Dr. Daveed Gartenstein-Ross is the founder and chief executive officer of Valens Global and a senior adviser at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. He has led numerous policy projects, including serving as the lead drafter of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s 2019 Strategic Framework for Countering Terrorism and Targeted Violence. His latest book is titled Enemies Near and Far: How Jihadist Groups Strategize, Plot, and Learn.

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Ep. 79 - Dr. Daveed Gartenstein-Ross | Featured Guest Interview

Dr. John LaMattina is the former President of Global Research and Development at Pfizer, overseeing the drug discovery and development efforts of over 13,000 colleagues across the world. He is now a Senior Partner and a member of the Board of Directors of PureTech Health. Holding a Ph.D. from the University of New Hampshire in Organic Chemistry, his latest book is titled Pharma and Profits: Balancing Innovation, Medicine, and Drug Prices.

Ep. 78 - Dr. John LaMattina | Featured Guest Interview

Dr. David Dranove is the Walter McNerney Distinguished Professor of Health Industry Management at Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management, where he is also a Professor of Strategy and the faculty director of the Kellogg Ph.D. program. Dr. Lawton Burns is the James Joo-Jin Kim Professor at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, where he is also a Professor of Healthcare Management, Professor of Management, and Codirector of the Roy and Diana Vagelos Program in Life Sciences and Management. Their latest book is titled Big Med: Megaproviders and the High Cost of Health Care in America.

Ep. 77 - Dr. David Dranove and Dr. Lawton Burns | Featured Guest Interview

Dr. Robin Goldstein is the Director of the Cannabis Economics Group and an economist in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Davis, where he studies the legal and illegal cannabis markets, with a focus on the effects of regulations and retail prices. Dr. Daniel Sumner is the Frank H. Buck, Jr., Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Davis and the Director of the University of California Agricultural Issues Center. He participates in research, teaching, and directs an outreach program related to public issues facing agriculture. Their latest book is titled Can Legal Weed Win? The Blunt Realities of Cannabis Economics.

Ep. 76 - Dr. Robin Goldstein and Dr. Daniel Sumner | Featured Guest Interview

Omid Malekan is an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School, where he lectures on blockchain and crypto. A nine-year veteran of the crypto industry, he spends most of his time as a consultant, educator, and advocate for this new way of building trust. Sometimes called the Explainer-in-Chief of blockchain technology, his latest book is titled Re-Architecting Trust: The Curse of History and the Crypto Cure for Money, Markets and Platforms.

Ep. 75 - Omid Malekan | Featured Guest Interview

Dr. Paul Oyer is the Mary and Rankine Van Anda Entrepreneurial Professor, Professor of Economics, and Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business and the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Labor Economics. Holding a Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University, he studies the economics of organizations and human resource practices. His latest book is titled An Economist Goes to the Game: How to Throw Away $580 Million and Other Surprising Insights from the Economics of Sports.

Ep. 74 - Dr. Paul Oyer | Featured Guest Interview

Dr. Leah Boustan is a Professor of Economics at Princeton University, where she also serves as the Director of the Industrial Relations Section. She is also the co-director of the Development of the American Economy Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Her research lies at the intersection between economic history and labor economics. Her latest book is titled Streets of Gold: America's Untold Story of Immigrant Success.

Ep. 73 - Dr. Leah Boustan | Featured Guest Interview

Dr. Mark Koyama is an Associate Professor of Economics at George Mason University and a Senior Scholar at the Mercatus Center. Holding a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Oxford, his latest book is titled How the World Became Rich: The Historical Origins of Economic Growth. 

Ep. 72 - Dr. Mark Koyama | Featured Guest Interview

Dr. Elizabeth Popp Berman is an associate professor of organizational studies at the University of Michigan and the author of Thinking Like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy. She is also a sociologist whose work is at the intersection of organizations, economic sociology, and the sociology of science and knowledge. Much of her work focuses on recent U.S. history and emphasizes the role of public policy. 

Ep. 71 - Dr. Elizabeth Popp Berman | Featured Guest Interview

Dr. Richard Holden is a Professor of Economics at UNSW Business School, director of the Economics of Education Knowledge Hub at UNSWBusiness, co-director of the New Economic Policy Initiative, and President of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. Holding a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University, his research focuses on contract theory, organizational economics, law and economics, and political economy. His latest book is titled From Free to Fair Markets: Liberalism after Covid.

Ep. 70 - Dr. Richard Holden | Featured Guest Interview

Dr. Vito Tanzi was a Professor and Economic Chair at American University, director for over 20 years of the Fiscal Affairs Department at the International Monetary Fund, and Undersecretary for Economy and Finance in the Italian Government. He is the honorary President of the International Institute of Public Finance (IIPF) in Munich, Germany. Holding a Ph.D. from Harvard University, his latest book is titled Fragile Futures: The Uncertain Economics of Disasters, Pandemics, and Climate Change. 

Ep. 69 - Dr. Vito Tanzi | Featured Guest Interview

Bill McKibben is the Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College and leader of the climate campaign group 350.org. His 1989 book The End of Nature is regarded as the first book for a general audience about climate change, and has appeared in 24 languages.  He has won the Gandhi Peace Prize, the Right Livelihood Award, and honorary degrees from 20 colleges and universities. Foreign Policy named him to its list of the world’s 100 most important global thinkers.

Ep. 68 - Bill McKibben | Featured Guest Interview

Dr. Christopher Blattman is the Ramalee E. Pearson Professor of Global Conflict Studies at the University of Chicago, studying why some people and societies are poor, unequal, and violent, and how to tackle these issues. Holding a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, his latest book is titled Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace, which draws on decades of economics, political science, psychology, and real-world interventions to lay out the root causes and remedies for war.

Ep. 67 - Dr. Christopher Blattman | Featured Guest Interview

Dr. Oded Galor is the Herbert H. Goldberger Professor of Economics at Brown University and the founder of the Unified Growth Theory. Holding a Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University, he is the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Economic Growth, Editor of the Journal of Population Economics, and Co-Editor of Macroeconomic Dynamics.

Ep. 66 - Dr. Oded Galor | Featured Guest Interview

Dr. Marc F. Bellemare is a Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota, where he is also the Director of the Center for International Food and Agricultural Policy. Holding a Ph.D. in Applied Economics from Cornell University, his research focuses on agricultural economics and applied econometrics, including agricultural value chains, risk and uncertainty, and the consequences of high and volatile food prices. His latest book is titled Doing Economics: What You Should Have Learned in Grad School–But Didn’t.

Ep. 65 - Dr. Marc F. Bellemare | Featured Guest Interview

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