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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:

155: Lotta Moberg on Refugee Cities and the Blockchain Industry as Special Economic Zones Aug 25, 2018

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Lotta Moberg is a Macroeconomic Analyst for William Blair’s Dynamic Allocation Strategies (DAS) team. She has a Ph.D. in Economics from George Mason University and earned her BA in Economics from Lund University (Sweden).

Prior to joining the DAS team, Lotta worked in Russia for the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs and in Kosovo for the Swedish Armed Forces.

She has published articles on special economic zones, tax benefits, tax competition, and municipal bankruptcy.

Lotta's book The Political Economy of Special Economic Zones: Concentrating Economic Development is available at your favourite online store.

Check out www.economicrockstar.com/lottamoberg for all the links, books and resources mentioned by Lotta in this episode.

Never miss a show by subscribing on Apple Podcasts and if you'd like to support the show for as little as $1 per month, please visit www.patreon.com/economicrockstar.

154: Pat Holt on the Economics in Spider-Man, Wonder Woman and Black Panther Aug 17, 2018

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Pat Holt is a computer engineer, a comic book geek and a born-again economics lover.

Pat reached out to Brian O'Roark after listening to episode 116 of this podcast and after a while, he contributed a chapter to the book 'Superheroes and Economics: The Shadowy World of Capes, Masks and Invisible Hands' edited by Rob Salkowitz and Brian.

Listen to Pat's story right here on the Economic Rockstar podcast.

Check out the show notes page at www.economicrockstar.com/patholt

Support the podcast on Patreon at www.patreon.com/economicrockstar

153: Sarah Skwire and Steve Horwitz on Their Writing Approach, Advice, Habits and Struggles Aug 11, 2018

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I catch up once again with Sarah Skwire and Steve Horwitz but this episode is a little different and was inspired by my previous conversation with Sarah back in episode 129.

We chat about their approach to writing, their habits and struggles that they deal with as well as any tips and advice that they can share with us.

Check out the show notes over at www.economicrockstar.com/sarahandsteve

Support the show on Patreon at www.patreon.com/economicrockstar

152: David Kyle Johnson on Economics and Philosophy in Soylent Green Aug 04, 2018

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This is a 3rd instalment of my interviews with Professor David Kyle Johnson, an Associate Professor of Philosophy at King’s College in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

We catch up again after watching the 1973 dystopian movie 'Soylent Green' and discuss some economics and philosophical themes that run through the movie.

I hope you enjoy this one. Make sure to listen to episodes 146 and 151 featuring Professor Johnson.

Check out the show notes page for all links and resources mentioned in this episode over at www.economicrockstar.com/soylentgreen

151: David Kyle Johnson Unreleased Bonus Episode Continuing Our Conversation from Episode 146 Aug 02, 2018

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This is a continuation of my conversation with Professor David Kyle Johnson from Episode 146.

Here we talk about some economic themes present in the 1970s movie Soylent Green and more.

Show notes at www.economicrockstar.com/episode151

Support the show for as little as $1 per month at www.patreon.com/economicrockstar

Thanks again for your continued support. It's always appreciated.

150: Chris Blattman on Crime, Cocaine, Chicago Gangs and the Colombia Mafia Jul 28, 2018

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Chris Blattman is the Ramalee E. Pearson Professor of Global Conflict Studies at The University of Chicago’s Pearson Institute and Harris Public Policy.

He is an economist and political scientist who studies poverty, violence and crime in developing countries.

Chris has designed and evaluated strategies for tackling poverty, including cash transfers to the poorest.

Much of his work is with the victims and perpetrators of crime and violence, testing the link between poverty and violence.

His recent work looks at other sources of and solutions to violence.

These solutions range from behavioral therapy to social norm change and local-level state building.

He has worked mainly in Colombia, Liberia, Uganda, Ethiopia, and Chicago’s South Side.

Dr. Blattman was previously a faculty member at Columbia and Yale Universities, and holds a PhD in Economics from UC Berkeley and a Master’s in Public Administration and International Development from the Harvard Kennedy School.

He chairs the Peace & Recovery sector at Innovations for Poverty Action and the Crime, Violence and Conflict initiative at MIT’s Poverty Action Lab.

