26 – Andy Levin on Federal Reserve Reform
Andrew Levin is a professor of economics at Dartmouth College and a former Federal Reserve Board economist. For two years, he worked as a special adviser to Chairman Ben Bernanke and Vice Chair Janet ...
3 Okt 201657min
25 - Morgan Ricks on *The Money Problem,* Financial Regulation, and Shadow Banking
Morgan Ricks is a law professor at Vanderbilt University and an expert on financial regulation. From 2009-2010, he was a senior policy adviser at the U.S. Treasury Department where he focused on finan...
26 Sep 201658min
24 - Ryan Avent on *The Wealth of Humans,* Job Automation, and Globalization
Ryan Avent is an economics columnist for The Economist and author of the new book, The Wealth of Humans: Work, Power, and Status in the Twenty-First Century. He joins the show to discuss his new book,...
19 Sep 20161h 2min
23 - Michael Bordo on Anna Schwartz, Financial Crises, and Life as a Monetary Historian
Michael D. Bordo is a professor of economics and the director of the Center for Monetary and Financial History at Rutgers University, a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and a r...
12 Sep 20161h 2min
22 - Peter Ireland on the Chicago School, Federal Reserve Policy Targets, and Monetary Aggregates
Peter Ireland is the Murray and Monti Professor of Economics at Boston College, a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a member of the Shadow Open Market Committee. He j...
5 Sep 20161h 1min
21 – Hugh Rockoff on Optimal Currency Areas, "Yellowbacks," and Free Banking
Hugh Rockoff is a professor of economics at Rutgers University and has done extensive work in U.S. monetary history. He joins the show to discuss the criteria for an ideal monetary union and argues th...
29 Aug 20161h
20 - Douglas Irwin on Free Trade, the Gold Standard, and American Economic History
Douglas Irwin, professor of economics at Dartmouth College and author of Free Trade Under Fire (Princeton University Press, 2015), joins the show to discuss the economic arguments for free trade and t...
22 Aug 201657min
19 - Nick Rowe on Monetary Basics, Milton Friedman's Thermostat, and More
Nick Rowe is a professor of economics at Carleton University in Ottawa, a member of the CD Howe Institute's Monetary Policy Council and of Carlton University's Centre for Monetary and Financial Econom...
15 Aug 201659min
