Interviews

Bob Murphy interviews researcher and Columbia economics professor Wojciech Kopczuk.

Should the medical school curriculum include health inequity, climate change, and gun control? Accad and Koka discuss the politicization of medical education with Dr. Stanley Goldfarb.

Bob Murphy gives the quick explanation of how IBC works.

Why does gold still matter? Politicians, central bankers, and investors dismiss it as a relic, but the precious metal still plays a role in today's economy. Keith Weiner of Monetary Metals explains why.

When is entrepreneurship like being in a bar fight? Vito Bialla describes his own entrepreneurial experience, and explains how he assesses start-up CEOs for his venture capital fund.

Bob Murphy explains what libertarianism is, his perspective on voting, and how he views the American political system.

Medicinal chemist John Tucker, PhD, and hypertension specialist Swapnil Hiremath, MD, share their perspectives and impressions on the unsettling question of generic drugs.

Jeffrey Rogers Hummel joins Bob Murphy for an in-depth discussion of the economics of slavery, touching on subtleties such as the labor/leisure trade-off, and the recent claims by some historians that slavery was efficient.

Hunter Hastings and Per Bylund discuss the economics of value and how this body of theory is superseding old mainstream economic theories from the industrial age.

Rahim Taghizadegan from the independent Viennese Scholarium offers a European perspective on the anti-economics of negative interest rates