Political Economy with Jim Pethokoukis
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Hal Brands: Allies, Autocrats, and AI
28 mins; November 11, 2025
Tobias Peter: Solving the US Housing Shortage
27 mins; September 30, 2025
Mackenzie Eaglen: The State of US Military Preparedness
21 mins; August 19, 2025
Christopher Scalia: Literary Fiction for the Conservative Mind
32 mins; July 17, 2025
Edward Glaeser: What's Hampering American Housing?
26 mins; July 08, 2025
Deirdre McCloskey: Ideas that Sparked Independence
28 mins; June 18, 2025
Andrew Biggs: American Retirement Readiness
29 mins; June 10, 2025
Derek Scissors: Trump's Tariffs and the China Trade War
27 mins; April 07, 2025
Mark Warshawsky: Sizing Up Social Security
30 mins; March 25, 2025
Andrew Leigh: An Economist's Guide to Human History
25 mins; February 11, 2025
Michael Strain: On the State of the US Economy
25 mins; February 04, 2025
James Coleman: Unleashing American Infrastructure
27 mins; January 28, 2025
Tony Mills: In Support of Science Policy
25 mins; November 19, 2024
Chris Miller: Waging the High-Stakes 'Chip War'
25 mins; August 20, 2024
Glenn Hubbard: A Pro-Growth Policy Agenda
23 mins; August 13, 2024
Kyle & Shuting Pomerleau: The Case for a Carbon Tax
27 mins; August 06, 2024
Tim Carney: A Family-Friendly Culture
29 mins; July 16, 2024
Steven Kamin: The Dominant Dollar
26 mins; June 04, 2024
Bronwyn Howell: Regulating AI
36 mins; May 17, 2024
Kevin Corinth: The Child Tax Credit
21 mins; April 09, 2024
Karlyn Bowman: American Nostalgia
23 mins; March 19, 2024
Joseph Antos: The State of Medicare
21 mins; February 27, 2024
Jennifer Burns: Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative
23 mins; December 12, 2023
Melissa Kearney: The Importance of the Two-Parent Home
26 mins; November 02, 2023
Chelsea Follett: Cities as Centers of Progress
17 mins; September 21, 2023
Timothy Muris: The 'Big Is Bad' Approach to Antitrust
23 mins; August 15, 2023
Jeremy Horpedahl: Are American Families Thriving?
26 mins; July 21, 2023
Rick Hess: Rethinking America's Schools
22 mins; July 05, 2023
Leah Boustan: Busting Immigration Myths
27 mins; June 27, 2023
Andrew Biggs: The Necessity and Political Challenges of Social Security Reform
22 mins; June 15, 2023
Beth Akers: Why College Is So Expensive
22 mins; May 24, 2023
Ruy Teixeira: Understanding America's Shifting Political Coalitions
24 mins; April 27, 2023
Brent Orrell: How Workers Can Prepare for the AI Economy
23 mins; April 14, 2023
Angela Rachidi: Is Raising a Family Becoming Unaffordable?
28 mins; April 05, 2023
Kevin Corinth: AEI's New Center on Opportunity and Social Mobility
26 mins; March 09, 2023
Derek Scissors: US-China Economic Relations
29 mins; February 17, 2023
Michael Strain: What You Need to Know About the Debt Ceiling
26 mins; January 26, 2023
Bruce Caldwell: The Life and Ideas of F.A. Hayek
38 mins; January 18, 2023
Scott Winship: Measuring Poverty
24 mins; December 14, 2022
J.C. Bradbury: The Case Against Stadium Subsidies
22 mins; November 11, 2022
James Capretta: Reforming US Health Policy
30 mins; October 21, 2022
Stan Veuger: The State of the US Economy
31 mins; October 13, 2022
Kyle Pomerleau: A Tax Policy Primer
29 mins; October 05, 2022
Bryan Caplan: Free Markets, Demagoguery, and More
27 mins; August 05, 2022
Mark Koyama and Jared Rubin: How the World Became Rich
38 mins; July 20, 2022
Ali Hajimiri: Space-Based Solar Power
22 mins; July 07, 2022
Anna Stansbury: Is the Productivity-Pay Link Broken?
21 mins; June 29, 2022
Michael Strain: Is a Recession on the Horizon?
25 mins; June 22, 2022
Neil Thompson: Is Moore’s Law Coming to an End?
