Economic Rockstar
176 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 5 years ago - ★★★★★ - 135 ratingsEconomic Rockstar is created for you, the economist, financial analyst, teacher or student. If you are looking to expand your knowledge or awareness, Frank Conway delivers the information you just don't want to miss. Economic Rockstar brings to you each week an economist, financial analyst or business leader who shares their experiences, research interests or ideas. Hear their views on different schools of economic thinking - Chicago, Austrian, Keynesian and Classical, behavioral economics, stock markets, and how economics and finance can be used in our lives. Economic Rockstar interviews top-level lecturers and academics from highly renowned universities, best-selling authors and bloggers, inspirational CEOs and business leaders, as well as amazing and thought-provoking people who have recently discovered economics and finance and are carving out a career in their new-found passion. Guests in each episode gives us wonderful advice, takeaways and insights that will help you become part of the Economic Rockstar community that will be 'Connecting Brilliant Minds in Economics and Finance'.
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125: Eugene Fama on the Efficient Market Hypothesis, the Federal Funds Rate, Bitcoin and Daily Routines
January 25, 2018 21:57 - 1 hour - 27.9 MBEugene F. Fama is Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Professor Fama was awarded the 2013 Nobel laureate in economic sciences and is widely recognized as the "father of modern finance." Professor Fama's research is well known in both the academic and investment communities. He is strongly identified with research on markets, particularly the efficient markets hypothesis. He focuses much of his research on the relation between risk and expected return...
124: Emily Oster on Diabetes and Diet, Disease and Vaccinations and Debunking Pregnancy Myths
January 18, 2018 22:22 - 54 minutes - 24.8 MBEmily Oster is Professor of Economics at Brown University. Before joining Brown University Professor Oster was a faculty member of the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business following the completion of her PhD from Harvard. Emily’s research covers development economics, health economics and research design. Professor Oster is the author of “Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom Is Wrong — and What You Really Need to Know”. Her book has over 600 customer reviews o...
123: Vernon Smith on Life During the Great Depression and World War II, Overcoming Adversity and Life as an Economist
January 11, 2018 13:34 - 1 hour - 30.5 MBDr. Vernon L. Smith was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 2002 for his groundbreaking work in experimental economics. He has joint appointments with the Argyros School of Business & Economics and the Fowler School of Law, and is part of a team that will create and run the new Economic Science Institute at Chapman. Dr. Smith has authored or co-authored more than 300 articles and books on capital theory, finance, natural resource economics and experimental economics. In thi...
122: Robin Hanson on The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life
January 01, 2018 23:19 - 56 minutes - 25.9 MBFirstly, I’d like to apologise to all listeners to the Economic Rockstar podcast for what seemingly appears to be me turning my back on the podcast and on you. I honestly never had planned for this and I had always intended to work hard and deliver great quality episodes to the best of my abilities with the most amazing, thought-provoking and inspiring economists to you every week. However, personal circumstances changed in my life and this impacted on the podcast. I felt that I couldn’t c...
121: Doug McKee and Edward O'Neill on Teach Better and Using Technology in the Classroom
January 30, 2017 18:33 - 1 hour - 30 MBDouglas McKee is a senior lecturer at the Department of Economics at Cornell University. Dr McKee teaches Econometrics, Probability and Statistics and has previously taught at Yale. Doug’s research interests include Development Economics, Labor Economics, Health Economics and Structural Estimation Edward O’Neill consults and serves to solve teaching & learning problems for professors, and supports academic and other projects with learning design and technology services. Both Doug and E...
120: Best of 2016 Part 2
January 21, 2017 00:35 - 1 hour - 42.6 MBCheck out the links to the podcast episodes that feature in the Best of 2016 Part 2 at www.economicrockstar.com/bestofpart2
119: Best of 2016 Part 1
January 05, 2017 05:30 - 1 hour - 30.8 MBDuring the year I had the absolute honor to converse with some of the brightest minds in the economics. They shared with me their thinking, research and teaching methods and I personally learned a lot from them. I hope that you benefited from these conversations and that you personally felt part of it. It was difficult to choose who to include, or more accurately who to leave out. I decided on a number of common themes for this 'Best of 2016' episode. So I hope you enjoy these sound bites ...
