4 episodes
Essential Scholars Fraser Institute
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Economist Rosemarie Fike explores the insights and lasting legacies of the world's greatest economists, thinkers and scholars, including: Adam Smith, F.A. Hayek, John Stuart Mill, Milton Friedman, John Locke, Elinor Ostrom, and many more. Learn about their most important ideas, which helped to shape the free and prosperous societies that many of us enjoy today. And discover why their insights are still relevant in today’s modern world. Visit www.essentialscholars.org to download books, explore our animated videos and more.
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Friedrich Hayek—Part 2: Hayek and Lockdowns
In this follow up to Part 1—just in time to honour the nearly 80-year anniversary of Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom—host Rosemarie Fike is once again joined by economist Donald Boudreaux of George Mason University to discuss how Friedrich Hayek shaped the field of political economy well into the 21st century. They even get into how Hayek would’ve felt about the state’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent lockdown measures taken during.
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Friedrich Hayek—Part 1: what intellectual history tells us about market signals; what market signals say about ourselves
In this installment of the Essential Scholars podcast—just in time for the nearly 80-year anniversary of Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom—host Rosemarie Fike is joined by economist Donald Boudreaux of George Mason University to discuss Hayek’s life, influence in the fields of political science, philosophy, and economics, and how he endured as possibly the most prominent economist of the 20th century.
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J.S. Mill—Part 2: Imagining a world with more than the basics
In this installment of the Essential Scholars podcast, host Rosemarie Fike and Dr. Sandra Peart of the University of Richmond discuss John Stuart Mill’s ongoing contributions in economics and philosophy, and how his vision of a world where people have access to more than the bare minimum basic necessities of life—or “lower pleasures”—is a vision we should all share. Visit www.essentialjsmill.org to learn more.
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J.S. Mill—Part 1: The moral, the political, and the economic
In this installment of the Essential Scholars podcast, host Rosemarie Fike is joined by Dr. Sandra Peart of the University of Richmond to discuss John Stuart Mill’s life, influence in the field of moral philosophy and economics, and how his experiences during the early half of the industrial revolution shaped his thinking. In the next episode, we'll explore why Mill's ideas are still relevant in today's modern world. Visit www.essentialjsmill.org to learn more.
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