Best Mercatus Center at George Mason University Podcasts (2024)

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Saleha Mohsin on Paper Soldiers: How the Weaponization of the Dollar Changed the World Order 53:38

8h ago53:38

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Saleha Mohsin is a senior Washington correspondent for Bloomberg News, where she covers policy, politics, and power in Washington, DC. Saleha is also the author of a new book titled, *Paper Soldiers: How the Weaponization of the Dollar Changed the World Order,* and she joins David on Macro Musings to talk about it. Specifically, David and Saleha al…

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Peter Thiel on Political Theology 1:14:36

1d ago1:14:36

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In this conversation recorded live in Miami, Tyler and Peter Thiel dive deep into the complexities of political theology, including why it’s a concept we still need today, why Peter’s against Calvinism (and rationalism), whether the Old Testament should lead us to be woke, why Carl Schmitt is enjoying a resurgence, whether we’re entering a new age …

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"Living Better Together" — On Community Resilience 49:16

7d ago49:16

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On this episode of the Hayek Program Podcast, we continue the Living Better Together miniseries, featuring select authors of Living Better Together: Social Relations and Economic Governance in the Work of Ostrom and Zelizer (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) and hosted by its coeditor, Stefanie Haeffele. Joining us today are Anne Hobson and Laura Grube. In…

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Josh Hendrickson on the Treasury Standard and Global Dollar Dominance 56:13

4d ago56:13

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Josh Hendrickson is the chair of the department of economics at the University of Mississippi and is the author of a new paper that looks at dollar dominance through the broad historical perspective of what is called the “Treasury Standard.” Josh is also a returning guest to Macro Musings, and he rejoins the podcast to talk about this paper and the…

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Pranay Kotasthane Unravels the Global Semiconductor Industry 1:32:07

12d ago1:32:07

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Today my guest is Pranay Kotasthane who is the deputy director of the Takshashila Institution and chairs the High Tech Geopolitics Programme. Pranay co-writes Anticipating the Unintended, a newsletter on public policy ideas and frameworks, and co-hosts Puliyabaazi, a popular Hindi-Urdu podcast on politics, policy, and technology. He is the co-autho…

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Samantha Cole on How Sex Changed the Internet 1:12:22

8d ago1:12:22

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On this episode of Virtual Sentiments, host Kristen Collins interviews Samantha Cole on her book, How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex. Their conversation features discussion on the origins of deepfake technology, nonconsensual pornography, the rights of sex workers, concerns regarding sexual content bans, the importance of sex…

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Julia Coronado on Productivity, Commercial Real Estate, and the Fed’s Soft Landing 49:58

12d ago49:58

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Julia Coronado is the president and founder of MacroPolicy Perspectives, a Wall Street research firm. Julia was also recently the president of the National Association of Business Economists, and she has served as an economist on Wall Street and at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. Julia is also a returning guest to Macro Musings, and she rej…

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Jonathan Haidt on Adjusting to Smartphones and Social Media 59:56

15d ago59:56

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In The Anxious Generation, Jonathan Haidt explores the simultaneous rise in teen mental illness across various countries, attributing it to a seismic shift from a "play-based childhood" to a "phone-based childhood" around the early 2010s. He argues that the negative effects of this "great rewiring of childhood" will continue to worsen without the a…

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Peter Boettke & David Beito on the New Deal's War on the Bill of Rights 59:36

22d ago59:36

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On this episode of the Hayek Program Podcast, Peter Boettke chats with David Beito on his latest book, The New Deal’s War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR’s Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance (Independent Institute, 2023). Beito begins by recounting his early interests in classical liberalism, his association with …

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Isabel Schnabel on the ECB and its New Operational Framework 56:52

18d ago56:52

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Isabel Schnabel is a Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, and she joins David on Macro Musings to talk about the ECB and its new operational framework. Specifically, David and Isabel also discuss the structure, operations, and monetary policy instruments of the ECB, the history of its operating framework, the details surround…

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Badri Narayanan and M. Krishnan Navigate the Choppy Waters of Fisheries Negotiations 1:00:35

24d ago1:00:35

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Today my guests are M. Krishnan and Badri Narayanan Gopalakrishnan. M. Krishnan is an economist based in Chennai and Singapore, and specializes in agriculture education systems, fisheries, and aquaculture research. He is currently an advisor at Infinite-Sum Modeling Inc and was a distinguished scientist of the Agricultural Research Service of the I…

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Fareed Zakaria on the Age of Revolutions, the Power of Ideas, and the Rewards of Intellectual Curiosity 1:07:12

23d ago1:07:12

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Those who know Fareed Zakaria through his weekly column or CNN show may be surprised to learn he considers books the important way he can put new ideas in the world. But Fareed's original aspiration was to be an academic, and it was a chance lunch with Walter Isaacson that convinced him to apply for a job as editor of Foreign Affairs instead of acc…

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Andrew Levin and Christina Parajon Skinner on Central Bank Undersight: Assessing the Fed’s Accountability to Congress 54:44

25d ago54:44

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Andy Levin is a professor of economics at Dartmouth University and a former senior staffer at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. Christina Parajon Skinner is a legal scholar at the University of Pennsylvania and formerly was legal counsel to the Bank of England. Andy and Christina have co-authored a new article titled, *Central Bank Undersight…

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Marilynne Robinson on Biblical Interpretation, Calvinist Thought, and Religion in America 49:05

29d ago49:05

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Marilynne Robinson is one of America's best and best-known novelists and essayists, whose award-winning works like Housekeeping and Gilead explore themes of faith, grace, and the intricacies of human nature. Beyond her writing, Robinson's 25-year tenure at the famed Iowa Writers' Workshop allowed her to shape and inspire the new generations of writ…

