2 - Economic Impacts of A $15 Minimum Wage

Ep. 1 - The $1.9 Trillion Coronavirus Relief Bill