Podcasts by Economic Rockstar

175: Glenn Hubbard on Leadership Values, Supply-Side Economics and Manhattanville from 2019-02-15T14:42:15

Professor Glenn Hubbard is an American economist and academic. He is currently the Dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Business, where he is also Russell L. Carson Professor of Fi...

174: Wendy Carlin on The Core Project, Capitalism, Democracy and Normative Statements from 2019-01-31T23:09:01

Wendy Carlin is Professor of Economics at University College London (UCL), Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London, and Fellow of the European Economic Associat...

173: Stephen Wright on Core Econ as a Learning Resource for Mainstream Economics from 2019-01-28T22:02:16

This is an excerpt from a previous conversation that I had with Professor Stephen Wright but was unreleased at the time.

We felt it appropriate that it should be released at a time if I e...

172: Best of 2018 Part 2: From the Great Depression to Futurism; Institutions, Individualism and Cooperation from 2019-01-21T22:53

This is a reflection on some episodes from 2018. The themes I have chosen looks at growing up in the Great Depression and what to expect in the future with AR and AI, as well as Institutions, In...

171: Best of 2018 Part 1 from 2019-01-02T23:07:49

Best of 2018 Part 1

Excerpts from the following episodes feature in this 'Best of 2018 Part1'.

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170: Jim Rogers on Investing in 2019 and the US Debt Problem from 2018-12-23T18:25:02

Jim Rogers is an American businessman and financial commentator based in Singapore.  He is the Cha...

169: Jennifer Murtazashvili on Democracy and Informal Order in Afghanistan and Uzbekistan from 2018-12-16T21:11:27

Jennifer Murtazashvili is professor and director of the International Development Program at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsbu...

168: Harry Markowitz on His Journey Through Philosophy and Finance and Not Being Done Yet from 2018-12-01T22:11:34

Dr. Harry Markowitz is the principal of Markowitz Company, and an adjunct professor at the Rady School of Management, UCSD.

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167: James Kenneth Galbraith on Inequality, Democracy and the Impact of the Financial Crisis on Greece from 2018-11-25T18:51:23

James Kenneth Galbraith is the Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Chair in Government/Business Relations and Professor of Government at Lyndon B. Johnson School of...

166: Naomi Brockwell on Bitcoins, Blockchain and ICOs from 2018-11-16T21:07:50

In this episode with Naomi Brockwell, we discuss bitcoin, blockchain and initial coin offerings (ICOs).

This is our second conversation - 4 years on from our first back in 2014.

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165: Stephen Wright on Valuing the Stock Market Using Equity q from 2018-11-09T17:34:56

Stephen Wright is Professor of Economics at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK.

Previously Professo...

164: Nicholas Gruen on Data Sharing and Reform in Economic Thinking from 2018-11-01T22:59:55

Nicholas Gruen is CEO of Lateral Economics and is a widely published policy economist, entrepreneur and commentator.

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163: Kevin Kelly on the Inevitable and Asking Questions of the Unknown from 2018-10-26T00:43:37

Kevin Kelly is cofounder of Wired Magazine and former editor of The Whole Earth Review.

He is considered a futurist and has written a number of books identifying technolo...

162: Jennifer Burns on Ayn Rand:Goddess of the Market and Objectivism from 2018-10-20T18:28:54

In this episode Jennifer Burns, Associate Professor of History and Research Fellow of Stanford's Hoover Institution, explores the life and work of Ay...

161: Tyler Cowen on Stubborn Attachments - A Vision for a Society of Free and Prosperous Individuals from 2018-10-11T21:56:20

Tyler Cowen is Holbert L. Harris Chair of Economics at George Mason University and serves as chairman and general director of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.

He is coautho...

160: Arjo Klamer on the Value of Culture and Art in Economics from 2018-10-04T19:18:58

Arjo Klamer is Professor of Cultural Economics at the Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands.

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159: Diane Coyle Rebroadcast on GDP, Its Shortcomings and Alternative Measures from 2018-09-23T21:36:49

This is a rebroadcast of a conversation I had with professor Diane Coyle. It first featured as episode 69 on 21 January 2016.

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158: Robin Hanson Rebroadcast: The Age of Em and How Brain Emulations Will Double Economic Growth Every Month from 2018-09-14T22:37

This is a rebroadcast of my conversation with Professor Robin Hanson of George Mason University. Robin discusses his book the Age of Em and I decided to rebroadcast this after listening to The J...

157: François Allisson on Value and Prices in Russian Economic Thought from 2018-09-08T18:54:44

François Allisson is a scholar in history of economic thought and a senior lecturer at the Centre Walras-Pareto at the University of Lausanne in Swit...

