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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:

135: David Zetland Bonus Episode Apr 08, 2018

Show notes

This is a continuation of my conversation with David Zetland which was pre-released on Patreon.

The first part of the conversation can be heard in episode 133.

134: Edward Castronova on the Economy of Virtual Worlds Mar 30, 2018

Show notes

Edward Castronova is professor of Telecommunication and Cognitive Science at Indiana University Bloomington. He pioneered the study of how money, value, and property flow inside online games like Everquest

Castronova’s paper Virtual Worlds: A First-Hand Account of Market and Society on the Cyberian Frontier became the most downloaded paper in the entire database — beating out works by dozens of Nobel laureates. Today, it’s still in the top three.

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

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

133: David Zetland on Climate Change and Water Civilization Mar 23, 2018

Show notes

David Zetland is an assistant professor at Leiden University College, where he teaches various classes on economics. He received his PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics from UC Davis in 2008.

He has previously featured on Episode 39 on the podcast.

Check out the show notes at www.economicrockstar.com/davidzetland2

To support the show for as little as $1 a month, visit www.patreon.com/economicrockstar

Enjoy!

132: Eric Lonergan on the Philosophy of Money Part 2 Mar 19, 2018

Show notes

This is part 2 of my conversation with Eric Lonergan, hedge fund manager and author of Money.

If you'd like to hear more from Eric, please check out Episode 130 or visit www.economicrockstar.com/podcasts

Eric's work can be found at www.pholosophyofmoney.net

131: Vernon Smith Previously Unreleased Bonus Episode Mar 12, 2018

Show notes

This episode is about 15 minutes of unreleased material from my conversation with Nobel laureate Professor Vernon Smith.

This was recorded in March 2017 and I had made this material available only to Patreon members.

If you'd like to support the show, please check out my Patreon page at www.patreon.com/economicrockstar and contribute anything from $1 a month.

Thanks for continuing to support the show by listening. This is what matters more.

130: Eric Lonergan on the Philosophy of Money (Part 1) Mar 01, 2018

Show notes

Eric Lonergan is a macro hedge fund manager, economist, and writer. His most recent book is Money (2nd ed) published by Routledge. He has written for Foreign Affairs, The Financial Times, and The Economist. He also advises governments and policymakers. He first advocated expanding the tools of central banks to including cash transfers to households in the Financial Times in 2002. In December 2008, he advocated the policy as the most efficient way out of recession post-financial crisis, contributing to a growing debate over the need for ‘helicopter money’.

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

Support the podcast at www.patreon.com/economicrockstar

129: Sarah Skwire on the Sensibility of Literature for Economic Thinking Feb 23, 2018

Show notes

Sarah Skwire is a Senior Fellow at Liberty Fund, a non-profit educational foundation, and the co-author of the college writing textbook, Writing with a Thesis, which is in its 12th edition.

Sarah has published a range of academic articles on subjects from Shakespeare to zombies and the broken window fallacy, and her work has appeared in journals as varied as Literature and Medicine, The George Herbert Journal, and The Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.

Sarah writes a regular column for the Freeman Online and blogs for the Fraser Institute and Bleeding Heart Libertarians.

Sarah’s work on literature and economics has also appeared in Newsweek, The Freeman and in Cato Unbound, and she is an occasional lecturer for IHS, SFL, and other organizations. Her poetry has appeared, among other places, in Standpoint, The New Criterion, and The Vocabula Review.

Sarah graduated with honors in English from Wesleyan University, and earned a MA and PhD in English from the University of Chicago.

Show Notes: www.economicrockstar.com

Patreon: www.patreon.com/economicrockstar

128: Sarah Smith on the Economics of Charitable Giving and Gender Roles in Economics Feb 16, 2018

Show notes

Sarah Smith is Professor of Economics and Head of the Department of Economics at the University of Bristol. Her research interests are in applied micro - specifically consumer behaviour and public economics.

Sarah has worked on pensions, saving and retirement and welfare policy and her main focus now is the economics of not-for-profit organisations.

Professor Smith has been working with a number of charity organisations to understand what motivates individuals to give and how donations respond to different economic and non-economic incentives.

Sarah is a research associate at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, where she started her career and at the Centre for Economic Policy Research.

Sarah has also worked at HM Treasury, the Financial Services Authority and the London School of Economics.

Sarah received her PhD from University College, London and an MSc Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

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

Support the show for as little as $1 a month on Patreon. For more, visit www.patreon.com/economicrockstar

127: Barry Eichengreen on the Importance of Economic History, the IMF and Reserve Currencies Feb 08, 2018

Show notes

Barry Eichengreen is Professor of Economics and Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 1987, and Professor of American History and Institutions, University of Cambridge.

Professor Eichengreen is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research.

Professor Eichengreen has been a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (Palo Alto) and the Institute for Advanced Study (Berlin). He is a regular monthly columnist for Project Syndicate.

Professor Eichengreen is the recipient of a doctor honoris causa from the American University in Paris, and the 2010 recipient of the Schumpeter Prize from the International Schumpeter Society.

Check out all the links, resources and books mentioned in this epsiode at www.economicrockstar.com/barryeichengreen

Become a supporter of the Economic Rockstar podcast and have your name immortalised an a forthcoming episode. Learn more at my Patreon page over at www.patreon.com/economicrockstar

126: Jeffrey Miron on Libertarianism, Drug Legalization and Genghis Khan Feb 01, 2018

Show notes

Jeffrey Miron is a Senior Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Economics at Harvard University, as well as a senior fellow at the Cato Institute.

His field of expertise is the economics of libertarianism; he has advocated for many libertarian policies, including legalizing all drugs and allowing failing banks to go bankrupt.

He has written four books including "Drug War Crimes: The Consequences of Prohibition" and "Libertarianism, from A to Z."

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

Support the Economic Rockstar at www.patreon.com/economicrockstar

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