This podcast is focused on economics, finance and public policy, with a common thread to exploring some of the ideas of the late economist Milton Friedman titled after his 1962 book ”Capitalism and Freedom”.
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Let's be honest. Life with a disability can be difficult. Luckily, we are living in the twenty-first century. This podcast is about how living in the modern world has helped people with disabilities to have fairly "normal" lives. Join me as we explore why this is and as I try to look at disability from a social model perspective and change how the world sees disability.
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This podcast talks about social media impact in the 21st century. Cover art photo provided by Diogo Nunes on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/@dialex
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Spiritual Formation: Growing in the grace of God in challenging times. The podcast discusses how to grow in one's relationship with God and maturity as a Christian. We will also discuss how to answer the challenging questions of the present day culture, not only in substance, but also in motive and attitude.
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Monetary Policy and Central Bank Targets with David Beckworth (Mercatus Senior Research Fellow)
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Jon Hartley and David Beckworth discuss David’s career, monetary policy, the history of Nominal GDP targeting as an idea along with its benefits and challenges, the history of inflation targeting along with its recent evolution, the Fed’s recent framework reviews, as well as corridor (scarce reserves) versus floor (ample reserves) systems. Recorded…
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Black-Scholes Options Pricing Model And Financial Economics With Nobel Prize Winner Myron Scholes
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Jon Hartley and Myron Scholes discuss Myron’s career, including being at the University of Chicago at the dawn of financial economics as a field, how Myron met Fischer Black, and the development of the Black-Scholes option pricing model, investing, innovation, and financial regulation. ABOUT THE SPEAKERS: Myron Scholes is the Frank E. Buck Professo…
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AI, Tech, Industrial Policy and Baby Equities with Brad Gerstner (Altimeter Capital Founder and CEO)
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Jon Hartley and Brad Gerstner discuss Brad’s career, free markets, investing in technology, industrial policy, the CHIPS and Science Act, and baby equity investment accounts. Recorded on November 1, 2024. ABOUT THE SPEAKERS: Brad Gerstneris the founder and CEO of Altimeter Capital, a tech investment firm based in Silicon Valley, that manages both p…
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Send us a text This episode features Mr Suart Mackay, who is currently campaigning to be the Ontario Liberal Party's candidate in Ottawa Centre. He is passionate about his community, and he spoke with us about his passion for more disability rights in Ontario.由Hollis Peirce
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The Federal Reserve: Recent History & Monetary Policy with Former St. Louis Fed President James Bullard
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Jon Hartley and James Bullard discuss Bullard’s career in monetary policy, the history of the St. Louis Fed, serving on the FOMC during the Bernanke, Yellen and Powell Feds, inflation targeting, forward guidance, macroeconomic modeling, as well as how the Fed responded to the Great Recession, COVID-19, and the early 2020s inflation. Recorded on Nov…
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Economic Growth, De-Population, and Macroeconomics with UPenn Econ Professor Jesus Fernández-Villaverde
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Jon Hartley and Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde discuss Jesus’s career, schools of economic thought and the role of institutions in economic history, economic growth (including recent declining GDP growth rates and declining fertility), business cycles, drivers of the early 2020s inflation, dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) and vector autore…
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Send us a text The Paralympic Games is an amazing event. However, when they are done these amazing adaptive sports virtually disappear. This episode of Twenty-First Century Disability looks at these parasports from a community, or grassroots level. This episode follows three parasports that are available in Ottawa, Canada. These parasports are powe…
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The Early 2020s: Former World Bank President David Malpass on COVID, Inflation, China, and Climate
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Jon Hartley and David Malpass discuss David’s career, and his service in government, including his time as president of the World Bank Group. They also discuss the changing role of China in international finance as well as the IMF and World Bank responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, the global distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, COVID-19 sovereign deb…
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Jon Hartley and Richard Clarida discuss the latter’’s career, academic contributions and government service, including his time as vice chair of the Federal Reserve. Their conversation covers key topics such as inflation in the early 2020s, monetary policy during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the upcoming Federal Reserve monetary policy framework revi…
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Jon Hartley and Edward Glaeser discuss the latter’s seminal work on urban economics, zoning, land use regulation, and economic growth. They also discuss industrial policy, the important role of human capital and education in economic growth, as well as why crime has rebounded in recent years. Recorded on August 26, 2024. ABOUT THE SPEAKERS: Edward …
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Jon Hartley and Steven Davis discuss Steven’s research career and seminal work on job flows, including the legacy of his classic book Job Creation and Destruction, co-authored with John Haltiwanger and Scott Schuh. They also discuss how we should think about full employment, how significant economic policy uncertainty is, and how important the shif…
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Send us a text This episode of Twenty-First Century Disability discusses the history of the Paralympic Games. Within the episode you will learn about its early beginnings as the Stoke Mandeville Games in Great Britain, to the Paralympic Games that we know and love today.由Hollis Peirce
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Bob Litterman (Kepos Capital) on Quantitative Investing, Liquidity Risk and Climate Policy
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Bob and Jon discuss Bob’s role in the history of the development of quantitative finance at Goldman Sachs, including his seminal work with Fischer Black, along with the carry trade liquidity crisis of August 2024 and its similarities to the quant crisis of 2007. They also discuss the case for quantitative investing and its ability to ride out risky…
