Political Economy with Jim Pethokoukis
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Tune in each week as James Pethokoukis interviews economists, business leaders, academics and others on the most important and interesting issues of the day. You can find all episodes at AEI, Ricochet, and wherever podcasts are downloaded, and look for follow-up transcripts and blog posts at aei.org.
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Derek Scissors: Trump's Tariffs and the China Trade War
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Apr 07, 2025 |
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Mark Warshawsky: Sizing Up Social Security
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Mar 25, 2025 |
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Andrew Leigh: An Economist's Guide to Human History
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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Michael Strain: On the State of the US Economy
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Feb 04, 2025 |
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James Coleman: Unleashing American Infrastructure
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Jan 28, 2025 |
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Tony Mills: In Support of Science Policy
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Nov 19, 2024 |
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Chris Miller: Waging the High-Stakes 'Chip War'
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Aug 20, 2024 |
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Glenn Hubbard: A Pro-Growth Policy Agenda
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Aug 13, 2024 |
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Kyle & Shuting Pomerleau: The Case for a Carbon Tax
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Aug 06, 2024 |
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Tim Carney: A Family-Friendly Culture
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Jul 16, 2024 |
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Steven Kamin: The Dominant Dollar
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Jun 04, 2024 |
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Bronwyn Howell: Regulating AI
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May 17, 2024 |
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Kevin Corinth: The Child Tax Credit
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Apr 09, 2024 |
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Karlyn Bowman: American Nostalgia
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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Joseph Antos: The State of Medicare
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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Jennifer Burns: Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative
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Dec 12, 2023 |
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Melissa Kearney: The Importance of the Two-Parent Home
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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Chelsea Follett: Cities as Centers of Progress
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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Timothy Muris: The 'Big Is Bad' Approach to Antitrust
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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Jeremy Horpedahl: Are American Families Thriving?
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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Rick Hess: Rethinking America's Schools
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Jul 05, 2023 |
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Leah Boustan: Busting Immigration Myths
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Jun 27, 2023 |
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Andrew Biggs: The Necessity and Political Challenges of Social Security Reform
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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Beth Akers: Why College Is So Expensive
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May 24, 2023 |
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Ruy Teixeira: Understanding America's Shifting Political Coalitions
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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Brent Orrell: How Workers Can Prepare for the AI Economy
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Apr 14, 2023 |
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Angela Rachidi: Is Raising a Family Becoming Unaffordable?
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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Kevin Corinth: AEI's New Center on Opportunity and Social Mobility
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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Derek Scissors: US-China Economic Relations
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Feb 17, 2023 |
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Michael Strain: What You Need to Know About the Debt Ceiling
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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Bruce Caldwell: The Life and Ideas of F.A. Hayek
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Jan 18, 2023 |
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Scott Winship: Measuring Poverty
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Dec 14, 2022 |
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J.C. Bradbury: The Case Against Stadium Subsidies
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Nov 11, 2022 |
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James Capretta: Reforming US Health Policy
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Oct 21, 2022 |
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Stan Veuger: The State of the US Economy
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Oct 13, 2022 |
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Kyle Pomerleau: A Tax Policy Primer
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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Bryan Caplan: Free Markets, Demagoguery, and More
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Aug 05, 2022 |
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Mark Koyama and Jared Rubin: How the World Became Rich
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Jul 20, 2022 |
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Ali Hajimiri: Space-Based Solar Power
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Jul 08, 2022 |
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Anna Stansbury: Is the Productivity-Pay Link Broken?
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Jun 29, 2022 |
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Michael Strain: Is a Recession on the Horizon?
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Jun 22, 2022 |
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Neil Thompson: Is Moore’s Law Coming to an End?
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Jun 08, 2022 |
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Tony Mills: Thinking about Federal Science Investment
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Jun 01, 2022 |
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Tyler Cowen: Spotting Talent in the Modern Economy
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May 25, 2022 |
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Walker Hanlon: The Industrial Revolution and the Rise of the Engineer
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May 18, 2022 |
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Rick Hess: Post-pandemic Education Reform
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May 11, 2022 |
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Jimmy Soni: How PayPal Shaped Silicon Valley
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May 04, 2022 |
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Mark Jamison: Exploring the Metaverse
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Apr 27, 2022 |
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Virginia Postrel: Dynamism or Stasis?
