Fouad Ajami, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and cochair of the Working Group on Islamism and the International Order, discusses, with John Batchelor, his op-ed “The Last Battle of the Cold War.” Afghanistan was once thought of as the last battle of the Cold War, but, according to Ajami, that designation must be accorded to the ongoing struggle in Syria. Moscow has declared the sovereignty of the Assad regime a "red line," stating that it would veto any resolution in the Security Council that would put the regime in jeopardy.
In this podcast Russell Roberts, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and EconTalk host, discusses, with Eugene Fama of the University of Chicago, the evolution of finance, the efficient market hypothesis, the current crisis, the economics of stimulus, and the role of empirical work in finance and economics.
Russell Roberts, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and a professor of economics and the J. Fish and Lillian F. Smith Distinguished Scholar at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, discusses the uses (and abuses) of economics on the campaign trail.
Victor Davis Hanson, the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, weighs in on the president’s State of the Union speech, specifically focusing on the question of whether or not the United States is really on the decline. Hanson then evaluates the current defense budget cuts by the administration. Are they really a wise way to reduce the deficit?
In this podcast Russell Roberts, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and EconTalk host, discusses, with David Rose of the University of Missouri, St. Louis and the author of The Moral Foundation of Economic Behavior, his book and the role morality plays in prosperity.
Russell Roberts, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and EconTalk host, discusses the economic philosophy of John Maynard Keynes, whose ideas of government spending during bad times have been applied by US leaders from FDR to Obama. But Keynsian theories continue to spark fierce debate, with some feeling they’re still the best way out of a slump but others believing that they distort the free market.
Michael Boskin, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the T. M. Friedman Professor of Economics at Stanford University, discusses the economy, debt, jobs, and why the recovery is so slow.
