Key Lessons From The “Chicago Boys” Chile Experiment
Is there a fundamental tension between democratic freedom, economic growth, and social equality?Chilean economist and UCLA Professor Sebastian Edwards joins Bethany and Luigi to discuss his recent boo...
31 Aug 202354min
The Evolution of Antitrust: From Brandeis To Biden
A wet hot antitrust summer is in the news, mainly because of the Biden administration appointees continuing to take an aggressive approach to enforcement. Why is this important, and how has antitrust ...
17 Aug 202345min
An Insider's Look At ESG Revisited
Republican presidential candidates, such as Ron DeSantis and Vivek Ramaswamy, continue to keep ESG in the national conversation. Ramaswamy in particular called it "woke capitalism" in his book and on ...
10 Aug 202352min
The Private Equity Debate Revisited
In the last episode of our podcast, we had a mini version of a never-ending debate on this show: whether private equity is good or bad. Afterward we talked about doing a full episode debating the pros...
27 Jul 20231h
Rebooting American Health Care, with Amy Finkelstein
How can public policy improve upon and fix the mess of U.S. health care? In a new book, health economists Amy Finkelstein (MIT) and Liran Einav (Stanford) argue that's the wrong question. Instead, the...
13 Jul 202347min
Why America's Poor Remain Poor, With Matthew Desmond
"Poverty will be abolished in America only when a mass movement demands it," writes Princeton sociologist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Matthew Desmond in his new book, "Poverty, by America." Buil...
29 Jun 202354min
Bonus: Sen. Phil Gramm on Banking Deregulation
Thank you to our listeners for the feedback and engagement on last week's episode with former U.S. Senator Phil Gramm. Sen. Gramm was also one of the co-sponsors of the Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act of 1999,...
22 Jun 202319min
Is American Inequality a Myth? With Sen. Phil Gramm
In his recent book "The Myth of American Inequality," former U.S. Senator Phil Gramm (along with co-authors Robert Ekelund and John Early) challenges conventional wisdom on the state of income inequal...
15 Jun 202350min
