Professor Larry Ball (Johns Hopkins) joins us in studio to discuss his recent book, The Fed and Lehman Brothers. Hear what Larry Ball, professor and author, has to say about his recent book “The Fed and Lehman Brothers”.

Ryan Streeter, Director of Domestic Policy for the American Enterprise Institute, joins us in studio to discuss localism. Hear what Ryan Streeter has to say about various aspects of life in America.

Bryan Caplan is a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center and a professor of economics at George Mason University. Bryan joins Policy@McCombs to discuss his recent book, The Case Against Education. Hear what Bryan Caplan, of the Mercatus Center, has to say about his recent book, “The Case Against Education”.

Avik Roy is the co-founder and president of the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity (FREEOP). Avik joins Policy@McCombs to make the conservative case for universal health insurance. Hear what Avik Roy, of FREEOP, has to say about a conservative argument for what is typically considered to be more progressive health policy.

David Schmidtz is Kendrick Professor of Philosophy in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences and Eller Chair of Service-Dominant Logic in the Eller College of Management. He is editor-in-chief of Social Philosophy and Policy. He was founding Head of the Department of Political Economy and Moral Science. Hear what David Schmidtz, professor and editor-in-chief, has […]

Enrico Moretti joins us to talk about America’s most dynamic labor markets, the “brain hubs”  and their impact in the U.S economy and society. Enrico Moretti is the Michael Peevey and Donald Vial Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. He serves as the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Economic Perspectives […]

Peter Arcidiacono joins us to talk about his work in identifying bias and discrimination in the Harvard admissions process. Professor Arcidiacono specializes in research involving applied microeconomics, applied economics, and labor economics. His research primarily focuses on education and discrimination. His work focuses specifically on the exploration of a variety of subjects, such as structural […]

Emily Fair Oster is an American economist and bestselling author of “Expecting Better” and “Cribsheet”. Emily is a Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Brown University. P. Richard Hahn also joins the show as a guest interviewer. He is an associate professor of Statistics at ASU.  His specific research interests include regression tree methods, […]

Robert Lawson, director of the O’Neil Center for Global Markets and Freedom at the Southern Methodist University (SMU) Cox School of Business join us to discuss his new book,  Socialism Sucks: Two Economists Drink Their Way Through the Unfree World. John H. Cochrane is the Rose-Marie and Jack Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is also a […]

Jeffrey A. Tucker is Editorial Director for the American Institute for Economic Research. He is the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press and eight books in 5 languages, most recently The Market Loves You. He is also the editor of The Best of Mises. He speaks widely on topics of economics, technology, […]