Walker Hanlon

Densely Speaking with Jeff Lin and Greg Shill

Densely Speaking: Conversations About Cities, Economics & Law is an interview-based scholarship podcast hosted by Greg Shill and Jeffrey Lin, an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. The meat of the show is interviews with guests about their recent work. There's also a short segment at the end called “Appendices,” where hosts and guests briefly flag other work they find interesting.

Igal Hendel

Stay Tuned with Preet

Covers politics and current events, through the lens of [former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's] legal expertise. Fascinating explanations of the workings of our complex judicial system.

Diego Känzig

Macro Musings with David Beckworth

[Macro Musings] is a podcast covering a broad range of important macroeconomic issues and usually has an academic focus. Last year, I particularly enjoyed the episodes with Eric Leeper on the interactions of fiscal and monetary policy, with Hanno Lustig on fiscal dominance, inflation, and the effects of long-term interest rate decline and with Peter Ganong on the dynamism and resiliency of the US economy, just to name a few.

Jeffrey Lewis

People I (Mostly) Admire with Steven D. Levitt (author of Freakonomics)

Here is a funny anecdote from the podcast:

"LEVITT: How many job applications did you put out when you were coming out of grad school?

LIST: I applied to 150 schools when I went on the original job market in 1996. One of the 150 gave me an interview. Look, I was lucky enough that the University of Central Florida even interviewed me because nobody else was interviewing me. You know, of those original 150 applications, 149 people tell you, “You’re not good enough for us to even talk to.” Do you think I saved those letters? Absolutely, I saved those letters. Do I occasionally have to take a look at those letters for a little bit of extra juice or for a little bit of extra energy? Absolutely I do.”

Marciano Siniscalchi

Power Lines: From Ukraine to the World

[This podcast] explores the historical and economic roots of Russia's invasion of Ukraine through a series of interviews with experts.