Podcast Episodes featuring Alex Tabarrok

Alex Tabarrok on the Elements of Economic Growth and the Decline of Dynamism

Macro Musings with David Beckworth - September 09, 2019 04:30 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 334 ratings
Alex Tabarrok is a professor of economics at George Mason University and holds the Bartley J. Madden Chair in Economics at the Mercatus Center. Alex has written widely on long run economic growth and joins the show today to talk about it. David and Alex also discuss how capital relates to econom...

Rationally Speaking #236 - Alex Tabarrok on "Why are the Prices So D*mn High?"

Rationally Speaking Podcast - July 23, 2019 01:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 464 ratings
Over the last two decades, the prices of consumer goods like toys and electronics have gone way down, but the prices of health care and education have gone up roughly 200%. Why? In this episode, economist Alex Tabarrok discusses his latest book, co-authored with Eric Heller, "Why are the Prices S...

052: Alex Tabarrok on Globalisation, Bounty Hunters and Leveraging Online Education

Economic Rockstar - October 01, 2015 04:30 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 136 ratings
Alex Tabarrok is Associate Professor of Economics at George Mason University and co-founder (with Tyler Cowen) of Marginal Revolution University, an online platform for learning economics. Alex is a TED speaker with over 640,000 views of his TED talk, How Ideas Trump Crises. In this episode, y...

Alex Tabarrok on Private Cities

EconTalk - January 26, 2015 06:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 4K ratings
Alex Tabarrok of George Mason University talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about a recent paper Tabarrok co-authored with Shruti Rajagopalan on Gurgaon, a city in India that until recently had little or no municipal government. The two discuss the successes and failures of this private city, t...

Ep. 289: Alex Tabarrok & David Nott Interviews with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Michael Covel's Trend Following - November 03, 2014 03:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 567 ratings
My guests today are Alex Tabarrok and David Nott. Tabarrok is the co-author of the Marginal Revolution website. He’s an economist at Covel’s alma mater, George Mason University.  Nott is the president of The Reason Foundation–an organization that is all about free minds and free markets.  ...