20 mins; June 08, 2022
Tony Mills: Thinking about Federal Science Investment
30 mins; June 01, 2022
Tyler Cowen: Spotting Talent in the Modern Economy
20 mins; May 25, 2022
Walker Hanlon: The Industrial Revolution and the Rise of the Engineer
16 mins; May 18, 2022
Rick Hess: Post-pandemic Education Reform
28 mins; May 11, 2022
Jimmy Soni: How PayPal Shaped Silicon Valley
31 mins; May 04, 2022
Mark Jamison: Exploring the Metaverse
18 mins; April 27, 2022
Virginia Postrel: Dynamism or Stasis?
34 mins; April 20, 2022
Dan Sichel: Nails as a Window into Economic Change
23 mins; April 13, 2022
Mark Muro: The geography of the tech sector
31 mins; April 06, 2022
Melanie Mitchell: Thinking about artificial intelligence
27 mins; March 23, 2022
Sebastian Mallaby: How venture capital creates the future
28 mins; February 23, 2022
Alex MacDonald: The economic history of private space exploration
26 mins; February 16, 2022
Glenn Hubbard: Building bridges in the wake of economic disruption
25 mins; February 09, 2022
Ramez Naam & Christie Iacomini: Life in 2050
26 mins; February 02, 2022
Ryan Streeter: The importance of dynamism
26 mins; January 26, 2022
Robert Zubrin: The case for space expansionism
29 mins; January 20, 2022
Didier Sornette: Risk-taking, scientific revolutions, and economic progress
21 mins; January 12, 2022
Steven Koonin: Responding to a warming planet
27 mins; December 15, 2021
Benjamin Jones: Are we investing enough in scientific research?
28 mins; December 08, 2021
Eric Berger: Elon Musk and the rise of SpaceX
31 mins; December 03, 2021
Mark Mills: Will the cloud revolution unleash the next economic boom?
29 mins; November 24, 2021
Beth Shapiro: Synthetic biology, conservation, and de-extinct woolly mammoths
28 mins; November 17, 2021
John Logsdon: The Apollo program and the future of space exploration
24 mins; November 10, 2021
Charles Pappas: How World's Fairs changed the world
30 mins; November 03, 2021
Kyle Pomerleau: Tax hikes and paying for Biden's Build Back Better agenda
28 mins; October 28, 2021
Michael Strain: The state of the labor market
29 mins; October 27, 2021
Neil Chilson: Emergent order in a complex world
22 mins; October 20, 2021
Jamie Beard: Geothermal energy as a climate solution
32 mins; October 13, 2021
Arthur Turrell: Is fusion power the energy source of the future?
30 mins; October 06, 2021
Adrian Wooldridge: Defending meritocracy
29 mins; September 29, 2021
Charles Fishman: Was the Apollo program a failure?
26 mins; September 23, 2021
Azeem Azhar: The age of exponential technology
37 mins; September 15, 2021
Ed Glaeser: How cities can thrive in a post-COVID age
28 mins; September 08, 2021
Ed Glaeser: How cities can thrive in a post-COVID age
3 mins; September 08, 2021
Nicholas Bloom: Do innovation hubs work?
31 mins; September 02, 2021
John Roth, Rich Boling, Michael Gold, & Matthew Weinzierl: The space economy
31 mins; August 12, 2021
Brad Stone: The age of Amazon
25 mins; August 04, 2021
John Haltiwanger: American entrepreneurship during the pandemic
27 mins; July 29, 2021
Ed Glaeser: Did capitalism cause the opioid epidemic?
28 mins; July 21, 2021
Michael Strain: The post-pandemic economy
30 mins; July 14, 2021
Ramez Naam: The future of clean energy
27 mins; July 07, 2021
Mark Jamison: Is Big Tech anticompetitive?
28 mins; June 30, 2021
Alex Edmans: Is capitalism a zero-sum game?
30 mins; June 23, 2021
Daniel Deudney: The case against space expansionism
35 mins; June 16, 2021
Elizabeth Kolbert: Should environmentalists change nature to save it?
25 mins; June 09, 2021
Ryan Bourne: Economics in one virus
28 mins; June 02, 2021
Richard Geddes: How to update US infrastructure policy
29 mins; May 26, 2021
Matt Hourihan: Reversing the decline in public science support
28 mins; May 19, 2021
Jeffrey Clemens: What do economists know about the minimum wage?
26 mins; May 12, 2021
David Dollar: China's economic future
27 mins; May 05, 2021
Emily Hamilton: Fixing America's housing problem
27 mins; April 28, 2021