James Sweeney explains the differences between crises present and past, and suggests ways California can better balance population and environmental concerns. 

Six ways to put consumers, and not bureaucrats, in control.

James Hamilton of the University of California, San Diego, and blogger at EconBrowser talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the rising levels of the national debt and the growing Federal budget deficit. . . .

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard said a falling unemployment rate is a precondition for an increase in the benchmark interest rate from near zero...

In the first years of the Clinton administration, James Carville famously said, “I used to think if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the president or the pope or a .400 baseball hitter...

In this podcast Russell Roberts, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and EconTalk host, discusses, with James Otteson of Yeshiva University, Adam Smith. The conversation begins with a brief sketch of David Hume and his influence on Smith and then turns to the so-called Adam Smith problem.

In this podcast Russell Roberts, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and EconTalk host, discusses, with James Galbraith of the University of Texas and author of Inequality and Instability, his book, which argues that much of the mainstream analysis of inequality in the economics literature is flawed.