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A Theory of History, with an Application: New Cities with New Rules
Original Air Date: 4/28/10 |
Season 1, Episode 11
Date Added: 5/6/10
Economist Paul Romer outlines his groundbreaking economic theory of history. Romer explains phenomena such as the constant improvement of the human...
CP+B's Andrew Keller: How Advertising Works
Original Air Date: 7/23/11 |
Season 1, Episode 25
Date Added: 7/25/11
As a principal creative mind behind several of the most innovative ad campaigns of the last decade, Andrew Keller, CEO of award-winning agency Crispin...
Dambisa Moyo: How the West Was Lost
Original Air Date: 3/4/11 |
Season 1, Episode 22
Date Added: 3/7/11
Following on the heels of her bestselling and controversial book Dead Aid, international economist Dambisa Moyo sharply rebukes the economic myopia of...
Dan Ariely: The Upside of Irrationality
Original Air Date: 8/14/10 |
Season 1, Episode 14
Date Added: 8/15/10
We're not always rational. But is that such a bad thing? Celebrated author, NPR contributor, and Duke University professor Dan Ariely delves further...
Inside Job: A Conversation with Director Charles Ferguson
Original Air Date: 6/16/11 |
Season 1, Episode 24
Date Added: 6/17/11
Could the global economic meltdown of the last few years have been prevented? Charles Ferguson's "Inside Job," the 2010 Academy Award winner for Best...
Joseph Stiglitz on Freefall: The Sinking of the World Economy
Original Air Date: 4/28/10 |
Season 1, Episode 12
Date Added: 5/11/10
In a conversation with Salon's Andrew Leonard, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz sifts through the wreckage to reveal the source of...
Marijuana Economics
Original Air Date: 9/18/10 |
Season 1, Episode 15
Date Added: 9/20/10
Some estimates rate marijuana as California's largest cash crop. Legalization would bring the state much-needed tax revenue, but do risks outweigh the...
Marijuana Economics 2010: Debating Prop 19
Original Air Date: 12/17/10 |
Season 1, Episode 19
Date Added: 12/19/10
Although Prop 19 failed at the polls, California's debate over legal marijuana continues to roil. In this panel from October 2010, advocates from both...
Market Forces: Can Technology Bring Free Enterprise to Everyone?
Original Air Date: 8/17/11 |
Season 1, Episode 27
Date Added: 8/17/11
What is the relationship between technology and the spread of free enterprise? Shelley Leibowitz, CIO of the World Bank, and Steve Rubinow, VP of NYSE...
Matt Ridley: Deep Optimism
Original Air Date: 4/29/11 |
Season 1, Episode 23
Date Added: 5/2/11
Everything's going to Hell in a handbasket! Or is it? Author and former Economist editor Matt Ridley takes a long-term view of humanity's past to...
Morality and the Free Market with Michael Sandel
Original Air Date: 9/24/10 |
Season 1, Episode 16
Date Added: 9/26/10
Is it ethical to sell citizenship? Pay children to study? Outsource pregnancy to India? In this highly engaging presentation, political philosopher...
Nouriel Roubini on Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance
Original Air Date: 6/20/10 |
Season 1, Episode 13
Date Added: 6/21/10
With his new book Crisis Economics, renowned economist Nouriel Roubini reveals the methods he used to foretell the financial crisis before others saw...
Planet Money's Adam Davidson: Smart Jobs and the Future of Work
Original Air Date: 7/23/11 |
Season 1, Episode 26
Date Added: 7/25/11
Adam Davidson, a host of NPR's Planet Money radio show and podcast, takes an engaging look at how technology is rapidly changing even the most...
The Financial Crisis: Will It Lead to America's Decline?
Original Air Date: 2/4/11 |
Season 1, Episode 21
Date Added: 2/6/11
As the world's economies struggles to recover, America's days as a lone superpower appear to be numbered. Niall Ferguson, David Gergen, and Mort...
The State of the Economy: Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner
Original Air Date: 10/28/10 |
Season 1, Episode 17
Date Added: 11/1/10
In this interview the Commonwealth Club of California, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geither fields questions about the government's plans to create...
The Thank You Economy: How Business Must Adapt to Social Media
Original Air Date: 11/28/10 |
Season 1, Episode 18
Date Added: 11/30/10
Wine Library TV's Gary Vaynerchuk gives his no-holds-barred take on how modern businesses must adapt to thrive in a social media-driven culture....
The Value of Nothing
Original Air Date: 2/18/10 |
Season 1, Episode 10
Date Added: 2/22/10
If economics is about choices, who gets to make them? Author Raj Patel says that prices often mislead us, obscuring the true, "hidden" costs of goods...
University of Chicago Economist Gary Becker
Original Air Date: 1/7/11 |
Season 1, Episode 20
Date Added: 1/10/11
In this episode of the Hoover Institution's Uncommon Knowledge, Gary Becker, Nobel laureate and a founder of the Chicago School of Economics,...
Why Cities Keep Growing, Corporations Always Die, and Life Gets Faster
Original Air Date: 9/24/11 |
Season 1, Episode 28
Date Added: 10/4/11
As cities grow, they increase in efficiency, adaptability, and lifespan. How does this happen, and why? Physicist Geoffrey West pores over vast...