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Econ Cafe
Hosted by Michael Mandel & Sean Flynn · EN
A lively conversation about today's news for economics students. In the length of a cup of coffee, Michael Mandel (author of "Economics: The Basics") and Sean Flynn (co-author of "Economics: Principles, Problems, and Policies" and "Economics for Dummies") cheerfully tackle the current events questions that economics students (and those that wish they were economics students) might be wondering about.
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Inflation 2022
Mar 22, 202200:19:11Tap to summarizeInflation is back--but for how long? Mike Mandel and Sean Flynn discuss the latest wave of inflation, and what might happen next.
Transcribe →Infrastructure economics
Apr 20, 202100:20:18Tap to summarizePresident Biden has proposed a big infrastructure spending package. Mike Mandel and Sean Flynn talk about the economics of infrastructure.
Transcribe →The Economics of Fiscal Stimulus
Mar 24, 202100:17:25Tap to summarizeMichael Mandel and Sean Flynn discuss the impact of President Biden's $1.9 trillion fiscal stimulus package.
Transcribe →The Economics of Vaccines
Feb 18, 202100:14:45Tap to summarizeMichael Mandel and Sean Flynn discuss the economics of developing the Covid vaccines.
Transcribe →The Covid Recession and the Stock Market
Nov 9, 202000:17:18Tap to summarizeMichael Mandel and Sean Flynn discuss the link between the Covid Recession and the stock market. What do the ups and downs of the market mean for the economy and the ordinary person?
Transcribe →Price Discrimination and the Covid Economy
Nov 9, 202000:11:04Tap to summarizeMichael Mandel talks with Michael Baye and Jeff Prince, authors of Managerial Economics & Business Strategy, about price discrimination in the Covid Economy.
Transcribe →Explaining Fed Chairman Jerome Powell's Big Speech: The Fed's New Approach to Inflation and Monetary Policy
Sep 7, 202000:09:40Tap to summarizeMichael Mandel and Sean Flynn explain Fed Chairman Jerome Powell's big speech on New Economic Challenges and the Fed's Monetary Policy Review (August 27, 2020). They discuss the Fed's new approach to inflation and monetary policy, and how it matters to economics students.
Transcribe →An Unplanned Experiment: How the Economic Response to Covid-19 Affected the Environment
Sep 7, 202000:10:20Tap to summarizeWe talk with Martha Field, co-author of Environmental Economics: An Introduction, about the pandemic's impact on the environment.
Transcribe →Covid Recession Versus The Great Depression
Aug 30, 202000:08:24Tap to summarizeThe pandemic has plunged the economy into a Covid Recession. Mike Mandel and Sean Flynn discuss why the Covid Recession is different from the Great Depression of 1929, and how government policy has changed.
Transcribe →The Covid Supply and Demand Shock
Aug 24, 202000:08:25Tap to summarizeThe Covid pandemic caused some of the fastest, biggest shifts of supply and demand curves in history. Textbook authors Michael Mandel and Sean Flynn explains what it all means
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