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Economic Rockstar is created for you, the economist, financial analyst, teacher or student. If you are looking to expand your knowledge or awareness, Frank Conway delivers the information you just don’t want to miss. Economic Rockstar brings to you each week an economist, financial analyst or business leader who shares their experiences, research interests or ideas. Hear their views on different schools of economic thinking – Chicago, Austrian, Keynesian and Classical, behavioral economics, stock markets, and how economics and finance can be used in our lives. Economic Rockstar interviews top-level lecturers and academics from highly renowned universities, best-selling authors and bloggers, inspirational CEOs and business leaders, as well as amazing and thought-provoking people who have recently discovered economics and finance and are carving out a career in their new-found passion. Guests in each episode gives us wonderful advice, takeaways and insights that will help you become part of the Economic Rockstar community that will be ‘Connecting Brilliant Minds in Economics and Finance’.

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Latest Episodes:

085: Michael Roberts on Understanding Karl Marx and His Thinking on Capitalism May 12, 2016

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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

084: Mises v Marx: A Discussion with Peter Boettke May 05, 2016

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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.”

083: Stephen Kinsella on Stock Flow Models, Rent Controls and Being the Green Lantern of Economics Apr 28, 2016

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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

082: Peter Boettke on Smith and Keynes and Why We Should Be 'Living Economics' Apr 21, 2016

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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 and economic systems and the consequences with regard to material progress and political freedom.

Check out the show notes page for all the links, books and resources mentioned by Peter at www.economicrockstar.com/peterboettke

081: Julie Nelson on the Importance of Ecology in Economics and the Misconception of Gender Roles in the Economy Apr 14, 2016

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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.

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080: Will Australia's Property Market and Economy Go Down Under? An Episode Featuring Steve Keen Apr 07, 2016

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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.

079: Bryan Caplan on Parenting, the Case Against Education and the Rational Voter Mar 31, 2016

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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.

078: Arnold Kling on the Hidden Story of How Markets Work, the Mortgage Crisis and How We Pay for Health Care Mar 24, 2016

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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 notes page with all links and resources mentioned in this episode at www.economicrockstar.com/arnoldkling

077: The Irish Economy 100 years on from the 1916 Easter Rising Mar 17, 2016

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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.

076: Greg Ip on Foolproofing the Economy and Why Stability is Destabilizing Mar 10, 2016

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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.

how the financial system succeeded too well in making people feel their money was safe.
if savings is actually bad for the economy.
about Keynes’ Paradox of Thrift and how savings forces others to borrow.

whether exchange traded funds (ETFs) will be the next financial catastrophe.
how Paul Volcker's regulation of capital flows caused the growth of shadow banking.
and much much more.
Check out the show notes page at www.economicrockstar.com/gregip

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