What is peace? Many are so blessed by it, we can takeit for granted. However, peace is as, if not more, complex than conflict and war. In this episode, we talk with one of the most prominent peace-economists;GMU’s Christopher Coyne. What does

EconRoots Talk – Professor Jerry Z. Muller on capitalism

Feb 13th, 2024 54m 28s

Professor Muller is one of the most well-read and insightful thinkers on capitalism. In this episode, we talk about the phenomenon of capitalism, what it is, and why people misunderstand it. From here, our insightful talk moves on to the aspect

Nobel laureate Eric Maskin on mechanism design, Arrow and the world

Aug 17th, 2023 31m 50s

Today marks a milestone in the history of EconRoots as a podcast. While we have already been blessed with guest appearances from some of the best economists in the field, today we have our first nobel laureate the esteemed Eric Stark Maskin. W

Rationality of Rational Choice

Jul 30th, 2023 49m 48s

Economics model human behavior within the construct of rationality, but what is rational behavior? In this episode we meet Herbert Simon who shows that instrumental rationality is likely not as smart as bounded rationality, at least from a mode

Becchio on gender and feminist economics

Jul 16th, 2023 43m 43s

Gender issues in society and particularly feminist economics have gotten a lot of attention in recent times, but what exactly is it? Why is it needed and what is the relation to classical economic theory? Today we are joined by Professor Giando

General and Partial Equilibrium

Jul 9th, 2023 54m 3s

Show notes:Today we tackle a key concept in economics, the idea of market equilibrium, both general and partial. A part of this talk also involves the role of information and that of regulation. We start with polymath Kenneth Joseph Arrow, a ke

Dekker on Tinbergen

Jan 2nd, 2023 36m 56s

Today’s episode was recorded in October 2022 at the Market and Society conference. Our honoured guest is Dr. Erwin Dekker. Dr. Dekker is a historian and economist working at the the intersection of culture and economics. He has worked for almo

Search friction: The labour market, unemployment and the macro-economy

Dec 30th, 2022 40m 41s

A large part of the economy is the labor market. Not only is it, along with capital, the standard input in simple production functions, it is also a whole beast of it’s own. Just like capital is not just capital, likewise labor is also heteroge

Living Austrian with Professor Boettke

Dec 26th, 2022 1h 19m

Today’s episode was recorded in October 2022 at the Market and Society conference. Our honored guest is a premier Austrian school economist Professor Peter Boettke. He is widely published and has been instrumental in promoting modern Austrian e

The Rise of Econometrics

Dec 23rd, 2022 47m 30s

As economics grew into its own as a scientific discipline, two questions became pressing. 1) How to deal with empirical data, particular separating cause and effect, 2) how to give good and predictive policy advice. A large part of the answer c

The Empirical Institutions of Growth

Jul 13th, 2022 1h 4m

Why do some countries experience growth, while others don’t? The answer is that countries are not ordered in the same way, or as an economist would say; their institutional arrangements differ, and that leads to different outcomes. This in not

EconRoots Talk – Mike Munger: The legacy of Laureate Douglas North and the importance of institutions

Jun 29th, 2022 41m 33s

Welcome to EconRoots. A podcast on the history of Economic Thought brought to you by CEPOS and your host Stefan Sløk-Madsen. As a bonus to our regular seasons we aim to bring you exciting interviews with relevant and stimulating economists and

Growth, crowding, and carbon tax

Jun 16th, 2022 59m 39s

The economist Tyler Cowen has argued that growth should be a stubborn attachment for economists. In today’s episode you will get an idea of why. We start with Solow who’s exogenous growth model is highly famous. From him we learn the power of i

Growth, crowding, and carbon tax

Jun 15th, 2022 46m 8s

EconRoots Talk - Siri Terjesen: Business education benefits from classical economics – and what about gender diversity in boards?

Jun 3rd, 2022 36m 42s

Trade theory

Apr 20th, 2022 49m 13s

Trade is like the air, if it wasn’t there, we would die. But most don’t think much about it. Well, thank the good creator we have economists, because some of those do think about it. In this episode we explain trade theory by recapping the old

Modern Macro Perspectives

Apr 6th, 2022 48m 6s

We finish our macro theme for now, with some interesting modern perspectives. Both some important discussion about the need for, and the purpose of, economic modeling; Thomas John Sargant and Christopher A. Sims will take us there. They got the

Modern Macro Part 2

Feb 23rd, 2022 47m

This is the second of a two-part episode on modern macro-economics. In today’s episode we talk about Finn Erling Kydland – a Norwegian - and Edward Christian Prescott who got the prize for their joint work on the relation between peoples ration

Modern Macro Part 1

Feb 9th, 2022 38m 43s

This is the first of a two-part episode on modern macro-economics. In today’s episode we talk about a distinguished and well rounded British economist Sir John Hicks who got the prize in 1972. We continue with James Tobin who actually got the p

EconRoots Talk - McCloskey: We should aim to be worldly philosophers

Feb 2nd, 2022 33m 33s

Welcome to Econ Root. A podcast on the history of Economic Thought brought to you by CEPOS and your host Stefan Sløk-Madsen. As a bonus to our regular seasons we aim to bring you exciting interviews with relevant and stimulating economists and

The Advent of Modern Macro

Jan 26th, 2022 1h 9m

In season 1 (Danish) we reviewed the history of economic thought before WWII. The coming seasons are dedicated to the Nobel Price in Economics, and I am joined by economist Otto Brøns-Petersen. The Nobel price is a good benchmark for how the fi

Introducing the Nobel Prize

Dec 15th, 2021 43m 44s

In season 1 (Danish) we reviewed the history of economic thought before WWII. The coming seasons are dedicated to the Nobel Prize in Economics, and I am joined by economist Otto Brøns-Petersen. The Nobel Prize is a good benchmark for how the fi

BONUS: Kan økonomiens teorihistorie lære os noget om corona?

Jul 13th, 2020 55m 31s

Første sæson er slut med dette afsnit. Vi afslutter med et tematisk tilbageblik på sæsonen og ser om nogle af de mange store tænkere vi har stødt på, måske kan gøre os klogere på pandemier og deres håndtering.Har du nogensinde tænkt over, hvad

Tema: Chicagoskolen og monetarismen

Jun 8th, 2020 45m 21s

I dag er vi kommet til en af de vigtigste intellektuelle skoler både inden og uden for økonomi i det 20. århundrede: Chicago-skolen. På dansk tit kaldet monetaristerne. Jeg skriver skoler i flertal, fordi mange lider af den misforståelse, at de

De store udviklinger efter Keynes

Jun 1st, 2020 39m 40s

De fleste gennemgange af økonomiens teorihistorie slutter med Keynes’ død. Det gør vores også. Næsten. Vi tager også et temaafsnit om Chicago-økonomerne. Inden vi kommer så langt, vil jeg i dagens afsnit lave et lille eksperiment. Jeg vil komme