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Birth rates are plunging around the world, including in countries once known for large families. What's driving the decline? University of Pennsylvania Professor of Economics @JesusFerna7026 joins @EconTalker to examine the mystery of falling fertility and its economic consequences. Watch a new episode of EconTalk from the @HooverInst, @Liberty_Fund, and @Econlib: plus.hoover.org/plus/researc…
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As global birth rates decline, economist @JesusFerna7026 examines how longer educational pathways, delayed careers, and rising housing costs are making it harder for young adults to start families. He explains how economic policies, particularly restrictive zoning laws, can delay marriage and parenthood by putting homeownership further out of reach. Watch the full conversation with @EconTalker on Hoover+: plus.hoover.org/plus/researc…
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Birth rates are plunging around the world, including in countries once known for large families. What's driving the decline? University of Pennsylvania Professor of Economics @JesusFerna7026 joins @EconTalker to examine the mystery of falling fertility and its economic consequences. Watch a new episode of EconTalk from the @HooverInst, @Liberty_Fund, and @Econlib: plus.hoover.org/plus/researc…
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Why do we keep doing things we know we shouldn't? Meghan O'Gieblyn joins @EconTalker to explore why willpower may not be enough to change our behavior—and why attention, habits, and the "choices in between the choices" may shape our lives more than we realize. Watch a new episode of EconTalk from the @HooverInst, @Liberty_Fund, and @Econlib: hoover.org/plus/research/add…
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Is AI governance a constitutional problem? Senior Non-Resident Scholar Paul Dragos Aligica says yes. In this article for @EconLib, he turns to Buchanan and Ostrom to ask what classical liberal principles, values, and institutional arrangements can offer in the AI era.
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Are we living in the new Dark Ages? Journalist @J_amesMarriott joins @EconTalker to explore whether the decline of reading threatens rational thought, democratic culture, and the gains of the Enlightenment—and whether reading can make a comeback. Watch a new episode of EconTalk from the @HooverInst, @Liberty_Fund, and @Econlib:
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What do you do when the incentives reward the wrong thing? Psychologist Adam Mastroianni (@a_m_mastroianni) joins Russ Roberts (@EconTalker) to explore why blindly following bad incentives can become "loser behavior"—and why figuring out right from wrong for yourself may be one of the hardest things we do. Watch a new episode of EconTalk from the @HooverInst, @Liberty_Fund, and @Econlib: hoover.org/plus/research/inc…
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Can a hard test reveal the best minds? Daisy Christodoulou (@DaisyChristo) joins Russ Roberts (@EconTalker) to explore meritocracy, expertise, and why even the brightest minds may struggle outside their domain. Watch a new episode of EconTalk from the @HooverInst, @Liberty_Fund, and @Econlib:
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He lost his childhood homes, dozens of family members, and most of his hearing in his left ear to Israeli bombs, yet Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib (@AFAlkhatib) insists that Palestinians must also take responsibility for Gaza's destruction and for peace. On a new episode of EconTalk, he envisions a demilitarized Gaza run by nonpartisan technocrats, a Palestinian identity defined by aspiration rather than opposition, and direct Israeli-Palestinian dialogue—starting with a "Great Reset" of 100 days without violence on either side. Watch the full conversation with @EconTalker from the @HooverInst, @Liberty_Fund, and @Econlib:
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September NO DUE DATE selection arrived today. Think about joining the group for the reading and the conversation.
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I am fascinated by the inability of people to process the actual argument about market theory and the price system that Mises/Hayek/Kirzner/Lavoie were making and why the fundamental problem with socialism is neither an incentive issue nor a computational complexity argument. Of course, socialism must face those two problems, but the deeper problem is one of the generation of the knowledge in the first place, and the contextual nature of that knowledge. Remove the context, the knowledge isn't difficult to process, IT IS NOT THERE. As Buchanan once tried to convey -- the market order is defined in the process of its emergence, and this is an open ended and creative process. Mechanism design theory never had an answer to this, and still does not.
