The Black Death

At VoxEU.org Mark Koyama is interviewed by Tim Phillips on the topic of The Black Death

Seven hundred years ago the worst pandemic in history killed almost half the population of Europe and the Middle East. Mark Koyama tells Tim Phillips about the centuries-long economic impact of the Black Death.

Questions about Neanderthals answered

From the BBC's History Extra Podcast comes this discussion about Neanderthals.

In an episode produced in collaboration with our colleagues at BBC Science Focus Magazine, archaeologist Rebecca Wragg Sykes tackles some of the big questions about Neanderthals and their relations with modern humans.

Latest Blogwatch column

My Blogwatch column from the latest issue (Issue 67, April 2020) of the NZAE magazine Asymmetric Information.

Recalibrating affirmative action

From The Glenn Show comes this video in which Professor Glenn Loury interviews Professor Peter Arcidiacono on affirmative action.

Wage and price controls in a pandemic

If there is one thing we don't need in a pandemic it's wage and price controls. From the Cato Daily Podcast comes this discussion of the effects of wage and price controls in the US. Caleb O. Brown interviews Ryan Bourne and they discuss the role of prices in helping economic actors to adjust to new realities.

George Selgin on Average Inflation Targeting and "The Menace of Fiscal QE"

From Macro Musings comes this video in which David Beckworth interviews George Selgin about the Fed’s new policy framework and Selgin's recent book titled, The Menace of Fiscal QE. Specifically, David and George discuss the Fed’s quantitative easing evolution, and how the move to a floor system helped pave the way for fiscal QE to become a more popular policy in the present.

 

Macro Musings · George Selgin on Average Inflation Targeting and *The Menace of Fiscal QE*

David Neumark - using minimum wages to fight inequality and poverty

From the School of Social Sciences at the University of California, Irvine comes this video in which Professor David Neumark talks about using minimum wages to fight inequality and poverty.