The Capitalism and Freedom in the Twenty-First Century Podcast

By Jon Hartley

What's The Capitalism and Freedom in the Twenty-First Century Podcast about?

This podcast is focused on economics, finance and public policy, with a common thread to exploring some of the ideas of the late economist Milton Friedman titled after his 1962 book "Capitalism and Freedom".

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The Capitalism and Freedom in the Twenty-First Century Podcast episodes:

04.11.2024
Dani Rodrik (Harvard Kennedy School Economics Professor) on Industrial Policy, Globalization and His Career
Dani Rodrik (Harvard Kennedy School Economics Professor) joins the podcast to discuss his career, the best case for industrial policy, the labor market effects of globalization, and his vision of an ideal economic policy paradigm. Rodrik is the Ford Foundation Professor of...
03.13.2024
Steven D. Levitt (Freakonomics co-author and U Chicago Econ Prof) on His Career and Decision to Retire From Academic Economics
Steven D. Levitt (Freakonomics co-author and University of Chicago Economics Professor) joins the podcast to discuss his career, including being an early leader in applied microeconomics and how the Freakonomics media empire got started, along with his recent decision to retire...
02.02.2024
Larry Summers (Harvard Economics Professor) on His Career In Academic Economics, Government, University Leadership and Corporate America
Larry Summers, Harvard economics professor and 71st US Secretary of the Treasury, joins the podcast for an in-depth discussion of his career at the highest levels of academic economics, economic policy, university leadership, and corporate America. Jon Hartley is an economics researcher with...
01.07.2024
Doug Ducey (Former Arizona Governor) on Passing Universal School Choice and Universal Licensing Recognition
Doug Ducey, 23rd Governor of Arizona, joins the podcast to discuss how he made Arizona the first state to pass Universal School Choice and Universal Licensing Recognition as well as his major influences and career which includes growing Coldstone Creamery into an...
11.14.2023
Jennifer Burns on the Life and Lasting Influence of Milton Friedman
Jennifer Burns (Hoover Reserch Fellow and Stanford Associate Professor of History) joins the podcast to discuss her career as well as her new biography Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023). We discuss the life of Milton Friedman including his...
11.04.2023
Antitrust Policy, The Chicago School Consumer Welfare Standard and The Rise of the New Brandeisians
Luke Froeb joins the podcast to talk about his career in economics, what it's like to be the chief economist at the FTC and DOJ antitrust division, how these agencies make decisions about merger cases, the history of the Chicago...
09.11.2023
Tax Policy, Government Spending, and Public Debt
Glenn Hubbard (Former White House CEA Chair and Columbia Business School Professor) joins the podcast to discuss his career in academia and government along with his views on tax policy, including the legacy of the Bush tax cuts and corporate...
09.04.2023
The CARES Act, Inflation and Financial Regulation
Andrew Olmem (Former White House National Economic Council Deputy Director) joins the podcast to discuss his views on the CARES Act and inflation as well as the state of financial and banking regulation, including everything from deposit insurance to lender...
07.23.2023
The World Bank, China, Corporate Taxes, and Opportunity Zones
DJ Nordquist (Former World Bank US Executive Director and Economic Innovation Group SVP) joins the podcast to discuss her experience serving as World Bank US Executive Director from 2019 to 2021 and as White House Council of Economic Advisers Chief-of-Staff,...
07.08.2023
Long-run Economic and Political Trends, Schools of Economic Thought, and Economics Education
Tyler Cowen (George Mason University Economics Professor and Mercatus Center Director) joins the podcast to discuss his career, various long-run economic and political trends, whether policy or culture matters most for economic growth, whether schools of economic thought are still...
06.03.2023
Fiscal Policy, The CARES Act, and U.S. Public Debt
Josh Rauh (Stanford GSB Finance Professor and Hoover Senior Fellow) joins the podcast to discuss his distinguished academic career, his research in public economics on taxes and public pensions, his time at the Trump Administration White House Council of Economic...
05.24.2023
Technology, AI, Political Economy, and Economic Development
Simon Johnson (MIT Sloan Economics Professor and Former IMF Chief Economist) joins the podcast to discuss his new book "Power and Progress", co-authored with his MIT colleague Daron Acemoglu, on the interplay between technology, political economy, and economic development. Learn more...
05.20.2023
Inflation, Interest Rates and Economic Growth
Jon Hartley interviewed Dave Altig, Research Director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, at an Economic Club of Miami event held at Miami-Dade College on April 19, 2022. Topics discussed include inflation, interest rate and economic growth. Learn more about...
05.12.2023
Monetary History, Bretton Woods, and Banking Crises
Michael Bordo (Rutgers Economics Professor and Hoover Distinguished Visiting Fellow) joins the podcast to discuss his career, monetary history, the legacy of Bretton Woods 50 years later, and historical banking crises amid ongoing regional bank failures. Learn more about your ad...
05.06.2023
Diana Furchtgott-Roth on Serving In Four U.S. Presidential Administrations, Environmental Regulation, and Infrastructure
Diana Furchtgott-Roth (Heritage Fellow and GWU Adjunct Professor) joins the podcast to discuss her career including her government service in the Reagan, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush and Trump administrations, along with her current work on environmental regulation and...
04.29.2023
TCJA, the CARES Act, inflation, and the debt limit
Kevin Hassett (Former CEA Chairman and Hoover Institution Distinguished Fellow) joins the podcast to discuss his career, the legacy of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), including corporate tax reform and opportunity zones, the Trump administration's response to COVID-19...
03.14.2023
Monetary economics, the Taylor Rule, fiscal policy, and economic growth
John Taylor, the Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics at Stanford University and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, joins the podcast to discuss how he initial got interested in economics, his initial training in econometrics as a PhD...
02.10.2023
Jay Bhattacharya on the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Public Health Response
Jay Bhattacharya (Stanford University Professor of Medicine) joins to the podcast to discuss his beginnings being born in Calcutta, India, his journey to Stanford as a student obtaining four degrees at the institution (BA, MD, MA, PhD) to becoming a...
01.31.2023
Milton Friedman, The Chicago School, and The Government’s Incentive To Promote Economic Growth
David Mitch, an economic historian and professor of economics at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, joins the podcast to discuss the The Chicago School of Economics, including his 2016 Journal of Political Economy paper which uncovered how on the...
01.24.2023
On The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level and Economic Growth
John Cochrane, economist and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, joins the podcast to discuss his career, his new book, The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level, about how inflation can be explained by fiscal and monetary...
01.21.2023
On The History of Occupational Licensing in the U.S.
Morris Kleiner, the AFL-CIO Chair in Labor Policy at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota and arguably the world's leading authority on occupational licensing, joins the podcast to discuss how he became an economist, the...
01.15.2023
Quantitative Investing, Inflation and the Macroeconomy
Jon Hartley interviewed Rob Arnott, founder and chairman of Research Affiliates, at the Economic Club of Miami on December 3, 2022. Topics discussed include the recent rise of inflation, macroeconomics, capital market returns, value versus growth stocks, factor timing, and...
01.15.2023
Applying Chicago Price Theory In Academia and Government
Casey Mulligan, Professor in Economics and the College at the University of Chicago, joins the podcast to discuss how he got interested in becoming an economist from his days as an undergraduate at Harvard in Martin Feldstein's Ec10 class, being...
09.09.2022
GSEs, Financial Regulation, Fiscal Policy and Monetary Policy
Mark Calabria (Former FHFA Director and Cato Senior Advisor) joins the podcast to discuss his tenure as director of the FHFA (Federal Housing Finance Agency), his legacy of creating a capital rule for the GSEs which remains in place, financial...
09.02.2022
Long-term Housing Market Trends and Urban Policy
Salim Furth (Senior Research Fellow and and Director of the Urbanity project, Mercatus Center) joins the podcast to discuss his background as a macroeconomist turned urban economist and a variety of topics in long-term housing market trends and urban policy,...
08.31.2022
Credit Unions, Deposit Insurance, Financial Regulation, and Digital Currencies
Kyle Hauptman (National Credit Union Administration Vice Chairman) speaks on his beginnings working in finance, as an economic policy advisor on the Mitt Romney Presidential campaign as well as in Congress before becoming Vice Chairman of the NCUA, one of...
08.26.2022
IMF Central Bank Technical Assistance and the International Monetary System
Milton Friedman student and University of Chicago-trained monetary economist Warren Coats (Johns Hopkins fellow, former IMF economist and central bank advisor to over 20 countries) speaks about his beginnings as an economist as PhD student of Milton Friedman's at the...
11.24.2021
Occupational Licensing, US Medical Residencies and the Doctor Shortage
Milton Friedman dedicated an entire chapter of his 1962 bestseller Capitalism and Freedom to Occupational Licensure and famously criticized the licensing of physicians in the US as being a cause of high costs and doctor shortages. Nearly 60 years later,...
06.16.2020
40 Years Since Milton Friedman‘s ‘Free To Choose‘
It's been 40 years since Milton Friedman's famous ten-part television series 'Free To Choose' was broadcast on PBS. Rob Chatfield, President and CEO of the Free To Choose Network (FTCN), speaks to us about the legacy of the original series as...

