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Economic Rockstar

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:

105: Jana Gallus on the Economics of Non-Financial Awards and How Editor Retention on Wikipedia Can Be Maintained Sep 29, 2016

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Jana Gallus is an assistant professor in the strategy group at UCLA Anderson.

Professor Gallus’s research interests lie in behavioral economics and strategy, with a focus on non-financial incentives and their effects on decision-making.

Jana investigates how incentive schemes can be designed to enhance employee motivation and organizational performance in the private and nonprofit sectors.

Jana joined UCLA from Harvard, where she was a postdoctoral fellow. She received her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Zurich, with the distinction summa cum laude, and holds two master’s degrees, from Sciences Po Paris in France and the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland.

Jana describes herself as an economist with a keen interest in studying and designing incentives to motivate human behaviour.

Her research and teaching lie at the intersection of strategy, economics and psychology.

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

104: Russ Roberts on How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life and the Theory of Moral Sentiments Sep 22, 2016

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Russ Roberts is Associate Editor, founder and host of the popular and much loved podcast EconTalk, and founding advisory board member of the Library of Economics and Liberty.

Russ is the John and Jean De Nault Research Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.

His two rap videos on the ideas of John Maynard Keynes and F.A. Hayek, created with filmmaker John Papola, have had more than eight million views on YouTube.

Russ’ latest book How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness takes the lessons from Adam Smith’s The Theory of Moral Sentiments and applies them to modern life.

Russ is also the author of three economic novels teaching economic lessons and ideas through fiction. The Price of Everything: A Parable of Possibility and Prosperity, The Invisible Heart: An Economic Romance and The Choice: A Fable of Free Trade and Protectionism.

Russ blogs at CafeHayek.com and archives his work at russroberts.info.

Check out the links, books and resources mentioned by Russ at www.economicrockstar.com/russroberts

103: Brian Mills on the Labor Market in Baseball, the Umpire Strikes Back and R Sep 15, 2016

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Dr. Brian Mills is an Assistant Professor at the University of Florida within the Department of Tourism, Recreation, and Sport Management specializing in Managerial Sports Economics.

Professor Mills is also Associate Research Faculty within the Eric Friedheim Tourism Institute (EFTI).

Brian’s research interests encompass topics such as the sports labor market, industrial organization and sports league policy, public policy and economic development related to sport, and advanced analytics in the sports business. He is especially interested in applying economic lessons and quantitative analysis to problems that sport managers face in their everyday decision making.

Brian’s work and research interests can be found at brianmmills.com and at princeofslides.blogspot.

Brian is now offering a new course called Exploring Pitch Data with R over at Data Camp.

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

102: Matías Vernengo on John Maynard Keynes and the Evolution of Keynesian Economic Thinking Sep 08, 2016

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Matías Vernengo is Professor of Economics at Bucknell University, Pennsylvania, USA.

Dr. Vernengo is co-author of ‘Conta de Juros Grande & Favela’ and has also edited four books including ‘Banking, Monetary Policy and the Political Economy of Financial Regulation - Essays in the Tradition of Jane D’Arista’

He has published over fifty academic and popular articles, and contributes to the blogs Naked Keynesianism and Triple Crisis. He is also the co-editor of the Review of Keynesian Economics (ROKE).

Matías’ methodological view emphasizes the importance of the history of ideas for the development of economic theory, and is based on the surplus approach of the classical political economy authors and Marx and the heterodox followers of Keynes.

Dr. Vernengo has written on the effects of external liberalization in Latin America and alternatives to the Washington Consensus, on the international role of the dollar, on current monetary and fiscal policy, on macroeconomic policy during the 1930s and on the history of economic ideas.

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

101: Chris Coyne on the Opportunity Cost of War, Exporting Democracy and the Nirvana Fallacy Sep 01, 2016

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Christopher Coyne is an Associate Professor of Economics at George Mason University and the Associate Director of the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center.

He also serves as Director of Graduate Studies for the Department of Economics.

Professor Coyne serves as the Co-Editor of The Review of Austrian Economics, the Co-Editor of The Independent Review, the Co-Editor of Advances in Austrian Economics, and the Book Review Editor of Public Choice.

Chris has authored numerous academic articles, book chapters, and policy studies and his research interests include political economy and military intervention.

Professor Coyne is the author or co-author of numerous books including Future: Economic Peril or Prosperity? and After War: The Political Economy of Exporting Democracy.

He is also the co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Austrian Economics and The Handbook on the Political Economy of War.

In 2016 Chris was selected as a recipient of George Mason University's University Teaching Excellence Award.

