EJW Audio

Tawni Ferrarini on Advanced Placement Economics

Tawni Ferrarini discusses her paper with James Gwartney and John Morton studying the content of AP® Economics: “Advanced Placement Economics: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly” (link). The paper and podcast offer constructive criticism for revising the content of the AP Economics materials. Parents, students, and educators involved in AP Economics will profit from the critique.

David Henderson on Economists and the Draft

David Henderson tells the story of how economists had a significant voice in ending conscription in the United States. The podcast summarizes the paper Henderson wrote for EJW, “The Role of Economists in Ending the Draft.”

W. R. Allen on UCLA Economics

W. R. Allen tells the story of the UCLA economics department and the distinctive community of scholarship that developed there. The podcast summarizes the memoir Allen has penned for EJW, “A Life Among the Econ, Particularly at UCLA”.

Wreck the Currency or Default on the Debt? Jeffrey Rogers Hummel Anticipates U.S. Sovereign Default

Jeffrey Rogers Hummel begins with his EJW article, “Death and Taxes, Including Inflation: The Public versus Economists” (link). He and Lawrence H. White move on to the brave new world of central banking and stark fiscal issues now looming in the United States.

Michael Marlow on Bans on Smoking and Politic­ally Incorrect Research

Michael L. Marlow discusses his EJW article “Honestly, Who Else Would Fund Such Research? Reflections of a Non-Smoking Scholar”.
Marlow also has been recently published in Cato Institute's Regulation magazine on the often uncounted costs of smoking bans to fraternal organizations, bars, and their patrons.

Richard Timberlake on the Gold Standard

Richard Timberlake discusses his August 2005 article in EJW, “Gold Standards and the Real Bills Doctrine in U.S. Monetary Policy.”

Bruce Benson’s Overcoming of False Identity

Professor Benson discusses his article in the September 2009 issue of EJW, titled “Economic Dissociative Identity Disorder: The Math Gamer, the Anti-Policy Econometrician and the Narrative Political Economist.”

Steven Horwitz on the 1930s and Beyond

Professor Horwitz discusses his article in the September 2009 issue of EJW, titled: “Great Apprehensions, Prolonged Depression: Gauti Eggertsson on the 1930s.”