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The Marginal Revolution Podcast

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Fréquence : 1 épisode/44j. Total Éps: 13

Marginal Revolution has been one of the most influential economics blogs in the world for over two decades thanks to its sharp economic analysis and thought-provoking ideas. Now, co-creators Alex Tabarrok and Tyler Cowen are bringing their nerdy winsomeness to your earbuds. Each episode features Alex and Tyler drawing on their decades of academic expertise to tackle whatever economic idea is currently tickling their noggins.

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1970s Inflation: The Economic Fever That Changed America

Saison 1 · Épisode 1

vendredi 20 septembre 2024 • Durée 34:45

Welcome The Marginal Revolution Podcast! In the Season 1 premiere, Alex and Tyler kick off a 3-part series on the 1970s by exploring the decade's defining economic challenge: rampant inflation. They debate the factors behind the inflationary surge, from Keynesian spending policies to the collapse of Bretton Woods to contentious Fed policies. They end by drawing parallels to modern times, questioning why inflation in the 2020s has been curbed with less economic pain. Prepare for a lively discussion and a dash of economist-bashing along the way!

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Recorded July 17th, 2024

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The Economics Nobel: Predictions, Missed Opportunities, and Questionable Winners

Saison 1 · Épisode 2

mardi 8 octobre 2024 • Durée 39:05

Alex and Tyler share their predictions for the upcoming Nobel Prize in economics, considering potential winners like Michael Woodford for monetary theory, Susan Athey for her bringing machine learning , and Ariel Pakes for industrial organization. They reflect on overlooked economists such as Robert Barro, Richard Posner, Gordon Tullock, Armen Alchian, and Anthony Downs, while also highlighting the importance of dataset creators, including John Haltiwanger, Steven Davis, and the creators of the Penn World Table. They also explore non-traditional picks like Vitalik Buterin for his contributions to crypto, while calling out some questionable past winners.

If you love speculating about who deserves a Nobel—or can’t resist reminding everyone the economics prize technically isn't one—this is your episode.

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Recorded Sep 19th, 2024

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Oil Shocks, Price Controls, and War

Saison 1 · Épisode 3

mardi 22 octobre 2024 • Durée 46:09

In this second installment of their three-part series on the 1970s, Alex and Tyler unravel the economic and geopolitical forces behind the oil shocks that upended global global markets, triggered economic crises, and forced a dramatic reshaping of U.S. energy policy. Along the way, they debate whether the shocks ultimately led to long-term benefits like the rise of alternative energy and the fracking revolution, or if they merely prolonged economic pain. The conversation ranges from OPEC’s newfound power and the Yom Kippur War’s role in reshaping oil markets to broader questions about how shocks like these influence policy in the long-term. They close by reflecting on how the policy failures of the 1970s paved the way for Milton Friedman’s rise to prominence, and why his ideas—born from an era of rampant inflation and misguided price controls—remain crucial for understanding today’s economic challenges.

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Recorded July 17th, 2024

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The 1970s Crime Wave

Saison 1 · Épisode 4

mardi 12 novembre 2024 • Durée 51:09

In this final installment of their series on the 1970s, Alex and Tyler turn to the social upheaval and crime wave that marked the decade as one of America’s most turbulent. They explore how rising crime rates transformed cities, fueled a national sense of fear, and led to far-reaching policy shifts, including mass incarceration and changes in urban policing. From the shocking statistics on homicide and stranger violence to the rise of serial killers and political bombings, they consider how the era’s unprecedented violence influenced American culture and policy. The conversation concludes with a caution against complacency, as they reflect on how fragile today’s low-crime environment may be—and what lessons from the past should guide us in preserving it.

