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Deborah Gordon on Ants, Humans, the Division of Labor and Emergent Order

发表于 2007-08-21 gordon division deborah

Deborah M. Gordon, Professor of Biological Sciences at Stanford University, is an authority on ants and order that emerges without control or centralized author…

Garett Jones on Stimulus

发表于 2011-09-19 hired stimulus garett

Garett Jones of George Mason University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the workers who were hired with money from the 2009 American Recovery and Re…

Lee Ohanian on the Great Recession and the Labor Market

发表于 2012-08-20 recovery ohanian recession

Lee Ohanian of UCLA talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the recession, the recovery, and the state of labor market. Ohanian describes the unusual aspect…

Mulligan on Redistribution, Unemployment, and the Labor Market

发表于 2012-12-03 recession redistribution mulligan

Casey Mulligan of the University of Chicago and the author of The Redistribution Recession, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in the book. M…

Daron Acemoglu on Inequality, Institutions, and Piketty

发表于 2014-11-03 piketty daron acemoglu

Daron Acemoglu, the Elizabeth and James Killian Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his new pape…

David Autor on Trade, China, and U.S. Labor Markets

发表于 2016-03-14 research communities labor

David Autor of MIT talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the fundamentals of trade and his research on the impact on workers and communities from trade wi…

Erik Hurst on Work, Play, and the Dynamics of U.S. Labor Markets

发表于 2016-11-21 dynamics hurst erik

Erik Hurst of the University of Chicago talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the state of the labor market in the United States. Hurst notes dramatic cha…

Mark Warshawsky on Compensation, Health Care Costs, and Inequality

发表于 2017-01-02 measures warshawsky compensation

Economist and author Mark Warshawsky of George Mason Univerity's Mercatus Center talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his work on the role health care be…

Purpose, Pleasure, and Meaning in a World Without Work (with Nicholas Bostrom)

发表于 2024-05-21 pleasure bostrom meaning

If you didn't have to work to enjoy material abundance, would you do it anyway? If an algorithm or a pill could achieve better results, would you bother shoppin…

The History of Labor Day

发表于 2014-09-02 began wages answer

It’s Labor Day and most of us are not working. We’ll tell you the reason you have the day off and the story of those who sacrificed so you could sleep in. Labor…