Bryan Caplan, of George Mason University and blogger at EconLog, talks about his book, The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies.

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Caplan on the Myth of the Rational Voter

Accountants and Auditors Job Description

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Accountants and Auditors Job Description

These are historic times in Bolivia with Evo Morales, the country’s first ever indigenous president, being sworn into office in January 2006.

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Bolivia for Sale: Damian Lewis reports

Nassim Taleb talks about the challenges of coping with uncertainty, predicting events, and understanding history. This wide-ranging conversation looks at investment, health, history and other areas where data play a key role

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Taleb on Black Swans

This video is the second half of an interview with Professor Noam Chomsky on American Foreign Policy in Latin America, and Latin American integration.

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Noam Chomsky: American Foreign Policy in Latin America (2)

This video is the first half of an interview with Professor Noam Chomsky on American Foreign Policy in Latin America, and Latin American integration. In the interview, Noam Chomsky addresses the traditional relationship between the United States and Latin America, the impact of neoliberal economic policies, and Latin America’s “turn to the left.” I am the Director of Investigative Reports for The Global Current, which is an international news show entirely run by undergraduate students at …

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Noam Chomsky: American Foreign Policy in Latin America (1)

Tyler Cowen, co-blogger (with Alex Tabarrok) at MarginalRevolution.com, talks about liberty, global warming, using the courts vs. regulation to protect people, the challenges of leading a country out of poverty, the political economy of cuisine, and a quick overview of the Washington, DC

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Cowen on Liberty, Art, Food and Everything Else in Between

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Accountant and Auditor Careers

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita of NYU and Stanford University’s Hoover Institution talks about the incentives facing dictators and democratic leaders. Both have to face competition from rivals.

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Bruce Bueno de Mesquita on Democracies and Dictatorships

What’s the difference between an accountant and an auditor? Basically accountants keep track of the money, and auditors check their work.

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Accountants and Auditors

Mike Munger of Duke University recounts the harrowing (and fascinating) experience of being in the path of a hurricane and the economic forces that were set in motion as a result. One of the most important is the import of urgent supplies when thousands of people are without electricity.

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Munger on Price Gouging

Russ Roberts talks to Milton Friedman about the radical ideas he put forward almost 50 years ago in Capitalism and Freedom. Listen to the most influential economist of the past 50 years discuss the principles of liberty, social responsibility of business, the inertia behind bad legislation and his career as economist and public intellectual.

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Friedman on Capitalism and Freedom