EJW Audio

Jeff Hummel discusses Kenneth Rogoff’s The Curse of Cash. Hummel’s  review  of the book, along with a  response  from Rogoff, appeared in the  May 2017 issue  of EJW.

Iceland’s leading liberal Hannes Gissurarson tells of the history of liberalism in Iceland in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, based on  his contribution  to the series Classical Liberalism in Econ, by Country.

Drawing on  his EJW article , Daniel Schwekendiek discusses how South Korea has used export strategies to deal with corruption, first in industry and later in academia.

Alberto Mingardi discusses liberalism in Italy, from the unification period (1860s) to the present, based on  his contribution  to the now 13-article series  “Classical Liberalism in Econ, by Country.”

Drawing on  his EJW article coauthored with Lars Jonung , Benny Carlson discusses the remarkable tradition of public discourse actuated by the five titans of Swedish economics, Knut Wicksell, Gustav Cassel, Eli Heckscher, Bertil Ohlin, and Gunnar Myrdal. Carlson touches on the great liberal economist  Anders Chydenius  (1729–1803), and, since Myrdal’s time, on the prominent Swedish economists alig...

Erwin Dekker and Stefan Kolev have provided in EJW  a first-ever English translation of a remarkable 1891 essay by Carl Menger . In this podcast Dekker discusses the essay, adding context drawn from his own studies (represented by his book  The Viennese Students of Civilization: The Meaning and Context of Austrian Economics Reconsidered ), to aid in understanding Menger’s times and his legacy.

Apropos Friedrich Hayek’s essay  “The Meaning of Competition,”  Frank M. Machovec discusses his book Perfect Competition and the Transformation of Economics (Routledge, 1995).

Sam Fleischacker discusses the impartial spectator and the role it plays in Adam Smith’s moral system, based on  his contribution  to the EJW symposium  “My Understanding of Adam Smith's Impartial Spectator.”

Pavel Kuchař, a Czech teaching in Mexico, tells of  his EJW paper  exploring the complex history of liberalism in Mexican economic thought and its standing and prospects today.

Interviewed by Garett Jones, David Cushman discusses his article “ A Unit Root in Postwar U.S. Real GDP Still Cannot Be Rejected, and Yes, It Matters .”

Hugo Faria, a Venezuelan economist and expat now teaching at the University of Miami, tells the sad story of his home country, based on  his EJW paper coauthored with Leonor Filardo .

Shruti Rajagopalan narrates the history of liberal ideas and policy in India, from the 1920s to today, based on her coauthored article  “Liberalism in India.”  The conversation mentions B. R. Shenoy’s 1955 “Note of Dissent” (regarding the Planning Commission’s draft of the Second Five Year Plan), the brief text of which may be found on the website of the India Policy Institute ( link, .pdf ).

Arthur Melzer is the author of the landmark book Philosophy Between the Lines: The Lost History of Esoteric Writing (University of Chicago Press, 2014). A chapter of the book, “A Beginner’s Guide to Esoteric Reading,” on techniques and devices used in esoteric writing,  was republished  in the May 2015 issue of EJW. The conversation, however, takes up Melzer’s entire book. The conversation is long...

Bob Reed reports on the progress of replication at economics journals, based on  the investigation  conducted and coauthored with Maren Duvendack and Richard W. Palmer-Jones. Reed discusses the value of replication, its relation to meta-analysis, and related issues. Reed and Duvendack are the organizers of  replicationnetwork.com .

Jon Diesel discusses his article  “Do Economists Reach a Conclusion on Organ Liberalization?”  The interviewer, Lawrence H. White, adds insight as one who has had first-hand experience with waiting for a kidney.

What should you know if you want to publish in EJW? Jason Briggeman and Daniel Klein discuss what EJW is, how it works, and what it is looking for.

John Horowitz discusses  his EJW article (co-authored with Cecil Bohanon and James McClure)  showing that public finance textbooks very often fail to illuminate the welfare costs of taxation and to address those costs when taking up relevant matters such as the optimal provision of public goods and cost-benefit analysis.

Morris Kleiner discusses his research as represented in  Licensing Occupations: Ensuring Quality or Restricting Competition?  (2006) and  Stages of Occupational Regulation: Analysis of Case Studies  (2013), both published by the W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research. The latter book is the subject of a review essay by Uwe Reinhardt [ “Does Occupational Licensing Deserve Our Approval? A Re...

In conjunction with the Acton Institute co-sponsored symposium  “Does Economics Need an Infusion of Religious or Quasi-Religious Formulations?,”  Robin Klay discusses her paper  “Where Do Economists of Faith Hang Out?,”  and Victor Claar discusses his contribution  “Joyful Economics,”  which interprets economics in terms of our good stewardship of God’s house.

Dennis Coates and Brad Humphreys discuss  their EJW paper  finding that economists mostly frown on government subsidies for professional sports franchises, facilities, and events. They also discuss why sports receive subsidies nonetheless.

Based on his EJW article  “The Increasingly Libertarian Milton Friedman”  Lanny Ebenstein discusses how Friedman’s support for liberalization became more pointed, sometimes even abolitionist, on a number of government interventions.

Daniel Klein describes and summarizes  the project in EJW  that investigates the ideological outlook of each of the 71 Nobel laureates in economics (through 2012) and whether that outlook changed over the course of his or her adult life. Change is charted particularly with respect to classical liberalism. Klein discusses whether the results serve as meta-evidence for the wisdom of classical libera...

Frank Stephenson discusses  his 2009 EJW article with Erin Wendt  on the scant coverage of occupational licensing (OL) in labor economics textbooks. The scantiness raises interesting questions, given the large and growing role of OL in the economy, and the value of the topic in teaching economic insights. Stephenson reports that, since the article appeared, two of the in-print texts that had entir...

In this podcast, Catherine Hakim first discusses “preference theory,” her theory that women have different attitudes than men about work and lifestyle. The discussion is framed by  her contribution  to  the 2008 EJW symposium on gender balance in the economics profession.  (And  here  is a subsequent rejoinder by symposium lead authors Christina Jonung and Ann-Charlotte Ståhlberg.) Then, Dr. Hakim...

Hugh Rockoff discusses  his EJW paper (with Ignacio Briones)  on the findings of economic historians with regard to periods during which banks were lightly regulated. Rockoff explains the nature of these banking episodes and suggests that economic historians have come to a conclusion that overall the banking systems performed relatively well.