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Apr 20, 2022 |
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Dan Sichel: Nails as a Window into Economic Change
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Apr 13, 2022 |
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Mark Muro: The geography of the tech sector
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Apr 06, 2022 |
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Melanie Mitchell: Thinking about artificial intelligence
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Mar 23, 2022 |
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Sebastian Mallaby: How venture capital creates the future
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Feb 23, 2022 |
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Alex MacDonald: The economic history of private space exploration
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Feb 16, 2022 |
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Glenn Hubbard: Building bridges in the wake of economic disruption
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Feb 09, 2022 |
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Ramez Naam & Christie Iacomini: Life in 2050
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Feb 02, 2022 |
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Ryan Streeter: The importance of dynamism
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Jan 26, 2022 |
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Robert Zubrin: The case for space expansionism
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Jan 20, 2022 |
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Didier Sornette: Risk-taking, scientific revolutions, and economic progress
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Jan 12, 2022 |
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Steven Koonin: Responding to a warming planet
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Dec 15, 2021 |
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Benjamin Jones: Are we investing enough in scientific research?
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Dec 08, 2021 |
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Eric Berger: Elon Musk and the rise of SpaceX
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Dec 03, 2021 |
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Mark Mills: Will the cloud revolution unleash the next economic boom?
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Nov 24, 2021 |
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Beth Shapiro: Synthetic biology, conservation, and de-extinct woolly mammoths
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Nov 17, 2021 |
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John Logsdon: The Apollo program and the future of space exploration
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Nov 10, 2021 |
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Charles Pappas: How World's Fairs changed the world
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Nov 03, 2021 |
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Kyle Pomerleau: Tax hikes and paying for Biden's Build Back Better agenda
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Oct 28, 2021 |
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Michael Strain: The state of the labor market
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Oct 27, 2021 |
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Neil Chilson: Emergent order in a complex world
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Oct 20, 2021 |
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Jamie Beard: Geothermal energy as a climate solution
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Oct 13, 2021 |
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Arthur Turrell: Is fusion power the energy source of the future?
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Oct 06, 2021 |
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Adrian Wooldridge: Defending meritocracy
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Sep 29, 2021 |
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Charles Fishman: Was the Apollo program a failure?
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Sep 23, 2021 |
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Azeem Azhar: The age of exponential technology
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Sep 15, 2021 |
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Ed Glaeser: How cities can thrive in a post-COVID age
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Sep 08, 2021 |
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Nicholas Bloom: Do innovation hubs work?
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Sep 02, 2021 |
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John Roth, Rich Boling, Michael Gold, & Matthew Weinzierl: The space economy
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Aug 12, 2021 |
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Brad Stone: The age of Amazon
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Aug 04, 2021 |
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John Haltiwanger: American entrepreneurship during the pandemic
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Jul 29, 2021 |
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Ed Glaeser: Did capitalism cause the opioid epidemic?
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Jul 21, 2021 |
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Michael Strain: The post-pandemic economy
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Jul 14, 2021 |
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Ramez Naam: The future of clean energy
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Jul 07, 2021 |
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Mark Jamison: Is Big Tech anticompetitive?
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Jun 30, 2021 |
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Alex Edmans: Is capitalism a zero-sum game?
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Jun 23, 2021 |
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Daniel Deudney: The case against space expansionism
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Jun 16, 2021 |
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Elizabeth Kolbert: Should environmentalists change nature to save it?
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Jun 09, 2021 |
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Ryan Bourne: Economics in one virus
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Jun 02, 2021 |
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Richard Geddes: How to update US infrastructure policy
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May 26, 2021 |
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Matt Hourihan: Reversing the decline in public science support
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May 19, 2021 |
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Jeffrey Clemens: What do economists know about the minimum wage?
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May 12, 2021 |
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David Dollar: China's economic future
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May 05, 2021 |
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Emily Hamilton: Fixing America's housing problem
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Apr 28, 2021 |
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Mauro F. Guillén: Forecasting the world of 2030
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Apr 21, 2021 |
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Tyler Cowen, Michael Strain, Catherine Tucker, & Dietrich Vollrath: Is the great stagnation over?
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Apr 14, 2021 |
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Charles Goodhart & Manoj Pradhan: Predicting a global inflation revival
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Apr 07, 2021 |
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Scott Lincicome: Why America shouldn't embrace industrial policy
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Mar 31, 2021 |
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Alex Brill: US spending and tax policy after the COVID recession
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Mar 24, 2021 |
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Alex Nowrasteh: How does immigration affect developed countries' institutions?
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Mar 17, 2021 |
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Daniel P. Gross: Lessons in crisis innovation from World War II
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Mar 10, 2021 |
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Tim Fernholz, Sara Seager, Stan Veuger, & Matt Weinzierl: The future of space exploration
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Mar 03, 2021 |
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Leah Brooks: Why does US infrastructure cost so much?
