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5/3/2024
Alice Temnick on Adam Smith as an Educator
What might it have been like to be a student of Adam Smith, and if he hadn't quit teaching, would we have ever gotten
The Wealth of Nations
? Host Juliette Sellgren explores these questions and more with master teacher Alice Temnick.
4/30/2024
Smithian Imagination and Austen's Catharine or the Bower
April 30, 2024
Adam Smith often used fictional examples to talk about his ideas. Carly Jackson takes his lead using an unfinished work of Jane Austen's juvenilia to help us think about sympathy, fellow-feeling, and imagination gone wrong.
4/26/2024
Russell Sobel on the Economics of Entrepreneurship
April 26, 2024
What make entrepreneurs so unique, and why should we want more of them? Can you teach someone to become an entrepreneur? Host Juliette Sellgren asks these questions and more.
4/19/2024
Byron Carson on Malaria's Collective Action Problem
April 19, 2024
4/18/2024
Great Antidote Extras: David Boaz on Liberalism and the Continuing Progress of the Enlightenment
April 18, 2024
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Materially, people in the United States are much better off. But they’ve also progressed in ways important to liberalism, which stands against racism, sexism, antisemitism, and laws oppressing gay people."
4/12/2024
Matt Mitchell on the Realities of Socialism in Estonia
April 12, 2024
4/5/2024
Kristi Kendall on Human Action and Inspiring Through Ideas
April 5, 2024
4/2/2024
Tyler Cowen on the Greatest Economist of All Time (GOAT)
Competition is good, right? Buchanan looks at who the top contenders are in the battle to discover the great economist of all time (GOAT) using Tyler Cowen's book with generative AI.
3/29/2024
Stan Veuger on the Dutch Farmer Protests and Cannabis Legalization
March 29, 2024
3/26/2024
Great Antidote Extras: Brent Orrell on Dignity and Work
March 26, 2024
The work world changes rapidly and what young people need to navigate it changes too. Lavery gives us the highlights from Brent Orrell's guest spot on
The Great Antidote
.
3/22/2024
Giandomenica Becchio on Feminist Economics
March 22, 2024
3/15/2024
David Henderson on Robert Solow
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