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Economic Rockstar

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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

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035: Stephen Young on Being Car Free and the...

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2015/06/04

Stephen Young is a Senior Lecturer at Brighton Business School and is subject leader for behavioural economics. He is also Visiting Lecturer at Brighton and Sussex Medical School, where he teaches Behavioural Economics to health professionals, including commissioners, public health practitioners and GPs. As an independent consultant and trainer, Stephen also provides client workshops and presentations on behavioural economics and behaviour change. Stephen is widely published and his research

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034: David Simon on Meatonomics and How the Meat and...

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2015/05/28

David Robinson Simon is a lawyer and advocate for sustainable consumption. David works as general counsel for a healthcare company and serves on the board of the Animal Protection and Rescue League Fund, a non-profit dedicated to protecting animals. David runs a website that keeps us up-to-date on matters arising from the farm animal industry as well as informing us of other animal-related causes. David received his B.A. from U.C. Berkeley and his J.D. from the University of Southern California. He

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033: Abdullah Al-Bahrani on the Economy of Oman and...

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2015/05/21

Dr. Abdullah Al Bahrani is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Northern Kentucky University, where he serves as the Principles of Economics Coordinator. Abdullah’s research interests are in the fields of Industrial Organization and Education of Economics. Currently, his primary focus is on innovative approaches to teaching Economics. In Industrial Organization, his research examines market structure and competition in the banking and real estate industries. Prior to joining academia, Dr. Al

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032: Joe Gladstone on the 'Pay What You Want' Pricing...

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2015/05/14

Joe Gladstone is an academic researcher and consultant based at the University of Cambridge, where he applies insights from behavioural economics and psychological research to better understand consumer behaviour. Joe partners with some of the world’s largest corporations, such as Twitter, Bupa and Visa, as well as government departments, to tackle challenges that deal with behaviour change. Joe's views on consumer behaviour have been featured in the BBC, Forbes, The Huffington Post and other media

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00:42:37

031: Matt Rousu on Experimental Auctions and the Need...

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2015/05/07

Dr. Matthew Rousu is a Professor and Warehime Chair in the Department of Economics at Susquehanna University. His main teaching interests include microeconomics, political economic thought, and game theory. Matt is an expert on experimental auction design and implementation. He uses his expertise on experimental auctions to study problems in agricultural economics, environmental economics, and public health. He has published over 40 scholarly articles, as well as book chapters, non-technical

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00:47:51

030: Kim Holder on Rockonomix and Teaching Economics...

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2015/04/30

Kim Holder is an economics educator from the University of Western Georgia and teaches principles of macro and micro. Kim is passionate about economics, music, media, pop-culture and sports and loves using technology and social media in the classroom to get her students excited about learning. Kim is founder of Rockonomix, an inter-university contest held in the USA that encourages students to compose economic-themed lyrics to a popular song. Find Out: how Kim Holder uses music to assess her

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00:50:18

029: John Cochrane on the Future of Finance, MOOC...

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2015/04/23

John Cochrane is the AQR Capital Management Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and is currently Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. Professor Cochrane is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and past director of its asset pricing program, and an Adjunct Scholar of the CATO institute. John is past President and Fellow of the American Finance Association, and a Fellow of the Econometric Society. He has been

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00:46:23

028: Alice Louise Kassens on Nudging Students to...

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2015/04/16

Dr. Alice Kassens is an economics professor at Roanoke College and has already built a notable reputation in her profession. Alice is the current recipient of Roanoke’s John S. Shannon Professorship in Economics, which honors and supports a faculty member who is an outstanding teacher and accomplished scholar and who is thoroughly committed to enriching the lives of Roanoke students. Dr Kassens’ work at Roanoke includes creating and maintaining an economics program blog and a biannual newsletter,

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027: Craig Medico on How Economics Saved My Career,...

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2015/04/09

Craig Medico is an Economics and History educator in New York with 11 years of classroom experience. Craig is doing amazing things to get young people to understand and become interested in economics. He is the author of No Bull Review - Macroeconomics and Microeconomics: For use with the AP Macroeconomics and AP Microeconomics Exams (2012) and No Bull Review - Macroeconomics and Microeconomics: Top 10 Guide (2014). Craig is the developer of several best-selling iPhone test prep apps from Study By

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026: Thomas O'Grady on How Writing a PhD on...

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2015/04/02

Thomas O’Grady has a PhD in Mathematical and Statistical Economics from the University of California at Berkeley. His professional career has taken him from becoming the top analyst in Soviet intelligence for a U.S. agency and receiving the Meritorious Service Medal, also awarded to Wesley Clark, John McCain and General Schwarzkopf to positions with Fortune 100 companies to building three companies of his own. Thomas has been quoted by the print media over 30,000 times and appeared on TV and radio

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025: Dan Hamermesh on the Economics of Beauty:...

