Economic Rockstar

In this episode Jennifer Burns, Associate Professor of History and Research Fellow of Stanford's Hoover Institution, explores the life and work of Ayn Rand.

Jennifer's book Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right was featured in this episode and is available at all leading bookstores.

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Tyler Cowen is Holbert L. Harris Chair of Economics at George Mason University and serves as chairman and general director of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.

He is coauthor of the popular economics blog Marginal Revolution and cofounder of the online educational platform Marginal Revolution University.

His latest book 'Stubborn Attachments' is part of our discussion in this episode.

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Arjo Klamer is Professor of Cultural Economics at the Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands.

His recent book 'Doing the Right Thing: a Value Based Approach' looks at the human perspective in the economy and the firm. It focuses on the most important goods such as families, homes, communities, knowledge and art. It places economic processes in their cultural context.

Professor Klamer's other book 'The Value of Culture' is also discussed in this episode.

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This is a rebroadcast of a conversation I had with professor Diane Coyle. It first featured as episode 69 on 21 January 2016.

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This is a rebroadcast of my conversation with Professor Robin Hanson of George Mason University. Robin discusses his book the Age of Em and I decided to rebroadcast this after listening to The Joe Rogan Experience with Elon Musk.

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François Allisson is a scholar in history of economic thought and a senior lecturer at the Centre Walras-Pareto at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland.

His research interests encompass the whole history of Russian economic thought, with a special emphasis on the theories of value and prices at the end of the imperial period and the beginning of the Soviet era ( which covers the years from the 1870s to the 1920s).

In this episode we chat about pricing using the theory labour of value and on marginal utility, as well as the Swiss-based Russian economist Nikolay Sieber.

Check out the links, books and resources mentioned by François over at www.economicrockstar.com/allisson.

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Peter Boettke of George Mason University joins me once again on the podcast.

He discusses the Hayekian principles laid out in his new book "F. A. Hayek: Economics, Political Economy and Social Philosophy".

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Lotta Moberg is a Macroeconomic Analyst for William Blair’s Dynamic Allocation Strategies (DAS) team. She has a Ph.D. in Economics from George Mason University and earned her BA in Economics from Lund University (Sweden).

Prior to joining the DAS team, Lotta worked in Russia for the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs and in Kosovo for the Swedish Armed Forces.

She has published articles on special economic zones, tax benefits, tax competition, and municipal bankruptcy.

Lotta's book The Political Economy of Special Economic Zones: Concentrating Economic Development is available at your favourite online store.

Check out www.economicrockstar.com/lottamoberg for all the links, books and resources mentioned by Lotta in this episode.

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Pat Holt is a computer engineer, a comic book geek and a born-again economics lover.

Pat reached out to Brian O'Roark after listening to episode 116 of this podcast and after a while, he contributed a chapter to the book 'Superheroes and Economics: The Shadowy World of Capes, Masks and Invisible Hands' edited by Rob Salkowitz and Brian.

Listen to Pat's story right here on the Economic Rockstar podcast.

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I catch up once again with Sarah Skwire and Steve Horwitz but this episode is a little different and was inspired by my previous conversation with Sarah back in episode 129.

We chat about their approach to writing, their habits and struggles that they deal with as well as any tips and advice that they can share with us.

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