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, Individualism, Cooperation and Reciprocity.
Featured episodes are:
123 Vernon Smith on his early childhood years during the Great Depression and how they survived by moving to live on a farm before losing it all, his mother as a socialist and who she voted for in the Presidential elections in 1919 when women were first given the right to vote in the US.
162 Jennifer Burns on Ayn Rand's views on Capitalism, Communism and Christianity and why the individual is better that the collective, the virtues of selfishness, hippies in the 1960s, Objectivism, Existentialism and Nietzche.
147 Ngaio Hotte on Elinor Ostrom’s work on collective action and cooperation to reach mutually beneficial outcomes and how this can relate to natural resource problems as well as Ostrom’s observation of reciprocity in Game Theory.
135 David Zetland on group cooperation to protecting public goods such as the water supply and the environment and how cooperation rewards and benefits groups.
168 Harry Markowitz on growing up with the family grocery store during the Great Depression in an upper middle-class area, using the museums and libraries of Chicago as a teen, Darwin’s ‘Origin of Species’ as an influence and how reading the great philosophers and his self-study of the physical sciences helped with his placement at the University of Chicago.
125 Eugene Fama on his early academic year to the development of the Efficient Market Hypothesis as well as the Benoit Madlebrot's discovery of Louis Bachelier's paper 167 James Kenneth Galbraith on the influences of his father John Kenneth Galbraith on his own academic work in economics and the significance or lack of significance of economics in academia today.
136 Abby Hall on the growth of big government since 9/11 and the militarisation of the domestic police force in the US from the creation of the first US SWAT team during the US occupation of the Philippines in 1898.
149 Soumaya Keynes on why trade should not be blamed for the loss of jobs, the Economic Consequences of Our Grandchildren by Soumaya’s great grand uncle John Maynard Keynes, trade blocs in the 1930s compared to todays global trading systems to remove barriers and maintain peace.
156 Peter Boettke on how F. A. Hayek developed his interest in economics through the Viennese culture and the intellectual hubs which were based on law, philosophy and politics and the mentors he encountered as well as Hayek’s observations of the nature of macro volatility, the growth of government, technology and inhumanity during his life.
163 Kevin Kelly on technology of the future such as AI and AR to help to quantify and track our movements and expressions to help with our decision-making.
155: Lotta Moberg on Refugee Cities and the Blockchain Industry as Special Economic Zones
154: Pat Holt on the Economics in Spider-Man, Wonder Woman and Black Panther
153: Sarah Skwire and Steve Horwitz on Their Writing Approach, Advice, Habits and Struggles
152: David Kyle Johnson on Economics and Philosophy in Soylent Green
151: David Kyle Johnson Unreleased Bonus Episode Continuing Our Conversation from Episode 146
150: Chris Blattman on Crime, Cocaine, Chicago Gangs and the Colombia Mafia
149: Soumaya Keynes on Tariffs, Trump and Trade Agreements
148: Tom W. Bell on Special Economic Zones, Copyright and Liberland
147: Ngaio Hotte on Resource Economics, Externalities and Elinor Ostrom
146: David Kyle Johnson on Science Fiction as Philosophy and Finding Nietzsche's Übermensch in Economics
145: Marie Mora on Puerto Rican Socioeconomic Outcomes in the US and the AEA Mentoring Program
144: Donald Boudreaux on International Trade, Tariffs and Protectionism
143: Mike Melissinos on Launching an Investment Firm Using the Trend Following System
142: Niels Kaastrup-Larsen on Time, Diversification and Asset Allocation in Trend Following Strategies
141: Dan Hamermesh on the Economics of Sleep
140: Michael Covel on the Trend Following Strategy that Beats the Market
139: Loretta Napoleoni on North Korea The Country We Love to Hate
138: Rebecca Moryl on Using Economics Podcasts in the Classroom to Connect to the Real World
137: Rakesh Ramachandran on Crypto Economics and How Knowledge of Austrian Economics Created His Blockchain Company QBRICS
136: Abby Hall on the Boomerang Effect and the Militarization of the US Domestic Police Force
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