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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 6 days 20 hours 52 minutes
026: Thomas O'Grady on How Writing a PhD on Demographics Revealed an Opportunity in the San Francisco Housing Market
Thomas O’Grady has a PhD in Mathematical and Statistical Economics from the University of California at Berkeley. His professional career has taken him from becoming the top analyst in Soviet intelligence for a U.S. agency and receiving the...
025: Dan Hamermesh on the Economics of Beauty: Attractive People Are More Successful
Dan Hamermesh is Professor in Economics at the Royal Holloway University of London and at the University of Texas at Austin. Dan researches the economics of beauty. He received his Ph.D. from Yale and has since taught at Princeton, at...
024: Greg Davies on Behavioral Finance and Controlling Your Emotions When Making Trading Decisions
Greg Davies is Managing Director and Head of Behavioural Finance at Barclays. He joined the firm in December 2006 to develop and implement commercial applications drawing on behavioural portfolio theory, the psychology of judgment and...
023: Loretta Napoleoni on Financing Terrorism and the Creation of the Islamic State
Loretta Napoleoni is an expert on terrorist financing, and advises several governments and international organizations on counter-terrorism and money laundering. As Chairman of the countering terrorism financing group for the Club de Madrid, Loretta...
022: Josh Angrist on Taking the Con Out of Econometrics - Kung Fu Style
Master Joshway, better known as Josh Angrist, is the Ford Professor of Economics at MIT and a Research Associate in the NBER's programs on Children, Education, and Labor Studies. Josh received his B.A. from Oberlin College, spent time as an...
021: Paul Dolan on the Economics of Happiness
Paul Dolan is an internationally renowned expert on happiness, behaviour and public policy. He is currently a Professor of Behavioural Science in the Department of Social Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Paul has...
020: George Magnus on The Age of Ageing, China and the EU
George Magnus is an independent economist, consultant and commentator. He has a distinguished career that started with some teaching assignments but was spent mostly in the financial services industry. Before going solo in 2012, George was the...
019: Mark Thornton on the Decriminalization of Marijuana and the Skyscraper Curse
Dr. Thornton has withdrawn himself from politics and concentrates now on education, primarily of the general public because the Austrian perspective says: "the world works according to the ideology of the masses so we have to change that mindset...
018: Mark Thornton on Austrian Economics and Why the Nazi's and the KGB Wanted Mises Papers
Dr. Mark Thornton is an economist who lives in Auburn, Alabama. Mark is Senior Fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute and serves as the Book Review Editor of the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics. Mark’s publications include The...
017: Marina Adshade on Understanding Economics the Sexy and 'Hard' Way
Dr. Marina Adshade engages in original economic research in the area of women in the economy. She has a Ph.D. from Queen’s University in Ontario Canada and currently teaches economics at the Vancouver School of Economics at the University...