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Political Economy with Jim Pethokoukis
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Mauro F. Guillén: Forecasting the world of 2030
27 mins; April 21, 2021
Tyler Cowen, Michael Strain, Catherine Tucker, & Dietrich Vollrath: Is the great stagnation over?
52 mins; April 14, 2021
Charles Goodhart & Manoj Pradhan: Predicting a global inflation revival
30 mins; April 07, 2021
Scott Lincicome: Why America shouldn't embrace industrial policy
37 mins; March 31, 2021
Alex Brill: US spending and tax policy after the COVID recession
33 mins; March 24, 2021
Alex Nowrasteh: How does immigration affect developed countries' institutions?
28 mins; March 17, 2021
Daniel P. Gross: Lessons in crisis innovation from World War II
25 mins; March 10, 2021
Tim Fernholz, Sara Seager, Stan Veuger, & Matt Weinzierl: The future of space exploration
53 mins; March 03, 2021
Leah Brooks: Why does US infrastructure cost so much?
26 mins; February 24, 2021
Don Braben: The importance of scientific freedom
25 mins; February 17, 2021
Korok Ray: How higher education can further contribute to innovation
21 mins; February 10, 2021
Joshua D. Wright: The conservative case against weaponizing antitrust
36 mins; February 05, 2021
Darrell M. West: Policymaking in the era of artificial intelligence
29 mins; January 27, 2021
Michael Strain: Evaluating Biden's $1.9 trillion economic relief plan
27 mins; January 20, 2021
Claude Barfield: Trade policy challenges for the Biden administration
33 mins; January 13, 2021
Johan Norberg: The history and psychology of progress
39 mins; January 06, 2021
Jeff Kosseff: Setting the record straight on Section 230
31 mins; December 30, 2020
Best of the year — Ronald D. Moore: The sci-fi optimism of ‘For All Mankind,’ ‘Battlestar Galactica,’ and ‘Star Trek’
42 mins; December 23, 2020
Nicolas Petit: Big Tech and the moligopoly scenario
26 mins; December 16, 2020
Amitabh Chandra: Can America improve its health care system?
36 mins; December 09, 2020
Jim Tankersley: The riches of this land
27 mins; December 02, 2020
Michael Clemens: What have economists learned about immigration?
41 mins; November 24, 2020
Philip Coggan: How did the world get so rich?
27 mins; November 18, 2020
Mervyn King: How to handle radical uncertainty
41 mins; November 11, 2020
Nate Morris: Entrepreneurial environmentalism
22 mins; November 02, 2020
Richard Reeves, Isabel Sawhill, & Michael Strain: A new contract with the middle class
60 hours 54 mins; October 28, 2020
Ronald D. Moore: The sci-fi optimism of ‘For All Mankind,’ ‘Battlestar Galactica,’ and ‘Star Trek’
42 mins; October 21, 2020
Scott Winship: Poverty, inequality, and opportunity in America
29 mins; October 14, 2020
Casey Mulligan & Michael Strain: Has Trumpian populism succeeded?
57 mins; October 07, 2020
Kevin Davies: Genome editing and the CRISPR revolution
29 mins; September 30, 2020
Sanjai Bhagat: Shareholder capitalism vs. stakeholder capitalism
35 mins; September 23, 2020
Matthew Yglesias: One billion Americans
28 mins; September 16, 2020
Glenn Hubbard: Looking back and ahead on the US economy
29 mins; September 09, 2020
Caleb Watney: America’s slowing innovation engine
32 mins; September 02, 2020
Jonathan Gruber, Tony Mills, Margaret O’Mara, & Bret Swanson: Boosting economic growth by funding science
58 mins; August 26, 2020
Jason Crawford: Lessons from studying the roots of progress
26 mins; August 19, 2020
Ronald Bailey: Global trends every smart person should know
26 mins; August 12, 2020
Scott Gottlieb, Rick Hess, & Michael Strain: COVID-19 this fall
61 hours 4 mins; August 07, 2020
Ed Finn: Telling stories of a better future
25 mins; August 05, 2020
Arthur Diamond: Sustaining innovative dynamism
29 mins; July 29, 2020
Douglas Irwin: The post-COVID future of international trade
23 mins; July 22, 2020
Nicholas Crafts: Is the age of fast economic growth really over?
24 mins; July 15, 2020
John Van Reenen: Why America needs a ‘Grand Innovation Challenge Fund’
30 mins; July 08, 2020
Toby Ord: Existential risk and the future of humanity
32 mins; July 01, 2020
Nicole Gelinas: Can cities weather the pandemic?
