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162: Jennifer Burns on Ayn Rand: Goddess of the Market and Objectivism

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162: Jennifer Burns on Ayn Rand: Goddess of the Market and Objectivism

Writing Advice:

Be happy with incrementalism. Write everyday. I have a schedule on and I’m very strict about it. I don’t try to force it, I don’t try to push it. I just try and do a little bit every day and I find if I’ve written everyday for a month, I’ve done this incredible amount of work.

So I think consistency is very much a part of it. And then you have to find a way to connect into why you’re writing and to really sort of feed that inner goal. So having questions or problems that are really intriguing to you because as a writer you have this unstructured time to write and you’re not going to write unless you’re really passionate about it.

Part of my writing practice is I don’t check my email and I don’t check the internet for certain times until I’ve done the writing. For me it works in the morning. And I do it by time and not by output.

Books:

Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right by Jennifer Burns

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

We the Living by Ayn Rand

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161: Tyler Cowen on Stubborn Attachments – A Vision for a Society of Free and Prosperous Individuals

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161: Tyler Cowen on Stubborn Attachments – A Vision for a Society of Free and Prosperous Individuals


Tyler Cowen is Holbert L. Harris Chair of Economics at George Mason University and serves as chairman and general director of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.

He is coauthor of the popular economics blog Marginal Revolution and cofounder of the online educational platform Marginal Revolution University.

His latest book ‘Stubborn Attachments’ is part of our discussion in this episode.

“This is a book I’ve been working on for 20 years. You can think of it as an account of my stubborn attachments which are to the ideas of economic growth and liberty and human rights and also sustainability. So if you go back and you look at say Hayek, Mises, Rothbard, John Rawls, Robert Nozick and John Stewart Mill, they’re all trying to justify their vision of a free society. And in my opinion actually all of those attempts failed. So I’m trying to reconstruct the case for freedom and economic growth and also economics as a way of approaching human phenomena using philosophical argument. So in a way it’s my most personal book. It’s my most direct book. It’s the kinda final bottom-line analysis ‘here’s what Tyler really thinks’ and for 20 years I would spend maybe a month a year working on the book, maybe two months a year. Always returning to it trying to improve it, changing my mind on things and this is the final result of that.” – Tyler Cowen on writing Stubborn Attachments

People Mentioned in this Episode:

Arjo Klamer, Kenneth Rogoff, Patrick Wolf (Hedge Funds), Paul Krugman, Adam Smith, John Maynard Keynes, Milton Friedmand, F. A. Hayek, Patrick Collison, Margaret Atwood, Daniel Kahnemann, Aristotle, Socrates, Ayn Rand, Spencer McCallum, William Boumal (was a wood sculptor), John Rawls, Robert Nozick, N. N. Taleb, Paul Ehrlich, Julien Simon, Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, The Beetles, Bob Dylan, Andy Warhol, Jasper Jones, Roy Fox Lichtenstein and Banksy.

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Writing Tips:

“Write every single day. Make it a routine. Even if it’s a small amount, I assure you if you write every day it will pile up and you’ll get things done.” – Tyler Cowen

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113: Jonathan McEvoy on Globalisation, National Autonomy, Capitalism and the Economic Resonance in Timeless Songs

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113: Jonathan McEvoy on Globalisation, National Autonomy, Capitalism and the Economic Resonance in Timeless Songs

Jonathan McEvoy is currently an undergrad student of economics at Waterford Institute of Technology in jonathan-mcevoy-economic-rockstarIreland.

He was recently recognised for being in the top 5% of the Business School at W.I.T, earning the honour of being on the Deans List for Academic Achievement.

Jonathan has a unique understanding of the world around us and, together with his love of economics, has a unique perspective on the economics discipline.

Jonathan’s desire to discover and explore the multitude of economic thinking, from Keynesianism to Marxism, has resulted in him creating a blog called Economics – Thoughts of a Student which can be found at jonathanmcevoy888.blogspot.com.

His recent career history has prepared him well to be great public speaker and communicator.

Jonathan is also an athlete and a top soccer player, having spent time with English Premier League clubs Manchester City and Tottenham Hotspur.

Jonathan’s interests also include Health, Human Rights, Politics, Civil Rights, Poverty Alleviation and Science and Technology.

Economics:

In this episode, Jonathan discusses and mentions: production possibility frontier, comparative advantage, production, services, efficiency, technology, foreign direct investment, tariffs, income, vertical farming, externalities, capitalism, profit, inequality, welfare, labour costs, GDP, economics of war and economics of romance.

Economists:

In this episode, Jonathan discusses and mentions: Adam Smith, John Maynard Keynes, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels and David Ricardo.

In this episode you will learn:

  • about the balance required between globalisation and national autonomy.
  • about Ireland’s role in CERN.

  • whether future-tech will improve humanity’s standard of living?

  • how economics and technology are inextricably interlinked.
  • why economists and technologists should increase collaboration for the betterment of society.
  • how the world’s production possibility frontier can move outward to reach once unimagined and unattainable outcomes.
  • whether ‘planetisation’ can be a reality.
  • the use of songs to capture the economic and social setting of an era.
  • and much much more.

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085: Michael Roberts on Understanding Karl Marx and His Thinking on Capitalism

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085: Michael Roberts on Understanding Karl Marx and His Thinking on Capitalism

Michael Roberts

Michael Roberts has worked as an economist for over 30 years in the City of London. He is author of The Great Recession: Profit cycles, economic crisis A Marxist View and The Long Depression: Marxism and the Global Crisis of Capitalism.

Economics:

In this episode, Michael mentions: Marxism, capitalism, Austrian economics, GDP, multinationals, inflation, printing of money, booms, busts, profitability, recession, depression, inequality, wealth, means of production, private property, competition, externalities, unintended consequences, bailout, austerity and unemployment.

Economists:

In this episode, Michael mentions: Karl Marx, Friedrich Hayek, Adam Smith, John Maynard Keynes, Brad DeLong and Paul Mattick.

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