Jon Murphy on Teaching Economics, the Nobel Prize, and What Economists Should Do

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Loose, Vague, and Indeterminate

George Mason Economics Society

14 episodes

5 days ago

Loose, Vague, and Indeterminate is the podcast of the Economics Society at George Mason University. The title is a phrase used by Adam Smith in The Theory of Moral Sentiments to describe the set of rules that are not "precise and accurate." Since economics is all about people and the decisions they make, very little of it is precise and accurate. Every Friday, this podcast dives into the looseness, vagueness, and indeterminacy with interviews of undergraduate students, graduate students, professors, and outsiders exploring economics from all angles.

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Jon Murphy on Teaching Economics, the Nobel Prize, and What Economists Should Do

Loose, Vague, and Indeterminate

54 minutes 50 seconds

6 years ago

Jon Murphy on Teaching Economics, the Nobel Prize, and What Economists Should Do

On Episode 4 of Loose, Vague, and Indeterminate, Rajee Agrawal joins me as cohost to talk to PhD student Jon Murphy. We ask Jon about his experience teaching introductory economics, international economics, and law and economics. We also discuss the recent Nobel Prize in Economics winners and the prize in general. Jon talks about what economists should do and retells a classic story about Ronald Coase at the University of Chicago.