The Legal-Economic Nexus: Recent Episodes
Eric Scorsone
The legal-economic nexus podcast intends to broaden listeners appreciation of different approaches to understanding the economy.
This episode is an interview with Marc Paul of Rutgers University about his new book "The Ends of Freedom" from the University of Chicago Press. The book is about America's lost promise of economic rights and how we can reclaim such rights and the importance of achieving this outcome.
An interview with American university professor Jon Wisman who is the most recent winner of AFEE's Veblen Commons award and author of the recent book "The Origins and Dynamics of Inequality"
In the first episode of season two of the legal-economic nexus podcast, we interview Prof. Malcom Rutherford of the University of Victoria and well known economic historian.
In this episode, we talk with Harvard Law professor Joseph Singer and make connections between approaches to law and institutional economics
In this episode, we talk with professor emeritus Glen Atkinson of the University of Nevada Reno
Geoff Hodgson is one of the most well known institutional economists today. In this interviews etch on his new book about heterodox economics and where he sees the future for this strand of economic thinking.
This episode is an interview with Colorado State University graduate student and AFEE social media coordinator Emily Hrovat
In this episode we welcome Dr. Charles Whalen to talk about his journey as an institutional economist, discussing the influence and work of economists such as John R. Commons and Hyman Minsky. We also discuss Whalen's edited work "Institutional Economics: Perspectives and Methods in Pursuit of a Better World", which features a chapter on institutional economic methods in the tradition of Allan Schmid co-authored by Klammer, Scorsone, and Whalen.
On the legal-economic nexus podcast, we interview institutional economists Mary Wrenn from the University of the West of England. We cover a wide range of topics including her background, identifying some key Veblenian concepts and the economics of the prosperity gospel.