Check out the show notes page for all the links, books and resources mentioned in this episode over at www.economicrockstar.com/chrisblattman

Support the podcast for as little as $1 per month over at Patreon: www.patreon.com/economicrockstar

149: Soumaya Keynes on Tariffs, Trump and Trade Agreements Jul 20, 2018

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Soumaya Keynes is the economics and trade correspondent at The Economist. She writes for the print edition and the Free Exchange blog.

Before joining The Economist Soumaya did research on the public finances and pensions at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, an economic research institute.

Before that Soumaya worked in the Banking and Credit team at Her Majesty’s Treasury in London. Soumaya has an M.Phil. and B.A. in Economics from Trinity College, Cambridge.

She is co-host of a weekly podcast on trade economics called Trade Talks.

Check out the books, links and resources mentioned in this episode at www.economicrockstar.com/soumayakeynes

Support the podcast at www.patreon.com/economicrockstar

148: Tom W. Bell on Special Economic Zones, Copyright and Liberland Jul 15, 2018

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Tom W. Bell earned his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Chicago in 1993, then practiced law in Silicon Valley and Washington, D.C. before serving as a policy director at the Cato Institute. In 1998, he joined the faculty of Chapman University, Fowler School of Law, where he teaches all of the first-year common law courses and electives in high-tech and intellectual property law. Professor Bell has published papers on copyright, Internet law, polycentric law, prediction markets, and the Third Amendment (the one about quartering troops).

His books include "Intellectual Privilege: Copyright, Common Law, and the Common Good" (Mercatus 2014) and "Your Next Government? From the Nation State to Stateless Associations" (Cambridge University Press 2017). Through Archimediate LLC, Tom designs, installs, and supports legal systems for special jurisdictions. Most recently, that work has taken him to French Polynesia, where he helped forge a memorandum of understanding to allow seasteading in that island paradise.

Check out the show notes page at www.economicrockstar.com/tomwbell

Support the podcast for as little as $1 per month over at www.patreon.com/economicrockstar

147: Ngaio Hotte on Resource Economics, Externalities and Elinor Ostrom Jul 08, 2018

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Ngaio Hotte is a Ph.D candidate at the University of British Columbia. Her research title is ‘How can trust be built among parties engaged in collaborative natural resource governance?’ and she draws influence from the work of the only female Nobel laureate in economics, Elinor Ostrom.

Ngaio’s Research Interests include trust, government-to-government relations, Indigenous communities, collaboration and natural resources and we touch on some of these topics in out conversation in this episode.

Ngaio is co-founder of the consultancy firm Resource Economics Group, which is based in British Columbia in Canada. Resource Economics Group specializes in natural resources policy, planning and management. They do research and support decision-making related to the many values of natural resources and trade-offs associated with managing these values for the benefit of people and the planet.

You can find out more about Ngaio’s work at www.resource-economics.ca.

Check out all the links, resources, papers and books mentioned in this episode over at www.economicrockstar.com/ngaiohotte

Support the show on Patreon for as little as $1 per month. Find out more at www.patreon.com/economicrockstar

146: David Kyle Johnson on Science Fiction as Philosophy and Finding Nietzsche's Übermensch in Economics Jun 30, 2018

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Dr. David Kyle Johnson is Associate Professor of Philosophy at King’s College in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. He earned a master’s degree and doctorate in philosophy from the University of Oklahoma.

At Oklahoma, he won the coveted Kenneth Merrill Graduate Teaching Award. In 2011, the American Philosophical Association’s committee on public philosophy gave him an award for his ability to make philosophy accessible to the general public.

Professor Johnson regularly teaches classes on metaphysics, philosophy of religion, philosophy of mind, and logic, as well as courses on critical thinking and scientific reasoning. He has published papers on human freedom, the problem of natural evil, the multiverse, the existence of souls, and many related topics in such journals as Religious Studies, Sophia, Philo, Philosophy and Literature, and Think. He also maintains two blogs for Psychology Today.

Professor Johnson also publishes on the intersection of pop culture and philosophy. One of his books, Inception and Philosophy: Because It’s Never Just a Dream, inspired an authors@Google talk with more than half-a-million YouTube views. He also has written numerous articles that explore the relationship between philosophical questions and such pop cultural phenomena as The Hobbit, Doctor Who, Batman, South Park, Johnny Cash, Quentin Tarantino, and Christmas.

Check out the shownotes page for all the links, books and resources mentioned in this episode at www.economicrockstar.com/davidkylejohnson

Support the show on Patreon at www.patreon.com.economicrockstar

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