156: Peter Boettke on Hayekian Economics, Political Economy and Social Philosophy from 2018-08-31T23:15:55

Peter Boettke of George Mason University joins me once again on the podcast.

He discusses the Hayekian principles laid out in his new book "F. A. Hayek: Economics, Political Economy and S...

155: Lotta Moberg on Refugee Cities and the Blockchain Industry as Special Economic Zones from 2018-08-25T00:18:41

Lotta Moberg is a Macroeconomic Analyst for William Blair’s Dynamic Allocation Strategies (DAS) team. She has a Ph.D. in Economics from George Mason University ...

154: Pat Holt on the Economics in Spider-Man, Wonder Woman and Black Panther from 2018-08-17T22:36:17

Pat Holt is a computer engineer, a comic book geek and a born-again economics lover.

Pat reached out to Brian O'Roark after listening to episode 116 of this podcast and a...

153: Sarah Skwire and Steve Horwitz on Their Writing Approach, Advice, Habits and Struggles from 2018-08-11T23:25:45

I catch up once again with Sarah Skwire and Steve Horwitz but this episode is a little different and was inspired by my previous conversation with Sarah back in episo...

152: David Kyle Johnson on Economics and Philosophy in Soylent Green from 2018-08-04T22:00

This is a 3rd instalment of my interviews with Professor David Kyle Johnson, an  Associate Professor of Philosophy at King...

151: David Kyle Johnson Unreleased Bonus Episode Continuing Our Conversation from Episode 146 from 2018-08-02T23:10:58

This is a continuation of my conversation with Professor David Kyle Johnson from Episode 146.

Here we talk about some economic themes present in the 1970s movie Soylent Green and more. Listen

150: Chris Blattman on Crime, Cocaine, Chicago Gangs and the Colombia Mafia from 2018-07-28T23:49:18

Chris Blattman is the Ramalee E. Pearson Professor of Global Conflict Studies at The University of Chicago’s Pearson Institute and Harris Public Policy.

He is an economist and political s...

149: Soumaya Keynes on Tariffs, Trump and Trade Agreements from 2018-07-20T23:16:48

Soumaya Keynes is the economics and trade correspondent at The Economist. She writes for the print edition and the Free Exchange blog.

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148: Tom W. Bell on Special Economic Zones, Copyright and Liberland from 2018-07-15T19:55:13

Tom W. Bell earned his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Chicago in 1993, then practiced law in Silicon Valley and Washington, D.C. before s...

147: Ngaio Hotte on Resource Economics, Externalities and Elinor Ostrom from 2018-07-08T22:53:43

Ngaio Hotte is a Ph.D candidate at the University of British Columbia. Her research title is ‘How can trust be built among parties engaged in collabo...

146: David Kyle Johnson on Science Fiction as Philosophy and Finding Nietzsche's Übermensch in Economics from 2018-06-30T07:43:01

Dr. David Kyle Johnson is Associate Professor of Philosophy at King’s College in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. He earned a master’s degree and doctorate in philosophy from the University of Oklaho...

145: Marie Mora on Puerto Rican Socioeconomic Outcomes in the US and the AEA Mentoring Program from 2018-06-24T12:21:25

Marie Mora is professor of economics at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.

Professor Mora serves as...

144: Donald Boudreaux on International Trade, Tariffs and Protectionism from 2018-06-15T10:19:51

Donald Boudreaux is an American economist, author, professor, and co-director of the Program on the American Economy and Globalization at the Mercatu...

143: Mike Melissinos on Launching an Investment Firm Using the Trend Following System from 2018-06-10T17:57:09

Mike Melissinos began his research into investing philosophy while working as a junior analyst at Bear Stearns and J.P. Morgan. Both the collapse of ...

142: Niels Kaastrup-Larsen on Time, Diversification and Asset Allocation in Trend Following Strategies from 2018-06-02T18:34:12

Niels Kaastrup-Larsen is Managing Director (Europe) of Dunn Capital.

He is the founder and host of the podcast Top Traders Unplugged and also hosts the CME Group's podcas...

141: Dan Hamermesh on the Economics of Sleep from 2018-05-27T22:41:19

Dan Hamermesh discusses his current work and his forthcoming book 'Spending Time' which explores the allocation and the use of time by gender, by region, by country and by econo...

140: Michael Covel on the Trend Following Strategy that Beats the Market from 2018-05-12T00:07:25

Michael Covel is an entrepreneur and author of five books on Trend Following as well as host of his podcast Trend Following Radio.

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139: Loretta Napoleoni on North Korea The Country We Love to Hate from 2018-05-06T22:24:23

Loretta Napoleoni returns to the Economic Rockstar podcast to talk about her work and recent book on North Korea.

