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Economic Rockstar

Mar 30, 2018

Edward Castronova is professor of Telecommunication and Cognitive Science at Indiana University Bloomington. He pioneered the study of how money, value, and property flow inside online games like Everquest

Castronova’s paper Virtual Worlds: A First-Hand Account of Market and Society on the Cyberian Frontier became the...


Mar 23, 2018

David Zetland is an assistant professor at Leiden University College, where he teaches various classes on economics. He received his PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics from UC Davis in 2008.

He has previously featured on Episode 39 on the podcast.

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Mar 19, 2018

This is part 2 of my conversation with Eric Lonergan, hedge fund manager and author of Money.

If you'd like to hear more from Eric, please check out Episode 130 or visit www.economicrockstar.com/podcasts

Eric's work can be found at www.pholosophyofmoney.net


Mar 12, 2018

This episode is about 15 minutes of unreleased material from my conversation with Nobel laureate Professor Vernon Smith.

This was recorded in March 2017 and I had made this material available only to Patreon members. 

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Mar 1, 2018

Eric Lonergan is a macro hedge fund manager, economist, and writer. His most recent book is Money (2nd ed) published by Routledge. He has written for Foreign AffairsThe Financial Times, and The Economist. He also advises governments and policymakers. He first advocated expanding the tools of central banks to...