The Legal-Economic Nexus

We interview F. Gregory Hayden, Professor Emeritus of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is a well known founder of the social fabric matrix and has made other important advances in our understanding of institutional economics.

An Interview with the 2014 Veblen-Commons winner Sam Bowles of the Santa Fe Institute about inequality, history and archaeology.

On this episode we interview Assistant Professor Luke Petach form Belmont University about his new work looking at the famous Buchanan-Samuels correspondence and what was learned and not learned from that correspondence.

This episode is an interview with Marc Paul of Rutgers University about his new book "The Ends of Freedom" from the University of Chicago Press. The book is about America's lost promise of economic rights and how we can reclaim such rights and the importance of achieving this outcome.

An interview with American university professor Jon Wisman who is the most recent winner of AFEE's Veblen Commons award and author of the recent book "The Origins and Dynamics of Inequality"

We interview Phil O'Hara former President of the Association for Evolutionary Economics about his new book Principles of Institutional and Evolutionary Political Economy which is available now.

In this episode, we speak with Professor and Author Charles Camic about his 2022 book, Veblen: The Making of an Economist who Unmade Economics. Its a fascinating dive into understanding the forces that shaped Veblen's thinking and scholarship.

We interview Clara Mattei of the New School for Social Research on her new book "The Capital Order" which is a history of how Italian economists in particular helped shape the ideas of austerity under facism in Italy

In episode two, we interview Prof. James Galbraith of the University of Texas. James won the AFEE's Veblen-Commons award in 2020. He has authored many works in the areas of economic inequality, macroeconomics and developed our general understanding of the economy. We talk about his works, his thinking on inflation in the Post Covid economy and his fathers legacy, John Kenneth Galbraith.

In the first episode of season two of the legal-economic nexus podcast, we interview Prof. Malcom Rutherford of the University of Victoria and well known economic historian.

In this episode, we talk with Harvard Law professor Joseph Singer and make connections between approaches to law and institutional economics

In this episode, we talk with professor emeritus Glen Atkinson of the University of Nevada Reno

Geoff Hodgson is one of the most well known institutional economists today. In this interviews etch on his new book about heterodox economics and where he sees the future for this strand of economic thinking.

This episode is an interview with Colorado State University graduate student and AFEE social media coordinator Emily Hrovat

In this episode we welcome Dr. Charles Whalen to talk about his journey as an institutional economist, discussing the influence and work of economists such as John R. Commons and Hyman Minsky. We also discuss Whalen's edited work "Institutional Economics: Perspectives and Methods in Pursuit of a Better World", which features a chapter on institutional economic methods in the tradition of Allan Schmid co-authored by Klammer, Scorsone, and Whalen.

On the legal-economic nexus podcast, we interview institutional economists Mary Wrenn from the University of the West of England. We cover a wide range of topics including her background, identifying some key Veblenian concepts and the economics of the prosperity gospel.