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Episode 299: The Rights of the Dead
Do the dead have rights? This Halloween, philosopher James Stacey Taylor joins us for a live (heh) recording of Words & Numbers to take this question…
3 years, 7 months ago
Episode 298: How do Treasury Bills Work?
People spend a lot of time talking about the debt and deficit, but most are unaware of the mechanics involved. This week, we cover some of those mech…
3 years, 8 months ago
Episode 297: What Happened to Poverty?
This month, the world takes stock of international poverty, and James and Ant put poverty into perspective both across countries and across time.
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3 years, 8 months ago
Episode 296: Think Like an Economist
All of economics boils down to a single fact: people respond to incentives. The first step to thinking like an economist is to take that fact serious…
3 years, 8 months ago
Episode 295: Must Government Control Money?
People - including some economists - are so used to governments establishing currencies that we are unaware that there are alternatives. Money is sim…
3 years, 8 months ago
Episode 294: Article I, Section 8, Pt.2
Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution lists the things the Federal government is permitted to do. Somewhere in our history, citizens have come to …
3 years, 8 months ago
Episode 293: Article I, Section 8, Pt.1
Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution lists the things the Federal government is permitted to do. Somewhere in our history, citizens have come to …
3 years, 9 months ago
Episode 292: When Are We Adults?
The “age of majority” is the age at which a person is considered, legally, an adult. Not only does the age of majority vary by state and over time, i…
3 years, 9 months ago
Episode 291: An Interview with Ant and James
This episode is an excerpt of an interview we gave with Dr. Anwar Dunbar for his YouTube channel, Big Discussions.
Get Your Copy of Cooperation and …
3 years, 9 months ago
Episode 290: Loan Forgiveness and Lying to Pollsters
We discuss two topics in-depth this week: student loan forgiveness and lying to pollsters. There’s an interesting technique for distinguishing betwee…
3 years, 9 months ago