Loose, Vague, and Indeterminate
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Peter Boettke on History of GMU Economics (Part 2: Economic Boogaloo)
06 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Boettke finishes his conversation with us from last time. We discuss the personal bonds between many GMU economics faculty. We talk ab...
Peter Boettke on History of GMU Economics (Part 1)
28 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Peter Boettke joins the podcast to talk about the history of GMU economics. He discusses his days as an undergraduate student at Grove City Colleg...
Bryan Cutsinger on Monetary Policy and Becoming a Professor
21 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Bryan Cutsinger, who earned his PhD in economics in 2019 from GMU, joins the podcast. He's a professor at Angelo State University in Texas, ...
Janelle Cammenga on Tax Policy and Working in D.C.
07 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest this week is Janelle Cammenga, a policy analyst with the Center on State Tax Policy at Tax Foundation. We discuss some recent publicat...
The Rustici Rules Episode
31 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Prof. Thomas Rustici joins the podcast for the first episode of second semester. There's something for everyone in this episode with the hardest...
Molly Harnish on Internships, Environmental Economics, and Fonts
06 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Our guest is Molly Harnish, Econ Society webmaster emerita. We discuss internships: what they are and how to get them. We also discuss two...
Rosolino Candela on Price Theory
22 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Mercatus Center Associate Director of Academic and Student Programs Rosolino Candela joins the podcast to talk about price theory. In an example-fille...
Andrew Humphries on Teaching Economics
15 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
GMU Econ PhD student Andrew Humphries joins the show to talk about his passion for pedagogy. We discuss Socratic teaching methods, dialogue in t...
Nick McFaden's Post-Presidency Policy Palooza
08 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Last year's president of Econ Society, Nick McFaden, joins the show to discuss what he's up to these days, presidential candidates, taxation, and anti...
Marcus Shera on New Institutional Economics and the Armenian Genocide
01 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
GMU econ student Marcus Shera joins the show to discuss a paper he wrote on the Armenian Genocide. Inspired by his Armenian heritage, he used th...
Jon Murphy on Teaching Economics, the Nobel Prize, and What Economists Should Do
31 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
On Episode 4 of Loose, Vague, and Indeterminate, Rajee Agrawal joins me as cohost to talk to PhD student Jon Murphy. We ask Jon about his experience t...
Jacob Hall on Hume's History of England
31 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 3 of Loose, Vague, and Indeterminate is here! This episode’s guest is first-year Ph.D. student Jacob Hall. We discuss David Hume’s book&nb...
Hitchhiking and Hazlitt
31 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
On the second episode of Loose, Vague, and Indeterminate, I am accompanied in my hosting duties by Econ Society member George Minning as we interview ...
Daniel Klein on Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments
31 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“Loose, vague, and indeterminate” is a phrase from Adam Smith’s 1759 book, The Theory of Moral Sentiments (TMS). To explain what that phrase mea...