What's The Capitalism and Freedom in the Twenty-First Century Podcast about?

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The Capitalism and Freedom in the Twenty-First Century Podcast episodes:

Dani Rodrik (Harvard Kennedy School Economics Professor) on Industrial Policy, Globalization and His Career

Steven D. Levitt (Freakonomics co-author and U Chicago Econ Prof) on His Career and Decision to Retire From Academic Economics

Larry Summers (Harvard Economics Professor) on His Career In Academic Economics, Government, University Leadership and Corporate America

Doug Ducey (Former Arizona Governor) on Passing Universal School Choice and Universal Licensing Recognition

Jennifer Burns on the Life and Lasting Influence of Milton Friedman

Antitrust Policy, The Chicago School Consumer Welfare Standard and The Rise of the New Brandeisians

Tax Policy, Government Spending, and Public Debt

The CARES Act, Inflation and Financial Regulation

The World Bank, China, Corporate Taxes, and Opportunity Zones

Long-run Economic and Political Trends, Schools of Economic Thought, and Economics Education

Fiscal Policy, The CARES Act, and U.S. Public Debt

Technology, AI, Political Economy, and Economic Development

Inflation, Interest Rates and Economic Growth

Monetary History, Bretton Woods, and Banking Crises

Diana Furchtgott-Roth on Serving In Four U.S. Presidential Administrations, Environmental Regulation, and Infrastructure

TCJA, the CARES Act, inflation, and the debt limit

Monetary economics, the Taylor Rule, fiscal policy, and economic growth

Jay Bhattacharya on the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Public Health Response

Milton Friedman, The Chicago School, and The Government’s Incentive To Promote Economic Growth

On The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level and Economic Growth

On The History of Occupational Licensing in the U.S.

Quantitative Investing, Inflation and the Macroeconomy

Applying Chicago Price Theory In Academia and Government

GSEs, Financial Regulation, Fiscal Policy and Monetary Policy

Long-term Housing Market Trends and Urban Policy

Credit Unions, Deposit Insurance, Financial Regulation, and Digital Currencies

IMF Central Bank Technical Assistance and the International Monetary System

Occupational Licensing, US Medical Residencies and the Doctor Shortage

40 Years Since Milton Friedman‘s ‘Free To Choose‘