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2015/03/26

Dan Hamermesh is Professor in Economics at the Royal Holloway University of London and at the University of Texas at Austin. Dan researches the economics of beauty. He received his Ph.D. from Yale and has since taught at Princeton, at Michigan State, and at Texas. He has held visiting professorships at universities in North America, Europe, Australia and Asia, and lectured at almost 250 universities in 48 states and 33 foreign countries. His research, published in nearly 100 refereed papers in

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00:50:18

024: Greg Davies on Behavioral Finance and...

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2015/03/19

Greg Davies is Managing Director and Head of Behavioural Finance at Barclays. He joined the firm in December 2006 to develop and implement commercial applications drawing on behavioural portfolio theory, the psychology of judgment and decision making, and decision sciences. Today Greg leads a global team of behavioural and quantitative finance specialists, and is responsible for the design and global implementation of Barclays’ Investment Philosophy. Greg is an Associate Fellow at Oxford

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023: Loretta Napoleoni on Financing Terrorism and the...

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2015/03/12

Loretta Napoleoni is an expert on terrorist financing, and advises several governments and international organizations on counter-terrorism and money laundering. As Chairman of the countering terrorism financing group for the Club de Madrid, Loretta brought heads of state from around the world together to create a new strategy for combating the financing of terror networks. Loretta is a regular media commentator for CNN, Sky and the BBC and advises several banks on strategies to counter the current

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022: Josh Angrist on Taking the Con Out of...

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2015/03/05

Master Joshway, better known as Josh Angrist, is the Ford Professor of Economics at MIT and a Research Associate in the NBER's programs on Children, Education, and Labor Studies. Josh received his B.A. from Oberlin College, spent time as an undergraduate studying at the London School of Economics and as a Masters student at Hebrew University. He completed his Ph.D. in Economics at Princeton. Angrist's research interests include the effects of school inputs and school organization on student

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021: Paul Dolan on the Economics of Happiness

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2015/02/26

Paul Dolan is an internationally renowned expert on happiness, behaviour and public policy. He is currently a Professor of Behavioural Science in the Department of Social Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Paul has previously held academic posts at York, Newcastle, Sheffield and Imperial and he has been a visiting scholar at Princeton University, working with Daniel Kahneman. Professor Dolan has over 100 peer-reviewed publications which cover many topics including

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020: George Magnus on The Age of Ageing, China and...

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2015/02/19

George Magnus is an independent economist, consultant and commentator. He has a distinguished career that started with some teaching assignments but was spent mostly in the financial services industry. Before going solo in 2012, George was the Senior Economic Adviser at UBS Investment Bank having previously been the Chief Economist for 10 years. In almost 30 years of working experience in the City, he has held senior positions at SG Warburg, Chase Manhattan Bank and Bank of America. He is a

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019: Mark Thornton on the Decriminalization of...

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2015/02/11

Dr. Thornton has withdrawn himself from politics and concentrates now on education, primarily of the general public because the Austrian perspective says: "the world works according to the ideology of the masses so we have to change that mindset of the masses before we’re ever going to get political reform of the type Austrians would like to see" - Dr. Mark Thornton. This is the part 2 of an interview with Mark. Part 1 can be found as episode 18 on iTunes, Stitcher Radio or

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018: Mark Thornton on Austrian Economics and Why the...

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2015/02/05

Dr. Mark Thornton is an economist who lives in Auburn, Alabama. Mark is Senior Fellow at the Ludwig von Mises Institute and serves as the Book Review Editor of the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics. Mark’s publications include The Economics of Prohibition; Tariffs, Blockades, and Inflation: The Economics of the Civil War (2004), The Quotable Mises (2005),The Bastiat Collection (2007), An Essay on Economic Theory (2010), and The Bastiat Reader (2014). Dr. Thornton served as the editor of the

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017: Marina Adshade on Understanding Economics the...

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2015/01/29

Dr. Marina Adshade engages in original economic research in the area of women in the economy. She has a Ph.D. from Queen’s University in Ontario Canada and currently teaches economics at the Vancouver School of Economics at the University of British Columbia. In 2008, Marina developed a unique specialization in the economics of sex and love and launched an undergraduate course titled ‘Economics of Sex and Love’, which invited her students to approach questions of sex and love through an economist’s

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016: Jack Schwager on How You Can Become a Market...

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2015/01/22

Jack Schwager, author of Market Wizards, is a recognized expert in the futures and hedge fund industry. He is the co-portfolio manager for the ADM Investor Services Diversified Strategies Fund and is a Co-Founder and Director of Trader Development at FundSeeder. Jack has previously spent 22 years as a director of futures research at some of Wall Street’s leading firms and 10 years as a partner in a hedge fund advisory firm. Jack’s name is synonymous with futures and trading, due to his compelling

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