Economics Detective Radio Podcast
1) The Hidden Rules of Ownership with Michael Heller
Michael Heller joins the podcast to discuss his new book, Mine! How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives. This book explores the implicit social rules governing ownership. In brief, these r...Show More
2) The Wealth of Nations with Sarah Skwire
On today's episode, I discuss Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations with Sarah Skwire. Sarah is part of the team tweeting through the book @AdamSmithWorks. We discuss the project and talk through the first f...Show More
3) The Kindness of Strangers with Michael McCullough
Today's guest is Michael McCullough of the University of California, San Diego. We are discussing his book The Kindness of Strangers: How a Selfish Ape Invented a New Moral Code. How did humans, a spe...Show More
4) The Gender Salary Ask Gap with Nina Roussille
Today's guest is Nina Roussille of UC Berkeley and we discuss her working paper, The central role of the ask gap in gender pay inequality. The gender ask gap measures the extent to which women ask for...Show More
5) Arts and Minds with Anton Howes
Anton Howes returns to the podcast to discuss his new book, Arts and Minds: How the Royal Society of Arts Changed a Nation. From its beginnings in a coffee house in the mid-eighteenth century, the Roy...Show More
6) Science Fictions with Stuart Ritchie
Today's guest is Stuart Ritchie, psychologist and author of Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth. Science is how we understand the world. Yet failures...Show More
7) Social Security and Wealth Inequality with Sylvain Catherine and Natasha Sarin
Today's guests are Sylvain Catherine and Natasha Sarin of the University of Pennsylvania. They discuss their research on wealth inequality, specifically with respect to social security's impact on cal...Show More
Social Security and Wealth Inequality with Sylvain Catherine and Natasha Sarin
52:24 | Jul 20th, 2020
8) BONUS: The Passion Economy
This bonus episode features an interview from The Passion Economy, created by Adam Davidson of NPR's Planet Money. The clip features an interview with Coss Marte, an enterprising entrepreneur in an u...Show More
9) Angrynomics with Mark Blyth
Today's episode features my conversation with Mark Blyth, co-author (with Eric Lonergan) of Angrynomics. Why are measures of stress and anxiety on the rise when economists and politicians tell us we h...Show More
10) Free to Move with Ilya Somin
Ilya Somin of George Mason University joins the podcast to discuss his book Free to Move: Foot Voting, Migration, and Political Freedom. Ballot box voting is often considered the essence of political ...Show More