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Send us Fan Mail Today, I am excited to welcome on Vincent Geloso . He is an assistant professor at George Mason University, specializing in the measurement of living standards. We talk about his new study with Chelsea Follet of the Cato Institute titled “Global Inequality in Well-Being Has Decreased across Many Dimensions” , which discusses a new way of measuring global inequality, the Inequality...

Send us Fan Mail I am excited to have Chelsea Follett on to talk to us about her new book Centers of Progress: 40 Cities that Changed the World . The title speaks for itself. She is a policy analyst at the Cato Institute’s center for global liberty and prosperity and the managing editor of humanprogress.org.  We talk about a few key characteristics of centers in progress, the connection between ci...

Send us Fan Mail Lawrence Reed is the president emeritus of the Foundation for Economic Education and of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. He is currently the Humphreys family senior fellow at FEE. Visit his website lawrencewreed.com. Today we talk about the best and worst presidents in American history and the reasons why. We start with the role of the presidency, which informs the rest of t...

Send us Fan Mail Peter Boettke is a professor of economics and philosophy at George Mason University, as well as the author of several books.  Today we talk about a book called Mainline Economics , which is a collection of Nobel lectures from what he defines as “mainline economists”. A mainline economist’s methodology of economics falls in the tradition and lineage of Adam Smith . We talk about th...

Send us Fan Mail Former Senator Phil Gramm began as a professor of economics at Texas A&M, then became a representative in the House, later becoming a senator. And now, he’s written a book with John Early and Robert Ekelund called The Myth of American Inequality: How Government Biases Policy Debate .  We talk today about his book and observations of the system during his time in office, identi...

Send us Fan Mail Jeremy Horpedahl is the director of the Arkansas Center for Research in Economics and an associate professor at the University of Central Arkansas . Today we talk about American Compass’s Cost of Thriving Index (COTI), what it says and why it is wrong. The COTI shows that Americans today have a higher cost of thriving than ever before, but in a paper with AEI’s Scott Winship, Horp...

Send us Fan Mail Jeremy Lott is the managing editor at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, but he also has written several Adam Smith comics for Adam Smith Works, and written an impressively wide range of books, from a novel about William F. Buckley Jr.’s faith to children's books like Growlilocks to comics like Movie Men .  Today, we talk about his experience creating in so many different...

Send us Fan Mail Today, I host Lawrence White on the podcast. He is an economics professor at George Mason University with a specialty in the history and theory of banking and money and is the author of several books including Better Money: Gold, Fiat, or Bitcoin . We talk about why on earth money and monetary policy come across as so intimidating, then he takes us on a tour of the different curre...

Send us Fan Mail Aaron Ross Powell, formerly of the Cato Institute (at the time of this interview), and currently the host of podcasts ReImagining Liberty and Zooming In , talks to us about his new book with Paul Matzko called Visions of Liberty . Support the show Never miss another AdamSmithWorks update. Follow us on Facebook , Twitter , and Instagram .

Send us Fan Mail The Great Antidote is on a break from recording new content right now, but please enjoy this rerun of one of our favorites in the meantime. Happy Summer and catch you soon with new content! Arnold Kling is an economist and the author of the book The Three Languages of Politics: Talking Across Political Divides. His substack, In My Tribe, explores many areas of economics and policy...

Send us Fan Mail The Great Antidote is on a break from recording new content right now, but please enjoy this rerun of one of our favorites in the meantime. Happy Summer and catch you soon with new content! Scott Winship , resident scholar and the director of poverty studies at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), joins us this week to discuss the United States' "War on Poverty"...

Send us Fan Mail The Great Antidote is on a break from recording new content right now, but please enjoy this rerun of one of our favorites in the meantime. Happy Summer and catch you soon with new content! William B. Allen, resident scholar and former chief operating officer of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education, talks to us today about the book he recently edited, The State of Black Amer...

