Feb 13, 2023
On episode 160, we welcome Erik Angner to discuss the
utility of economics and why it’s about much more than markets and
spending, why it was once considered to be demonic and the racist
history of its detractors, mitigating poverty with wealth
redistribution, becoming better science communicators to tackle
misinformation about policy proposals related to poverty and
climate change, the benefits of a carbon tax, game theory and the
need to create incentive structures to change bad behavior, the
difference between pleasure and comfort and why the former is more
conducive to long-term happiness, how to become rich through
sensible strategies, teaching financial literacy, and how
struggling and joy are inextricably linked.
Erik Angner is Professor of Practical Philosophy at Stockholm
University. He holds two PhDs – one in Economics and one in History
and Philosophy of Science. He is the author of several books, Hayek
and Natural Law (Routledge 2007) and A Course in Behavioral
Economics, 3rd Ed. (Red Globe Press 2020), as well as multiple
journal articles and book chapters on behavioral and experimental
economics; the science and philosophy of happiness; and the
history, philosophy, and methodology of contemporary economics. His
most recent book, available now, is called How Economics Can Save
the World: Simple Solutions to Solve Our Biggest Problems (Penguin
2023).
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