Loretta is an expert on terrorist financing and money laundering, and adv...

138: Rebecca Moryl on Using Economics Podcasts in the Classroom to Connect to the Real World from 2018-04-29T22:25:24

Rebecca Moryl is Assistant Professor of Economics at Emmanuel College, Boston.

In addition to experience as an economist and public policy analyst, Professor Moryl has pr...

137: Rakesh Ramachandran on Crypto Economics and How Knowledge of Austrian Economics Created His Blockchain Company QBRICS from 2018-04-21T22:35:55

Rakesh Ramachandran in co-founder and CEO of QBRICS, an enterpreise blockchain platform company.

Rakesh is self-thought in economics and created QBRICS based on his readings of Austrian e...

136: Abby Hall on the Boomerang Effect and the Militarization of the US Domestic Police Force from 2018-04-14T10:13:11

Abby Hall is an Assistant Professor in Economics at the University of Tampa in Tampa, Florida and a Research Fellow with the Independent Institute.

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135: David Zetland Bonus Episode from 2018-04-08T15:16:19

This is a continuation of my conversation with David Zetland which was pre-released on Patreon.

The ...

134: Edward Castronova on the Economy of Virtual Worlds from 2018-03-30T22:55:18

Edward Castronova is professor of Telecommunication and Cognitive Science at Indiana University Bloomington. He pioneered the study of how money, value, and property ...

133: David Zetland on Climate Change and Water Civilization from 2018-03-23T14:51:25

David Zetland is an assistant professor at Leiden University College, where he teaches various classes on economics. He received his PhD in Agricultural and Resource ...

132: Eric Lonergan on the Philosophy of Money Part 2 from 2018-03-19T23:05:26

This is part 2 of my conversation with Eric Lonergan, hedge fund manager and author of Money.

If you'd like to hear more from Eric, please ch...

131: Vernon Smith Previously Unreleased Bonus Episode from 2018-03-12T12:09:42

This episode is about 15 minutes of unreleased material from my conversation with Nobel laureate Professor Vernon Smith.

This was recorded in March 2017 and I had made this material avail...

130: Eric Lonergan on the Philosophy of Money (Part 1) from 2018-03-01T23:04:25

Eric Lonergan is a macro hedge fund manager, economist, and writer. His most recent book is Listen

129: Sarah Skwire on the Sensibility of Literature for Economic Thinking from 2018-02-23T21:06:46

Sarah Skwire is a Senior Fellow at Liberty Fund, a non-profit educational foundation, and the co-author of the college writing textbook, Writing with...

128: Sarah Smith on the Economics of Charitable Giving and Gender Roles in Economics from 2018-02-16T22:31:55

Sarah Smith is Professor of Economics and Head of the Department of Economics at the University of Bristol. Her research interests are in applied micro - specifically consumer behaviour and publ...

127: Barry Eichengreen on the Importance of Economic History, the IMF and Reserve Currencies from 2018-02-08T23:04:54

Barry Eichengreen is Professor of Economics and Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 1...

126: Jeffrey Miron on Libertarianism, Drug Legalization and Genghis Khan from 2018-02-01T20:07:26

Jeffrey Miron is a Senior Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Economics at Harvard University, as well as a senior fellow at the Cato ...

125: Eugene Fama on the Efficient Market Hypothesis, the Federal Funds Rate, Bitcoin and Daily Routines from 2018-01-25T21:57:49

Eugene F. Fama is Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Professor Fama was awarded the 2013 Nobel laureate in economic sciences ...

124: Emily Oster on Diabetes and Diet, Disease and Vaccinations and Debunking Pregnancy Myths from 2018-01-18T22:22:18

Emily Oster is Professor of Economics at Brown University. Before joining Brown University Professor Oster was a faculty member of the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business following t...

123: Vernon Smith on Life During the Great Depression and World War II, Overcoming Adversity and Life as an Economist from 2018-01-11T13:34:53

Dr. Vernon L. Smith was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 2002 for his groundbreaking work in experimental economics.

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122: Robin Hanson on The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life from 2018-01-01T23:19:10

Firstly, I’d like to apologise to all listeners to the Economic Rockstar podcast for what seemingly appears to be me turning my back on the podcast and on you. I hone...

121: Doug McKee and Edward O'Neill on Teach Better and Using Technology in the Classroom from 2017-01-30T18:33:05

Douglas McKee is a senior lecturer at the Department of Economics at Cornell University. Dr McKee teaches Econometrics, Probability and Statistics and has previously ...

120: Best of 2016 Part 2 from 2017-01-21T00:35:38

Check out the links to the podcast episodes that feature in the Best of 2016 Part 2 at www.economicrockstar.com/bestofpart...