118: Zachary Feinstein on Systemic Risk and Economics in Star Wars and Harry Potter
December 30, 2016 21:40 - 45 minutes - 21.1 MBZachary Feinstein is Professor joined the Preston M. Green Department of Electrical & Systems Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis in 2014. While earning a doctorate at Princeton University, Zachary supervised the senior thesis-writing group and assisted in teaching several courses. Previously, he conducted research at Hunan University in China and was an intern at Millennium Partners LP and Lehman Brothers Inc., both in New York City. Professor Feinstein works in the broa...
117: Courtney Conrad on Broadway Economics and What We Can Learn Through Musicals
December 23, 2016 15:02 - 54 minutes - 25.2 MBCourtney Conrad is a senior undergraduate economics major at Susquehanna University. At Susquehanna, Courtney serves as a research assistant, teaching assistant for principles of microeconomics, and tutor. Courtney’s research interests include labor economics, experimental economics, behavioral economics, and the economics of education. After completing her Bachelor’s degree in economics, Courtney plans on furthering her economics studies and research at the graduate school level wi...
116: Brian O'Roark on The Economics of Superheroes and The Hunger Games
December 16, 2016 23:31 - 59 minutes - 27.1 MBBrian O’Roark is University Professor of Economics at Robert Morris University in Pittsburgh. He is the Co-Director of the Robert Morris Center for Economics Education and has a Ph.D. from George Mason University. In 2014, Brian was given the Undergraduate Teaching Innovation Award by the Middle Atlantic Association of Colleges of Business Administration. He teaches the Survey of Economics course, and Principles of Micro and Macro Economics. Brian is the co-author of The Ultimate Guide t...
115: Edward Conard on the Upside of Inequality: How Good Intentions Undermine the Middle Class
December 09, 2016 21:53 - 1 hour - 29.6 MBEdward Conard is the author of the New York Times top-ten bestselling book, Unintended Consequences: Why Everything You’ve Been Told About the Economy Is Wrong (2012), and his recent book The Upside of Inequality: How Good Intentions Undermine the Middle Class which reached #7 on the New York Times Bestsellers list and is #1 on the New York Times business book list month. He is a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. and former Bain Capital partner. Ed Conard has debat...
114: Deirdre McCloskey on Equality and Greed and How To Be a Very Good Economist
December 01, 2016 23:20 - 56 minutes - 26 MBDeirdre McCloskey taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago and was a Distinguished Professor of Economics, History, English, and Communication. She was also adjunct professor of Philosophy and Classics there, and for five years was a visiting Professor of philosophy at Erasmus University in Rotterdam. Since October 2007 Deirdre has received six honorary doctorates. In 2013, she received the Julian L. Simon Memorial Award from the Competitive Enterprise Institute for her work exami...
113: Jonathan McEvoy on Globalisation, National Autonomy, Capitalism and the Economic Resonance in Timeless Songs
November 24, 2016 23:24 - 55 minutes - 25.6 MBJonathan McEvoy is currently an undergrad student of economics at Waterford Institute of Technology in Ireland. He was recently recognised for being in the top 5% of the Business School at W.I.T, earning the honour of being on the Deans List for Academic Achievement. Jonathan has a unique understanding of the world around us and, together with his love of economics, has a unique perspective on the economics discipline. Jonathan’s desire to discover and explore the multitude of economic...
112: Stuti Khemani on Making Politics work for Development and Using Creativity and the Arts to Make Better Policy Decisions
November 17, 2016 20:58 - 53 minutes - 24.7 MBDr. Stuti Khemani is a Senior Economist in the Development Research Group of the World Bank. She joined through the Young Professionals Program after obtaining a PhD in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Khemani's area of research is the political economy of public policy choices, and institutional reforms for development. Her work is published in leading economics and political science journals, such as the American Economic Journal, Journal of Development Eco...
