Economic Rockstar

Scott Burns is a Mercatus PhD Dissertation Fellow in the Economics PhD Program at George Mason University.  Scott earned his BS in Economics from Louisiana State University where he was part of the Speech and Debate Club and the Phi Eta Sigma Honors Society.  His current publications include The War on Drugs in Afghanistan: Another Failed Experiment in Interdiction and Old (Chicago) school, new century: the link between Knight and Simons’ Chicago plan to Buchanan’s constitutional money. Scott’s PhD dissertation topic has to do with one of the most exciting yet under-appreciated miracles of the market going on in the world today, the "mobile money revolution" in Sub-Saharan Africa. Scott writes for the blog Alt-M, which is a blog run by free banking scholars on the theme Ideas for an Alternative Monetary Future. Check out the show notes page for all the links, books and resources mentioned by Scott at www.economicrockstar.com/scottburns

Dr. Daniel Crosby is a psychologist, behavioral finance expert and asset manager who applies his study of market psychology to everything from financial product design to security selection.  Daniel is author of 2 books - The Laws of Wealth: Psychology and the secret to investing success and You’re not that Great. He is co-author of the New York Times bestseller Personal Benchmark: Integrating Behavioral Finance and Investment Management. Dr. Crosby is founder of Nocturne Capital. His ideas have appeared in the Huffington Post and Risk Management Magazine, as well as his monthly columns for WealthManagement.com and Investment News. Daniel was named one of the "12 Thinkers to Watch" by Monster.com, a "Financial Blogger You Should Be Reading" by AARP and in the "Top 40 Under 40" by Investment News. Daniel was educated at Brigham Young and Emory Universities. You can check out the show notes for all the links, books and resources mentioned in this episode at www.economicrockstar.com/danielcrosby

Arthur Charpentier is currently Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Economics at Université de Rennes I. Professor Charpentier's teaching activities include Economics of Uncertainty, Modelling Natural Catastrophes, Nonlinear Econometrics, Multivariate Data Analysis, Advanced Techniques in Portfolio Management and Probability and Statistics. Arthur’s research interests include copula theory, extreme values with applications in finance and insurance, option pricing, actuarial science and statistics of insurance, risk measures, capital allocation and diversification. Arthur describes his blog ‘freakonometrics’ as an open lab-notebook experiment which can be found at freakonometrics.hypotheses.org/ Arthur completed a PhD Thesis in Mathematics (Statistics) at University of Leuven and a Masters degree in Mathematics applied to economics at University Paris IX Dauphine. Check out the show notes page to this episode where you can find all the links and resources mentioned by Arthur at: www.economicrockstar.com/frea

Dr Graham Brownlow (PhD, QUB) is a Lecturer in Economics at Queen’s University, Belfast. Dr Brownlow’s research focuses primarily on economic history and institutions, evolutionary economics, Irish economic and business performance and violence. He also has an interest in methodology in economic and business history. Graham edits the journal Irish Economic and Social History. Show notes with all the links, books and resources mentioned in this episode can be found at www.economicrockstar.com/grahambrownlow

This is Robin Hanson's second appearance on the Economic Rockstar podcast. I previously spoke to Robin about his work in episode 073. If you find this interview interesting, check out the other episode. You'll love it. This is the Book Review from Amazon: "Robots may one day rule the world, but what is a robot-ruled Earth like? Many think the first truly smart robots will be brain emulations or "ems." Scan a human brain, then run a model with the same connections on a fast computer, and you have a robot brain, but recognizably human. Train an em to do some job and copy it a million times: an army of workers is at your disposal. When they can be made cheaply, within perhaps a century, ems will displace humans in most jobs. In this new economic era, the world economy may double in size every few weeks.  

Stefan Szymanski is Professor of Sport Management at the University of Michigan. Between 2008-2012 he was a Professor of Economics at Cass Business School, City University, London. Stefan began researching the economics of professional football in 1989, and has since come to spend his entire time researching the economics and business of sport. He has published 55 scholarly articles, 14 book chapters, six books and four edited volumes on sports related subjects. Stefan has also acted as consultant to sport governing bodies and national governments, and has appeared in court as an expert witness on the economics of sport. He has become a regular pundit in the media on business related sports issues. Stefan’s interests include sports management and economics; sport history, culture and society; the internationalization of sport; international sports federations and the governance of sport. Stefan is co-author of Soccernomics, author of Money and Soccer: A Soccernomics Guide and co-owner of soccernomics agency.

