Today's podcast features former United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit, Judge Richard Posner, and former Nobel Prize winner Gary Becker. The two use their time to discuss the challenges confronting those who apply market analysis to social questions. Using examples like drug use, sexually transmitted diseases, and addiction, they discuss the possibilities of using economics to solve these problems while thinking about the government’s role in dealing with them.
Originally Recorded: 1994
Some argue that the capitalist system itself is inhumane. Others argue the opposite. Hear why the argument itself is flawed in Episode 79 of...
Recorded in 1997, Dennis McCuistion, former Clinical Professor of Corporate Governance and Executive Director of the Institute for Excellence in Corporate Governance at the...
An open marketplace plays a part in more areas than most people realize. The role is often overlooked in the areas of segregation and...