Check out all the links, books and resources mentioned by Chris Coyne at www.economicrockstar.com/chriscoyne

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100: Emily Skarbek on the Economics of Natural Disasters and the Samaritan’s Dilemma Aug 25, 2016

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Dr. Emily Skarbek is a Lecturer in Political Economy at King's College London.

Emily’s research examines the role of voluntary associations in solving complex public goods problems after natural disasters.

Her empirical approach is three-pronged, drawing on archives, historical sources, and field-work following large-scale natural disasters.

In addition, Emily has a passion for the history of economic thought, which she believes can play a key role in advancing contemporary debates. She is particularly interested in the epistemic arguments of Friedrich Hayek.

In 2014, Emily was awarded the annual Gordon Tullock prize for best article published in Public Choice by a junior scholar. She is also a contributing author to several books including After Katrina: The Political Economy of Disaster and Community Rebound and Hayek and the Modern World.

Dr. Skarbek received her PhD in Economics from George Mason University and was previously an Assistant Professor at San Jose State University and a Fellow at the Center for History of Political Economy at Duke University.

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

099: Rodney Fort on Sport Economics, Big Data in Baseball and the Value of Hosting an Olympic Games Aug 18, 2016

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Rodney Fort is Professor of Sport Management at the University of Michigan after spending 23 years in an economics department at various universities.

Professor Fort teaches Sports Economics and Research Methods for Sport Management and research interests include sport economics, regulation and microeconomics.

Rodney is a recognized authority on sports economics and business, both in the U.S. and internationally.

He has written 7 books including the best seller Sports Economics, 63 refereed journal articles, and 56 other publications that cover sports topics as diverse as cross-subsidies in U.S. sports leagues to comparative analysis of North American and world sports leagues.

Rodney also serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Sports Economics, the International Journal of Sport Finance, and Managerial and Decision Economics. He also currently serves as a vice-president of the International Association of Sports Economists.

Rodney’s work includes being a sports economics consultant, writes for numerous blogs including his own rodsports economics and holds the most complete data on the economics and business of U.S. pro sports leagues in existence at Sports Business Data.

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

098: Kirk Du Plessis on Options Trading and Creating on Online Teaching and Trading Platform Aug 11, 2016

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Kirk Du Plessis is a full-time options trader, real estate investor, stay-at-home Dad and personal trading coach.

His background and experience includes time on Wall Street as an investment banker, a senior stock analyst and a senior loan officer.

Kirk is the Founder and Fund Manager at Option Alpha, an online education and training platform for options traders with students from 42 different countries around the world.

You can grab his completely FREE 12-Part Video Training Course which will help you discover how to trade options for consistent monthly income over at optionalpha.com.

Kirk was recently featured in Barron’s Magazine as a contributor to their Annual Broker’s Review.

Kirk’s podcast, The Option Alpha Podcast, features great tips, advice and explanations on all things options trading.

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

097: Peita Diamantidis on Being a Finance Action Hero and Gamifying How You Manage Your Finances Aug 04, 2016

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Peita Diamantidis is an Author, Financial Adviser and Financial Literacy Advocate.

She combines maths and finance with a passion for communicating leading her on a mission to empower the public to take charge of their finances.

Her easy to understand financial explanations ensure her clients have the tools and information they need to make key financial decisions.

With a background in Actuarial Studies and economics, Peita delivers a deep understanding of the fundamentals of money and finance through the companies that she co-founded: Zaptitude, DeltaPlan Financial Services and Caboodle Financial Services.

With a quirky sense of humour and a deep and abiding love of movies, Peita is in the unique position of being able to use humour and storytelling to communicate the best way to approach an individual’s finances.

Peita is author of Finance Action Hero.

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

096: Cameron Murray on the Robinson Crusoe Economy and Blogging toward your PhD Jul 28, 2016

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Dr Cameron K. Murray is an economist with a passion for improving society. Cameron writes under the pseudonym Rumplestatskin.

Cameron has a broad range of interests and a diverse background in property development, environmental economics research and economic regulation.

In his writings, Cameron aims to bring reliable insights from the academic and technical literature into the mainstream economic debate.

Cameron thinks that economics could be much better than it is, which is why he often write about very fine technical points of economic theory, and the nature of the profession.

Dr Murray specialises in property markets, environmental economics and corruption.

Cameron maintains an internationally renowned personal blog called Fresh Economic Thinking and also writes for MacroBusiness, IDEA economics and Evonomics.

He recently completed a PhD at the University of Queensland on the economics of corruption.

You can get all the links, resources and books mentioned by Dr. Murray in the show notes page at www.economicrockstar.com/cameronmurray

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