George Srour, founder of Building Tomorrow, a non-profit that builds schools in Uganda, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his experience starting, funding, and running an organization that tries to change the world one school at a time. Srour discusses how he tries to make sure that his organization accomplishes more than bricks and mortar and the rewards and challenges of a start-up non-profit.

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Srour on Education, African Schools, and Building Tomorrow

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SIPA`s Program in Economic Policy Management (PEPM) presents a panel discussion on `The Growth Report: Strategies for Sustained Growth and Inclusive Development,` released in October from the Commission on Growth Development. The panel discussion featured two members of the Commission, Robert Solow, Nobel Laureate and MIT Professor Emeritus, and Danny Leipziger, Vice-President of the World Bank. Columbia professors Jagdish Bhagwati and Guillermo Calvo hosted the guests and provided comments …

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The Growth Report

Robert Higgs, of the Independent Institute, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the Great Depression, the New Deal, and the effect of World War II on the American economy. Using survey results, financial data, and the pattern of investment in the 1930s, Higgs argues that New Deal policies created a climate of uncertainty that prolonged the Great Depression. Using consumption data, he argues that prosperity did not return during wartime, but rather after the war when government intervention in the economy subsided.

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Higgs on the Great Depression

This year’s Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to Paul Krugman for his insights into spatial concentration of economic activity and the relationships among industry clusters, firm or industry-specific economies of scale, and patterns of international trade. In illustrating the flavor of his theoretical work at his Nobel Prize lecture , Krugman explained the surprising prevalence of worldwide trade among goods within the same general product category

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Autos: A Further Loosening of the Manufacturing Belt?

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Steven Lipstein, President and CEO of BJC HealthCare–a $3 billion hospital system in St. Louis, Missouri–talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the economics of hospitals. They discuss pricing, the advantages and disadvantages of specialization in modern medical care, and culture and governance of non-profit hospitals vs.

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Lipstein on Hospitals

Eric Rauchway of the University of California at Davis and the author of The Great Depression and the New Deal: A Very Short Introduction, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the 1920s and the lead-up to the Great Depression, Hoover’s policies, and the New Deal. They discuss which policies remained after the recovery and what we might learn today from the policies of the past.

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Rauchway on the Great Depresson and the New Deal