The New Bazaar Podcast
1) The Roots of our Zero-Sum Moment
Stefanie Stantcheva is an economist at Harvard and the head of the Social Economics Lab, where her team has done extraordinary work investigating how people form their opinions about economic and poli...Show More
2) AI and the Human Touch
EIG chief economist Adam Ozimek chats with Cardiff Garcia about Adam’s new post, AI and the Economics of the Human Touch. An excerpt: Either AI is so useless that we are in the middle of a b...Show More
3) Crime, Leniency, and the Science of Second Chances
Jen Doleac is an economist and the director of the Criminal Justice program at Arnold Ventures. She joins Cardiff on the show to chat about her upcoming new book, “The Science of Second Chances: A Rev...Show More
4) The Licensing Racket
Nearly 30 million workers, or roughly one in five workers throughout the country, are required to have a professional license before they can do their jobs.That’s more than twice the number of workers...Show More
5) The surprising economics of the world’s most valuable asset
Mike Bird, the Wall Street editor of The Economist, joins Cardiff to discuss his new book, The Land Trap: A New History of the World’s Oldest Asset.By one estimate, the value of land makes up roughly ...Show More
6) Lessons of the Rare Earths Showdown
How can the United States make its economy more resilient not just to future economic shocks but the threat of such shocks from its geopolitical rivals? Arnab Datta has spent years working on thi...Show More
7) Housing and the Politics of Place
What accounts for the astonishing streak of YIMBY wins this year — and which concessions, if any, should they consider offering to the NIMBYs? Should the center-left Abundance faction be trying to per...Show More
8) Attention and the Possibility of Persuasion
Jerusalem Demsas is one of Cardiff’s favorite econ and housing journalists, a previous New Bazaar guest, and now the founder and editor of The Argument, a new magazine dedicated to making “a positive,...Show More
9) Is the US about to fix its housing problem?
The ROAD (Renewing Opportunity in the American Dream) to Housing Act is a bipartisan bill now making its way through Congress. And as today’s guest, Alex Armlovich, and his colleagues at the Nisk...Show More
10) Bubbly markets and the TACO trade
Rob Armstrong is the writer who first coined the acronym in The TACO Trade, which stands for Trump Always Chickens Out, in a column back in April. He wasn’t trying to go viral, much less have the acro...Show More