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Jan. 4, 2022

Diane Coyle on How Economics Can Evolve with a Changing World

Professor Diane Coyle is the Bennett Professor of Public Policy at the University of Cambridge. Professor Coyle co-directs the Bennett Institute where she heads research under the themes of progress and productivity. She is also a Director of the Productivity Institute, a Fellow of the Office for N…

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Dec. 23, 2021

Catherine Tucker on Algorithmic Bias

Catherine Tucker is the Sloan Distinguished Professor of Management Science, Professor of Marketing, Chair of the MIT Sloan Ph.D. Program, a co-founder of the MIT Cryptoeconomics Lab, which studies the applications of blockchain, and also a co-organizer of the Economics of Artificial Intelligence I…

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Dec. 14, 2021

Adam White on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Adam White is the Co-Executive Director of the C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State at the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University. Adam is also a Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and a Public Member of the Administrative Conference of th…

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Dec. 9, 2021

Larry White on Antitrust & Market Delineation of Monopolization Cases

Dr. Larry White is the Robert Kavesh Professor of Economics at the NYU Stern School. He's also General Editor of the Review of Industrial Organization and the author of numerous articles and books on industrial organization, antitrust, general regulation, and financial & bank regulation. He has als…

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Nov. 2, 2021

Clifford Winston on Markets Helping Government

Dr. Clifford Winston is a senior fellow in the Brookings Institution's Economic Studies Program. He joined TPI Distinguished Senior Fellow Bob Hahn to discuss his book, "Gaining Ground: Markets Helping Government," which was published earlier this year by Brookings. This podcast is part of our spec…

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Oct. 26, 2021

Xiaomeng Lu on China's Tech Crackdown

Xiaomeng Lu is a Director in the Eurasia Group’s Geotechnology Practice, where she focuses on the interactions of emerging technologies with geopolitics, market dynamics, and regulatory norms. Before joining the Eurasia Group, she was the China Practice Lead at the consulting firm, Access Partnersh…

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Oct. 5, 2021

Mark Jamison on Regulatory Humility & Antitrust: Two Think Minimum

Dr. Mark Jamison is the Director and Gunter Professor of the Public Utility Research Center at the University of Florida's Warrington College of Business and a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he works on how technology affects the economy and on telecommunicat…

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Sept. 28, 2021

Edward Miguel on the “Replication Crisis” in Economics and How to Fix…

Professor Edward Miguel is the Oxfam Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics and Faculty Director of the Center for Effective Global Action at the University of California, Berkeley. We will be talking about his book, Transparent and Reproducible Social Science Research, written with Garr…

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July 12, 2021

Roger Noll on Antitrust and the NCAA

Roger Noll is Professor Emeritus of Economics at Stanford University, a Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economics & Policy Research. Prior to coming to Stanford, he has been a Senior Economist at the President's Council of Economic Advisors, a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution,…

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July 8, 2021

Michael Katz on Challenges to Antitrust Policy

Michael is Professor Emeritus at the Haas School of Business & Department of Economics, where he was the Sarin Chair in Strategy and Leadership of the Institute for Business Innovation. He has also served as the Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Economic Analysis in the Antitrust Division of th…

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June 23, 2021

Adam Gamoran on Evidence-Based Policy

Adam Gamoran is President of the William T. Grant Foundation. Before that, he was a professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Disclaimer: TPI received a grant from the William T. Grant Foundation that allowed us to explore ways in which the 2019 Evidence Act could be administer…

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June 4, 2021

Michael McConnell on Facebook's Oversight Board and Content Moderation

Today, we're delighted to have as our guest, Michael McConnell. If you've been following the news at all lately, you probably know Michael is co-chair of the Facebook Oversight Board, which last week published its decision in the case involving President Trump's access to Facebook following the Jan…

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May 19, 2021

Shane Greenstein on Innovation, the Internet Age, and the Future

Shane Greenstein is the Martin Marshall Professor of Business Administration and Co-Chair of the HBS Digital Initiative. He also co-directs the Program on the Economics of Digitization at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and because HBS provides such modest bios, we thought we would embell…

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May 6, 2021

Leah Nylen on Antitrust and Competition Policy in the Biden Administr…

It's been a big year for antitrust with possible major implications for the future structure of the economy. There's no sign that this action will slow anytime soon. Given all that, we're delighted to have crack Politico antitrust reporter and Leah Nylen with us today to hash it all out. Leah has r…

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April 12, 2021

Jon Baron on Evidence Based Policy at Arnold Ventures

Jon Baron is Vice-President of Evidence-Based Policy at Arnold Ventures. Before that, he founded the Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy, which worked with federal policy officials to advance evidence-based reform.

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April 7, 2021

Ronald Coase Institute President Mary Shirley on Institutions and Eco…

Dr. Mary Shirley is President of the Ronald Coase Institute, a nonprofit organization working to improve knowledge of institutions and to build the capacity of young scholars to analyze and overcome institutional problems in their own countries. Mary has a PhD in economics and has worked for over 3…

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March 25, 2021

What We Know And What We Don't Know

On our first completely internal podcast! Today, we're just going to take stock of the tech policy landscape. We'll talk mostly about the $1.9 trillion stimulus and a little bit of antitrust, and we'll figure out what we know and don't know. Hopefully, we'll have more of the know than don't know, b…

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March 9, 2021

Jeff Prince on Economics at the FCC and Platforms

Jeff Prince is Professor and Chair of Business Economics and Public Policy at the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University. He's also the Harold A. Poling Chair in Strategic Management and Co-Director of the Institute for Business Analytics at Kelley. He recently served as Chief Economist at t…

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Feb. 25, 2021

Paul Barrett on the False Claim that Social Media Censors the Right

Paul Barrett is Deputy Director of the Center for Business and Human Rights at the NYU Stern School of Business. He joined the center in September of 2017 after working for more than three decades as a journalist and author, focusing on the intersection of business law and society. Most recently, h…

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Feb. 18, 2021

Thomas Hazlett on Spectrum Policy

Today, we are delighted to have Professor Tom Hazlett. Tom was one of our very first guests back when we launched the podcast, and we're delighted to have him back for an encore performance. He holds the H.H. McCaulay Endowed Chair in Economics at Clemson and also serves as the Director of Clemson'…

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Feb. 8, 2021

Gus Hurwitz on the Rural Digital Divide and Platforms

Professor Justin (Gus) Hurwitz is an associate professor of law at the University of Nebraska, where he is also the Menard Director of the Nebraska Governance and Technology Center and the Co-Director of the Space, Cyber, and Telecommunications Law Program. He is also the Director of Law & Economic…

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Feb. 2, 2021

Cathryn Ross on the Regulatory Horizons Council and Re-Imagining Regu…

Cathryn Ross has worn many hats during her life. She's currently Director of Regulatory Affairs at the BT group, which is the largest provider of fixed-line broadband and mobile services in the UK. She's held key positions in regulation and the UK government and also worked in the private sector. P…

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Jan. 28, 2021

Nick Hart on Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act

Nick Hart is one of the world's experts in telling people how to get evidence-based policy to work in real-time. He's also the CEO of the Data Coalition. He helped shape the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act, and those of us in the know sometimes call it “the Evidence Act,” and he's w…

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Jan. 22, 2021

Stanford's Greg Rosston on the Future of Broadband Accessibility

Greg Rosston is the Gordon Cain Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and Director of the Public Policy Program at Stanford. He served as Deputy Chief Economist at the Federal Communications Commission, working on implementing the Telecommunications Act of 1996 and he…

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