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A podcast series of the Hoover Institution’s Economic Policy Working Group hosted by Jon Hartley. The podcast  interviews economists to learn about their thinking, featuring discussions on the wide range of economic topics considered by the EPWG, including economic growth and development; money, inflation, financial markets and central banks; trade, exchange rates, tariffs, and international capital movement; opportunity, education, labor markets,  poverty reduction, and families; health; innovation; energy and environment; economics and national security; and the appropriate role of government in fostering good economic outcomes. 

About the Host
Jon Hartley

Jon Hartley

Jon Hartley is an economics researcher with interests in international macroeconomics, finance, and labor economics and is currently an economics PhD student at Stanford University. He is also currently a research fellow at the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, a senior fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, and a research associate at the Hoover Institution.

 

He previously graduated from the University of Chicago with a B.A. in Economics and Mathematics with Honors, from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania with an M.B.A. specializing in finance and business economics and from the Harvard Kennedy School with an M.P.P. specializing in business and government policy.

 

About The Economics Policy Working Group

The Working Group on Economic Policy brings together experts on economic and financial policy at the Hoover Institution to study key developments in the U.S. and global economies, examine their interactions, and develop specific policy proposals.

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