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Is Economic Populism Cooked?
Is Economic Populism Cooked?
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Through long-form interviews with economists, policymakers, and other guests, The New Bazaar explores how the economy is constantly reshaping the way we live — and how our choices in life are reflected back into the economy. Hosted by Cardiff Garcia, The New Bazaar is a production of the Economic Innovation Group.
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- Is Economic Populism Cooked? · 52 minThere are different ways to define economic populism. Very broadly, you can think of it as a series of policies that defy economic fundamentals, or at least economic conventional…
- Adam’s Top Five Unpopular Economic Beliefs · 1 h 6 minEIG Chief Economist Adam Ozimek joins Cardiff to share his five favorite unpopular beliefs. Adam believes these ideas are true, even if others may find them contentious, perhaps…
- Sex, Drugs, and Death · 1 h 8 minEconomist Alvin Roth, winner of the economics Nobel in 2012 for his work on market design, joins Cardiff to discuss his new book, Moral Economics: From Prostitution to Organ…
- Debt and Deficits: Time to Worry? · 1 h 13 minMartha Gimbel, executive director of The Budget Lab at Yale, returns to the New Bazaar to chat with Cardiff about all things debt and deficits. Martha argues that the fiscal…
- AI Shock vs the China Shock · 56 minThe China Shock of the 1990s and 2000s remains, even now, the subject of much debate. American consumers benefited from the cheaper goods that were imported from China. Some…
- A City From Scratch · 1 h 4 minThis episode is about an ambitious project to erect an entire new city in California, from scratch, about a one-hour drive north of San Francisco. The company that wants to build…
- Ideas for a Post-YIMBY Housing Future · 1 h 9 minArpit Gupta, a finance professor at NYU who has made important contributions on a startingly high number of topics, speaks with Cardiff about his latest contributions to the…
- The Roots of our Zero-Sum Moment · 56 minStefanie Stantcheva is an economist at Harvard and the head of the Social Economics Lab, where her team has done extraordinary work investigating how people form their opinions…
- AI and the Human Touch · 44 minEIG chief economist Adam Ozimek chats with Cardiff Garcia about Adam’s new post, AI and the Economics of the Human Touch. An excerpt: Either AI is so useless that we are in the…
- Crime, Leniency, and the Science of Second Chances · 1 h 7 minJen Doleac is an economist and the director of the Criminal Justice program at Arnold Ventures. She joins Cardiff on the show to chat about her upcoming new book, “The Science of…
- The Licensing Racket · 1 h 1 minNearly 30 million workers, or roughly one in five workers throughout the country, are required to have a professional license before they can do their jobs. That’s more than…
- The surprising economics of the world’s most valuable asset · 1 h 0 minMike Bird, the Wall Street editor of The Economist, joins Cardiff to discuss his new book, The Land Trap: A New History of the World’s Oldest Asset. By one estimate, the value…
- Lessons of the Rare Earths Showdown · 59 minHow can the United States make its economy more resilient not just to future economic shocks but the threat of such shocks from its geopolitical rivals? Arnab Datta has spent…
- Housing and the Politics of Place · 49 minWhat accounts for the astonishing streak of YIMBY wins this year — and which concessions, if any, should they consider offering to the NIMBYs? Should the center-left Abundance…
- Attention and the Possibility of Persuasion · 1 h 11 minJerusalem Demsas is one of Cardiff’s favorite econ and housing journalists, a previous New Bazaar guest, and now the founder and editor of The Argument, a new magazine dedicated…
- Is the US about to fix its housing problem? · 1 h 14 minThe ROAD (Renewing Opportunity in the American Dream) to Housing Act is a bipartisan bill now making its way through Congress. And as today’s guest, Alex Armlovich, and his…
- Bubbly markets and the TACO trade · 1 h 8 minRob Armstrong is the writer who first coined the acronym in The TACO Trade, which stands for Trump Always Chickens Out, in a column back in April. He wasn’t trying to go viral…
- AI and Jobs: What Do We Really Know? · 57 minWill artificial intelligence help you do your job, or will it just straight-up do your job and leave you unemployable? Or will the future bring something else entirely — either…
- The US-China Trade War: Causes and Consequences · 53 minIt's hard to think of a better guide to the ongoing US-China trade war than Evan Medeiros. A professor at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service and a lifelong scholar…
- Tariffs and the global fallout · 1 h 6 minChad Bown is not just among the world’s most respected trade economists. He is also perhaps the single most careful tracker of real-time trade activity — which obviously makes…
