Economic Rockstar

Dr Graham Brownlow (PhD, QUB) is a Lecturer in Economics at Queen’s University, Belfast.

Dr Brownlow’s research focuses primarily on economic history and institutions, evolutionary economics, Irish economic and business performance and violence. He also has an interest in methodology in economic and business history.

Graham edits the journal Irish Economic and Social History.

Show notes with all the links, books and resources mentioned in this episode can be found at www.economicrockstar.com/grahambrownlow

This is Robin Hanson's second appearance on the Economic Rockstar podcast. I previously spoke to Robin about his work in episode 073. If you find this interview interesting, check out the other episode. You'll love it.

"Robots may one day rule the world, but what is a robot-ruled Earth like?

Many think the first truly smart robots will be brain emulations or "ems." Scan a human brain, then run a model with the same connections on a fast computer, and you have a robot brain, but recognizably human.

Train an em to do some job and copy it a million times: an army of workers is at your disposal. When they can be made cheaply, within perhaps a century, ems will displace humans in most jobs. In this new economic era, the world economy may double in size every few weeks.

Stefan Szymanski is Professor of Sport Management at the University of Michigan.

Between 2008-2012 he was a Professor of Economics at Cass Business School, City University, London.

Stefan began researching the economics of professional football in 1989, and has since come to spend his entire time researching the economics and business of sport.

He has published 55 scholarly articles, 14 book chapters, six books and four edited volumes on sports related subjects.

Stefan has also acted as consultant to sport governing bodies and national governments, and has appeared in court as an expert witness on the economics of sport. He has become a regular pundit in the media on business related sports issues.

Stefan’s interests include sports management and economics; sport history, culture and society; the internationalization of sport; international sports federations and the governance of sport.

Stefan is co-author of Soccernomics, author of Money and Soccer: A Soccernomics Guide and co-owner of soccernomics agency.

Check out the show notes page for all the resources, links and books mentioned in this episode at www.economicrockstar.com/stefansymanski

Dr. James Brusseau is a philosopher specializing in contemporary continental philosophy, history of philosophy and ethics. 

In 1994 James joined the faculty of Philosophy and Letters at the Mexican National University in Mexico City teaching graduate courses in Philosophy and Comparative Literature. 

He has also taught in Europe and the California State University. 

Dr. James Brusseau currently teaches at Pace University in New York City.

James is the author of four books: Isolated Experiences, Decadence of the French Knee Chaa (Nietzsche), Empire of Humiliation and Business Ethics Workshop, Flat World Knowledge, 2011

He is also the host for The Wealth Inequality Workshop at wealthinequalityworkshop.org

Check out the show notes page for all the links, books and resources mentioned in this episode at www.economicrockstar.com/jamesbrusseau

Dr. Denise Cummins is a research psychologist and an author. She has held faculty and research positions at Yale University, the University of California, the University of Illinois, and the Center for Adaptive Behavior at the Max Planck Institute in Berlin. 

Dr Cummins is a respected cognitive scientist who has authored numerous scientific articles, and is an elected Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science. 

In her Psychology Today blog and PBS NewsHour articles, Denise writes about what she and other cognitive scientists are discovering about the way people think, solve problems, and make decisions.

Denise’s experimental investigations focus on social, moral, and causal decision-making. The aim of her social research is investigating  how perceived relative status impacts fairness in economic transactions. 

Denise is the author of four books, the most recent being Good Thinking: Seven powerful ideas that influence the way we think

Denise received her PhD in Experimental Psychology from University of Colorado, Boulder and you can find her work at www.denisecummins.com and PsychologyToday.com

Check out the show notes page at www.economicrockstar.com/denisecummins to access the links and resources mentioned in this episode.

Asgeir B. Torfason is Assistant Professor in the School of Business at the University of Iceland where he teaches Finance, Accounting and Financial Statement Analysis.

Asgeir defended his PhD at Gothenburg University in May 2014 with dissertation: Cash Flow Accounting in Banks - A study of practice.

His research combines bank management, finance theory, monetary economics and accounting studies.

Previous research has focused on asset values and long-term investment in real estate, a field where Asgeir has extensive practical experience, covering the Nordics as VP for a REIT listed on NYSE.

Prior to that he worked in university management after getting an MBA from Norwegian Business School in Oslo, and studied earlier Philosophy and Economics in Iceland.

Check out the links, resources and books mentioned in this episode at www.economicrockstar.com/asgeir

Philip Pilkington works in investment and has contributed to numerous online and print media outlets as a freelance economic journalist.

Philip ran a popular economics blog called www.fixingtheeconomists.wordpress.com and will be releasing his book The Reformation in Economics soon.

Philip earned his B.A. in Journalism from the Independent Colleges, as well as his M.A. in Economics from Kingston University.

All views expressed by Philip are his own and are not representative of the firm in which he works.

Visit www.economicrockstar.com/philippilkington to access the links, resources and books mentioned in this episode.

Michael Roberts has worked as an economist for over 30 years in the City of London. Michael is a Marxist economist and he has written on the causes of the recession of 2008 from a Marxist perspective. He is the author of The Great Recession: Profit cycles, economic crisis A Marxist view and The Long Depression: Marxism and the Global Crisis of Capitalism. You can view all the links mentioned in this episode at www.economicrockstar.com/michaelroberts

Peter Boettke is Professor of Economics and Philosophy at George Mason University, the BB&T Professor for the Study of Capitalism, and the Director of the F.A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.  

This is Professor Boettke's second time being featured on the Economic Rockstar podcast. You can listen to Peter's first interview in episode 82 at www.economicrockstar.com/peterboettke

Professor Boettke is also the author of 'Living Economics', a book in which he decided to hand over all his royalties from its sale to help sponsor scholarships for students to attend Universidad Francisco Marroquin Guatemala City, Guatemala. According to Milton Friedman, it is "one of the leading universities in Latin America.”

Stephen Kinsella is a Senior Lecturer

Stephen has 2 PhD’s, is well published in many Economics

Stephen’s area of expertise is in the study of the Irish and

He has written 4 books:

Check out the show notes page to this episode at www.economicrockstar.com/stephenkinsella