Podcast Episodes

Episode 99: Buying Kidneys with an Ethics Professor

Season 1 Episode 99

Happy 2019, everyone!

On our first episode of Words & Numbers in the new year, professor James Stacey Taylor joins Antony and James this week to discuss the ethical implications of creating markets f…

Published on 6 years, 11 months ago

Episode 98: Trump, Adams, and Sedition

Season 1 Episode 98

Within less than a decade of ratification of the Bill of Rights, President John Adams signed the Sedition Act, which blatantly violated the First Amendment’s protections of freedom of speech and free…

Published on 6 years, 11 months ago

Episode 97: Americans Are Remarkably Charitable

Season 1 Episode 97

Americans have the distinct reputation of being incredibly selfish. All things considered, it’s not exactly unearned. That said, every year, Americans also quietly give a rather astonishingly large a…

Published on 7 years ago

Episode 96: What Is Money, Anyway?

Season 1 Episode 96

Money is one of those things that is so ubiquitous, so completely taken for granted, that we rarely stop to think about what it actually is. The colored bits of paper that we call dollars don’t have …

Published on 7 years ago

Episode 95: Why No One Can “Steal” a Job

Season 1 Episode 95

We hear a lot about jobs, these days. We have monthly government jobs reports. Our politicians talk about job creation. Some people fear others will “take our jobs!” But what is a job? Is it the priz…

Published on 7 years ago

Episode 94: Facebook Is Awful, but What’s the Alternative?

Season 1 Episode 94

It’s no secret that social media is in a bit of a shambles. The big players like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are purging accounts, censoring content, and mining data. Many users are very unhappy w…

Published on 7 years ago

Episode 93: Focus on the Principles, Not the Outcomes

Season 1 Episode 93

There was once a time when politicians were civil to each other. Neighbors and friends who disagreed politically remained neighborly and friendly to each other. Opponents were graceful in defeat and …

Published on 7 years, 1 month ago

Episode 92: America Is Not a Democracy

Season 1 Episode 92

In the wake of the midterm elections, there’s been a lot of talk about democracy and how it works. Many—largely on the left—are confused and angry because, despite garnering the higher number of vote…

Published on 7 years, 1 month ago

Episode 91: It’s Not the Government’s Job to Provide Goods and Services

Season 1 Episode 91

“It’s the most important election in history.” That’s the rhetoric you see plastered across the news and social media. Perhaps, people view this election as such because they believe it to be the gov…

Published on 7 years, 1 month ago

Episode 90: What’s So Creative about Destruction?

Season 1 Episode 90

Economists use the term “creative destruction” a fair amount, but what does it actually mean? It generally refers to a company going out of business, or sometimes whole sectors of the economy vanishi…

Published on 7 years, 1 month ago