119: Best of 2016 Part 1 from 2017-01-05T05:30

During the year I had the absolute honor to converse with some of the brightest minds in the economics. They shared with me their thinking, research and teaching methods and I persona...

118: Zachary Feinstein on Systemic Risk and Economics in Star Wars and Harry Potter from 2016-12-30T21:40:28

Zachary Feinstein is Professor joined the Preston M. Green Department of Electrical & Systems Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis in 20...

117: Courtney Conrad on Broadway Economics and What We Can Learn Through Musicals from 2016-12-23T15:02:48

Courtney Conrad is a senior undergraduate economics major at Susquehanna University. 

At Susquehanna, Courtney serves as a research assistant, teaching assistant for principles of microec...

116: Brian O'Roark on The Economics of Superheroes and The Hunger Games from 2016-12-16T23:31:29

Brian O’Roark is University Professor of Economics at Robert Morris University in Pittsburgh. He is the Co-Director of the Robert Morris Center for E...

115: Edward Conard on the Upside of Inequality: How Good Intentions Undermine the Middle Class from 2016-12-09T21:53:08

Edward Conard is the author of the New York Times top-ten bestselling book, Listen

114: Deirdre McCloskey on Equality and Greed and How To Be a Very Good Economist from 2016-12-01T23:20:34

Deirdre McCloskey taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago and was a Distinguished Professor of Economics, History, English, and Communication.

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113: Jonathan McEvoy on Globalisation, National Autonomy, Capitalism and the Economic Resonance in Timeless Songs from 2016-11-24T23:24:12

Jonathan McEvoy is currently an undergrad student of economics at Waterford Institute of Technology in Ireland.

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112: Stuti Khemani on Making Politics work for Development and Using Creativity and the Arts to Make Better Policy Decisions from 2016-11-17T20:58:55

Dr. Stuti Khemani is a Senior Economist in the Development Research Group of the World Bank. She joined through the Young Professionals Program after...

111: Greg Mankiw on Writing, Carbon Tax, Health Care and Education at the Economics Teaching Conference in Florida 2016 from 2016-11-10T22:57:28

Greg Mankiw is the Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics at Harvard University. His research includes work on price adjustment, consumer behavior, financial markets, m...

110: Beatrice Cherrier on the Economics of 'The Wire' and the Beginning of Economics at MIT from 2016-11-04T04:10:52

Beatrice Cherrier is an assistant professor at the University of Caen, France.

Professor Cherrier's research includ...

109: Julia Norgaard on the Online Black Market for Drugs and Why Detection Rates are Low from 2016-10-27T04:30

Julia Norgaard is a Ph.D. Candidate in Economics at George Mason University. 

Julia is also a Ph.D...

108: Steve Horwitz on Spontaneous Order, the Microfoundations of Macroeconomics and Three Economic Myths from 2016-10-20T04:30

Steven Horwitz is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Economics at St. Lawrence University in Canton, NY and is currently Visiting Scholar at Ball State University, Indi...

107: Jaclyn Lindo on Hawaii Land-Based Learning as a Method for Teaching Economics and a Flipped Classroom in Practice from 2016-10-13T04:30

Dr. Jaclyn Lindo is an economics instructor at the University of Hawaii’s Kapiolani Community College where she teaches principles-level courses and advise the Economics and Bus...

106: Michael Kofoed on the Effectiveness of an Economics Major in the Military and How the Pomegranate Defunded the Taliban from 2016-10-06T04:30

Michael Kofoed is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York.

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105: Jana Gallus on the Economics of Non-Financial Awards and How Editor Retention on Wikipedia Can Be Maintained from 2016-09-29T04:30

Jana Gallus is an assistant professor in the strategy group at UCLA Anderson.

Professor Gallus’s r...

104: Russ Roberts on How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life and the Theory of Moral Sentiments from 2016-09-22T04:30

Russ Roberts is Associate Editor, founder and host of the popular and much loved podcast EconTalk, and founding advisory board memb...

103: Brian Mills on the Labor Market in Baseball, the Umpire Strikes Back and R from 2016-09-15T19:30:05

Dr. Brian Mills is an Assistant Professor at the University of Florida within the Department of Tourism, Recreation, and Sport Management sp...

102: Matías Vernengo on John Maynard Keynes and the Evolution of Keynesian Economic Thinking from 2016-09-08T20:58:34

Matías Vernengo is Professor of Economics at Bucknell University, Pennsylvania, USA.

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101: Chris Coyne on the Opportunity Cost of War, Exporting Democracy and the Nirvana Fallacy from 2016-09-01T15:45:22

Christopher Coyne is an Associate Professor of Economics at George Mason University and the Associate Director of the F. A. Hay...