Best Steven Levitt Podcasts (2024)

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Bob Litterman (Kepos Capital) on Quantitative Investing, Liquidity Risk and Climate Policy 1:00:22

4h ago1:00:22

1:00:22

Bob and Jon discuss Bob’s role in the history of the development of quantitative finance at Goldman Sachs, including his seminal work with Fischer Black, along with the carry trade liquidity crisis of August 2024 and its similarities to the quant crisis of 2007. They also discuss the case for quantitative investing and its ability to ride out risky…

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Greg Mankiw (Harvard Econ Prof) on New Keynesian Macro, Growth and Econ Policy 56:57

11d ago56:57

56:57

Greg and Jon discuss Greg’s career and main contributions to economics. This includes the development and limitations of New Keynesian models in the 1980s and 1990s as a tool for central banks to understand how the macroeconomy works. Jon and Greg also discuss economic growth, growth accounting and the Solow model. They conclude by talking about Gr…

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Daron Acemoglu (MIT Economics Prof) on Institutions, Economic Growth, and AI 57:34

22d ago57:34

57:34

Daron Acemoglu and Jon Hartley discuss Daron’s career and main contributions to economics, including the study of institutions as a fundamental contributor to economic growth. Jon raises the question of how regulation holds back growth, and by how much, and whether liberal vs. illiberal economic institutions might be a better taxonomy than inclusiv…

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Economic Growth, Macro-Models, and a Move to the Hoover Institution 59:46

26d ago59:46

59:46

Jon Hartley and John Cochrane introduce the Capitalism and Freedom in the 21st Century podcast to the Hoover audience. They speak on a number of topics including the usefulness of existing macroeconomic models, the use of economic models at central banks, the state of macroeconomics, the fiscal theory of the price level, and how technology, institu…

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Peter Ireland (Boston College Econ Prof) on Monetary Policy, Monetarism and New Keynesian Models 1:26:46

3M ago1:26:46

1:26:46

Peter Ireland (Boston College Economics Professor) joins the podcast to discuss his career as a monetary economist, his views on the history of monetarism, New Keynesian models, and the Shadow Open Market Committee which Peter sits on and celebrates its 50th anniversary. Jon Hartley is an economics researcher with interests in international macroec…

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Dani Rodrik (Harvard Kennedy School Economics Professor) on Industrial Policy, Globalization and His Career 47:59

5M ago47:59

47:59

Dani Rodrik (Harvard Kennedy School Economics Professor) joins the podcast to discuss his career, the best case for industrial policy, the labor market effects of globalization, and his vision of an ideal economic policy paradigm. Rodrik is the Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Gover…

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Steven D. Levitt (Freakonomics co-author and U Chicago Econ Prof) on His Career and Decision to Retire From Academic Economics 1:28:11

6M ago1:28:11

1:28:11

Steven D. Levitt (Freakonomics co-author and University of Chicago Economics Professor) joins the podcast to discuss his career, including being an early leader in applied microeconomics and how the Freakonomics media empire got started, along with his recent decision to retire from academic economics. Transcript available here. Jon Hartley is an e…

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Larry Summers (Harvard Economics Professor) on His Career In Academic Economics, Government, University Leadership and Corporate America 35:35

7M ago35:35

35:35

Larry Summers, Harvard economics professor and 71st US Secretary of the Treasury, joins the podcast for an in-depth discussion of his career at the highest levels of academic economics, economic policy, university leadership, and corporate America. Jon Hartley is an economics researcher with interests in international macroeconomics, finance, and l…

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Doug Ducey (Former Arizona Governor) on Passing Universal School Choice and Universal Licensing Recognition 30:35

8M ago30:35

30:35

Doug Ducey, 23rd Governor of Arizona, joins the podcast to discuss how he made Arizona the first state to pass Universal School Choice and Universal Licensing Recognition as well as his major influences and career which includes growing Coldstone Creamery into an international company as CEO. Jon Hartley is an economics researcher with interests in…

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Jennifer Burns on the Life and Lasting Influence of Milton Friedman 43:07

10M ago43:07

43:07

Jennifer Burns (Hoover Reserch Fellow and Stanford Associate Professor of History) joins the podcast to discuss her career as well as her new biography Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023). We discuss the life of Milton Friedman including his very brief time in Chile, his intellectual development before and after…

