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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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095: Scott Burns on Mobile Money Banking in Africa...

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2016/07/21

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

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094: Daniel Crosby on Stock Market Investment Errors...

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2016/07/14

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

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01:00:00

093: Arthur Charpentier on Freakonometrics, Machine...

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2016/07/07

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

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00:48:09

092: Graham Brownlow on Rent Seeking, Cliometrics and...

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2016/06/30

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

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00:46:23

091: The Age of Em by Robin Hanson

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2016/06/23

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

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00:51:38

090: Stefan Szymanski on Soccernomics and How...

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2016/06/16

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

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00:56:28

089: James Brusseau on Wealth Inequality and the...

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2016/06/09

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,

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088: Denise Cummins on Fairness in Economics,...

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2016/06/02

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

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01:02:13

087: Asgeir B. Torfason on the Economy of Iceland and...

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2016/05/26

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

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01:03:44

086: Philip Pilkington on Determinism and the...

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2016/05/19

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

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00:59:31

085: Michael Roberts on Understanding Karl Marx and...

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2016/05/12

Michael Roberts has worked as an economist for over 30 years in the City of London. Michael is a Marxist economist and he has written on the causes of the recession of 2008 from a Marxist perspective. He is the author of The Great Recession: Profit cycles, economic crisis A Marxist view and The Long Depression: Marxism and the Global Crisis of Capitalism. You can view all the links mentioned in this episode at www.economicrockstar.com/michaelroberts

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084: Mises v Marx: A Discussion with Peter Boettke

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2016/05/05

Peter Boettke is Professor of Economics and Philosophy at George Mason University, the BB&T Professor for the Study of Capitalism, and the Director of the F.A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. This is Professor Boettke's second time being featured on the Economic Rockstar podcast. You can listen to Peter's first interview in episode 82 at www.economicrockstar.com/peterboettke Professor Boettke is also the

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00:59:48

083: Stephen Kinsella on Stock Flow Models, Rent...

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2016/04/28

Stephen Kinsella is a Senior Lecturerin Economics at the Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick in Ireland and a Research Fellow at the Geary Institute at University College Dublin. He is currently visiting Professor of Economics at Université Paris. Stephen has 2 PhD’s, is well published in many Economics Journals and has won several grants worth around 1.5 million Euro. Stephen’s area of expertise is in the study of the Irish and European economies. He has written 4 books: Ireland in 2050:

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082: Peter Boettke on Smith and Keynes and Why We...

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2016/04/21

Peter Boettke is Professor of Economics and Philosophy at George Mason University, the BB&T Professor for the Study of Capitalism, and the Director of the F.A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Peter is now the co-author, along with David Prychitko, of the classic principles of economics texts of Paul Heyne's The Economic Way of Thinking. Professor Boettke’s most recent book, Living Economics, provides a

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00:48:26

081: Julie Nelson on the Importance of Ecology in...

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2016/04/14

Julie Nelson is Professor of Economics at University of Massachusetts Boston and Senior Research Fellow at Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University, also in the USA. Julie’s research areas include feminist economics, ecological economics, the philosophy and methodology of economics, ethics and economics, the teaching of economics, and the empirical study of individual and household behavior. Julie is the author of Economics for Humans and author, co-author, or co-editor of

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00:38:57

080: Will Australia's Property Market and Economy Go...

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2016/04/07

This weeks episode of the Economic Rockstar podcast features the Australian economy. There is talk amongst economists, analysts and commentators, be it speculative or not, that the Australian economy or it’s housing market will implode within the next 12 to 18 months. I am joined with Professor Steve Keen who explains why the property market in Australia will crash, taking down its economy. Check out the show notes page for a transcript, links and resources mentioned in this episode at

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00:40:19

079: Bryan Caplan on Parenting, the Case Against...

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2016/03/31

Bryan Caplan is Professor of Economics at George Mason University and Senior Scholar at the Mercatus Center. Bryan is the author of The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies, named "the best political book of the year" by the New York Times, and Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids: Why Being a Great Parent Is Less Work and More Fun Than You Think. He also blogs at EconLog. He is now working on a new book, The Case Against Education. Check out the show notes page to this

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078: Arnold Kling on the Hidden Story of How Markets...

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2016/03/24

Arnold Kling is a Mercatus Center–affiliated senior scholar at George Mason University and a member of the Financial Markets Working Group. Arnold specializes in housing-finance policy, financial institutions, macroeconomics, and the inside workings of America’s federal financial institutions. He also is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute in Washington, DC. He has authored five books, including Crisis of Abundance: Rethinking How We Pay for Health Care and Invisible Wealth: The Hidden Story

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00:42:16

077: The Irish Economy 100 years on from the 1916...

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2016/03/17

This is a commemorative episode celebrating the 100 year anniversary of Ireland’s 1916 Easter Rising in which the Proclamation of the Republic was read by Padraig Pearse at four minutes past noon on Easter Monday, April 24th, from the steps of the General Post Office on Sackville Street (now known as O’Connell Street). The document proclaimed Ireland’s independence from Great Britain. How was Ireland’s economy performing in 1916 and how far have we come 100 years on? In this episode, you will learn

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076: Greg Ip on Foolproofing the Economy and Why...

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2016/03/10

Greg Ip is one of the best-known economics journalists in the US. He is currently chief economics commentator of The Wall Street Journal and writes about U.S. and global economic developments and policy each week in the Capital Account column and on Real Time Economics, the Wall Street Journal’s economics blog. From 2008 to January 2015, he was U.S. Economics Editor of The Economist magazine. Greg is the author of Foolproof: Why Safety Can Be Dangerous and How Danger Makes Us Safe as well as author

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