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Moving to Opportunity (Re-broadcast)

Posted August 11, 2024

To what extent does where you live determine how you live? In particular, does growing up in a poor neighborhood reduce one's chances for economic and...

Voting, Income, and the Red-state, Blue-state Paradox (Re-broadcast)

Posted August 4, 2024

There's evidence that economically better-off voters tilt Republican. But there is a paradox. While richer voters tilt Republican, richer states tend...

A Brief History of International Trade (and Why It Matters Today) (Re-broadcast)

Posted July 28, 2024

Doug Irwin joins Michael Klein on EconoFact Chats this week to discuss how ideas about free trade have changed over the last 250 years. While most economists...

The Macroeconomics of the Outcome of the Election

Posted July 21, 2024

Presidential candidates promise economic prosperity. Yet views on how to achieve economic prosperity can diverge significantly — as they do between...

A Brief History of Globalization

Posted July 15, 2024

Many view the greater integration of the world economy as a relatively modern phenomenon. Christopher Meissner puts the current level of international...