111: Greg Mankiw on Writing, Carbon Tax, Health Care and Education at the Economics Teaching Conference in Florida 2016
November 10, 2016 22:57 - 59 minutes - 27.2 MBGreg Mankiw is the Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics at Harvard University. His research includes work on price adjustment, consumer behavior, financial markets, monetary and fiscal policy, and economic growth. He has written two popular textbooks—the intermediate-level textbook Macroeconomics and the introductory textbook Principles of Economics. Principles of Economics has sold over two million copies and has been translated into twenty languages. In addition to his teaching, rese...
110: Beatrice Cherrier on the Economics of 'The Wire' and the Beginning of Economics at MIT
November 04, 2016 04:10 - 1 hour - 28.3 MBBeatrice Cherrier is an assistant professor at the University of Caen, France. Professor Cherrier's research includes the history of postwar economics and how economists’ individual visions combine in collective “styles” of doing economics. Her current research project is aimed at understanding the rise of applied economics from the mid-1960s onwards. Beatrice is affiliated with CREM, the Centre for Research in Economics and Management, where she researches alongside social choice theo...
109: Julia Norgaard on the Online Black Market for Drugs and Why Detection Rates are Low
October 27, 2016 04:30 - 48 minutes - 22.3 MBJulia Norgaard is a Ph.D. Candidate in Economics at George Mason University. Julia is also a Ph.D. Fellow at the Mercatus Center and a Graduate Lecturer at George Mason University. Her interests include development and institutional economics as well as public choice. Julia’s teaching include Managerial Economics, Public Choice Economics, Economic Development of Developing Nations and Economies in Transition. She received her Masters degree in economics from George Mason University...
108: Steve Horwitz on Spontaneous Order, the Microfoundations of Macroeconomics and Three Economic Myths
October 20, 2016 04:30 - 55 minutes - 25.2 MBSteven Horwitz is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Economics at St. Lawrence University in Canton, NY and is currently Visiting Scholar at Ball State University, Indiana. Professor Horwitz is also an Affiliated Senior Scholar at the Mercatus Center Virgina, a Senior Fellow at the Fraser Institute in Canada, and a Distinguished Fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education. Steve is the author of three books, Monetary Evolution, Free Banking, and Economic Order, Microfoundations and Mac...
107: Jaclyn Lindo on Hawaii Land-Based Learning as a Method for Teaching Economics and a Flipped Classroom in Practice
October 13, 2016 04:30 - 50 minutes - 23.3 MBDr. Jaclyn Lindo is an economics instructor at the University of Hawaii’s Kapiolani Community College where she teaches principles-level courses and advise the Economics and Business Club. Dr. Lindo flipped all of her courses using a combination of publisher-produced videos and her own problem-based, collaborative in-class assignments. She strives to make her course material as relevant to students' experiences and interests by using pop culture as well as integrating local issues. Jacly...
106: Michael Kofoed on the Effectiveness of an Economics Major in the Military and How the Pomegranate Defunded the Taliban
October 06, 2016 04:30 - 1 hour - 28.5 MBMichael Kofoed is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. Professor Kofoed’s research focuses on the economics of higher education including the effects of financial aid on student outcomes, pricing behavior of for-profit universities, and measuring the effects of randomly assigned peers and mentors. Michael has numerous published and forthcoming papers and his book chapter “Price Discrimination", co-authored with David Mustard, ...
105: Jana Gallus on the Economics of Non-Financial Awards and How Editor Retention on Wikipedia Can Be Maintained
September 29, 2016 04:30 - 55 minutes - 25.4 MBJana Gallus is an assistant professor in the strategy group at UCLA Anderson. Professor Gallus’s research interests lie in behavioral economics and strategy, with a focus on non-financial incentives and their effects on decision-making. Jana investigates how incentive schemes can be designed to enhance employee motivation and organizational performance in the private and nonprofit sectors. Jana joined UCLA from Harvard, where she was a postdoctoral fellow. She received her Ph.D. in eco...
