EconTalk Archives, 2009

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Date Title & Description Contributors
2009-12-28

  Winston on Market Failure and Government Failure

Clifford Winston of the Brookings Institution talks about the ideas in his book, Market Failure vs. Government Failure, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Winston summarizes a large literature on antitrust, safety regulation and environmental regulation.... 		  EconTalk: Russ Roberts author
2009-12-21

  Hamilton on Debt, Default, and Oil

James Hamilton of the University of California, San Diego, and blogger at EconBrowser talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the rising levels of the national debt and the growing Federal budget deficit. What is the possibility of an actual defaul... 		  EconTalk: Russ Roberts author
2009-12-14

  Kling on Prosperity, Poverty, and Economics 2.0

Arnold Kling of EconLog and the author (with Nick Schulz) of From Poverty to Prosperity: Intangible Assets, Hidden Liabilities and the Lasting Triumph over Scarcity talks about the book with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Kling discusses how modern econom... 		  EconTalk: Russ Roberts author
2009-12-07

  McArdle on Debt and Self-Restraint

Megan McArdle, who writes the blog Asymmetrical Information at The Atlantic, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about debt and the challenge of self-restraint. She discusses her recent Atlantic article on her experience at a Dave Ramsey personal fin... 		  EconTalk: Russ Roberts author
2009-11-30

  Boettke on Elinor Ostrom, Vincent Ostrom, and the Bloomington School

Peter Boettke of George Mason University and author of Challenging Institutional Analysis and Development: The Bloomington School (co-authored with Paul Dragos Aligica), talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the Bloomington School--the political ... 		  EconTalk: Russ Roberts author
2009-11-23

  Reinhart on Financial Crises

Carmen Reinhart of the University of Maryland talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in her book This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly (co-authored with Kenneth Rogoff). They discuss the role of capital inflows in fi... 		  EconTalk: Russ Roberts author
2009-11-16

  Posner on the Financial Crisis

Richard Posner, federal judge and prolific author, discusses the financial crisis with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Posner (despite the title of his recent book on the crisis, A Failure of Capitalism) places most of the blame for the crisis on the Feder... 		  EconTalk: Russ Roberts author
2009-11-09

  Sumner on Monetary Policy

Scott Sumner of Bentley University and the blog The Money Illusion talks with host Russ Roberts about monetary policy and the state of the economy. Sumner argues that tight money in late 2008 precipitated the recession. He argues that the standard meas... 		  EconTalk: Russ Roberts author
2009-11-02

  Heller on Gridlock and the Tragedy of the Anticommons

Michael Heller of Columbia Law School and author of The Gridlock Economy talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the book and the idea that fragmented ownership is a barrier to innovation. Heller makes an analogy between the tragedy of the commons an... 		  EconTalk: Russ Roberts author
2009-10-26

  Calomiris on the Financial Crisis

Charles Calomiris of Columbia Business School talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the financial crisis. Calomiris argues that it is important to put the crisis in historical perspective in the context of other bank crises. He argues that bank c... 		  EconTalk: Russ Roberts author