Recorded July 17, 2024

Transcript, video, and links: https://www.mercatus.org/marginal-revolution-podcast/1970s-crime-wave

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The Economics of Insurance

Saison 1 · Épisode 5

mardi 19 novembre 2024 • Durée 58:46

In this episode, Alex and Tyler dive deep into the fascinating and often misunderstood world of insurance, exploring how this trillion-dollar industry underpins modern economies while shaping human behavior in surprising ways. From its ancient roots in maritime adventures to the revolutionary development of life insurance, they unravel the economic logic and social norms that made this market possible. Along the way, they grapple with enduring puzzles: Why do people insure against some risks but not others? Why did life insurance once seem repugnant, only to become a moral imperative? How has the industry's ability to manage moral hazard and agency problems evolved—or not? From mutual aid in Indian villages to the legacy of 17th-century tontines, the conversation illuminates the ways in which insurance reflects both the limits of human foresight and our relentless attempts to navigate an uncertain world.

Recorded March 14, 2024

Transcript and links: https://www.mercatus.org/marginal-revolution-podcast/economics-insurance

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00:00 - The size and benefits of the insurance industry
02:35 - Insurance as a transaction enabler
10:13 - Nicholas Barbon, Robin Hanson, and insurance bundling
18:22 - The effect of advances in mathematics on insurance
23:45 -Tradable insurance as an early prediction market
32:54 - Risks we don't insure against
37:12 - Charles Ives and changing social attitudes around life insurance
41:33 - Will repugnance fade for paid organ donations as it did for life insurance?

The Quest to Price Options

Saison 1 · Épisode 7

mardi 17 décembre 2024 • Durée 44:17

In the final episode of Season 1, Alex and Tyler explore one of the most consequential quests in the history of economics and finance: the decades-long search for a formula to price options. From Louis Bachelier's groundbreaking work in 1900 to the eventual triumph of Black, Scholes, and Merton in the 1970s, they trace how brilliant minds across mathematics, physics, and economics gradually unlocked the how to properly price financial instruments like calls and puts. Along the way, they examine how this theoretical breakthrough revolutionized modern markets, sparked the creation of the Chicago Board Options Exchange, and transformed our understanding of uncertainty and risk management. The conversation ranges from the hidden histories of early options traders to how options theory now shapes everything from portfolio insurance to oil well investments to mega-sized chip plants. They close by reflecting on how options theory has become fundamental to modern decision-making far beyond trading floors, revolutionizing how we think about and manage uncertainty across the entire economy.

Transcript and links: https://www.mercatus.org/marginal-revolution-podcast/quest-price-options

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00:00 - The puzzle of pricing options
03:46 - Louis Bachelier's contribution
09:52 - Enter Paul Samuelson
15:05 - Black, Scholes, and Merton
27:05 - Kassouf, Thorp, and cashing in on options theory
32:28 - Other applications of options pricing theory

Recorded 4/12/2024

The New Monetary Economics

Saison 1 · Épisode 6

mardi 3 décembre 2024 • Durée 48:17

In this exploration of the "new monetary economics," Alex and Tyler revisit the ideas of thinkers like Fischer Black, Eugene Fama, and Robert Hall, whose bold views about the Fed and the money supply once seemed detached from reality but now increasingly describe the financial world we inhabit. They explore why traditional measures like the money supply are becoming obsolete, how crypto and stablecoins are reshaping monetary systems, and why AI might emerge as a major consumer—and creator—of cryptocurrencies. They also discuss the paradox of pegged currencies, the lessons of algorithmic stablecoin failures like Terra, and the surprising connections between fiscal and monetary policy in a world of increasingly liquid assets. Finally, they reflect on how the unconventional ideas of new monetary economics, once dismissed as fringe, are now critical for understanding our modern financial landscape.

Recorded March 14, 2024

Transcript, video, and links: https://www.mercatus.org/marginal-revolution-podcast/new-monetary-economics

Chapters

00:00 - Outlining the ideas of new monetary economics
09:03 - The difficulty of defining the money supply
17:36 - What determines the inflation rate?
22:32 - Crypto's role in validating new monetary economics
26:02 - The role of the Fed in a Modigliani-Miller world
32:09 - Stablecoins and the paradox of pegs
46:11 - The bottom line

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In Praise of Commercial Culture

