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Episode 279: The Pain of Drug Laws
Critics of drug laws focus on the costs, both in dollars and lives, of incarcerating people for an act that often hurts no one. Lost in the discussio…
4 years ago
Episode 278: Consumers' Hidden Profit
We all see the profits companies make when they sell things for more than it cost them to produce. Companies carefully measure these profits, and man…
4 years ago
Episode 277: UNC Wilmington: Cooperation & Coercion, Pt. 2
James and I were invited to kick off UNC Wilmington’s annual Business Week with a live recording of Words & Numbers. The talk was loosely based on ou…
4 years ago
Episode 276: UNC Wilmington: Cooperation & Coercion, Pt. 1
James and I were invited to kick off UNC Wilmington’s annual Business Week with a live recording of Words & Numbers. The talk was loosely based on ou…
4 years, 1 month ago
Episode 275: Economics Is About A Lot More Than Money
Most of what the public knows about economics is really macroeconomics - the field of economics that deals with interest rates, inflation, unemployme…
4 years, 1 month ago
Episode 274: The CBO Predicts the Future
The Congressional Budget Office is the government entity that produces forecasts about the effects of new taxes and spending on the economy and the f…
4 years, 1 month ago
Episode 273: Markets With Limits, Pt. 2
There are some things that people have an emotional reaction to buying and selling: sex, body parts, votes. There are other things whose quality peop…
4 years, 1 month ago
Episode 272: Markets With Limits, Pt. 1
There are some things that people have an emotional reaction to buying and selling: sex, body parts, votes. There are other things whose quality peop…
4 years, 2 months ago
Episode 271: Our Dual Natures
Humans have dual natures. We are, simultaneously, individuals and members of a shared society. That each of us should be free arises from our status …
4 years, 2 months ago
Episode 270: A Conversation with Award Winning Students, Pt. 3
This is the final installment of our talk with the economics students of Mount Hebron High School. The students have won the state economics champion…
4 years, 2 months ago