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.
055: David Skarbek on the Economics of Prison Gangs and The Social Order of the Underworld
054: Christine Exley on the Economics of Volunteering, Market Failure in the Homeless Dog Market and Wagaroo
053: Helena Norberg-Hodge on Localisation, Trade Treaties and the Economics of Happiness
052: Alex Tabarrok on Globalisation, Bounty Hunters and Leveraging Online Education
051: Eyal Winter on How Excessive Giving Ensures the Survival of the Human Race and on the Beautiful Mind of John Nash
050: Dan Ariely on Irrational Behavior and the Importance of Our Environment When Making Decisions
049: Jez Groom and Jon Haywood on How a Cleverly Designed Nudge Can Change People's Behavior - Including How We Pee
048: Steve Hanke on Currency Boards, Moral Hazard and the Benefits of Privatization
047: Victor Ricciardi on The Psychology of Financial Planning and Investing
046: Shanta Devarajan on The World Bank, Quiet Corruption, Government Failure and Comparative Advantage
045: Jon Manning on the Art of Pricing and How Economic Theory Has Got Pricing All Wrong
044: Nancy Folbre on Feminist Economics and the Care Economy
043: Herbert Gintis on Game Theory and the Multidisciplinary Approach to Understanding Human Behavior
042: Parviz Parvizi on Clammr, Coffee, Coase and the Economy of Iran
041: Dermot Hayes on Comparative Advantage, Feeding the Chinese and the Malthusian Catastrophe
040: Rebecca Harding on Trade Finance and How Delta Economics Can Help Identify Growth Opportunities World-wide
039: David Zetland on Aguanomics, Water Scarcity, Water Wars and ‘Toilet-to-Tap’
038: Leah Bell on Being an Angry Grad and Setting Yourself Up for a Life of Success
037: Noah Smith on Austrian Theory Being a 'Bad Joke', Heterodox Models and Efficient Markets
036: Jason Shogren on Music and Endogenous Risk and Rationality in the Environmental Goods Market
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