Saison 2 · Épisode 1

mardi 23 septembre 2025 • Durée 01:03:43

Tyler and Alex revisit Tyler’s 1998 book and trace how commerce disciplines and amplifies creativity. Great artists bargained hard because money buys orchestras and time. “Inspired consumption” means high-quality audiences shape better art. Dynamic, Hayekian competition discovers new genres, while pulp cross-subsidizes the sublime. They disentangle when government support works, why TV improved with entry and subscriptions, how “payola” rhymes with supermarket slotting fees and with Spotify’s algorithmic era, and why some modern art maligned as minimal is, in fact, marvelous. Along the way they touch on reading’s spiky renaissance, textiles as the smartest undervalued collectible, the real story on brutalism (is the DC Metro overrated?), and a sober take on cultural pessimism’s recurring illusions—plus what all this implies for AI-era culture.

Transcript and links: https://www.mercatus.org/marginal-revolution-podcast/praise-commercial-culture

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Chapters

0:00:00 Why Alex loves the book
00:02:05 The challenge of getting it published
00:04:10 Mozart was motivated by money
00:06:40 Great audiences create great art
00:08:25 Economics of the avant-garde
00:13:39 Good and bad government art funding
00:17:22 Golden era TV
00:20:20 Book publishing and reading
00:26:43 Competition as a dynamic discovery process

Favorite Models: Spence on Monopolies, Harberger on Incidence, Solow on Growth

Saison 2 · Épisode 2

mardi 7 octobre 2025 • Durée 55:16

Alex and Tyler put three classic models through their paces. Alex starts with Spence on how a monopolist chooses quality and applies it to how the New York Times’ paywall flipped its audience incentives. Tyler pushes back, arguing that network effects and loyalists matter more than marginal customers. They move to Harberger on tax incidence and the hidden winners and losers of corporate taxes, minimum wages, and congestion pricing. Finally, Solow’s growth model frames a conversation on why some countries catch up and others stall, including what it gets right about China, and what it misses. Together, their debate shows why the best models keep earning their place—not because they’re perfect, but because they still shape how we think even when they’re wrong.

Transcript: https://www.mercatus.org/marginal-revolution-podcast/favorite-models-spence-monopolies-harberger-incidence-solow-growth

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Timestamps:

00:00 Intro
00:19 Spence's monopoly model
07:08 How Spence applies to NYT and HBO
16:13 Alex and Tyler's approach to writing a textbook
20:43 Harberger's model of who pays tax
24:44 Harberger's model as applied to congestion and minimum wages
33:54 Solow's growth model
42:22 What Solow's model misses

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The Baumol Effect

Saison 2 · Épisode 3

mardi 21 octobre 2025 • Durée 51:26

Why are college tuition, healthcare, and car repairs eating up bigger shares of our budgets? Alex says it's all about the Baumol effect, a deep economic insight about relative prices that explains why labor-intensive services inevitably become more expensive over time. Tyler isn't buying it. He thinks the Baumol effect is often invoked as an ex-post explanation but can’t make predictions. Further, there’s not enough Kelvin Lancaster in Baumol, Tyler argues—not enough attention to bundle of characteristics that define what a good really is.

In this episode, Alex and Tyler debate whether the Baumol effect is profound or overstated. They wrestle with examples ranging from haircuts in India to doggy daycare in Northern Virginia to Soviet-era ballet prices, touching on what poor countries can teach us about service costs and whether we're headed toward a future of AI tutors and robot mechanics. They also explore Staffan Linder's theory of the "harried leisure class"—the idea that as we get richer, we try to squeeze more utility into less time, making even our leisure more goods-intensive and rushed.

Link to transcript: https://www.mercatus.org/marginal-revolution-podcast/baumol-effect

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Timestamps
00:00 Introduction
00:34 Baumol effect overview
03:28 Critique of Baumol and whether it applies to higher education
09:06 Product quality, Lancastrian bundles, and replacement as repair
15:45 Music industry productivity growth
18:52 Rising healthcare costs: Baumol or improved quality?
22:39 Why haircuts are cheap in India
30:44 The difficulty in predicting productivity gains
34:47 Childcare as a clear example of the Baumol effect
37:26 Are repairs getting cheaper or more expensive?
47:18 The Staffan Linder effect

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