Dr. James Brusseau is a philosopher specializing in contemporary continental philosophy, history of philosophy and ethics.  In 1994 James joined the faculty of Philosophy and Letters at the Mexican National University in Mexico City teaching graduate courses in Philosophy and Comparative Literature.  He has also taught in Europe and the California State University.  Dr. James Brusseau currently teaches at Pace University in New York City. James is the author of four books: Isolated Experiences, Decadence of the French Knee Chaa (Nietzsche), Empire of Humiliation and Business Ethics Workshop, Flat World Knowledge, 2011 He is also the host for The Wealth Inequality Workshop at wealthinequalityworkshop.org Check out the show notes page for all the links, books and resources mentioned in this episode at www.economicrockstar.com/jamesbrusseau  

Dr. Denise Cummins is a research psychologist and an author. She has held faculty and research positions at Yale University, the University of California, the University of Illinois, and the Center for Adaptive Behavior at the Max Planck Institute in Berlin.  Dr Cummins is a respected cognitive scientist who has authored numerous scientific articles, and is an elected Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science.  In her Psychology Today blog and PBS NewsHour articles, Denise writes about what she and other cognitive scientists are discovering about the way people think, solve problems, and make decisions. Denise’s experimental investigations focus on social, moral, and causal decision-making. The aim of her social research is investigating  how perceived relative status impacts fairness in economic transactions.  Denise is the author of four books, the most recent being Good Thinking: Seven powerful ideas that influence the way we think Denise received her PhD in Experimental Psychology from Universit

Asgeir B. Torfason is Assistant Professor in the School of Business at the University of Iceland where he teaches Finance, Accounting and Financial Statement Analysis. Asgeir defended his PhD at Gothenburg University in May 2014 with dissertation: Cash Flow Accounting in Banks - A study of practice. His research combines bank management, finance theory, monetary economics and accounting studies. Previous research has focused on asset values and long-term investment in real estate, a field where Asgeir has extensive practical experience, covering the Nordics as VP for a REIT listed on NYSE. Prior to that he worked in university management after getting an MBA from Norwegian Business School in Oslo, and studied earlier Philosophy and Economics in Iceland. Check out the links, resources and books mentioned in this episode at www.economicrockstar.com/asgeir

Philip Pilkington works in investment and has contributed to numerous online and print media outlets as a freelance economic journalist. Philip ran a popular economics blog called www.fixingtheeconomists.wordpress.com and will be releasing his book The Reformation in Economics soon. Philip earned his B.A. in Journalism from the Independent Colleges, as well as his M.A. in Economics from Kingston University. All views expressed by Philip are his own and are not representative of the firm in which he works. Visit www.economicrockstar.com/philippilkington to access the links, resources and books mentioned in this episode.

Michael Roberts has worked as an economist for over 30 years in the City of London. Michael is a Marxist economist and he has written on the causes of the recession of 2008 from a Marxist perspective. He is the author of The Great Recession: Profit cycles, economic crisis A Marxist view and The Long Depression: Marxism and the Global Crisis of Capitalism. You can view all the links mentioned in this episode at www.economicrockstar.com/michaelroberts

Peter Boettke is Professor of Economics and Philosophy at George Mason University, the BB&T Professor for the Study of Capitalism, and the Director of the F.A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.   This is Professor Boettke's second time being featured on the Economic Rockstar podcast. You can listen to Peter's first interview in episode 82 at www.economicrockstar.com/peterboettke Professor Boettke is also the author of 'Living Economics', a book in which he decided to hand over all his royalties from its sale to help sponsor scholarships for students to attend Universidad Francisco Marroquin Guatemala City, Guatemala. According to Milton Friedman, it is "one of the leading universities in Latin America.”

Stephen Kinsella is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at the Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick in Ireland and a Research Fellow at the Geary Institute at University College Dublin. He is currently visiting Professor of Economics at Université Paris. Stephen has 2 PhD’s, is well published in many Economics Journals and has won several grants worth around 1.5 million Euro. Stephen’s area of expertise is in the study of the Irish and European economies. He has written 4 books: Ireland in 2050: How we will be Living, Understanding Ireland's Economic Crisis: Prospects for Recovery, QuickWin Economics, and Computable Economics. Stephen is a weekly columnist for the Sunday Business Post newspaper. He also has his own website stephenkinsella.net which is amazingly rich in content, covering issues on the Irish and European economy as well as material he covers in his lectures. Check out the show notes page to this episode at www.economicrockstar.com/stephenkinsella