Send us Fan Mail Emily Hamilton is a senior research fellow and the director of the Urbanity Project at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.  Today, we talk about the current housing market and the regulations that prevent the building of more affordable, diverse, and abundant types of housing. Hamilton tells us the story of DC and similar areas, where deregulation of housing has begun,...

Send us Fan Mail This week is going to be a little different. Today I am excited to share with you a recording of the play Enquiry Concerning Hereafter by Duane Kelly.  (You can also read the script here .) The play is about the friendship between (and deaths of) Adam Smith and David Hume . Enjoy!  Support the show Never miss another AdamSmithWorks update. Follow us on Facebook , Twitter , and Ins...

Send us Fan Mail This week is going to be a little different. Today I am excited to share with you a recording of the play Enquiry Concerning Hereafter by Duane Kelly.  (You can also read the script here .) The play is about the friendship between (and deaths of) Adam Smith and David Hume . Enjoy!  Support the show Never miss another AdamSmithWorks update. Follow us on Facebook , Twitter , and Ins...

Send us Fan Mail Steven Teles is a professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University and a senior fellow at the Niskanen Center . Today he defines and talks to us about a few words, including “liberaltarianism” – explaining how it diverges from libertarianism with an intellectual history and why – and “kludgeocracy”. We talk about the complexities of government organization and the causes...

Send us Fan Mail Dan Klein is a professor of economics at George Mason University. Today he talks to us about F. A. Hayek ’s conception of the Band-Man and our political psychology today. He explains to us that although our modern world looks a lot different from the world in 10,000 BC, that human beings are the same, with similar tendencies and desires. He talks to us about the implications of th...

Send us Fan Mail Christine McDaniel is a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University with a focus on international trade and globalization. Today we talk about the different trade actions undertaken by recent presidents and what that means for the American public. We discuss tariffs, NAFTA, the WTO, and more. McDaniel also lays out the different trade relationships bet...

Send us Fan Mail David Henderson is a research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and the editor of the Concise Encyclopedia of Economics. He is also an emeritus professor of economics with the naval postgraduate school. He is the Wall Street Journal’s go-to writer for pieces on Nobel prizes and deaths in economics, which we talk about today, exploring a list of favorites. He tells...

Send us Fan Mail John Cochrane is a renowned economist and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He writes a popular blog called The Grumpy Economist. He is also a former professor of economics and finance at the University of Chicago. He is the author of a recent book called The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level. Today we talk about the monetary and fiscal theories of the...

Send us Fan Mail Brian Hooks is the CEO and chairman of Stand Together, the president of the Charles Koch Foundation, and the co-author of Believe in People: Bottom-up Solutions for a Top-Down World . Today, we talk about the principles that guide Stand Together and the work that Stand Together does.  He talks to us about how and why Stand Together is different from other philanthropic organizatio...

Send us Fan Mail Emily Chamlee-Wright is the president and CEO of IHS, the Institute for Humane Studies. Today we talk about the liberal sensibility, what it is and what happened to it. She explains to us the four corners of the liberal project and why they are important to a liberal society such as ours.  Support the show Never miss another AdamSmithWorks update. Follow us on Facebook , Twitter ,...

Send us Fan Mail Marian Tupy is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and the coauthor of two books: Ten Global Trends Every Smart Person Should Know , with Ron Bailey, and Superabundance , with Gale Pooley. Today we talk about Superabundance to address the doom and gloom, often environmentalist concerns about overpopulation. He talks to us about his research that shows why this is not the case, a...

Send us Fan Mail Yesim Sayin is the executive director and the founder of the DC Policy Center, a non-partisan, independent think tank that produces research and analyses on the local economy, workforce, education, housing, and other policy issues in the District of Columbia.  She talks to us about what makes DC unique compared to other cities, and how that makes the DC Policy Center unique as a t...

Send us Fan Mail Stephanie Slade is a senior editor at Reason , the magazine of "free minds and free markets" and a fellow in liberal studies at the Acton Institute . Today we talk about fusionism, the fusion of freedom and virtue.  We talk about the necessary relationship between seemingly contradictory ideals and the importance of civil society. She explains to us the history of fusion...