104: Russ Roberts on How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life and the Theory of Moral Sentiments
September 22, 2016 04:30 - 1 hour - 49.1 MBRuss Roberts is Associate Editor, founder and host of the popular and much loved podcast EconTalk, and founding advisory board member of the Library of Economics and Liberty. Russ is the John and Jean De Nault Research Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. His two rap videos on the ideas of John Maynard Keynes and F.A. Hayek, created with filmmaker John Papola, have had more than eight million views on YouTube. Russ’ latest book How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Une...
103: Brian Mills on the Labor Market in Baseball, the Umpire Strikes Back and R
September 15, 2016 19:30 - 49 minutes - 22.6 MBDr. Brian Mills is an Assistant Professor at the University of Florida within the Department of Tourism, Recreation, and Sport Management specializing in Managerial Sports Economics. Professor Mills is also Associate Research Faculty within the Eric Friedheim Tourism Institute (EFTI). Brian’s research interests encompass topics such as the sports labor market, industrial organization and sports league policy, public policy and economic development related to sport, and advanced analytics...
102: Matías Vernengo on John Maynard Keynes and the Evolution of Keynesian Economic Thinking
September 08, 2016 20:58 - 50 minutes - 23.2 MBMatías Vernengo is Professor of Economics at Bucknell University, Pennsylvania, USA. Dr. Vernengo is co-author of ‘Conta de Juros Grande & Favela’ and has also edited four books including ‘Banking, Monetary Policy and the Political Economy of Financial Regulation - Essays in the Tradition of Jane D’Arista’ He has published over fifty academic and popular articles, and contributes to the blogs Naked Keynesianism and Triple Crisis. He is also the co-editor of the Review of Keynesian Econom...
101: Chris Coyne on the Opportunity Cost of War, Exporting Democracy and the Nirvana Fallacy
September 01, 2016 15:45 - 58 minutes - 27.3 MBChristopher Coyne is an Associate Professor of Economics at George Mason University and the Associate Director of the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center. He also serves as Director of Graduate Studies for the Department of Economics. Professor Coyne serves as the Co-Editor of The Review of Austrian Economics, the Co-Editor of The Independent Review, the Co-Editor of Advances in Austrian Economics, and the Book Review Edito...
100: Emily Skarbek on the Economics of Natural Disasters and the Samaritan’s Dilemma
August 25, 2016 13:33 - 47 minutes - 21.6 MBDr. Emily Skarbek is a Lecturer in Political Economy at King's College London. Emily’s research examines the role of voluntary associations in solving complex public goods problems after natural disasters. Her empirical approach is three-pronged, drawing on archives, historical sources, and field-work following large-scale natural disasters. In addition, Emily has a passion for the history of economic thought, which she believes can play a key role in advancing contemporary debates. Sh...
099: Rodney Fort on Sport Economics, Big Data in Baseball and the Value of Hosting an Olympic Games
August 18, 2016 18:49 - 1 hour - 30 MBRodney Fort is Professor of Sport Management at the University of Michigan after spending 23 years in an economics department at various universities. Professor Fort teaches Sports Economics and Research Methods for Sport Management and research interests include sport economics, regulation and microeconomics. Rodney is a recognized authority on sports economics and business, both in the U.S. and internationally. He has written 7 books including the best seller Sports Economics, 63 re...
098: Kirk Du Plessis on Options Trading and Creating on Online Teaching and Trading Platform
August 11, 2016 04:30 - 45 minutes - 21 MBKirk Du Plessis is a full-time options trader, real estate investor, stay-at-home Dad and personal trading coach. His background and experience includes time on Wall Street as an investment banker, a senior stock analyst and a senior loan officer. Kirk is the Founder and Fund Manager at Option Alpha, an online education and training platform for options traders with students from 42 different countries around the world. You can grab his completely FREE 12-Part Video Training Course whi...
