Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe Most Important Guidelines You Didn’t Know About, With Susan Athey
Season 2 Episode 84
As companies become increasingly big through mergers and acquisitions -- especially in technology, health care, and several other industries -- how s…
2 years, 6 months ago
Key Lessons From The “Chicago Boys” Chile Experiment
Season 2 Episode 83
Is there a fundamental tension between democratic freedom, economic growth, and social equality?
Chilean economist and UCLA Professor Sebastian Edward…
2 years, 6 months ago
The Evolution of Antitrust: From Brandeis To Biden
Season 2 Episode 82
A wet hot antitrust summer is in the news, mainly because of the Biden administration appointees continuing to take an aggressive approach to enforce…
2 years, 6 months ago
An Insider's Look At ESG Revisited
Season 2 Episode 81
Republican presidential candidates, such as Ron DeSantis and Vivek Ramaswamy, continue to keep ESG in the national conversation. Ramaswamy in particu…
2 years, 7 months ago
The Private Equity Debate Revisited
Season 2 Episode 80
In the last episode of our podcast, we had a mini version of a never-ending debate on this show: whether private equity is good or bad. Afterward we …
2 years, 7 months ago
Rebooting American Health Care, with Amy Finkelstein
Season 2 Episode 79
How can public policy improve upon and fix the mess of U.S. health care? In a new book, health economists Amy Finkelstein (MIT) and Liran Einav (Stan…
2 years, 7 months ago
Why America's Poor Remain Poor, With Matthew Desmond
Season 2 Episode 78
"Poverty will be abolished in America only when a mass movement demands it," writes Princeton sociologist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Matthew D…
2 years, 8 months ago
Bonus: Sen. Phil Gramm on Banking Deregulation
Season 2 Episode 77
Thank you to our listeners for the feedback and engagement on last week's episode with former U.S. Senator Phil Gramm. Sen. Gramm was also one of the…
2 years, 8 months ago
Is American Inequality a Myth? With Sen. Phil Gramm
Season 2 Episode 76
In his recent book "The Myth of American Inequality," former U.S. Senator Phil Gramm (along with co-authors Robert Ekelund and John Early) challenges…
2 years, 8 months ago
Reinventing Democracy, With Hélène Landemore
Season 2 Episode 75
What if we harnessed the collective wisdom of the crowds and delegated democratic leadership to the masses?
In her book "Open Democracy: Reinventing P…
2 years, 9 months ago