Peter Boettke is Professor of Economics and Philosophy at George Mason University, the BB&T Professor for the Study of Capitalism, and the Director of the F.A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Peter is now the co-author, along with David Prychitko, of the classic principles of economics texts of Paul Heyne's The Economic Way of Thinking. Professor Boettke’s most recent book, Living Economics, provides a resource for how teachers and students can engage in many fascinating questions in economics and illuminates the core principles that should guide our thinking. Peter’s efforts in the classroom have earned him a number of distinctions including the Golden Dozen Award for Excellence in Teaching from the College of Arts and Sciences at New York University and the George Mason University Alumni Association's 2009 Faculty Member of the Year award. Peter’s research has primarily been in the area of comparative political a

Julie Nelson is Professor of Economics at University of Massachusetts Boston and Senior Research Fellow at Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University, also in the USA. Julie’s research areas include feminist economics, ecological economics, the philosophy and methodology of economics, ethics and economics, the teaching of economics, and the empirical study of individual and household behavior. Julie is the author of Economics for Humans and author, co-author, or co-editor of several other books including Beyond Economic Man: Feminist Theory and Economics. Professor Nelson earned a B.A. degree in Economics from St. Olaf College and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA. Julie, along with Mark Maier, runs the website introducingeconomics.org Check out the show notes page at www.economicrockstar.com/julienelson for all the links and resources mentioned in this episode. Never miss an episode. Subscribe on iTunes or sign up to be a member of the Economic

This weeks episode of the Economic Rockstar podcast features the Australian economy. There is talk amongst economists, analysts and commentators, be it speculative or not, that the Australian economy or it’s housing market will implode within the next 12 to 18 months. I am joined with Professor Steve Keen who explains why the property market in Australia will crash, taking down its economy.   Check out the show notes page for a transcript, links and resources mentioned in this episode at www.economicrockstar.com/australia.

Bryan Caplan is Professor of Economics at George Mason University and Senior Scholar at the Mercatus Center. Bryan is the author of The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies, named "the best political book of the year" by the New York Times, and Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids: Why Being a Great Parent Is Less Work and More Fun Than You Think. He also blogs at EconLog. He is now working on a new book, The Case Against Education. Check out the show notes page to this episode at www.economicrockstar.com/bryancaplan where you will find links to all the resources mentioned.

Arnold Kling is a Mercatus Center–affiliated senior scholar at George Mason University and a member of the Financial Markets Working Group. Arnold specializes in housing-finance policy, financial institutions, macroeconomics, and the inside workings of America’s federal financial institutions. He also is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute in Washington, DC. He has authored five books, including Crisis of Abundance: Rethinking How We Pay for Health Care and Invisible Wealth: The Hidden Story of How Markets Work. Arnold has published articles in the Economist, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Atlantic, and Forbes, among others, and he blogs at arnoldkling.com/blog/. Previously, Arnold served as a senior economist at Freddie Mac and a staff economist on the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. He started Homefair, one of the first commercial websites on the Internet. Arnold Kling received his PhD in economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Check out the show not

This is a commemorative episode celebrating the 100 year anniversary of Ireland’s 1916 Easter Rising in which the Proclamation of the Republic was read by Padraig Pearse at four minutes past noon on Easter Monday, April 24th, from the steps of the General Post Office on Sackville Street (now known as O’Connell Street). The document proclaimed Ireland’s independence from Great Britain. How was Ireland’s economy performing in 1916 and how far have we come 100 years on? In this episode, you will learn of the state of the Irish economy in 1916 and how it compares to today. Economic themes include: Population Life Expectancy Housing Employment Trade GDP Inflation Check out the show notes page at www.economicrockstar.com/ireland to read a transcript of this episode and for the links and resources mentioned.

Greg Ip is one of the best-known economics journalists in the US. He is currently chief economics commentator of The Wall Street Journal and writes about U.S. and global economic developments and policy each week in the Capital Account column and on Real Time Economics, the Wall Street Journal’s economics blog. From 2008 to January 2015, he was U.S. Economics Editor of The Economist magazine. Greg is the author of Foolproof: Why Safety Can Be Dangerous and How Danger Makes Us Safe as well as author of The Little Book of Economics: How the Economy Works in the Real World. In this episode you will learn: about the theme behind Greg Ip's latest book Foolproof. when the pursuit of safety lead us into danger? what forest fires have to do with Wall Street. the way we publicly and privately try to cope with risk and danger and how those choices can create unintended consequences. what American Football can teach us about the Fallacy of Composition. what past economic and financial crises have in common.