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Econ CafeInflation 2022Inflation is back--but for how long? Mike Mandel and Sean Flynn discuss the latest wave of inflation, and what might happen next. 2022-03-2319 minEcon CafeInfrastructure economicsPresident Biden has proposed a big infrastructure spending package. Mike Mandel and Sean Flynn talk about the economics of infrastructure. 2021-04-2020 minEcon CafeThe Economics of Fiscal StimulusMichael Mandel and Sean Flynn discuss the impact of President Biden's $1.9 trillion fiscal stimulus package. 2021-03-2517 minEcon CafeThe Economics of VaccinesMichael Mandel and Sean Flynn discuss the economics of developing the Covid vaccines.2021-02-1814 minEcon CafePrice Discrimination and the Covid EconomyMichael Mandel talks with Michael Baye and Jeff Prince, authors of Managerial Economics & Business Strategy, about price discrimination in the Covid Economy. 2020-11-0911 minEcon CafeThe Covid Recession and the Stock MarketMichael Mandel and Sean Flynn discuss the link between the Covid Recession and the stock market. What do the ups and downs of the market mean for the economy and the ordinary person?2020-11-0917 minEcon CafeExplaining Fed Chairman Jerome Powell's Big Speech: The Fed's New Approach to Inflation and Monetary PolicyMichael Mandel and Sean Flynn explain Fed Chairman Jerome Powell's big speech on New Economic Challenges and the Fed's Monetary Policy Review (August 27, 2020). They discuss the Fed's new approach to inflation and monetary policy, and how it matters to economics students. 2020-09-0709 minEcon CafeAn Unplanned Experiment: How the Economic Response to Covid-19 Affected the EnvironmentWe talk with Martha Field, co-author of Environmental Economics: An Introduction, about the pandemic's impact on the environment. 2020-09-0710 minEcon CafeCovid Recession Versus The Great DepressionThe pandemic has plunged the economy into a Covid Recession. Mike Mandel and Sean Flynn discuss why the Covid Recession is different from the Great Depression of 1929, and how government policy has changed. 2020-08-3008 minEcon CafeThe Covid Supply and Demand ShockThe Covid pandemic caused some of the fastest, biggest shifts of supply and demand curves in history. Textbook authors Michael Mandel and Sean Flynn explains what it all means 2020-08-2408 minEcon CafeWill Central Banks Adopt Digital Currencies?Bitcoin and other "cryptocurrencies" are getting a lot of attention these days. Will central banks like the Federal Reserve adopt their own digital currencies?Michael Mandel interviews Steve Cecchetti and Kermit Schoenholtz, authors of the textbook, Money, Banking and Financial Markets, about the plusses and minuses of central bank digital currencies. They explain the economics central bank digital currencies, and why they are a bad idea for most countries. 2020-08-2410 minEcon CafeMaking Sense of the July 2020 GDP ReportTextbook authors Michael Mandel and Sean Flynn explain the July 2020 Gross Domestic Product (GDP) report, and what it means for the economy and for economics students. 2020-08-2407 minEcon CafeCovid Shutdown!Economic textbook authors Michael Mandel and Sean Flynn discuss how restaurants, casinos and other businesses are making shutdown decisions during the pandemic. 2020-08-1908 min
The Coode Street PodcastEpisode 372: Ten Minutes with James BradleyAnd now for something a little different. Jonathan spends ten minutes with James Bradley, author of the fabulous new novel Ghost Species to discuss Adrian McKinty's Sean Duffy series of crime novels which starts with The Cold, Cold Ground; Lily King's Writers & Lovers, and much more.
Books mentioned in this episode include:
The Sean Duffy series by Adrian McKinty
Writers & Lovers by Lily King
Ghost Species by James Bradley
The Electric State by Simon Stalenhag
Some more things James has read recently that he highly recommends:
Bridge 108 by Anne Charnock
Greenwood by Michael Christie
Age...2020-03-3115 min
The Triple Option PodcastConf Champ Preview / Why Doesn't Anyone Want To Coach Tennessee?Chad and Steve opine in a Friday Happy Hour edition.
Transcript below:
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