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Feb 24, 2021 |
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Don Braben: The importance of scientific freedom
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Feb 17, 2021 |
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Korok Ray: How higher education can further contribute to innovation
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Feb 10, 2021 |
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Joshua D. Wright: The conservative case against weaponizing antitrust
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Feb 05, 2021 |
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Darrell M. West: Policymaking in the era of artificial intelligence
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Jan 27, 2021 |
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Michael Strain: Evaluating Biden's $1.9 trillion economic relief plan
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Jan 20, 2021 |
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Claude Barfield: Trade policy challenges for the Biden administration
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Jan 13, 2021 |
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Johan Norberg: The history and psychology of progress
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Jan 06, 2021 |
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Jeff Kosseff: Setting the record straight on Section 230
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Dec 30, 2020 |
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Best of the year — Ronald D. Moore: The sci-fi optimism of ‘For All Mankind,’ ‘Battlestar Galactica,’ and ‘Star Trek’
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Dec 23, 2020 |
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Nicolas Petit: Big Tech and the moligopoly scenario
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Dec 16, 2020 |
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Amitabh Chandra: Can America improve its health care system?
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Dec 09, 2020 |
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Jim Tankersley: The riches of this land
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Dec 02, 2020 |
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Michael Clemens: What have economists learned about immigration?
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Nov 25, 2020 |
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Philip Coggan: How did the world get so rich?
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Nov 18, 2020 |
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Mervyn King: How to handle radical uncertainty
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Nov 11, 2020 |
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Richard Reeves, Isabel Sawhill, & Michael Strain: A new contract with the middle class
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Oct 28, 2020 |
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Ronald D. Moore: The sci-fi optimism of ‘For All Mankind,’ ‘Battlestar Galactica,’ and ‘Star Trek’
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Oct 21, 2020 |
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Scott Winship: Poverty, inequality, and opportunity in America
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Oct 14, 2020 |
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Casey Mulligan & Michael Strain: Has Trumpian populism succeeded?
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Oct 07, 2020 |
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Kevin Davies: Genome editing and the CRISPR revolution
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Sep 30, 2020 |
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Sanjai Bhagat: Shareholder capitalism vs. stakeholder capitalism
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Sep 23, 2020 |
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Matthew Yglesias: One billion Americans
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Sep 16, 2020 |
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Glenn Hubbard: Looking back and ahead on the US economy
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Sep 09, 2020 |
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Caleb Watney: America’s slowing innovation engine
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Sep 02, 2020 |
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Jonathan Gruber, Tony Mills, Margaret O’Mara, & Bret Swanson: Boosting economic growth by funding science
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Aug 26, 2020 |
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Jason Crawford: Lessons from studying the roots of progress
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Aug 19, 2020 |
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Ronald Bailey: Global trends every smart person should know
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Aug 12, 2020 |
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Scott Gottlieb, Rick Hess, & Michael Strain: COVID-19 this fall
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Aug 07, 2020 |
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Ed Finn: Telling stories of a better future
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Aug 05, 2020 |
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Arthur Diamond: Sustaining innovative dynamism
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Jul 29, 2020 |
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Douglas Irwin: The post-COVID future of international trade
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Jul 22, 2020 |
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Nicholas Crafts: Is the age of fast economic growth really over?
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Jul 15, 2020 |
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John Van Reenen: Why America needs a ‘Grand Innovation Challenge Fund’
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Jul 08, 2020 |
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Toby Ord: Existential risk and the future of humanity
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Jul 01, 2020 |
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Nicole Gelinas: Can cities weather the pandemic?
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Jun 24, 2020 |
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Mike Masnick: Exploring the future of work through science fiction
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Jun 17, 2020 |
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Adam Thierer: How ‘evasive entrepreneurship’ can beat the regulatory state
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Jun 12, 2020 |
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Michael Strain: Assessing the economy, post-COVID lockdown
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Jun 05, 2020 |
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Matt Ridley: How innovation works
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Jun 03, 2020 |
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Anton Howes: Human progress and the Royal Society of Arts
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May 27, 2020 |
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Eli Dourado: How to make America innovate again
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May 20, 2020 |
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Tony Mills: World War II shows the importance of basic science research
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May 13, 2020 |
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Chad Syverson: The COVID crisis and economic growth
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May 06, 2020 |
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Lane Kenworthy: The case for social democratic capitalism
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Apr 29, 2020 |
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James Robinson: The narrow corridor to liberty
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Apr 22, 2020 |
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Roger Bootle: The AI economy
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Apr 15, 2020 |
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Matt Frost: An alternative to climate despair
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Apr 08, 2020 |
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Dietrich Vollrath: Is America’s economy fully grown?
