Essential Scholars
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Robert Nozick Part 2: An Examined Life
13 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Aeon J. Skoble, Professor of Philosophy at Bridgewater State University and author of The Essential Nozick, once again joins host Rosemarie Fike t...
Robert Nozick Part 1: Why People Exist for Their Own Sake and Purposes
06 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Aeon J. Skoble, Professor of Philosophy at Bridgewater State University and author of The Essential Nozick, joins host Rosemarie Fike to talk abou...
Joseph Schumpeter Part 2: Technology, Innovation, and the Workforce
15 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Russell S. Sobel, co-author of The Essential Joseph Schumpeter and Professor of Economics & Entrepreneurship in the Baker School of Business at...
Joseph Schumpeter Part 1: Why People Come Back for More
30 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Russell S. Sobel, co-author of The Essential Joseph Schumpeter and Professor of Economics & Entrepreneurship in the Baker School of Business at T...
Milton Friedman Part 2: Government Control and Long-Term Consequences
16 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Steven E. Landsburg, Professor of Economics at the University of Rochester and author of The Essential Milton Friedman, returns to discuss Friedman’...
Milton Friedman Part 1: Monopolies and Rising Prices
04 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Steven E. Landsburg, Professor of Economics at the University of Rochester and author of The Essential Milton Friedman, joins host Rosemarie Fike to d...
Ronald Coase Part 2: Markets Don’t Fail, They Fail to Exist
20 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Lynne Kiesling, author of The Essential Ronald Coase, once again joins host Rosemarie Fike to discuss Ronald Coase, specifically his theory of mar...
Ronald Coase Part 1: Reconciling Theory with Reality
06 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Lynne Kiesling, author of The Essential Ronald Coase, joins host Rosemarie Fike to discuss Ronald Coase, one of the most influential economic thi...
David Hume Part 2: With Prosperity for All
30 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr.James R. Otteson, Professor of Business Ethics at the University of Notre Dame and author of The Essential David Hume, joins host Rosemarie Fike on...
David Hume Part 1: The Good, the Bad, and the Governmental
16 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. James Otteson, John T. Ryan Jr. Professor of Business Ethics at the University of Notre Dame and author of the Essential David Hume, joins host Ro...
Essential Scholars: Women of Liberty—Elinor Ostrom and the Bottom-Up Approach to Community Maintenance
08 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Jayme Lemke, Senior Fellow at George Mason University’s Mercatus Center, and host Rosemarie Fike discuss Nobel Prize winning economist Elinor Os...
Austrian Economics Part 2: Government Intervention and the Assumption of Power
26 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Christopher J. Coyne, Professor of Economics at George Mason University and co-author of The Essential Austrian Economics, returns to the podcast to ...
Austrians Economics Part 1: The Little Things that Keep the World Turning
12 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Christopher J. Coyne, Professor of Economics at George Mason University and co-author of The Essential Austrian Economics, joins host Rosemarie Fike t...
James Buchanan Part 2: Self Interest & Rational Ignorance
05 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Randall Holcombe, DeVoe Moore Professor of Economics at Florida State University and co-author of The Essential James Buchanan, joins host Rosemarie F...
James Buchanan Part 1: Why What’s “Best For All” Doesn't Work For Everyone
28 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Randall G. Holcombe, DeVoe Moore Professor of Economics at Florida State University and co-author of The Essential James Buchanan, joins host Rosemari...
Adam Smith Part 2: Why Care? It’s Only Natural
14 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
James R. Otteson, Professor of Business Ethics at the University of Notre Dame and co-author of the Essential Adam Smith, joins host Rosemarie Fike to...
Adam Smith Part 1: Through Sympathy There is Progress
05 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
James R. Otteson, Professor of Business Ethics at the University of Notre Dame and co-author of The Essential Adam Smith, joins host Rosemarie Fike to...
Rose Friedman and Mary Paley Marshall: Neck(s) of the Operation
17 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lynne Kiesling, co-author of the Essential Women of Liberty, joins host Rosemarie Fike to discuss the critical behind-the-scenes work done by Rose Fri...
Jane Jacobs: Community impact and why it’s a key metric
03 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Lydia Miljan, Professor of Political Science at the University of Windsor, joins host Rosemarie Fike to discuss Jane Jacobs’ unconventional road to ...
Key Insights of UCLA Part 3: Markets and Social Issues
19 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
David Henderson—emeritus professor of economics with the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California—and Steve Globerman—professo...
Key Insights of UCLA Part 2: Why good economics is not often good politics
12 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Steve Globerman, professor emeritus at Western Washington University and senior fellow as well as the Addington Chair in Measurement at the Fraser Ins...
Key Insights of UCLA Part 1: Why the profit motive is better for industry and better for people
05 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
David Henderson, emeritus professor of economics with the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, and host Rosemarie Fike dive right into c...
Friedrich Hayek Part 2: Hayek and Lockdowns
23 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ag...
Friedrich Hayek Part 1: what intellectual history tells us about market signals; what market signals say about ourselves
15 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 Rosema...
J.S. Mill Part 2: Imagining a world with more than the basics
23 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this installment of the Essential Scholars podcast, host Rosemarie Fike and Dr. Sandra Peart of the University of Richmond discuss John Stuart Mill...
J.S. Mill Part 1: The moral, the political, and the economic
25 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...