Glenn Hubbard and Tony O’Brien talk with Eva Dziadula of the University of Notre Dame. In the podcast, they discuss economics, teaching, and the impact of the pandemic on the classroom. Eva discusses teaching Microeconomics in the middle of a pandemic and teaching Immigration in the midst of our national immigration debate.
Also, these podcasts are now on iTunes or your regular podcast feed! Just search Hubbard O’Brien Economics and subscribe!
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Glenn Hubbard and Tony O’Brien talk with Kim Holder of the University of West Georgia. Kim discusses many best practices in preparing for her fall courses that are so flexible they can easily adapt to in-person, hybrid, or online. Listen to her observations about the delicate nature of discussing COVID-19 in classes this fall as well as her passion for personal financial literacy in the wake of the traumatic event. Both instructors and students will learn from what Kim has to say!
Links for podcast of June 12th, 2020 with Kim Holder of the University of West Georgia:
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Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003XT60KO/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i0 or at no charge from the FEE here: https://fee.org/resources/economics-in-one-lesson/
Tyranny Comes Home by Christopher J. Coyne (George Mason University) & Abigail R. Hill (University of Tampa), Stanford University Press, 2018
https://www.amazon.com/Tyranny-Comes-Home-Domestic-Militarism/dp/1503605272
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Glenn Hubbard and Tony O’Brien continue their podcast series hosting guest – Professor Bill Goff of Penn State University. In talking with Bill, we discuss the challenges of teaching online during the Pandemic this past spring. We talk some about unemployment as well as hearing how Bill how he developed his passion for photography in his travels around the world. The image on this post was a picture of the Milky Way taken by Bill in North Central Pennsylvania!
Links for podcast of May 29, 2020 with Bill Goffe of Penn State
1. Link to RFE: Resources for Economists on the Internet that Bill edits: https://www.aeaweb.org/rfe/
2. Link to the website of the Journal of Economic Education where Bill is an associate editor: https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/vece20
3. Link to the CTALE TeachECONference – https://ctale.org/teacheconference/. You can register – for free – by clicking HERE
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Glenn Hubbard and Tony O’Brien continue their podcast series hosting guest – Professor Mike Ryan of Western Michigan University. During the conversation, we learn about Mike’s experiences working with faculty from Western Michigan School of Business taking their courses online. He also offers his thoughts on the current trade situation as well as personal insights from a January visit to Japan.
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Glenn Hubbard and Tony O’Brien continue their podcast series hosting guest – Jonathan Meer, Professor of Economics from Texas A&M University as well as the Director of the Private Enterprise Research Center at Texas A&M. During the conversation, we learn about Jonathan’s teaching over 3,500 students annually in a large online Principles of Microeconomics lecture course. He discusses how his usual online teaching absolutely helped his transition when Texas A&M closed for the semester. He also talks about the state of Higher Education, non-profit giving, as well as some challenges nonprofits face in these uncertain times.
Some notes from this Podcast if you’d like more information:
1. Link to Jonathan Meer’s Youtube video on setting up an online course:
2. Link to Jonathan’s website page providing links to his research papers on altruism and charitable giving: http://people.tamu.edu/~jmeer/research.html
3. Nontechnical summary of Jonathan’s research with Harvey Rosen on charitable giving: https://www.nber.org/reporter/2018number1/rosen.html
4. Please refer to the Apply the Concept feature from Chapter 2 of Hubbard and O’Brien Economics, 7/E, on the use of market mechanisms to allocate food at the Feeding America charity (for your convenience, we hope to post this shortly so check back).
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Glenn Hubbard and Tony O’Brien continue their podcast series with a first – hosing a guest – Penn State Economics Professor, James Tierney. We learn about the transition James had from an early return from spring break to now teaching hundreds of students exclusively online in response to the pandemic. Glenn and Tony also discuss with James the struggles of the housing market in a small college town like State College, PA. We also learn the reasons behind James becoming the founder of an adult Improv company in the State College-area and the impact it had on his teaching. Please listen and share!
Glenn Hubbard and Tony O’Brien continue their podcast series by spending just under 15 minutes discussing why it was so difficult for economists to see this pandemic and the associated economic downturn coming. Just as scientists lacked the indicators to see the pandemic coming, economists also didn’t have the tools available to see where the economy was headed even though some early signs were present. Please listen and SHARE with your students.
Glenn Hubbard and Tony O’Brien continued their podcast series by spending about 15 minutes discussing the impact of the Pandemic on the Mom and Pop Businesses across the country. Much of the stimulus package has been developed to save small business but might it be too late or just not enough? Please listen and SHARE with your students.
On April 24th, Glenn Hubbard and Tony O’Brien continued their podcast series by spending about 18 minutes discussing the role of uncertainty in how quickly the economy can rebound once things open back up. A very good discussion about business cycles occurs. Instructors – Please consider sharing these podcasts with your students. A lot of URL dropping in today’s conversation so we’re providing some show notes from today’s episodes if you’d like to explore them further:
1. Weekly Economic Index: New York Fed link
FRED—St. Louis Fed link
2. Uncertainty index NBER working paper
3. Pre-World War II NBER books (full texts available):
4. Christina Romer article on the 1929 stock market crash and uncertainty: NBER working paper version
On April 17th, Glenn Hubbard and Tony O’Brien continued their podcast series by spending just under 30 minutes discuss varied topics such as the Federal Reserve’s monetary response, record unemployment numbers, panic buying of toilet paper as compared to bank runs, as well as recent books they’ve been reading with increased downtime from the pandemic.
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