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Antitrust Policy, The Chicago School Consumer Welfare Standard and The Rise of the New Brandeisians 59:36

10M ago59:36

59:36

Luke Froeb joins the podcast to talk about his career in economics, what it's like to be the chief economist at the FTC and DOJ antitrust division, how these agencies make decisions about merger cases, the history of the Chicago School consumer welfare standard and the types of analytical tools and modeling that underlies the approach, along with t…

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Tax Policy, Government Spending, and Public Debt 27:34

12M ago27:34

27:34

Glenn Hubbard (Former White House CEA Chair and Columbia Business School Professor) joins the podcast to discuss his career in academia and government along with his views on tax policy, including the legacy of the Bush tax cuts and corporate tax reforms, the optimal features of consumption taxes, the current path of government spending and public …

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The CARES Act, Inflation and Financial Regulation 57:57

12M ago57:57

57:57

Andrew Olmem (Former White House National Economic Council Deputy Director) joins the podcast to discuss his views on the CARES Act and inflation as well as the state of financial and banking regulation, including everything from deposit insurance to lender of last resort, in the wake of Silicon Valley Bank's failure and over ten years since the Do…

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The World Bank, China, Corporate Taxes, and Opportunity Zones 45:26

1y ago45:26

45:26

DJ Nordquist (Former World Bank US Executive Director and Economic Innovation Group SVP) joins the podcast to discuss her experience serving as World Bank US Executive Director from 2019 to 2021 and as White House Council of Economic Advisers Chief-of-Staff, discussing topics ranging from China's graduation from being a World Bank aid recipient, CO…

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Long-run Economic and Political Trends, Schools of Economic Thought, and Economics Education 1:03:30

1y ago1:03:30

1:03:30

Tyler Cowen (George Mason University Economics Professor and Mercatus Center Director) joins the podcast to discuss his career, various long-run economic and political trends, whether policy or culture matters most for economic growth, whether schools of economic thought are still relevant, the state of economics education, the success of Marginal …

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Fiscal Policy, The CARES Act, and U.S. Public Debt 53:25

1+ y ago53:25

53:25

Josh Rauh (Stanford GSB Finance Professor and Hoover Senior Fellow) joins the podcast to discuss his distinguished academic career, his research in public economics on taxes and public pensions, his time at the Trump Administration White House Council of Economic Advisors, the legacy of the CARES Act together with other COVID-19 era spending, and t…

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Technology, AI, Political Economy, and Economic Development 37:59

1+ y ago37:59

37:59

Simon Johnson (MIT Sloan Economics Professor and Former IMF Chief Economist) joins the podcast to discuss his new book "Power and Progress", co-authored with his MIT colleague Daron Acemoglu, on the interplay between technology, political economy, and economic development. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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Inflation, Interest Rates and Economic Growth 1:19:09

1+ y ago1:19:09

1:19:09

Jon Hartley interviewed Dave Altig, Research Director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, at an Economic Club of Miami event held at Miami-Dade College on April 19, 2022. Topics discussed include inflation, interest rate and economic growth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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Monetary History, Bretton Woods, and Banking Crises 44:31

1+ y ago44:31

44:31

Michael Bordo (Rutgers Economics Professor and Hoover Distinguished Visiting Fellow) joins the podcast to discuss his career, monetary history, the legacy of Bretton Woods 50 years later, and historical banking crises amid ongoing regional bank failures. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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Diana Furchtgott-Roth on Serving In Four U.S. Presidential Administrations, Environmental Regulation, and Infrastructure 59:47

1+ y ago59:47

59:47

Diana Furchtgott-Roth (Heritage Fellow and GWU Adjunct Professor) joins the podcast to discuss her career including her government service in the Reagan, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush and Trump administrations, along with her current work on environmental regulation and infrastructure. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoic…

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TCJA, the CARES Act, inflation, and the debt limit 1:08:01

1+ y ago1:08:01

1:08:01

Kevin Hassett (Former CEA Chairman and Hoover Institution Distinguished Fellow) joins the podcast to discuss his career, the legacy of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), including corporate tax reform and opportunity zones, the Trump administration's response to COVID-19 in the CARES Act, inflation, and the ongoing debt limit standoff. Learn more ab…

