The Gray Area with Sean Illing | 26 January 2023 | 0h 53m | Listen Later 
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Interview with Glory Liu about her book Adam Smith’s America: How a Scottish Philosopher became an Icon of American Capitalism. While Smith is most well-known for being the “father of capitalism,” Liu argues his legacy has been misappropriated – especially in America. Discusses his original intentions and what we can take away from his work today.
Tag: Economics
Tibor Rutar on Capitalism for Realists
The Dissenter | 6 February 2023 | 1h 21m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
Interview with Tibor Rutar about his book Capitalism for Realists: Virtues and Vices of the Modern Economy. Surveys and critically evaluates the virtues and vices of capitalism, covering what Marx got wrong about capitalism; different explanations for the origins of capitalism, from Weber, Henrich, and Mokyr; an alternative explanation for its development in 15th and 16th-century England; market exploitation; the minimum wage; the relationship between capitalism and poverty; economic inequality; the term “neoliberalism”; claims about the morality of markets; and climate change.
Walling Versus Bridging feat. Glenn Hubbard
unSILOed with Greg LaBlanc | 25 January 2022 | 0h 50m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
Interview with Glenn Hubbard about his book The Wall and the Bridge: Fear and Opportunity in Disruption’s Wake. Advocates building bridges to opportunity to assist those negatively impacted by economic growth, rather than building walls to protect them from further harm.
The Rise and Reach of Janet Yellen
Bloomberg Businessweek | 29 September 2022 | 0h 12m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
Interview with Owen Ullmann about his book Empathy Economics: Janet Yellen’s Remarkable Rise to Power and Her Drive to Spread Prosperity to All. Emphasises her commitment to putting those on the bottom half of the economic ladder at the centre of economic policy.
Economic Growth – Can We Ever Have Enough?
Analysis | 7 November 2022 | 0h 28m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
Edward Stourton talks to economists and thinkers from around the world to appraise whether there’s still a central role for growth in the 21st century. Considers whether economic growth offers a route out of economic malaise, whether its benefits have reached a ceiling in developed countries, whether further growth can be environmentally justified, whether to halt – or even reverse – growth to limit the effects of climate change, and whether so-called “degrowth” is even possible.
Can Adam Smith Fix Our Economy?
Freakonomics Radio | 22 December 2022 | 0h 48m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
The final episode of the series on Adam Smith turns to “the father of economics” for solutions to such things as labour exploitation, corporate profiteering and Government corruption.
Was Adam Smith Really a Right-Winger?
Freakonomics Radio | 15 December 2022 | 1h 11m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
Part 2 of a series on Adam Smith. Economists and politicians have turned Adam Smith into a mascot for free-market ideology. Some on the left say the right has badly misread him. Prepare for a very Smithy tug of war.
In Search of the Real Adam Smith
Freakonomics Radio | 8 December 2022 | 0h 46m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
Freakonomics travels to Adam Smith’s hometown in Scotland to uncover the man behind the myth. Explores how an affable 18th-century “moral philosopher” become the patron saint of cutthroat capitalism and whether “the invisible hand” means what everyone thinks it does. (Part 1 of a series.)
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