Categories: "Economics"

profit and non-profits on econtalk

April 19th, 2010
They talk around, about, and through the questions about what distinguishes non-profit from for-profit enterprises. Love, Money, Profits, and Non-profits (4/19/2010) - Mike Munger of Duke University talks about the world of profit, money, love, gifts,… more »

the music biz on econtalk

March 22nd, 2010
Of possible interest to my musician friends The Music Industry and the Internet (3/22/21010) - Steve Meyer, music industry veteran and publisher of the Disc and Dat Newsletter, talks about the evolution of the music industry and the impact of the digi… more »

bailouts on econtalk

March 1st, 2010
If you had reason to believe that someone would bail you out if your investments turned bad and you ended up over your head, would you be more or less prudent in the choice of those investments?  These three episodes provide different perspectives to th… more »

more simple talk that really scares me

February 21st, 2010
... human wants in the face of "finite stuff" more »

simple talk that really scares me

February 18th, 2010
a Professor Bartlett discusses world population and energy usage, worried about continuations along the present path. more »

trade primer on econtalk

February 8th, 2010
This show was especially good - a startling quotation "self-sufficiency is the road to poverty".  I made one of my few remarks in the comments to the effect that this episode almost made me want to quit my job and go study economics. Trade (2/8/2010)… more »

empirical failures on econtalk

December 28th, 2009
an empirical take on the subject Market Failure and Government Failure (12/28/2009) - Clifford Winston of the Brookings Institution talks about the ideas in his book, Market Failure vs. Government Failure. Winston summarizes a large literature on anti… more »

ideas and growth on econtalk

December 14th, 2009
on the place of ideas contributing to growth - evidently a point not commonly recognized among economists Prosperity, Poverty, and Economics 2.0 (12/14/2009) - Arnold Kling of EconLog and the author (with Nick Schulz) of From Poverty to Prosperity: In… more »

Matt Taibbi on Bear Stearns

October 25th, 2009
Interesting. <BEGIN RANT> Taibbi describes many events of the preceding months, weeks, and days that showed BS was closer and closer to the brink.  Given what was apparently known, quite broadly in that industry, about the fragile state of Bear… more »

liberalism on econtalk

May 11th, 2009
The discussion starts with characterizing three aspects of liberalism: substantive (a set of principles), procedural (societal organization), and temperamental (individual willingness to experiment). Liberalism (5/11/2009) - Alan Wolfe, Professor of P… more »