27 mins; June 24, 2020
Mike Masnick: Exploring the future of work through science fiction
28 mins; June 17, 2020
Adam Thierer: How ‘evasive entrepreneurship’ can beat the regulatory state
25 mins; June 12, 2020
Michael Strain: Assessing the economy, post-COVID lockdown
33 mins; June 05, 2020
Matt Ridley: How innovation works
58 mins; June 03, 2020
Anton Howes: Human progress and the Royal Society of Arts
29 mins; May 27, 2020
Eli Dourado: How to make America innovate again
27 mins; May 20, 2020
Tony Mills: World War II shows the importance of basic science research
25 mins; May 13, 2020
Chad Syverson: The COVID crisis and economic growth
25 mins; May 06, 2020
Lane Kenworthy: The case for social democratic capitalism
27 mins; April 29, 2020
James Robinson: The narrow corridor to liberty
22 mins; April 22, 2020
Roger Bootle: The AI economy
20 mins; April 15, 2020
Matt Frost: An alternative to climate despair
24 mins; April 08, 2020
Dietrich Vollrath: Is America’s economy fully grown?
21 mins; April 01, 2020
Garett Jones: The case for ‘10 percent less democracy’
25 mins; March 25, 2020
Stan Veuger: Handle the coronavirus recession by preventing a business collapse
29 mins; March 18, 2020
Ben Thompson: Big Tech monopoly, data privacy, and the rise of China
34 mins; March 18, 2020
Kyle Pomerleau: What’s next for taxes? Coronavirus stimulus, the Trump tax cuts, and beyond
35 mins; March 11, 2020
Branko Milanovic: The future of capitalism
29 mins; March 04, 2020
Hal Varian: In defense of Big Tech
32 mins; February 26, 2020
Erik Brynjolfsson: Can AI help us overcome the productivity paradox?
22 mins; February 19, 2020
Paul Vigna: How blockchain could change the world
23 mins; February 12, 2020
Michael Strain: The American Dream is not dead
41 mins; February 05, 2020
Thomas Philippon: How America gave up on free markets
24 mins; January 29, 2020
Alain Bertaud: How markets shape cities
23 mins; January 22, 2020
Kimberly Clausing: The progressive case for globalization
33 mins; January 15, 2020
Peter Klenow: Reflections on a decade of slow economic growth
34 mins; January 08, 2020
Lori Ann LaRocco: Trade wars have consequences
20 mins; January 01, 2020
Will Rinehart: Big Tech, broadband access, and artificial intelligence
41 mins; December 18, 2019
Daniel Shoag: Reduce inequality and boost growth by building more housing
36 mins; December 11, 2019
Dalibor Rohac on globalism, nationalism, and conservatism
29 mins; December 04, 2019
Stephen Davies on the origins and future of the wealth explosion
36 mins; November 27, 2019
Bryan Caplan on open borders
45 mins; November 20, 2019
Enrico Moretti on tech hubs and economic opportunity
36 mins; November 13, 2019
Carl Benedikt Frey on the technology trap
37 mins; November 06, 2019
Stian Westlake on the rise of the intangible economy
35 mins; October 30, 2019
Deirdre McCloskey on why liberalism works
65 hours 20 mins; October 23, 2019
Scott Lincicome on the trade war
37 mins; October 16, 2019
Andrew McAfee on capitalism, tech progress, and the environment
31 mins; October 08, 2019
Michael Strain on inequality in America
31 mins; October 02, 2019
Margaret O’Mara on Silicon Valley’s past, present, and future
38 mins; September 25, 2019
Matt Weinzierl on the economics of space
29 mins; September 18, 2019
Binyamin Appelbaum on the economists’ hour
33 mins; September 13, 2019
Desmond Lachman on Brexit, trade wars, and the future of the global economy
34 mins; August 29, 2019
Adrienne Mayor on ancient visions of the future
34 mins; August 22, 2019
Alan Viard on America’s tax system after the TCJA
36 mins; August 15, 2019
Ryan Bourne on Joseph Schumpeter, the tech giants, and the case against monopoly fatalism
32 mins; July 31, 2019
Avi Loeb on the search for life beyond Earth
36 mins; July 18, 2019
Jeff Kosseff on the twenty-six words that created the internet
31 mins; June 27, 2019
Scott Kupor on venture capital and how to get it
26 mins; June 13, 2019
Alex Trembath on the Green New Deal, climate change, and the case for nuclear energy
34 mins; June 06, 2019
Jonathan Gruber on jump-starting America
34 mins; May 21, 2019
Tyler Cowen on big business
28 mins; May 10, 2019
Safi Bahcall on nurturing the next ‘loonshot’
35 mins; May 02, 2019
Benedict Evans on where the tech industry is taking us next
49 mins; April 04, 2019
Huawei and the battle to build the 5G backbone
38 mins; March 28, 2019
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