Today’s podcast is titled, “Keynesian Economics.” Keynesian Economics w/ Prof. James Tobin, Sterling Professor Emeritus-Economics, Yale University and the winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Economics and Robert Shiller, Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics, Yale University. Listen now, and don’t forget to subscribe to get updates each week for the Free To Choose Media Podcast.
Tag: Economics
Episode 180 – Social Security (Podcast)
Today’s podcast is titled, “Social Security.” Peter Diamond, MIT Institute Professor and Dr. Franco Modigliani, 1985 Nobel laureate in Economics, talk about many different facets of social security including its history, benefits, and future. Listen now, and don’t forget to subscribe to get updates each week for the Free To Choose Media Podcast.
Episode 178 – Institutions and Economic Performance (Podcast)
Today’s podcast is titled, “Institutions and Economic Performance.” Timur Kuran, Professor of Economics and King Faisal Professor of Islamic Thought and Culture at the University of Southern California and Dr. Douglass North, Professor of Economics at Washington University and 1993 Nobel Prize winner in Economics discuss institutions and economic performance. Listen now, and don’t forget to subscribe to get updates each week for the Free To Choose Media Podcast.
Episode 176 – Is Optimism Warranted (Podcast)
Today’s podcast is titled, “Is Optimism Warranted.” Herbert Stein and Ben Wattenberg, Senior Fellows at the American Enterprise Institute, consider the many factors which threaten America’s political stability and economic growth. Stein and Wattenberg agree that while attention has been focused primarily on economic issues, of more pressing concern are the social problems of drug abuse, single-parent families, racism, and the like. Given these challenges, is there any reason to be optimistic that the U.S. will continue to prosper? Listen now, and don’t forget to subscribe to get updates each week for the Free To Choose Media Podcast.
Episode 175 – Financial Globalization and Currency Movement (Podcast)
Today’s podcast is titled, “Financial Globalization and Currency Movement.” 1981 Nobel Prize winner in Economics James Tobin discusses financial globalization and currency movement with Economics Professor and Director of the Cowles Foundation, John Geanakoplos. Listen now, and don’t forget to subscribe to get updates each week for the Free To Choose Media Podcast.
Episode 166 – Conversation with Jonathan Hughes (Podcast)
Today’s podcast is titled, “Conversation with Jonathan Hughes.” Recorded in 1987, Jonathan Hughes discusses American economic history, why the U.S. prospered in the past, and how to continue that success. Listen now, and don’t forget to subscribe to get updates each week for the Free To Choose Media Podcast.
Episode 161 – Democracy and Rent Seeking (Podcast)
Today’s podcast is titled, “Democracy and Rent Seeking.” Recorded in 1992, Nobel Laureate James M. Buchanan and Prof. Gordon Tullock discuss events in the public choice arena since the publication of their groundbreaking 1962 book, The Calculus of Consent: Logical Foundations of Constitutional Democracy. Listen now, and don’t forget to subscribe to get updates each week for the Free To Choose Media Podcast.
Episode 160 – His Thoughts: Glenn Loury (Podcast)
Today’s podcast is titled, “His Thoughts: Glenn Loury.” Glenn Loury was raised on the south side of Chicago in a predominantly black neighborhood. He discusses his opposition to affirmative action, his concern about many actions by black community leaders, and the appreciation of black achievement in the face of discrimination. Listen now, and don’t forget to subscribe to get updates each week for the Free To Choose Media Podcast.
Episode 159 – Walter Williams: Suffer No Fools (Podcast)
Today’s podcast is titled, “Walter Williams: Suffer No Fools”. This program traces Walter Williams’ rise from a child of the Philadelphia housing projects to become one of America’s most important authors and commentators and features the events of the 1960’s when Walter Williams realized “black people cannot make great progress until they understand the economic system.” It was then that he concluded that what America needed was to heed the words and the ideas of the Constitution. Listen now. Or watch this program on Free To Choose Network’s YouTube channel.