Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchWhy, How, and Who to Marry: A Conversation with Brad Wilcox *01
Episode 101
University of Virginia sociologist Brad Wilcox *01 delves into some of the popular wisdom surrounding marriage and tells us what the data has to say:…
2 years, 7 months ago
Marc-William Palen, "Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 202
A new economic history which uncovers the forgotten left-wing, anti-imperial, pacifist origins of economic cosmopolitanism and free trade from the mi…
2 years, 7 months ago
Karl Widerquist, "Universal Basic Income" (MIT Press, 2024)
Episode 179
Karl Widerquist's Universal Basic Income (MIT Press, 2024) is an accessible introduction to the simple (yet radical) premise that a small cash income…
2 years, 7 months ago
Matthias Doepke and Fabrizio Zilibotti, "Love, Money, and Parenting: How Economics Explains the Way We Raise Our Kids" (Princeton UP, 2019)
Episode 146
Parents everywhere want their children to be happy and do well. Yet how parents seek to achieve this ambition varies enormously. For instance, Americ…
2 years, 7 months ago
Financial Access and Socio-Economic Development in Indonesia
Episode 92
Globally, 1.4 billion people are considered to be “financially excluded,” meaning they cannot safely access appropriate and affordable financial serv…
2 years, 7 months ago
"Market pressure was growing by the day" with Charles Dallara
Episode 9
Charles Dallara, managing director of the Institute of International Finance from 1993–2013, talks about his crisis memoir: Euroshock: How the Larges…
2 years, 7 months ago
Nancy Folbre, "The Rise and Decline of Patriarchal Systems: An Intersectional Political Economy" (Verso, 2021)
Episode 234
Nancy Folbre’s The Rise and Decline of Patriarchal Systems: An Intersectional Political Economy (Verso, 2021) asks the questions of why and under wha…
2 years, 7 months ago
Steven D. Levitt (Freakonomics co-author and U Chicago Econ Prof) on His Career and Decision to Retire From Academic Economics
Episode 28
Steven D. Levitt (Freakonomics co-author and University of Chicago Economics Professor) joins the podcast to discuss his career, including being an e…
2 years, 7 months ago
Mark J. Higgins, "Investing in U.S. Financial History: Understanding the Past to Forecast the Future" (Greenleaf, 2024)
Episode 55
Most people rely only on their life experience to make investment decisions. This causes them to overlook cyclical forces that repeatedly reshape eco…
2 years, 7 months ago
Alan Bollard, "Economists at War: How a Handful of Economists Helped Win and Lose the World Wars" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Episode 228
Wartime is not just about military success. Economists at War: How a Handful of Economists Helped Win and Lose the World Wars (Oxford UP, 2020) tells…
2 years, 7 months ago