Why Nations and Economies Can Fail

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21st Century Monetary Policy: The Federal Reserve from the Great Inflation to COVID-19

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Macroeconomics

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The Hidden Wealth Nations: The Scourge of Tax Havens

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The Little Book of Economics: How the Economy Works in the Real World

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The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future

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This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly

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Inflated: How Money and Debt Built the American Dream

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GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History - Revised and expanded Edition

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When China Rules the World: The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order

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Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization

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The Great Convergence: Asia, the West, and the Logic of One World

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Why Nations and Economies Can Fail

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The Money Revolution: How to Finance the Next American Century

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The Power of Creative Destruction: Economic Upheaval and the Wealth of Nations

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The Captured Economy: How the Powerful Enrich Themselves, Slow Down Growth, and Increase Inequality

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The Great Reset: How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-Crash Prosperity

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GDP: The World's Most Powerful Formula and Why it Must Now Change

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What Would the Great Economists Do?: How Twelve Brilliant Minds Would Solve Today's Biggest Problems

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Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace

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The Great Depression

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We Need to Talk About Inflation: 14 Urgent Lessons from the Last 2,000 Years

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Finance and the Good Society

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A History of the United States in Five Crashes: Stock Market Meltdowns That Defined a Nation

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The Future Power: Its Changing Nature and Use in the Twenty-first Century

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Nothing is Too Big to Fail: How the Last Financial Crisis Informs Today

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The Cost of Free Money: How Unfettered Capital Threatens Our Economic Future

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Understand Financial Crisis

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Engine of Inequality: The Fed and the Future of Wealth in America

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The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality

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China's Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know

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Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed or Fail

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The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World

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Freakonomics Rev Ed

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Chip War: The Quest to Dominate the World's Most Critical Technology

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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America

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These are the Plunderers: How Private Equity Runs—and Wrecks—America

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Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century

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Killing Sacred Cows: Overcoming the Financial Myths that are Destroying Your Prosperity

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San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities

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The Myth of Capitalism: Monopolies and the Death of Competition

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The Meth Lunches: Food and Longing in an American City

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University of Berkshire Hathaway: 30 Years of Lessons Learned from Warren Buffett & Charlie Munger at the Annual Shareholders Meeting

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Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain

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How the World Works

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Don't Trust Your Gut: Using Data to Get What You Really Want in Life

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The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization

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Marvel Comics: The Untold Story

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Nudge: The Final Edition: Improving Decisions About Money, Health, And The Environment

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Why the Rich Are Getting Richer

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Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist

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The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap

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The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives

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What We Owe Each Other: A New Social Contract for a Better Society

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Economics 101: How the World Works

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The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age

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The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy

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The Debt Trap: How Student Loans Became a National Catastrophe

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Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism

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Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion

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Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty

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Good Economics for Hard Times [Audio]

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Acemoglu on Why Nations Fail: Daron Acemoglu talks with host Russ Roberts about the ideas in his book, Why Nations Fail: why some nations fail and others succeed, why some nations grow and sustain growth while others grow and then stagnate. He argues that differences in institutions--political governance and the inclusiveness of the political and economic system--explain the differences in economics success across nations and over time. Acemoglu also discusses how institutions evolve and the critical role institutional change plays in economic success or failure. Along the way, he explains why previous explanations for national economic success are inadequate. The conversation closes with a discussion of the implications of the arguments for foreign aid and attempts by the wealthy nations to help nations that are poor.

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Ray Dalio and the Changing World Order

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Richard Davies on Extreme Economies: Richard Davies talks with host Russ Roberts about his book, Extreme Economies, exploring economic life in extreme situations. The Angola State Penitentiary in Louisiana, Syrian refugee camps in Jordan, the Panama rain forest, and Kinshasa, the largest city in the Democratic Republic of Congo are discussed. This is an economic and journalistic tour de force as Davies shares insights from his encounters with people around the world struggling to trade and prosper in extreme environments.

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George Friedman: The End of the International Order and the Future of Asia: Tired of conventional wisdom? Check out geopolitical forecaster George Friedman. The period that began at the end of World War II was a freak, he says. "We're returning to a more normal structure in which the nation-state is dominant, international...

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Why we need a mission-driven economy (with Mariana Mazzucato)

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Nouriel Roubini Predicts a Crisis 'Worse' Than the 1970s

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The merits of meritocracy: Adrian Wooldridge explores meritocracy’s role in forging the modern world, and weighs up its challenges and advantages.