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Monetary economics, the Taylor Rule, fiscal policy, and economic growth 32:42

1+ y ago32:42

32:42

John Taylor, the Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics at Stanford University and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, joins the podcast to discuss how he initial got interested in economics, his initial training in econometrics as a PhD student at Stanford which led him to monetary economics, his seminal contributions to the foundatio…

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Jay Bhattacharya on the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Public Health Response 52:19

1+ y ago52:19

52:19

Jay Bhattacharya (Stanford University Professor of Medicine) joins to the podcast to discuss his beginnings being born in Calcutta, India, his journey to Stanford as a student obtaining four degrees at the institution (BA, MD, MA, PhD) to becoming a Stanford professor along with his research, the COVID-19 pandemic, and his views on the inadequacies…

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Milton Friedman, The Chicago School, and The Government’s Incentive To Promote Economic Growth 33:51

1+ y ago33:51

33:51

David Mitch, an economic historian and professor of economics at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, joins the podcast to discuss the The Chicago School of Economics, including his 2016 Journal of Political Economy paper which uncovered how on the University of Chicago economics department nearly hired economists Paul Samuelson and John Hi…

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On The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level and Economic Growth 50:24

1+ y ago50:24

50:24

John Cochrane, economist and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, joins the podcast to discuss his career, his new book, The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level, about how inflation can be explained by fiscal and monetary policy, New Keynesian macroeconomic models, consumption-based asset pricing and institutional barriers t…

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Steven Levitt Podcasts

Podcasts Worth a Listen

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Steven D Levitt and Stephen J Dubner: Meet the Author

Apple Inc.

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The Capitalism and Freedom in the Twenty-First Century Podcast

Jon Hartley

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Executive Athletes

Ken Lubin

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Bob Litterman (Kepos Capital) on Quantitative Investing, Liquidity Risk and Climate Policy 1:00:22

1
Greg Mankiw (Harvard Econ Prof) on New Keynesian Macro, Growth and Econ Policy 56:57

1
Daron Acemoglu (MIT Economics Prof) on Institutions, Economic Growth, and AI 57:34

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Economic Growth, Macro-Models, and a Move to the Hoover Institution 59:46

1
Peter Ireland (Boston College Econ Prof) on Monetary Policy, Monetarism and New Keynesian Models 1:26:46

1
Dani Rodrik (Harvard Kennedy School Economics Professor) on Industrial Policy, Globalization and His Career 47:59

1
Steven D. Levitt (Freakonomics co-author and U Chicago Econ Prof) on His Career and Decision to Retire From Academic Economics 1:28:11

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Larry Summers (Harvard Economics Professor) on His Career In Academic Economics, Government, University Leadership and Corporate America 35:35

1
Doug Ducey (Former Arizona Governor) on Passing Universal School Choice and Universal Licensing Recognition 30:35

1
Jennifer Burns on the Life and Lasting Influence of Milton Friedman 43:07

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Antitrust Policy, The Chicago School Consumer Welfare Standard and The Rise of the New Brandeisians 59:36

1
Tax Policy, Government Spending, and Public Debt 27:34

1
The CARES Act, Inflation and Financial Regulation 57:57

1
The World Bank, China, Corporate Taxes, and Opportunity Zones 45:26

1
Long-run Economic and Political Trends, Schools of Economic Thought, and Economics Education 1:03:30

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Fiscal Policy, The CARES Act, and U.S. Public Debt 53:25

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Technology, AI, Political Economy, and Economic Development 37:59

1
Inflation, Interest Rates and Economic Growth 1:19:09

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Monetary History, Bretton Woods, and Banking Crises 44:31

1
Diana Furchtgott-Roth on Serving In Four U.S. Presidential Administrations, Environmental Regulation, and Infrastructure 59:47

1
TCJA, the CARES Act, inflation, and the debt limit 1:08:01

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Monetary economics, the Taylor Rule, fiscal policy, and economic growth 32:42

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Jay Bhattacharya on the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Public Health Response 52:19

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Milton Friedman, The Chicago School, and The Government’s Incentive To Promote Economic Growth 33:51

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On The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level and Economic Growth 50:24

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