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
Recorded in 2009, Dennis McCuistion, former Exec. Dir., Inst. for Excellence in Corporate Governance, UT Dallas, Steve Forbes, Editor-in-Chief & CEO of Forbes Magazine,...
What role have fruit flies, snails and monkeys played in the study of learning and memory? Listen in to Learning and Memory, originally recorded...
Inflation is blamed on many things but it has only one cause. It is a monetary phenomenon. Inflation occurs when the quantity of money...