Latest Microeconomics Podcast Episodes
Is Private Credit In The Public Interest? with Jim Grant
Capitalisn't - April 25, 2024 11:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 475 ratingsThe meteoric rise of private credit over the last decade has raised concerns among banks about unfair competition and among regulators about risks to financial stability. Historically, regulated banks have provided most of the credit that finances businesses in the United States. However, sinc...
Ralph Nader's Capitalism
Capitalisn't - April 11, 2024 11:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 475 ratings"The only true aging is the erosion of one's ideals," says Ralph Nader, the former third-party presidential candidate who just turned 90 after more than 60 years of consumer advocacy and fighting for small business in America. From influencing the transformative passage of car safety legislation...
The New Business Of News, with Ben Smith
Capitalisn't - March 28, 2024 11:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 475 ratingsGiven the recent mass layoffs, acceleration of media consolidation, continued decline of local journalism, and rapid uptake of generative AI, the news industry—fundamental to institutional accountability in capitalist democracies—appears to be in deep crisis. Joining Bethany and Luigi to make th...
Yes, Journalism Does Have a Future, with Ben Smith
Capitalisn't - March 28, 2024 11:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 475 ratingsGiven the recent mass layoffs, acceleration of media consolidation, continued decline of local journalism, and rapid uptake of generative AI, the news industry—fundamental to institutional accountability in capitalist democracies—appears to be in deep crisis. Joining Bethany and Luigi to make th...
Poverty in America: Terrible Scourge or a Measurement Error?
Capitalisn't - March 14, 2024 11:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 475 ratingsPerhaps the biggest evidence that capitalism in America doesn’t work, at least not for everyone, is growing income inequality and the persistence of poverty. But what is the current state of poverty and inequality in the United States? Why do debates still persist about whether poverty has been ...
When a Few Financial Institutions Control Everything, with John Coates
Capitalisn't - February 29, 2024 12:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 475 ratingsIn his recent book, "The Problem of Twelve: When a Few Financial Institutions Control Everything," Harvard law professor John Coates sheds light on the secrecy, lack of public accountability, concentrated power, and the disproportionate influence of a select few institutions in our financial sys...
Is Short Selling Dead? With Jim Chanos
Capitalisn't - February 15, 2024 12:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 475 ratingsThe Wall Street Journal wrote that “Wall Street's best-known bear is going into hibernation" after the legendary short seller Jim Chanos announced he would close his main hedge funds late last year, in part due to diminishing interest in stock picking. Short selling, which bets on drops in asset...
Manufacturing Influence, with Emily Hund
Capitalisn't - February 01, 2024 12:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 475 ratingsAccording to the latest industry statistics, the global influencer economy grew from $1.7 billion in 2016 to $21.1 billion in 2023 — and it's only expected to grow exponentially from here with advances in artificial intelligence. In 1988, Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman investigated how mass m...
The Capitalisn't of Banking, with Anat Admati
Capitalisn't - January 18, 2024 12:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 475 ratingsIt's been nearly 16 years since the federal government bailed out Wall Street to the tune of $700 billion in response to the financial crisis that precipitated the Great Recession. The idea that the public must guarantee critical financial institutions that are “too big to fail” was controversia...
Ask Luigi Zingales Anything
Capitalisn't - January 04, 2024 12:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 475 ratingsAfter two seasons and 163 episodes, Capitalisn’t hosted its first-ever live event late last year. As part of the University of Chicago Podcast Festival, co-host Luigi Zingales fielded questions from three UChicago undergraduate students — Surya Gowda, Mete Bakircioglu, and Giuseppe Di Cera —and ...
Who Controls AI? With Sendhil Mullainathan
Capitalisn't - December 21, 2023 12:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 475 ratingsThe firing, and subsequent rehiring, of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman raises fundamental questions about whose interests are relevant to the development of artificial intelligence and how these interests should be weighed if they hinder innovation. How should we govern innovation, or should we just not ...
Raghuram Rajan’s Vision Of An Indian Path To Development
Capitalisn't - December 08, 2023 12:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 475 ratingsAfter discussing the trajectory of China's economy earlier this year, Luigi and Bethany turn their attention to the future of another global economic behemoth: India. Joining them is renowned Indian economist Raghuram Rajan, who has a brand-new book out this week, "Breaking the Mould: Reimaginin...
How Big Law Firms Shape Capitalism, With David Enrich
Capitalisn't - November 30, 2023 12:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 475 ratingsAfter previously exploring the worlds of 'consultants for sale' and 'scientists for sale,' Luigi and Bethany turn their attention to another broken system of 'enablers' - the world of lawyers for sale. With award-winning investigative journalist David Enrich, they discuss David's latest book, "S...
Econtalk: Robert Frank on Inequality
Oxford College Principles of Microeconomics Course - November 22, 2023 14:15 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsFrom Econtalk: Robert Frank of Cornell University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about inequality. Is there a role for public policy in mitigating income inequality? Is such intervention justified or effective? The conversation delves into both the philosophical and empirical evidence behi...
The Capitalisn't of Crypto: SBF and Beyond, with Zeke Faux
Capitalisn't - November 16, 2023 12:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 475 ratingsIn his new book "Number Go Up," Bloomberg News investigative reporter Zeke Faux takes readers on a wild ride through the world of cryptocurrency, from its origins in the dark corners of the internet, its meteoric rise to mainstream popularity, and finally its equally precipitous fall. A few da...
