FT Alphachat | 16 February 2018 | 1h 01m | Listen Later 
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Marcus Noland, economist and executive vice president of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, explains the North Korean economy, which is not entirely the communist museum piece we commonly think. Describes the bottom-up emergence of market processes in response to the failure of state institutions.
Tag: Politics
Neil Monnery on Hong Kong and the Architect of Prosperity
EconTalk | 8 October 2018 | 1h 13m | Listen Later | iTunes
Discussion with Neil Monnery, about his book “Architect of Prosperity”, a biography of John Cowperthwaite, the man often credited with the economic success of Hong Kong. Describes the policies that Cowperthwaite championed and the role they played in the evolution of Hong Kong’s economy.
Beyond the Politics of Race
Waking Up with Sam Harris | 29 July 2018 | 1h 56m | Listen Later | iTunes
Interview with Coleman Hughes about race, racism, and identity politics. Challenges progressive instincts with thoughtful, nuanced thinking, grounded in data.
Universal Basic Income
Waking Up with Sam Harris | 19 June 2018 | 1h 08m | Listen Later | iTunes
Interview with Andrew Yang, author of “The War on Normal People,” about universal basic income (UBI). Discusses the state of the economy, the rise of automation and AI, and thoroughly canvases the arguments for and against UBI.
Jonathan Haidt on the Righteous Mind
EconTalk | 20 January 2014 | 1h 03m | Listen Later
Interview with Jonathan Haidt, author of The “Righteous Mind”, discussing the nature of human nature, and how our brain affects our morality and politics. Haidt argues that reason often serves our emotions rather than the mind being in charge. We can be less interested in the truth and more interested in finding facts and stories that fit preconceived narratives and ideology. Haidt tries to understand why people come to different visions of morality and politics and how we might understand each other despite those differences.
Downward Social Mobility
Analysis | 16 February 2015 | 0h 28m | Listen Later | iTunes
Explores the implications of downward social mobility. Politicians worry that insufficient people from less-privileged backgrounds get the opportunity to move up in life. But are we prepared to accept that others must necessarily lose out — and move in the opposite direction?
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