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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 6 days 20 hours 52 minutes
036: Jason Shogren on Music and Endogenous Risk and Rationality in the Environmental Goods Market
Jason Shogren is the Stroock Professor of Natural Resource Conservation and Management and Chair of the Department of Economics and Finance at the University of Wyoming. Professor Shogren’s background and research interests include the...
035: Stephen Young on Being Car Free and the Behavioural Economics of Owning A Car
Stephen Young is a Senior Lecturer at Brighton Business School and is subject leader for behavioural economics. He is also Visiting Lecturer at Brighton and Sussex Medical School, where he teaches Behavioural Economics to health...
034: David Simon on Meatonomics and How the Meat and Dairy Industry Impose Substantial Negative Externalities on Society
David Robinson Simon is a lawyer and advocate for sustainable consumption. David works as general counsel for a healthcare company and serves on the board of the Animal Protection and Rescue League Fund, a non-profit dedicated to protecting...
033: Abdullah Al-Bahrani on the Economy of Oman and How Racial Discrimination Empowered Him to Succeed in Life and in Economics.
Dr. Abdullah Al Bahrani is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Northern Kentucky University, where he serves as the Principles of Economics Coordinator. Abdullah’s research interests are in the fields of Industrial Organization and...
032: Joe Gladstone on the 'Pay What You Want' Pricing Model and Using Big Data to Understand You Better
Joe Gladstone is an academic researcher and consultant based at the University of Cambridge, where he applies insights from behavioural economics and psychological research to better understand consumer behaviour. Joe partners with some of the...
031: Matt Rousu on Experimental Auctions and the Need for Peer-Reviewed Economic Impact Studies
Dr. Matthew Rousu is a Professor and Warehime Chair in the Department of Economics at Susquehanna University. His main teaching interests include microeconomics, political economic thought, and game theory. Matt is an expert on experimental...
030: Kim Holder on Rockonomix and Teaching Economics Through the Lens of Sport, Music and Movies
Kim Holder is an economics educator from the University of Western Georgia and teaches principles of macro and micro. Kim is passionate about economics, music, media, pop-culture and sports and loves using technology and social media in the...
029: John Cochrane on the Future of Finance, MOOC Education, Regulation and the Case for Free Markets
John Cochrane is the AQR Capital Management Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and is currently Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. Professor Cochrane is a Research...
028: Alice Louise Kassens on Nudging Students to Study Economics and Why Mainstream Media Should Publish Research on Mental Health
Dr. Alice Kassens is an economics professor at Roanoke College and has already built a notable reputation in her profession. Alice is the current recipient of Roanoke’s John S. Shannon Professorship in Economics, which honors and supports...
027: Craig Medico on How Economics Saved My Career, Using Technology in the Classroom and Why I’m off to Wrestling School
Craig Medico is an Economics and History educator in New York with 11 years of classroom experience. Craig is doing amazing things to get young people to understand and become interested in economics. He is the author of No Bull Review -...