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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:

095: Scott Burns on Mobile Money Banking in Africa and the Success of M-Pesa Jul 21, 2016

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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

094: Daniel Crosby on Stock Market Investment Errors and the Price Earnings Ratio Jul 14, 2016

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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

093: Arthur Charpentier on Freakonometrics, Machine Learning and Big Data Jul 07, 2016

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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/freakonometrics

092: Graham Brownlow on Rent Seeking, Cliometrics and the Economics of the DeLorean Jun 30, 2016

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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

091: The Age of Em by Robin Hanson Jun 23, 2016

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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.

090: Stefan Szymanski on Soccernomics and How Sabermetrics, Inequality and Finance Rules the Sport Jun 16, 2016

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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.

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

089: James Brusseau on Wealth Inequality and the Accursed Share Jun 09, 2016

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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

088: Denise Cummins on Fairness in Economics, Altruism and the Prisoners Dilemma Jun 02, 2016

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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 University of Colorado, Boulder and you can find her work at www.denisecummins.com and PsychologyToday.com

Check out the show notes page at www.economicrockstar.com/denisecummins to access the links and resources mentioned in this episode.

087: Asgeir B. Torfason on the Economy of Iceland and Explaining Negative Cashflows in Banks May 26, 2016

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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

086: Philip Pilkington on Determinism and the Reformation in Economics May 19, 2016

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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.

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