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Apr 01, 2020 |
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Garett Jones: The case for ‘10 percent less democracy’
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Mar 25, 2020 |
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Stan Veuger: Handle the coronavirus recession by preventing a business collapse
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Mar 19, 2020 |
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Ben Thompson: Big Tech monopoly, data privacy, and the rise of China
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Mar 18, 2020 |
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Kyle Pomerleau: What’s next for taxes? Coronavirus stimulus, the Trump tax cuts, and beyond
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Mar 11, 2020 |
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Branko Milanovic: The future of capitalism
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Mar 04, 2020 |
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Hal Varian: In defense of Big Tech
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Feb 26, 2020 |
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Erik Brynjolfsson: Can AI help us overcome the productivity paradox?
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Feb 19, 2020 |
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Paul Vigna: How blockchain could change the world
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Feb 12, 2020 |
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Michael Strain: The American Dream is not dead
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Feb 05, 2020 |
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Thomas Philippon: How America gave up on free markets
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Jan 29, 2020 |
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Alain Bertaud: How markets shape cities
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Jan 22, 2020 |
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Kimberly Clausing: The progressive case for globalization
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Jan 15, 2020 |
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Peter Klenow: Reflections on a decade of slow economic growth
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Jan 08, 2020 |
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Lori Ann LaRocco: Trade wars have consequences
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Jan 01, 2020 |
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Will Rinehart: Big Tech, broadband access, and artificial intelligence
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Dec 18, 2019 |
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Daniel Shoag: Reduce inequality and boost growth by building more housing
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Dec 11, 2019 |
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Dalibor Rohac on globalism, nationalism, and conservatism
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Dec 04, 2019 |
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Stephen Davies on the origins and future of the wealth explosion
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Nov 27, 2019 |
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Bryan Caplan on open borders
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Nov 20, 2019 |
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Enrico Moretti on tech hubs and economic opportunity
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Nov 13, 2019 |
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Carl Benedikt Frey on the technology trap
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Nov 06, 2019 |
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Stian Westlake on the rise of the intangible economy
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Oct 30, 2019 |
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Deirdre McCloskey on why liberalism works
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Oct 24, 2019 |
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Scott Lincicome on the trade war
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Oct 16, 2019 |
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Andrew McAfee on capitalism, tech progress, and the environment
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Oct 08, 2019 |
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Michael Strain on inequality in America
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Oct 02, 2019 |
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Margaret O’Mara on Silicon Valley’s past, present, and future
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Sep 25, 2019 |
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Matt Weinzierl on the economics of space
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Sep 18, 2019 |
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Binyamin Appelbaum on the economists’ hour
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Sep 13, 2019 |
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Desmond Lachman on Brexit, trade wars, and the future of the global economy
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Aug 30, 2019 |
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Adrienne Mayor on ancient visions of the future
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Aug 22, 2019 |
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Alan Viard on America’s tax system after the TCJA
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Aug 16, 2019 |
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Ryan Bourne on Joseph Schumpeter, the tech giants, and the case against monopoly fatalism
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Jul 31, 2019 |
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Avi Loeb on the search for life beyond Earth
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Jul 18, 2019 |
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Jeff Kosseff on the twenty-six words that created the internet
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Jun 27, 2019 |
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Scott Kupor on venture capital and how to get it
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Jun 13, 2019 |
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Alex Trembath on the Green New Deal, climate change, and the case for nuclear energy
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Jun 06, 2019 |
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Jonathan Gruber on jump-starting America
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May 21, 2019 |
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Tyler Cowen on big business
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May 10, 2019 |
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Safi Bahcall on nurturing the next ‘loonshot’
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May 02, 2019 |
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Benedict Evans on where the tech industry is taking us next
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Apr 04, 2019 |
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Huawei and the battle to build the 5G backbone
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Mar 28, 2019 |
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Will artificial intelligence change the economy for the better?
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Mar 15, 2019 |
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Who’s protecting the consumer in the age of Big Tech?
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Mar 05, 2019 |
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How to think about a wealth tax
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Feb 26, 2019 |
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Brian McCullough on ‘How the Internet Happened’
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Feb 21, 2019 |
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Red flags in Xi’s China
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Feb 14, 2019 |
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Ep. 127: Tim Wu on ‘The Curse of Bigness’ — Political Economy with James Pethokoukis
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Feb 06, 2019 |
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What does Medicare for All really mean?
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Feb 01, 2019 |
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Ep. 125: What can we learn from the great economists? — Political Economy with James Pethokoukis
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Jan 24, 2019 |
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What is Modern Monetary Theory?
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Jan 18, 2019 |