Vox Talks: Climate shock: the economic consequences of a hotter planet
Oxford College Principles of Microeconomics Course - November 15, 2023 14:15 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsFrom Vox Talks: At the heart of policy debates about our collective responses to climate change is the issue of risk and uncertainty - ‘unknown unknowns’ about the impact of global warming. In this Vox Talk, Gernot Wagner - co-author with Harvard’s Martin L. Weitzman of 'Climate Shock: The Econom...
Planet Money: Quit Threat
Oxford College Principles of Microeconomics Course - November 08, 2023 14:15 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsFrom Planet Money: On today's show, we ask: What does full employment really look like? NPR sent reporters across the country, including to Ames, Iowa, the city with the lowest unemployment rate, to find out. The unemployment rate is just 3.6% in the U.S., a 50-year low. People think we are...
When Capitalism Becomes Tyranny, with Sohrab Ahmari
Capitalisn't - November 02, 2023 11:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 475 ratingsIn his new book, Sohrab Ahmari argues that the concentration of economic power in the hands of a few corporations has created a new form of tyranny in America. "Coercion is far more widespread in supposedly noncoercive societies than we would like to think—provided we pay attention to private po...
Econtalk: Noah Smith on Worker Compensation, Co-determination, and Market Power
Oxford College Principles of Microeconomics Course - November 01, 2023 14:15 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsFrom Econtalk: Bloomberg Opinion columnist and economist Noah Smith talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about corporate control, wages, and monopoly power. Smith discusses the costs and benefits of co-determination--the idea of putting workers on corporate boards. The conversation then moves to...
The Capitalisn't Of The U.S. COVID Response, With Bethany McLean
Capitalisn't - October 19, 2023 11:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 475 ratingsIn her brand new book, "The Big Fail: What the Pandemic Revealed About Who America Protects and Who It Leaves Behind," Bethany and her co-author Joe Nocera argue that the COVID-19 pandemic was not simply a natural disaster but also a man-made one. Based on rigorous research and compelling story...
Freakonomics radio: The Most Interesting Fruit in the World (Ep. 375)
Oxford College Principles of Microeconomics Course - October 18, 2023 14:15 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsFrom Freakonomics radio: The banana used to be a luxury good. Now it’s the most popular fruit in the U.S. and elsewhere. But the production efficiencies that made it so cheap have also made it vulnerable to a deadly fungus that may wipe out the one variety most of us eat. Scientists do have a way...
Science for Sale, with David Michaels
Capitalisn't - October 05, 2023 11:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 475 ratingsHow does science become public policy? It's not always as straightforward as it might seem. In his book "The Triumph of Doubt: Dark Money and the Science of Deception," leading public health expert and former Clinton/Obama administration official David Michaels shows how corporate interests ofte...
Freakonomics radio: Why Rent Control Doesn’t Work (Ep. 373)
Oxford College Principles of Microeconomics Course - October 04, 2023 14:15 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsFrom Freakonomics radio: As cities become ever-more expensive, politicians and housing advocates keep calling for rent control. Economists think that’s a terrible idea. They say it helps a small (albeit noisy) group of renters, but keeps overall rents artificially high by disincentivizing new con...
Planet Money: A Bet On The Future Of Humanity (Ep508)
Oxford College Principles of Microeconomics Course - September 27, 2023 14:15 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsFrom Planet Money: A famous biologist, Paul Ehrlich, predicts that overpopulation will lead to global catastrophe. He writes a bestselling book — The Population Bomb — and goes on the Tonight Show to make his case.An economist, Julian Simon, disagrees. He thinks Ehrlich isn't accounting for how c...
A Conservative Critique Of Capitalism, With Patrick Deneen
Capitalisn't - September 21, 2023 12:54 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 475 ratingsIn his new book, Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future, renowned political philosopher Patrick Deneen argues that the liberal ideology that has shaped capitalism for centuries has also failed to deliver on its promises of freedom, equality, and prosperity. Is he able to offer a compelling a...
WSJ - The Journal: The World Has Too Much Oil
Oxford College Principles of Microeconomics Course - September 20, 2023 14:15 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsFrom WSJ - The Journal: Demand for oil has plummeted as the coronavirus has shut down much of the world, but most producers are still pumping. WSJ's Russell Gold explains the global game of chicken inside the oil industry.
Planet Money: Why The Price of Coke Didn't Change For 70 years
Oxford College Principles of Microeconomics Course - September 13, 2023 14:15 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsFrom Planet Money: Prices go up. Occasionally, prices go down. But for 70 years, the price of a bottle of Coca-Cola didn't change. From 1886 until the late 1950s, a bottle of coke cost just a nickel. On today's show, we find out why. The answer includes a half a million vending machines, a 7.5...
The Most Important Guidelines You Didn’t Know About, With Susan Athey
Capitalisn't - September 07, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 475 ratingsAs companies become increasingly big through mergers and acquisitions -- especially in technology, health care, and several other industries -- how should rules and regulations change with the times? Freshly minted and hot off the press: The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Trad...
Today in Focus (The Guardian): The global race for face masks
Oxford College Principles of Microeconomics Course - September 06, 2023 14:15 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsFrom Today in Focus (The Guardian): The world economy may have dramatically dipped and the price of oil crashed, but one commodity is seeing an unprecedented boom: the face mask. Samanth Subramanian explores the newly distorted marketplace for masks and the lengths some will go to get them When ...
Key Lessons From The “Chicago Boys” Chile Experiment
Capitalisn't - August 31, 2023 11:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 475 ratingsIs there a fundamental tension between democratic freedom, economic growth, and social equality? Chilean economist and UCLA Professor Sebastian Edwards joins Bethany and Luigi to discuss his recent book, "The Chile Project: The Story of the Chicago Boys and the Downfall of Neoliberalism." The C...
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