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Greg and Jon discuss Greg’s career and main contributions to economics. This includes the development and limitations of New Keynesian models in the 1980s and 1990s as a tool for central banks to understand how the macroeconomy works. Jon and Greg also discuss economic growth, growth accounting and the Solow model. They conclude by talking about Gr…
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Send us a text This episode of Twenty-First Century Disability is a follow up episode to our previous one. It depicts my real life experiences in a complex/ post cute care which began in 2022. This is part two of a two part episode that revolve around the topics of the vulnerable patient.由Hollis Peirce
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Daron Acemoglu and Jon Hartley discuss Daron’s career and main contributions to economics, including the study of institutions as a fundamental contributor to economic growth. Jon raises the question of how regulation holds back growth, and by how much, and whether liberal vs. illiberal economic institutions might be a better taxonomy than inclusiv…
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Send us a text What is a vulnerable patient? What is it like to be a vulnerable patient in acute care? This episode of Twenty-First Century Disability answers these questions by depicting my real life experiences in acute care in 2021/2022. This is part one of a two part episode that revolve around the topics of the vulnerable patient.…
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Jon Hartley and John Cochrane introduce the Capitalism and Freedom in the 21st Century podcast to the Hoover audience. They speak on a number of topics including the usefulness of existing macroeconomic models, the use of economic models at central banks, the state of macroeconomics, the fiscal theory of the price level, and how technology, institu…
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Peter Ireland (Boston College Econ Prof) on Monetary Policy, Monetarism and New Keynesian Models
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Peter Ireland (Boston College Economics Professor) joins the podcast to discuss his career as a monetary economist, his views on the history of monetarism, New Keynesian models, and the Shadow Open Market Committee which Peter sits on and celebrates its 50th anniversary. Jon Hartley is an economics researcher with interests in international macroec…
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Dani Rodrik (Harvard Kennedy School Economics Professor) on Industrial Policy, Globalization and His Career
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Dani Rodrik (Harvard Kennedy School Economics Professor) joins the podcast to discuss his career, the best case for industrial policy, the labor market effects of globalization, and his vision of an ideal economic policy paradigm. Rodrik is the Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Gover…
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Send us a text In this episode of Twenty-First Century Disability, we take a deep dive into the world of occupational therapy. Amanda Sutherland, who is my occupational therapist here at Saint Vincent Bruyère, helps us to understand just how complicated a process it is to purchase a new chair for any patient. As an example we discuss just how many …
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Send us a text This episode is the first episode of season two of Twenty-First Century Disability! This episode celebrates March 1st as the International Wheelchair Day by describing the history of the wheelchair from its beginnings to the present day powerchair. This is part one of a two part episode. Part two will be released April 10th, 2024.…
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Steven D. Levitt (Freakonomics co-author and U Chicago Econ Prof) on His Career and Decision to Retire From Academic Economics
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Steven D. Levitt (Freakonomics co-author and University of Chicago Economics Professor) joins the podcast to discuss his career, including being an early leader in applied microeconomics and how the Freakonomics media empire got started, along with his recent decision to retire from academic economics. Transcript available here. Jon Hartley is an e…
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Larry Summers (Harvard Economics Professor) on His Career In Academic Economics, Government, University Leadership and Corporate America
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Larry Summers, Harvard economics professor and 71st US Secretary of the Treasury, joins the podcast for an in-depth discussion of his career at the highest levels of academic economics, economic policy, university leadership, and corporate America. Jon Hartley is an economics researcher with interests in international macroeconomics, finance, and l…
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Doug Ducey (Former Arizona Governor) on Passing Universal School Choice and Universal Licensing Recognition
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Doug Ducey, 23rd Governor of Arizona, joins the podcast to discuss how he made Arizona the first state to pass Universal School Choice and Universal Licensing Recognition as well as his major influences and career which includes growing Coldstone Creamery into an international company as CEO. Jon Hartley is an economics researcher with interests in…
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Send us a text When someone says the word 'identity', it can mean many different things to many different people. This episode discusses the term as it relates to disability. The topic of disability and identity is too complex to cover in a single episode. Therefore, we will begin with my perspective on the matter. Fear not, this subject will be co…
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Send us a text This episode of Twenty-First Century Disability is a VERY special episode. First, it is the second episode of a series of episodes that focuses on one specific type of disability. The disability which it discusses is Hemiplegia. Secondly, it is part two, of a two-part episode that is co-hosted by Christian Stylianou. Christian Stylia…
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Jennifer Burns (Hoover Reserch Fellow and Stanford Associate Professor of History) joins the podcast to discuss her career as well as her new biography Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023). We discuss the life of Milton Friedman including his very brief time in Chile, his intellectual development before and after…
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Send us a text This is the first-ever episode of a special series where we take more of a deep dive into a particular disability. Within this series of episodes, we will discuss the history of the disability, as well as whether or not there are different types of that disability. We will also chat with someone who either has that particular disabil…
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Antitrust Policy, The Chicago School Consumer Welfare Standard and The Rise of the New Brandeisians
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Luke Froeb joins the podcast to talk about his career in economics, what it's like to be the chief economist at the FTC and DOJ antitrust division, how these agencies make decisions about merger cases, the history of the Chicago School consumer welfare standard and the types of analytical tools and modeling that underlies the approach, along with t…
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