economics

#794 Oriel FeldmanHall: The Social Neuroscience of Moral Decision-Making

Jun 12, 2023

Dr. Oriel FeldmanHall is the Alfred Manning Associate Professor of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences at Brown University. She has been the recipient of several awards, including the Association for Psychological Science Rising Star Award, the NARSAD Young Investigator Award from the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation, the Herry Merritt Wriston Award for excellence in teaching and scholarship, and the Social and Affective Neuroscience Society's Innovation Award. Dr. FeldmanHall's research seeks to disentangle the cognitive and neural processes behind the complex choices that form the basis of human social behavior. More»
#764 Alessandra Cassar: Female Competitiveness, Cooperative Breeding, and Market Development

Apr 3, 2023

Dr. Alessandra Cassar is a Professor of Economics at the University of San Francisco. She is the Vice-President for North America of the Economic Science Association. Her current research concentrates on the under-studied areas of female competitiveness; the consequences of conflict and disaster victimization for altruism, trust, religiosity, risk, and time preferences; and the role of social networks for economic outcomes. More»
#740 Tibor Rutar - Capitalism for Realists: Virtues and Vices of the Modern Economy

Feb 6, 2023

Dr. Tibor Rutar is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Maribor, Slovenia, Researcher at the Center for the Study of Post-Socialist Societies in Maribor, and Researcher at the Research Center for Strategy and Governance at the University of Ljubljana. His scholarly work is currently focused on political, economic and historical sociology, particularly longstanding social issues related to democracy and capitalism. His lastest book is Capitalism for Realists: Virtues and Vices of the Modern Economy (Routledge, 2022). More»
#731 Clara Mattei The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism

Jan 16, 2023

Dr. Clara Mattei is an Assistant Professor in the Economics Department of The New School for Social Research, and was a 2018-2019 member of the School of Social Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Studies. Her research contributes to the history of capitalism, exploring the critical relation between economic ideas and technocratic policy making. She is the author of The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism. More»
#712 Lionel Page - Optimally Irrational: The Good Reasons We Behave the Way We Do

Dec 2, 2022

Dr. Lionel Page is a Professor of Economics and Director of the Behavioural and Economic Science Cluster at the University of Queensland. He is interested in understanding how people make decisions, alone or in groups. His research links insights from economic theory (theory of decision and game theory) and from other behavioral sciences such as psychology. He is the author of Optimally Irrational: The Good Reasons We Behave the Way We Do. More»
#680 Jon Wisman - The Origins and Dynamics of Inequality: Sex, Politics, and Ideology

Sep 19, 2022

Dr. Jon Wisman is Professor of Economics at American University in Washington, DC. He teaches graduate courses in the history of economic thought and economic methodology and undergraduate courses in macroeconomics, European economic history, American economic history, economic development, and labor economics. He is the author of The Origins and Dynamics of Inequality: Sex, Politics, and Ideology. More»
#670 Steve Hamm - The Pivot: Addressing Global Problems Through Local Action

Aug 26, 2022

Steve Hamm is a freelance writer, journalist and documentary filmmaker. He is the author of The Pivot: Addressing Global Problems Through Local Action, and Bangalore Tiger, and co-author with John Kelly of Smart Machines. More»
#144 David Zaruk: Environmentalism, The EU, and SlimeGate

Feb 28, 2019

Dr. David Zaruk is the Risk-Monger. He has been an EU risk and science communications specialist since 2000, active in EU policy events from REACH and SCALE to the Pesticides Directive, from Science in Society questions to the use of the Precautionary Principle. He was part of the team that set up GreenFacts to encourage a wider use of evidence-based decision-making in the EU on environmental health matters. Dr. Zaruk is a professor at Odisee University College where he lectures on Communications, Marketing, EU Lobbying and PR. More»
#122 Mark Blyth: Austerity, The European Union, Inequality, and Global Trumpism

Jan 7, 2019

Dr. Mark Blyth is William R. Roads Professor of International Economics at Brown University. His research interests lie in the field of international political economy. More specifically, his research trespasses several fields and aims to be as interdisciplinary as possible, drawing from political science, economics, sociology, complexity theory, and evolutionary theory. His work falls into several related areas: the politics of ideas, how institutions change, political parties, and the politics of finance. He’s also the author of books like Great Transformations: Economic Ideas and Institutional Change in the Twentieth Century, and Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea. More»
#84 Garett Jones: Hive Mind, The Importance of National IQ, and Immigration

Oct 11, 2018

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