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Episode 159: Missing the Marx
Karl Marx’s thoughts on socialism are popular among politicians and humanities professors, but not so much among business people and economics profes…
6 years, 3 months ago
Episode 158: Incivility
We’ve all experienced incivility on the Internet. But today’s incivility is more than people being rude to each other online. Political leaders have …
6 years, 4 months ago
Episode 157: Black Markets
Many people imagine that, when the government bans something, the banned thing goes away. In fact, what banning does is to remove government protecti…
6 years, 4 months ago
Episode 156: The Government’s Rosy Outlook
The Congressional Budget Office is tasked with forecasting the federal budget. Over the past twenty years, the CBO has tended to over-estimate future…
6 years, 4 months ago
Episode 155: David Schmidtz on Equality and Justice
When most people say, “equality,” they mean income equality. Economists draw a finer distinction between income equality and wealth equality. Politic…
6 years, 4 months ago
Episode 154: Cracks in the Ivory Tower
The rising cost of tuition is merely a symptom of a disease. The disease, which is much more complex, involves misplaced incentives from administrato…
6 years, 5 months ago
Episode 153: Prohibition and Constitutional Constraints
The 18th Amendment was ratified a century ago, beginning the United States’ fourteen-year experiment with prohibition. An Amendment was needed becaus…
6 years, 5 months ago
Episode 152: Government Schools and the Freedom to Choose
“School choice” is much more than parents being able to choose which schools their children will attend. It is also teachers being free to design and…
6 years, 5 months ago
Episode 151: New Year Resolutions
It’s the New Year, a time when people like to make resolutions. In this episode, James and Ant look at surveys on what Americans pick for their New Y…
6 years, 5 months ago
Episode 150: A Culture of Envy
People tend to talk about income inequality as if it were necessarily a bad thing. In so doing, they often confuse inequality and poverty and, in the…
6 years, 6 months ago