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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 43 days 2 hours 32 minutes
episode 180: Teresa Ghilarducci, "Work, Retire, Repeat: The Uncertainty of Retirement in the New Economy" (U Chicago Press, 2024)
An interview with Teresa Ghilarducci
episode 101: Why, How, and Who to Marry: A Conversation with Brad Wilcox *01
University of Virginia sociologist Brad Wilcox *01 delves into some of the popular wisdom surrounding marriage and tells us what the data has to say: is it better to marry young or wait? To move in with your partner before or after marriage? Does marriage hurt your career prospects or your ability to set aside time for your own happiness? What groups in America are doing well with regards to marriage, and what groups aren't doing as well? Along the way, he also addresses some of the political...
episode 202: Marc-William Palen, "Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World" (Princeton UP, 2024)
An interview with Marc-William Palen
episode 179: Karl Widerquist, "Universal Basic Income" (MIT Press, 2024)
An interview with Karl Widerquist
episode 146: Matthias Doepke and Fabrizio Zilibotti, "Love, Money, and Parenting: How Economics Explains the Way We Raise Our Kids" (Princeton UP, 2019)
An interview with Matthias Doepke and Fabrizio Zilibotti
episode 9: "Market pressure was growing by the day" with Charles Dallara
Charles Dallara, managing director of the Institute of International Finance from 1993–2013, looks back on the world's biggest debt restructuring
episode 92: Financial Access and Socio-Economic Development in Indonesia
An interview with Tanvir Uddin
episode 234: Nancy Folbre, "The Rise and Decline of Patriarchal Systems: An Intersectional Political Economy" (Verso, 2021)
An interview with Nancy Folbre
episode 55: Mark J. Higgins, "Investing in U.S. Financial History: Understanding the Past to Forecast the Future" (Greenleaf, 2024)
An interview with Mark J. Higgins
episode 28: Steven D. Levitt (Freakonomics co-author and U Chicago Econ Prof) on His Career and Decision to Retire From Academic Economics
Steven D. Levitt (Freakonomics co-author and University of Chicago Economics Professor) joins the podcast to discuss his career, including being an early leader in applied microeconomics and how the Freakonomics media empire got started, along with his recent decision to retire from academic economics. Transcript available here...