EconomicsNow!
By Dr Simon Angus
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Podcast Description
EconomicsNow! serves up podcasts on current events along with interviews with prominent economists doing interesting research. EconomicsNow! has a development and sustainability flavour though includes all kinds of tastes. The feed is hosted by the Department of Economics, Monash University and maintained by Dr Simon Angus.
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Pietro Peretto (Duke) on The Economics of Prosperity on a Finite Planet | Pietro Peretto, Professor of Economics, Duke University, is tackling the very biggest topic in Economics — How can humanity experience increasing living standards in a world of finite resources? Or more particularly, does the stabilisation of population levels imply the cessation of economic prosperity gains? Professor Peretto is a theorist who has been developing analytical [...] | 30 4 12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rebecca Morton (NYU) on Voting and Personal Attributes | What about you impacts on your voting choice? Professor Rebecca Morton, Professor of Politics at New York University joins us today on EconomicsNow! to talk voting. Specifically, she has recently finished a study on what contributes to a person's preferences for leftist or rightist political platforms. Interestingly, Becky considers both the direct effects of attributes such as income and educational level, but also the direct and indirect effects that personality type, and intelligence can have on a person's voting behaviour. In this podcast, we discuss the study and its possible implications for voter behaviour, political parties, and the conduct of other studies on voting. | 28 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Andreas Lange (U Hamburg) on Why Fairness Principles Matter to International Climate Change Negotiations | Why does fairness matter to international climate change negotiations? To help us answer this question, Andreas Lange, a Professor of Economics from the University of Hamburg joins us on EconomicsNow! | 24 8 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Markus Brueckner (U of Adelaide) on Economic Growth, Foreign Aid and Causality | Markus Brueckner is a senior lecturer at the School of Economics, University of Adelaide, and has research interests including economic growth, political economy and applied econometrics. Along with a number of articles published in highly respected academic journals, Dr Brueckner has written for the New York Times, The Economist and the Wall Street Journal. In his [...] | 14 7 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Craig Mawdsley (OneSeed) on Sweatshops, Textiles, and Micro-business for development | Craig Mawdsley is Director of OneSeed a textiles importing business bringing hand-made dresses, bags and other textiles from Cambodia to the markets of Australia. The business began around 6 years ago with Craig’s $500 tax return as seed capital and growing ever since with sales in 2011 expected to hit $100,000. In this podcast Craig [...] | 5 6 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Glenn Harrison (Georgia State) on Experimental Economics | Glenn Harrison is the C.V. Starr Chair of Risk Management & Insurance and Director of the Center for the Economic Analysis of Risk (CEAR), in the Department of Risk Management & Insurance, J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University. His research includes diverse topics such as law and economics, international trade policy, environmental [...] | 26 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Is Economics a Science? Explaining the resurgence of Experimental Economics | In this post, our Economist on the ground, Jeremy Kamil, brings us a background piece on Experimental Economics. Which reminds me, have you ever heard the one about the guy who asks you to push a button or pull a lever in the name of ’science’ (pic on website): Is economics a science? That question, although not [...] | 9 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Andy Seltzer (University of London) on wages, glass-ceilings and business cycles | Andy Seltzer is a Professor in the Department of Economics, Royal Holloway, University of London. Professor Seltzer is an Economic Historian first and foremost and has been working on questions in labour economics by studying, amongst other things, the payroll tabulations from large bank and railway employers during the first part of the 20th century. [...] | 2 5 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Paul Raschky (Monash University) on where Foreign Aid Actually Ends Up | For some, foreign aid, is the only great hope for ending poverty in the very poor nations of our world, whilst for others, foreign aid is a key part of the problem — fueling wars, corruption and inefficient allocations of capital — making bad situations even worse. Whilst many researchers have attempted to look at [...] | 10 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Stefan Dercon (Oxford) on Risks, Farming & Poverty Traps in Ethiopia | Why do the poor in Africa suffer so terribly from draught and other natural disasters? Is this simply bad luck, or perhaps bad decision-making? .. Or does economics have something to say about the key issues at play here and moreover, can economists suggest creative solutions to these problems? Stefan Dercon, Professor of Development Economics [...] | 4 4 11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 10 Episodes |
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