097: Peita Diamantidis on Being a Finance Action Hero and Gamifying How You Manage Your Finances
August 04, 2016 04:30 - 51 minutes - 23.7 MBPeita Diamantidis is an Author, Financial Adviser and Financial Literacy Advocate. She combines maths and finance with a passion for communicating leading her on a mission to empower the public to take charge of their finances. Her easy to understand financial explanations ensure her clients have the tools and information they need to make key financial decisions. With a background in Actuarial Studies and economics, Peita delivers a deep understanding of the fundamentals of money and ...
096: Cameron Murray on the Robinson Crusoe Economy and Blogging toward your PhD
July 28, 2016 11:10 - 58 minutes - 27 MBDr Cameron K. Murray is an economist with a passion for improving society. Cameron writes under the pseudonym Rumplestatskin. Cameron has a broad range of interests and a diverse background in property development, environmental economics research and economic regulation. In his writings, Cameron aims to bring reliable insights from the academic and technical literature into the mainstream economic debate. Cameron thinks that economics could be much better than it is, which is why h...
095: Scott Burns on Mobile Money Banking in Africa and the Success of M-Pesa
July 21, 2016 04:30 - 1 hour - 28.1 MBScott Burns is a Mercatus PhD Dissertation Fellow in the Economics PhD Program at George Mason University. Scott earned his BS in Economics from Louisiana State University where he was part of the Speech and Debate Club and the Phi Eta Sigma Honors Society. His current publications include The War on Drugs in Afghanistan: Another Failed Experiment in Interdiction and Old (Chicago) school, new century: the link between Knight and Simons’ Chicago plan to Buchanan’s constitutional money. ...
094: Daniel Crosby on Stock Market Investment Errors and the Price Earnings Ratio
July 14, 2016 04:30 - 50 minutes - 23.2 MBDr. Daniel Crosby is a psychologist, behavioral finance expert and asset manager who applies his study of market psychology to everything from financial product design to security selection. Daniel is author of 2 books - The Laws of Wealth: Psychology and the secret to investing success and You’re not that Great. He is co-author of the New York Times bestseller Personal Benchmark: Integrating Behavioral Finance and Investment Management. Dr. Crosby is founder of Nocturne Capital. His id...
093: Arthur Charpentier on Freakonometrics, Machine Learning and Big Data
July 07, 2016 04:30 - 1 hour - 27.5 MBArthur Charpentier is currently Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Economics at Université de Rennes I. Professor Charpentier's teaching activities include Economics of Uncertainty, Modelling Natural Catastrophes, Nonlinear Econometrics, Multivariate Data Analysis, Advanced Techniques in Portfolio Management and Probability and Statistics. Arthur’s research interests include copula theory, extreme values with applications in finance and insurance, option pricing, actuarial science and...
092: Graham Brownlow on Rent Seeking, Cliometrics and the Economics of the DeLorean
June 30, 2016 13:03 - 48 minutes - 22.2 MBDr Graham Brownlow (PhD, QUB) is a Lecturer in Economics at Queen’s University, Belfast. Dr Brownlow’s research focuses primarily on economic history and institutions, evolutionary economics, Irish economic and business performance and violence. He also has an interest in methodology in economic and business history. Graham edits the journal Irish Economic and Social History. Show notes with all the links, books and resources mentioned in this episode can be found at www.economicrockst...
091: The Age of Em by Robin Hanson
June 23, 2016 04:30 - 46 minutes - 21.3 MBThis is Robin Hanson's second appearance on the Economic Rockstar podcast. I previously spoke to Robin about his work in episode 073. If you find this interview interesting, check out the other episode. You'll love it. This is the Book Review from Amazon: "Robots may one day rule the world, but what is a robot-ruled Earth like? Many think the first truly smart robots will be brain emulations or "ems." Scan a human brain, then run a model with the same connections on a fast computer, an...