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"Living Better Together" — On Women and the Family 47:57

1M ago47:57

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On this episode of the Hayek Program Podcast, we kickoff the Living Better Together miniseries, featuring select authors of Living Better Together: Social Relations and Economic Governance in the Work of Ostrom and Zelizer (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) and hosted by its coeditor, Stefanie Haeffele. Joining us today are Bri Wolf and Jayme Lemke. Starti…

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Anat Admati on the US Banking System and the Basel III Endgame 56:11

1M ago56:11

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Anat Admati is a professor of finance and economics at Stanford University and is the coauthor of the 2013 book, *The Bankers’ New Clothes: What’s Wrong With Banking and What to Do About It.* Anat is also a returning guest to Macro Musings and she rejoins the podcast to talk about the 2024 expanded edition of the same book, as well as the most rece…

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Aparna Chandra Puts the Supreme Court on Trial 1:35:02

1M ago1:35:02

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Aparna Chandra is a constitutional scholar and associate professor of law at the National Law school in Bangalore. She is the coauthor, along with Sital Kalantry and William Hubbard of the recent book Court on Trial: A Data-Driven Account of the Supreme Court of India. We spoke about the problem of pendency across all courts in the Indian judiciary…

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John Kaufhold on the History of Image Recognition and Deep Learning 1:27:04

1M ago1:27:04

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On today's episode of Virtual Sentiments, host Kristen Collins interviews John Kaufhold on the history of image recognition and deep learning. With over 30 years of experience in the artificial intelligence and machine learning world, John shares his history starting from his early days in speech recognition in the 90s. He covers the ImageNet Big B…

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Marc Andreessen on AI and Dynamism 27:31

1M ago27:31

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In this interview, recorded at a16z’s 2024 American Dynamism Summit, Tyler and Marc Andreessen engage in a rapid-fire dialogue about the future of AI, including the biggest change we’ll see in the next five years, who will gain and lose status with the rise of LLMs, why open-source is important for national security, the best and worst parts of Bid…

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Steven Kamin and Mark Sobel on the Current State of Dollar Dominance 56:19

1M ago56:19

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Steven Kamin is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, was previously the director of the Division of International Finance at the Federal Reserve Board, and is a returning guest to the podcast. Mark Sobel is the US Chairman at the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum, and he previously served at the US Department of th…

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Marc Rowan on Financial Market Evolution and University Governance 56:06

2M ago56:06

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Marc Rowan, co-founder and CEO of Apollo Global Management, joined Tyler to discuss why rising interest rates won't hurt Apollo's profitability, why liabilities have traditionally been the weak spot in insurance, why the concept of liquidity needs a rethink, the meaninglessness of the term "private credit", what role crypto will play in American fi…

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Environmental Economics — Governing the Global Fisheries Commons 1:04:40

2M ago1:04:40

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Welcome back to the Environmental Economics series, hosted by Jordan Lofthouse. On this episode, Jordan interviews Pablo Paniagua Prieto and Veeshan Rayamajhee on their co-authored work, "Governing the Global Fisheries Commons." On this episode and in their article, they address the challenges of overfishing and the depletion of global fisheries. T…

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Peter Williams on Interest Rates, Term Premium, and the Importance of Inflation Expectations 57:25

2M ago57:25

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Peter Williams is a managing director of macroeconomic research at 22V Research and was formerly at the IMF and the World Bank. Peter joins David on Macro Musings to provide a market perspective on interest rates, Treasury markets, and monetary policy. Specifically, David and Peter discuss the dos and don’ts of estimating term premiums, the importa…

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Saleha Mohsin on Paper Soldiers: How the Weaponization of the Dollar Changed the World Order 53:38

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Peter Thiel on Political Theology 1:14:36

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"Living Better Together" — On Community Resilience 49:16

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Josh Hendrickson on the Treasury Standard and Global Dollar Dominance 56:13

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Pranay Kotasthane Unravels the Global Semiconductor Industry 1:32:07

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Samantha Cole on How Sex Changed the Internet 1:12:22

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Julia Coronado on Productivity, Commercial Real Estate, and the Fed’s Soft Landing 49:58

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Jonathan Haidt on Adjusting to Smartphones and Social Media 59:56

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Peter Boettke & David Beito on the New Deal's War on the Bill of Rights 59:36

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Isabel Schnabel on the ECB and its New Operational Framework 56:52

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Badri Narayanan and M. Krishnan Navigate the Choppy Waters of Fisheries Negotiations 1:00:35

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Fareed Zakaria on the Age of Revolutions, the Power of Ideas, and the Rewards of Intellectual Curiosity 1:07:12

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Andrew Levin and Christina Parajon Skinner on Central Bank Undersight: Assessing the Fed’s Accountability to Congress 54:44

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Marilynne Robinson on Biblical Interpretation, Calvinist Thought, and Religion in America 49:05

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"Living Better Together" — On Women and the Family 47:57

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Anat Admati on the US Banking System and the Basel III Endgame 56:11

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Aparna Chandra Puts the Supreme Court on Trial 1:35:02

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John Kaufhold on the History of Image Recognition and Deep Learning 1:27:04

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Marc Andreessen on AI and Dynamism 27:31

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Steven Kamin and Mark Sobel on the Current State of Dollar Dominance 56:19

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Environmental Economics — Governing the Global Fisheries Commons 1:04:40

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Peter Williams on Interest Rates, Term Premium, and the Importance of Inflation Expectations 57:25

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