Juliette Sellgren

The Great Antidote

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Adam Smith said, "Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition." So join us for interviews with the leading experts on today's biggest issues to learn more about economics, policy, and much more.

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Juliette Sellgren

Episodes

Bryan Caplan on Open Borders 05.05.2020 43:19

Send us Fan Mail Bryan Caplan, economics professor at George Mason University, regular blogger at EconLog, and author of Open Borders: The Science and Ethics of Immigration, talks to us about different aspects of immigration. Support the show Never miss another AdamSmithWorks update. Follow us on Facebook , Twitter , and Instagram .

Chris Edwards on What You Didn't Know About Wealth Inequality 29.04.2020 28:15

Send us Fan Mail Chris Edwards, director of tax policy studies at Cato and editor of www.downsizinggovernment.org , talks to us about common misconceptions of wealth inequality (and income inequality) Support the show Never miss another AdamSmithWorks update. Follow us on Facebook , Twitter , and Instagram .

David Henderson on Liberation from Lockdown Now 28.04.2020 34:45

Send us Fan Mail David Henderson, author of multiple books and fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution, talks to us about why the COVID-19 lockdown should end now. Support the show Never miss another AdamSmithWorks update. Follow us on Facebook , Twitter , and Instagram .

John Stossel on the Nanny State 20.04.2020 32:30

Send us Fan Mail John Stossel, author and journalist who was been on ABC, Fox Business Channel, and is now partnering with Reason, talks to us about consumer protection, the nanny state, and ridiculous ways the government wastes your money. Support the show Never miss another AdamSmithWorks update. Follow us on Facebook , Twitter , and Instagram .

Johan Norberg on Dead Wrong Ideas 20.04.2020 37:03

Send us Fan Mail Johan Norberg, author of several books and Executive Director of Free To Choose Media, talks to us about his video series Dead Wrong, Sweden, globalization, and organic farming. Support the show Never miss another AdamSmithWorks update. Follow us on Facebook , Twitter , and Instagram .

Trevor Burrus on the Drug War 20.04.2020 42:48

Send us Fan Mail Trevor Burrus, research fellow at Cato Institute's Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies and editor-in-chief of the Cato Supreme Court Review, talks to us about the war on drugs. Support the show Never miss another AdamSmithWorks update. Follow us on Facebook , Twitter , and Instagram .

Vernon Smith on Experimental Economics, the Nobel Prize, and Life 20.04.2020 56:20

Send us Fan Mail Vernon Smith, Nobel Prize winning economics professor at Chapman University, talks to us about experimental economics, intellectual influences, the value of mistakes, and the Nobel Prize. Support the show Never miss another AdamSmithWorks update. Follow us on Facebook , Twitter , and Instagram .

Don Boudreaux on Bad Policies People Love 20.04.2020 46:54

Send us Fan Mail In this interview with Don Boudreaux, GMU economics professor and blogger at Cafe Hayek, we explore policies that are loved by the public but are actually bad: price gouging, rent control, minimum wage, and tariffs. Support the show Never miss another AdamSmithWorks update. Follow us on Facebook , Twitter , and Instagram .

Matt Ridley on Ideas Having Sex 20.04.2020 47:06

Send us Fan Mail Matt Ridley, former science and technology editor for The Economist magazine and best-selling author, talks to us about his book The Rational Optimist and the exchange of ideas and the importance of science. Support the show Never miss another AdamSmithWorks update. Follow us on Facebook , Twitter , and Instagram .

Tyler Cowen on His Love Letter to Big Biz 20.04.2020 29:09

Send us Fan Mail In this interview with Tyler Cowen, economics professor at GMU and blogger at the Marginal Revolution, we talk about his book Big Business: A Love Letter to an American Anti-hero . Support the show Never miss another AdamSmithWorks update. Follow us on Facebook , Twitter , and Instagram .