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The Personal Is Geopolitical: Jared Diamond’s new tome, Upheaval, compares individuals’ crises with those of nation states.

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Thomas Piketty on Inequality and Capital in the 21st Century: Thomas Piketty of the Paris School of Economics and author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century talks to host Russ Roberts about the book. The conversation covers some of the key empirical findings of the book along with a discussion of their significance.

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068: Daron Acemoglu on Why Nations Fail and Why Inequality Exists Between Countries: Daron Acemoglu is the Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston. Daron’s principal interests are political economy, development economics, economic growth, technology, income and wage...

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Doughnut Economics: seven ways to think like a 21st century economist [Audio]

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Alvin E. Roth, "Who Gets What--and Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design" (HMH, 2015): An interview with Alvin E. Roth

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66: Peter Turchin - Why Empires Rise & Fall

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30. Dambisa Moyo Says Foreign Aid Can’t Solve Problems, but Maybe Corporations Can: The African-born economist has written four bestselling books, including Dead Aid, which Bill Gates described as “promoting evil.” In her new book about corporate boards, Dambisa uses her experience with global corporations to explore how they can better meet society’s demands. And she explains to Steve why, even as a Harvard and Oxford-educated economist, her goal in life might sound “a little bit like a Miss America pageant.”   

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#283: Confessions Of An Economic Hitman | John Perkins

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Morgan Housel – The Psychology of Money (Capital Allocators, EP.155): Morgan Housel is a partner at Collaborative Fund and one of my favorite writers about investing. Morgan recently released his first book, The Psychology of Money, and I’ll go on record and predict it will be a best-seller in short order. Our...

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Surveillance: Megathreats with Roubini

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Bear traps: Russia’s push in eastern Ukraine: Russian forces are having some successes in eastern Ukraine; our defence editor discusses the situation on the ground and what may tip the balance in the grinding war. We examine a contentious American law that reveals the country’s broken immigration ...

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How Covid shook the world’s economy (with Adam Tooze)

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Thomas Piketty, "Capital and Ideology" (Harvard UP, 2020): Piketty expands his focus to include the political and ideological in his comparative analysis of capital accumulation and ‘inequality regimes’.

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613: Ray Dalio | Why Nations Succeed and Fail

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The fall of Kwame Nkrumah: The overthrow of Ghana's famous leader, a heroic African WW2 airman, the ban on landmines

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Collier on the Bottom Billion: Paul Collier talks about the ideas in his recent book, The Bottom Billion, an analysis of why the poorest countries in the world fail to grow. He talks about conflict, natural resources, being landlocked, and bad governance, four factors he identifies as causes of the desperate poverty and stagnation in the countries where 1/6 of the world's poorest peoples live.

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Fighting Corruption Is Dangerous: in conversation with Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala [Audio]

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A Brief History of The Deficit Myth with Dr. Stephanie Kelton: Dr. Stephanie Kelton is the most visible public advocate of modern monetary theory - the freshest and most important idea about economics in decades. With its important new ways of understanding money, taxes, and the critical role of deficit spending, MMT redefines how to responsibly use our resources so that we can maximize our potential.

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Thomas Piketty’s Case For ‘Participatory Socialism’: The French economist Thomas Piketty is arguably the world’s greatest chronicler of economic inequality. For decades now, he has collected huge data sets documenting the share of income and wealth that has flowed to the top 1 percent. And the culmination of much of that work, his 2013 book “Capital in the Twenty-First Century,” quickly became one of the most widely read and cited economic texts in recent history. Piketty’s new book, “A Brief History of Equality,” is perhaps his most optimistic work. In it, he chronicles the immense social progress that the U.S. and Europe have achieved over the past few centuries in the form of rising educational attainment, life expectancy and incomes. Of course, those societies still contain huge inequalities of wealth. But in Piketty’s view, this outcome isn’t an inevitability; it’s the product of policy choices that we collectively make — and could choose to make differently. And to that end, Pik

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Seneca on Conquering the Conqueror

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Capital and Ideology [Audio]

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194 Piketty’s Prescription for Wealth Inequality: Economist Thomas Piketty details the policies he believes will be key to overcoming the wealth inequality illustrated in his seminal 2013 book, “Capital in the Twenty-First Century.” He also discusses the 2018 World Inequality Report, which builds on and