Nicholas Martin@meilaobanAug 30
It is for this reason that i fundamentally do not understand leftist hostility to AI: it is the only currently plausible mechanism by which the classical Marxist objective of a wealthy industrial society based on a non-market economy could, potentially, be achieved. cc’ @lenitiv
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Tariffs have become a bigger part of the policy conversation lately, with some arguing they should be used deliberately as a strategic tool. Jon Murphy (@jonmurphy8289) with Nicholls State University traces that idea through history and finds a track record of mostly failed attempts.
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Are we alone—or do we just need to believe we aren't? Adam Kirsch joins @EconTalker to explore why belief in extraterrestrial life is going mainstream—and what our fascination with aliens reveals about loneliness, religion, extinction, and the human need for connection. Watch a new episode of EconTalk from the @HooverInst, @Liberty_Fund, and @Econlib:
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What if the Industrial Revolution began not with the steam engine—but with property rights? @BSwud joins @EconTalker to discuss how England's quiet legal revolution unlocked land, infrastructure, investment, and ultimately economic growth. Watch a new episode of EconTalk from the @HooverInst, @Liberty_Fund, and @Econlib:
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Six months into a stage-four pancreatic cancer diagnosis that gave him 90 days to live, @BenSasse sits down with @EconTalker for a conversation that refuses easy comfort. The former US senator and University of Florida president is candid about his physical challenges, but the heart of this exchange is elsewhere: what actually matters when time is short. Sasse reflects on faith and mortality, the "shattering of idols" like his own workaholism, and his pride in his marriage. Along the way, he offers sharp diagnoses of Congress's abdication of responsibility, the crisis inside American universities, and a republic distracted by the "digital casino" in its pocket. Funny, unflinching, and deeply human, the conversation closes with a meditation on raging against the dying of the light while walking with your head bowed. Watch a new episode of EconTalk from the @HooverInst, @Liberty_Fund, and @Econlib:
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Most discourse about Israel or Palestine is a morality play of good guys vs bad guys. @HusseinAboubak takes a different approach, seeing the conflict as a self-reproducing system of political and economic extraction. He joins @EconTalker to discuss his childhood in an Egypt organized around the liberation of Palestine and to explore why any exit from the system must run not through policy, but rather through the human need for meaning itself. Watch a new episode of EconTalk from the @HooverInst, @Liberty_Fund, and @Econlib:
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If no place on Earth is truly untouched, what does "wilderness" really mean? @CalFlyn joins @EconTalker to explore the surprising history of the world's wildest places—and why we still long to escape civilization. Watch a new episode of EconTalk from the @HooverInst, @Liberty_Fund, and @Econlib:
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What happens when a poet who survived prison revisits the world's oldest war story? @DwayneBetts joins @EconTalker to explore why Homer's Iliad endures—not because of war, but because of grief, friendship, mercy, and what it means to be human. Watch a new episode of EconTalk from the @HooverInst, @Liberty_Fund, and @Econlib:
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A nylon stocking filled with sawdust and grass seeds became the first step toward Spin Master—and eventually Paw Patrol. Ronnen Harary joins @EconTalker to discuss entrepreneurship, creativity, and building products that outlive their founders. Watch a new episode of EconTalk from the Hoover Institution, @Liberty_Fund, and @Econlib:
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Timeless puzzle of choosing in groups: How can the individual be free while subject to wills other than their own? Now solve that puzzle without recourse to any notion of the General Will. You have just entered the world of James M Buchanan - one of the most important democratic theorist of 20th century. @alain_marciano @mungowitz
Econlib@EconlibJun 28
Happy birthday to Jean-Jacques Rousseau, born this day in 1712. Champion of liberty, education, and popular sovereignty, Rousseau challenged generations to ask what makes a society just—and what it means to be truly free. oll.libertyfund.org/people/j…
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What if one of America's most common surgeries worked no better than a placebo? @DrJohnM joins @EconTalker to discuss a remarkable clinical trial, the surprising power of placebo and nocebo effects, and why humility, patience, and honest counsel may sometimes be better medicine than intervention. Watch a new episode of EconTalk from the Hoover Institution, @Liberty_Fund, and @Econlib:
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