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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 6 days 20 hours 52 minutes
155: Lotta Moberg on Refugee Cities and the Blockchain Industry as Special Economic Zones
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 and earned her BA in Economics from Lund University (Sweden). Prior to joining the DAS...
154: Pat Holt on the Economics in Spider-Man, Wonder Woman and Black Panther
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 after a while, he contributed a chapter to the book 'Superheroes and Economics:...
153: Sarah Skwire and Steve Horwitz on Their Writing Approach, Advice, Habits and Struggles
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 episode 129. We chat about their approach to writing, their habits and struggles that they...
152: David Kyle Johnson on Economics and Philosophy in Soylent Green
This is a 3rd instalment of my interviews with Professor David Kyle Johnson, an Associate Professor of Philosophy at King’s College in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. We catch up again after watching the 1973 dystopian movie 'Soylent Green' and...
151: David Kyle Johnson Unreleased Bonus Episode Continuing Our Conversation from Episode 146
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. Show notes at Support the show for as little as $1 per month at ...
150: Chris Blattman on Crime, Cocaine, Chicago Gangs and the Colombia Mafia
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 scientist who studies poverty, violence and crime in developing...
149: Soumaya Keynes on Tariffs, Trump and Trade Agreements
Soumaya Keynes is the economics and trade correspondent at The Economist. She writes for the print edition and the Free Exchange blog. Before joining The Economist Soumaya did research on the public finances and pensions at the...
148: Tom W. Bell on Special Economic Zones, Copyright and Liberland
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 serving as a policy director at the Cato Institute. In 1998, he joined the faculty of Chapman...
147: Ngaio Hotte on Resource Economics, Externalities and Elinor Ostrom
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 collaborative natural resource governance?’ and she draws influence from the work of the only female...
146: David Kyle Johnson on Science Fiction as Philosophy and Finding Nietzsche's Übermensch in Economics
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 Oklahoma. At Oklahoma, he won the coveted Kenneth Merrill...