Mercatus Original Podcasts

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Kartik Srivastava on Referral-Based Hiring, Caste Networks, and Breaking Barriers in India's Labor Markets

• September 11, 2025

Srivastava and Rajagopalan discuss large-scale experiments on how strategic referral allocation improves worker retention, team productivity, and inclusion while challenging traditional hiring practices in Indian manufacturing

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Jerry Dwyer on the History of Free Banking and the Future of Bitcoin

• September 8, 2025

What was it like having Milton Friedman as your dissertation chair?

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Chandran Kukathas on "Dialogues on Immigration and the Open Society"

• • Chandran Kukathas
  • Peter J. Boettke
• September 3, 2025

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Hester Peirce on the role of the SEC, Financial Surveillance, and Crypto

• September 1, 2025

What does putting peanut butter on your watermelon have to do with financial surveillance?

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Narayani Basu on K. M. Panikkar: India’s Impossible Man

• August 28, 2025

Basu and Rajagopalan discuss K.M. Panikkar, who shaped modern India's unity, foreign policy, and constitutional vision

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Robin Brooks on the Dollar, Fiscal Dominance, and Geoeconomics

• August 25, 2025

Will the US or China strike each other’s Achilles’ heel first?

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Timothy J. Dunn on Migrant Deaths and the Human Cost of Border Militarization

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  • Timothy J. Dunn
• August 20, 2025

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Aditi Sahasrabuddhe on the Role Central Banker Relationships Play in Economic Crises

• August 18, 2025

What does history tell us about why India was denied a currency swap line?

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Yamini Aiyar Schools Us on Education Policy in India

• August 14, 2025

Aiyar and Rajagopalan discuss Delhi's school reforms, the agency-accountability tradeoff, and building state capacity from the ground up

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Amit Ron and Abraham Singer on What Companies Owe Democracy

• • Kristen Collins
  • Amit Ron
  • Abraham Singer
• August 13, 2025

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Will Luther and Josh Hendrickson on the future of Bitcoin

• August 11, 2025

Is George Selgin a proto-Bitcoiner?

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Jacob T. Levy on Tensions Between Immigration Control and the Rule of Law

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  • Nathan Goodman
• August 6, 2025

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Rashad Ahmed on the Global Impact of US Stablecoin Regulation and Crypto Adoption

• August 4, 2025

Will the GENIUS act be a stroke of genius?

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Rathin Roy on How India Slices the Fiscal Pie

• July 31, 2025

Roy and Rajagopalan discuss India's fiscal federalism, unequal growth, and the politics of redistribution

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Paul Kupiec on Problems with the Fed’s Balance Sheet and Calls to End Interest on Reserves

• July 28, 2025

Can the Federal Reserve start making money again?

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Mark Pennington on Foucault’s Lessons for Liberal Political Economy

• • Mark Pennington
  • Peter J. Boettke
• July 23, 2025

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George Hall on the Fiscal Consequences of the US War on COVID

• July 21, 2025

Thank you for listening and learning with us for 500 episodes of Macro Musings!

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Chitrakshi Jain and Prashant Reddy T. on the Dysfunction in India's District Courts

• July 17, 2025

Jain, Reddy T., and Rajagopalan discuss judicial corruption, compulsory retirement, and jury trials

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Susan Brison on the Aftermath of Sexual Violence and the Remaking of the Self

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  • Kristen Collins
• July 16, 2025

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Ben Harris on the Fiscal Health of the US Government

• July 14, 2025

How much longer can we kick the can down the road?