New York Times Op-Ed columnist David Brooks joins Daniel Kahneman, noted psychologist and Nobel Laureate in economics, to discuss the latter's storied career and latest book, Thinking, Fast and Slow.

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Added: Fri Mar 09 01:00:15 UTC 2012
Air date: Wed Jan 11 00:00:00 UTC 2012
Duration: 1:15:35

Are there limits to perpetual growth? Physics professor Tom Murphy takes a look at American energy consumption data to revisit what the notion of "sustainability" really means.

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Added: Thu Jan 12 18:20:13 UTC 2012
Air date: Fri Jan 06 00:00:00 UTC 2012
Duration: 23:56

What is the relationship between technology and the spread of free enterprise? Shelley Leibowitz, CIO of the World Bank, and Steve Rubinow, VP of NYSE Euronext, explain how their organizations view technology's impact on emerging global markets.

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Added: Wed Aug 17 06:34:11 UTC 2011
Air date: Wed Aug 17 00:00:00 UTC 2011
Duration: 23:42

Adam Davidson, a host of NPR's Planet Money radio show and podcast, takes an engaging look at how technology is rapidly changing even the most traditional of American industries.

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Added: Mon Jul 25 00:47:09 UTC 2011
Air date: Sat Jul 23 00:00:00 UTC 2011
Duration: 21:40
Rating: 3.9 / 5.0

As a principal creative mind behind several of the most innovative ad campaigns of the last decade, Andrew Keller, CEO of award-winning agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky, knows effective advertising. In this interview, he shares a few tricks of the trade.

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Added: Mon Jul 25 00:47:09 UTC 2011
Air date: Sat Jul 23 00:00:00 UTC 2011
Duration: 26:10

Could the global economic meltdown of the last few years have been prevented? Charles Ferguson's "Inside Job," the 2010 Academy Award winner for Best Documentary, makes the powerful case that that the crisis was no accident.

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Added: Fri Jun 17 03:44:11 UTC 2011
Air date: Thu Jun 16 00:00:00 UTC 2011
Duration: 1:06:10
Rating: 4.4 / 5.0

Everything's going to Hell in a handbasket! Or is it? Author and former Economist editor Matt Ridley takes a long-term view of humanity's past to project a deeply optimistic view of our future.

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Added: Sun May 01 21:41:09 UTC 2011
Air date: Fri Apr 29 00:00:00 UTC 2011
Duration: 1:36:56
Rating: 4.7 / 5.0

Following on the heels of her bestselling and controversial book Dead Aid, international economist Dambisa Moyo sharply rebukes the economic myopia of the West while calling for radical solutions to salvage its global economic power.

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Added: Mon Mar 07 00:25:11 UTC 2011
Air date: Fri Mar 04 00:00:00 UTC 2011
Duration: 1:05:44
Rating: 4.1 / 5.0

As the world's economies struggles to recover, America's days as a lone superpower appear to be numbered. Niall Ferguson, David Gergen, and Mort Zuckerman debate the lingering effects of financial crisis on the global status of the United States.

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Added: Sat Feb 05 21:12:11 UTC 2011
Air date: Fri Feb 04 00:00:00 UTC 2011
Duration: 58:45
Rating: 4.1 / 5.0

In this episode of the Hoover Institution's Uncommon Knowledge, Gary Becker, Nobel laureate and a founder of the Chicago School of Economics, discusses topics including the global financial crisis, healthcare reform, and the Federal Reserve System.

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Added: Sun Jan 09 20:36:08 UTC 2011
Air date: Fri Jan 07 00:00:00 UTC 2011
Duration: 37:02
Rating: 3.6 / 5.0

Although Prop 19 failed at the polls, California's debate over legal marijuana continues to roil. In this panel from October 2010, advocates from both sides weigh in on the potential risks and rewards of "legalizing it" once and for all.

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Added: Sat Dec 18 17:19:07 UTC 2010
Air date: Fri Dec 17 00:00:00 UTC 2010
Duration: 1:05:13
Rating: 3.7 / 5.0

Wine Library TV's Gary Vaynerchuk gives his no-holds-barred take on how modern businesses must adapt to thrive in a social media-driven culture. Viewer advisory: This program contains explicit language.

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Added: Tue Nov 30 04:05:21 UTC 2010
Air date: Sun Nov 28 00:00:00 UTC 2010
Duration: 10:38
Rating: 4.2 / 5.0

In this interview the Commonwealth Club of California, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geither fields questions about the government's plans to create jobs, add stability to the nation's financial system, and encourage long-term growth for the economy.

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Added: Sun Oct 31 23:58:08 UTC 2010
Air date: Thu Oct 28 00:00:00 UTC 2010
Duration: 1:04:57

Is it ethical to sell citizenship? Pay children to study? Outsource pregnancy to India? In this highly engaging presentation, political philosopher Michael Sandel challenges his audience to think critically about issues in morality and the free market.

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Added: Sat Sep 25 12:11:11 UTC 2010
Air date: Fri Sep 24 00:00:00 UTC 2010
Duration: 1:06:13
Rating: 4.1 / 5.0

Some estimates rate marijuana as California's largest cash crop. Legalization would bring the state much-needed tax revenue, but do risks outweigh the potential benefits? Representatives for both sides of the debate sound off in this panel discussion.

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Added: Sun Sep 19 20:28:10 UTC 2010
Air date: Sat Sep 18 00:00:00 UTC 2010
Duration: 1:03:49
Rating: 3.7 / 5.0

We're not always rational. But is that such a bad thing? Celebrated author, NPR contributor, and Duke University professor Dan Ariely delves further into the burgeoning field of behavioral economics with his latest enlightening book.

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Added: Sun Aug 15 04:02:09 UTC 2010
Air date: Sat Aug 14 00:00:00 UTC 2010
Duration: 1:08:58
Rating: 4.3 / 5.0

With his new book Crisis Economics, renowned economist Nouriel Roubini reveals the methods he used to foretell the financial crisis before others saw it coming, and shows how those methods can help make sense of the present and prepare for the future.

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Added: Mon Jun 21 00:43:03 UTC 2010
Air date: Sun Jun 20 00:00:00 UTC 2010
Duration: 58:48
Rating: 3.7 / 5.0

In a conversation with Salon's Andrew Leonard, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz sifts through the wreckage to reveal the source of America's economic meltdown, and offers his vision for moving forward.

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Added: Mon May 10 23:26:06 UTC 2010
Air date: Wed Apr 28 00:00:00 UTC 2010
Duration: 1:06:21
Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

Economist Paul Romer outlines his groundbreaking economic theory of history. Romer explains phenomena such as the constant improvement of the human standard of living by looking primarily at just two forms of innovative ideas: technology and rules.

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Added: Wed May 05 17:42:06 UTC 2010
Air date: Wed Apr 28 00:00:00 UTC 2010
Duration: 51:59
Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

If economics is about choices, who gets to make them? Author Raj Patel says that prices often mislead us, obscuring the true, "hidden" costs of goods and services. Would you pay $200 for a hamburger? Would you believe that you already do?

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Added: Mon Feb 22 02:57:05 UTC 2010
Air date: Thu Feb 18 00:00:00 UTC 2010
Duration: 1:06:55
Rating: 3.2 / 5.0