090: Stefan Szymanski on Soccernomics and How Sabermetrics, Inequality and Finance Rules the Sport
June 16, 2016 04:30 - 51 minutes - 23.7 MBStefan Szymanski is Professor of Sport Management at the University of Michigan. Between 2008-2012 he was a Professor of Economics at Cass Business School, City University, London. Stefan began researching the economics of professional football in 1989, and has since come to spend his entire time researching the economics and business of sport. He has published 55 scholarly articles, 14 book chapters, six books and four edited volumes on sports related subjects. Stefan has also acted...
089: James Brusseau on Wealth Inequality and the Accursed Share
June 09, 2016 04:30 - 56 minutes - 25.9 MBDr. James Brusseau is a philosopher specializing in contemporary continental philosophy, history of philosophy and ethics. In 1994 James joined the faculty of Philosophy and Letters at the Mexican National University in Mexico City teaching graduate courses in Philosophy and Comparative Literature. He has also taught in Europe and the California State University. Dr. James Brusseau currently teaches at Pace University in New York City. James is the author of four books: Isolated E...
088: Denise Cummins on Fairness in Economics, Altruism and the Prisoners Dilemma
June 02, 2016 04:30 - 1 hour - 29.9 MBDr. Denise Cummins is a research psychologist and an author. She has held faculty and research positions at Yale University, the University of California, the University of Illinois, and the Center for Adaptive Behavior at the Max Planck Institute in Berlin. Dr Cummins is a respected cognitive scientist who has authored numerous scientific articles, and is an elected Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science. In her Psychology Today blog and PBS NewsHour articles, Denise writ...
087: Asgeir B. Torfason on the Economy of Iceland and Explaining Negative Cashflows in Banks
May 26, 2016 04:30 - 1 hour - 28.5 MBAsgeir B. Torfason is Assistant Professor in the School of Business at the University of Iceland where he teaches Finance, Accounting and Financial Statement Analysis. Asgeir defended his PhD at Gothenburg University in May 2014 with dissertation: Cash Flow Accounting in Banks - A study of practice. His research combines bank management, finance theory, monetary economics and accounting studies. Previous research has focused on asset values and long-term investment in real estate, a fi...
086: Philip Pilkington on Determinism and the Reformation in Economics
May 19, 2016 04:30 - 1 hour - 29.2 MBPhilip Pilkington works in investment and has contributed to numerous online and print media outlets as a freelance economic journalist. Philip ran a popular economics blog called www.fixingtheeconomists.wordpress.com and will be releasing his book The Reformation in Economics soon. Philip earned his B.A. in Journalism from the Independent Colleges, as well as his M.A. in Economics from Kingston University. All views expressed by Philip are his own and are not representative of the fir...
085: Michael Roberts on Understanding Karl Marx and His Thinking on Capitalism
May 12, 2016 04:30 - 59 minutes - 27.3 MBMichael Roberts has worked as an economist for over 30 years in the City of London. Michael is a Marxist economist and he has written on the causes of the recession of 2008 from a Marxist perspective. He is the author of The Great Recession: Profit cycles, economic crisis A Marxist view and The Long Depression: Marxism and the Global Crisis of Capitalism. You can view all the links mentioned in this episode at www.economicrockstar.com/michaelroberts
084: Mises v Marx: A Discussion with Peter Boettke
May 05, 2016 04:30 - 1 hour - 27.5 MBPeter Boettke is Professor of Economics and Philosophy at George Mason University, the BB&T Professor for the Study of Capitalism, and the Director of the F.A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. This is Professor Boettke's second time being featured on the Economic Rockstar podcast. You can listen to Peter's first interview in episode 82 at www.economicrockstar.com/peterboettke Professor Boettke is ...
083: Stephen Kinsella on Stock Flow Models, Rent Controls and Being the Green Lantern of Economics
April 28, 2016 04:30 - 59 minutes - 27.4 MBStephen Kinsella is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at the Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick in Ireland and a Research Fellow at the Geary Institute at University College Dublin. He is currently visiting Professor of Economics at Université Paris. Stephen has 2 PhD’s, is well published in many Economics Journals and has won several grants worth around 1.5 million Euro. Stephen’s area of expertise is in the study of the Irish and European economies. He has written 4 books: Irel...
082: Peter Boettke on Smith and Keynes and Why We Should Be 'Living Economics'
April 21, 2016 04:30 - 1 hour - 29 MBPeter Boettke is Professor of Economics and Philosophy at George Mason University, the BB&T Professor for the Study of Capitalism, and the Director of the F.A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Peter is now the co-author, along with David Prychitko, of the classic principles of economics texts of Paul Heyne's The Economic Way of Thinking. Professor Boettke’s most recent book, Living Economics, provides...
081: Julie Nelson on the Importance of Ecology in Economics and the Misconception of Gender Roles in the Economy
April 14, 2016 04:30 - 48 minutes - 22.2 MBJulie Nelson is Professor of Economics at University of Massachusetts Boston and Senior Research Fellow at Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University, also in the USA. Julie’s research areas include feminist economics, ecological economics, the philosophy and methodology of economics, ethics and economics, the teaching of economics, and the empirical study of individual and household behavior. Julie is the author of Economics for Humans and author, co-author, or co-edit...
080: Will Australia's Property Market and Economy Go Down Under? An Episode Featuring Steve Keen
April 07, 2016 04:30 - 38 minutes - 17.9 MBThis weeks episode of the Economic Rockstar podcast features the Australian economy. There is talk amongst economists, analysts and commentators, be it speculative or not, that the Australian economy or it’s housing market will implode within the next 12 to 18 months. I am joined with Professor Steve Keen who explains why the property market in Australia will crash, taking down its economy. Check out the show notes page for a transcript, links and resources mentioned in this episode ...
079: Bryan Caplan on Parenting, the Case Against Education and the Rational Voter
March 31, 2016 04:30 - 40 minutes - 18.5 MBBryan Caplan is Professor of Economics at George Mason University and Senior Scholar at the Mercatus Center. Bryan is the author of The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies, named "the best political book of the year" by the New York Times, and Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids: Why Being a Great Parent Is Less Work and More Fun Than You Think. He also blogs at EconLog. He is now working on a new book, The Case Against Education. Check out the show notes page to...
078: Arnold Kling on the Hidden Story of How Markets Work, the Mortgage Crisis and How We Pay for Health Care
March 24, 2016 04:30 - 56 minutes - 25.7 MBArnold Kling is a Mercatus Center–affiliated senior scholar at George Mason University and a member of the Financial Markets Working Group. Arnold specializes in housing-finance policy, financial institutions, macroeconomics, and the inside workings of America’s federal financial institutions. He also is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute in Washington, DC. He has authored five books, including Crisis of Abundance: Rethinking How We Pay for Health Care and Invisible Wealth: The Hidd...
077: The Irish Economy 100 years on from the 1916 Easter Rising
March 17, 2016 04:30 - 42 minutes - 19.4 MBThis is a commemorative episode celebrating the 100 year anniversary of Ireland’s 1916 Easter Rising in which the Proclamation of the Republic was read by Padraig Pearse at four minutes past noon on Easter Monday, April 24th, from the steps of the General Post Office on Sackville Street (now known as O’Connell Street). The document proclaimed Ireland’s independence from Great Britain. How was Ireland’s economy performing in 1916 and how far have we come 100 years on? In this episode, you w...
076: Greg Ip on Foolproofing the Economy and Why Stability is Destabilizing
March 10, 2016 05:30 - 41 minutes - 18.8 MBGreg Ip is one of the best-known economics journalists in the US. He is currently chief economics commentator of The Wall Street Journal and writes about U.S. and global economic developments and policy each week in the Capital Account column and on Real Time Economics, the Wall Street Journal’s economics blog. From 2008 to January 2015, he was U.S. Economics Editor of The Economist magazine. Greg is the author of Foolproof: Why Safety Can Be Dangerous and How Danger Makes Us Safe as well ...