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The Charlottesville Podcasting Network is your source for lectures, radio shows and more from throughout Charlottesville and Albemarle County. Each week we post hours of material for you to listen to. Make sure you stay in touch!

Charlottesville Right Now: 3-9-10 Colette Sheehy

Colette Sheehy joins Coy to discuss the university’s challenges in this historic economic downturn.

 
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Jefferson Society: Kenneth Elzinga on Unconventional Leadership Principles

Kenneth Elzinga

The third speaker in the Jefferson Society’s Fall 2009 Speaker Series was Professor Kenneth Elzinga. On Friday, September 18, Professor Elzinga spoke on the topic, “Some Unconventional Principles of Leadership.”

 
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Kenneth G. Elzinga is the Robert C. Taylor Chair in Economics at the University of Virginia, and has been a member of [...]

Economics Professor David C. Smith on government bailouts

On the November 23rd edition of WNRN’s Sunday Morning Wake-Up Call, host Rick Moore talks with Professor David C. Smith of UVA’s McIntire School and Director of the McIntire Center for Financial Innovation. With CEOs of the “big three” US automakers asking for billions of dollars in federal aid, banks asking for help [...]

 
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Economist Bryan Caplan addresses Jefferson Society

Professor Bryan Caplan addressed the Jefferson Literary and Debating Society on Friday, November 7, 2008, on the subject of his new book, The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies. Caplan, an associate professor of economics at George Mason University and a Cato Institute Adjunct Scholar, supported his often counter-intuitive [...]

 
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Jack Marshall and Brian Czech discuss limits to growth

 

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Jack Marshall, President of Advocates for a Sustainable Albemarle Population and Brian Czech, President of the Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy joined Coy Barefoot on WINA’s “Charlottesville–Right Now!” to discuss the limits to growth, both population growth and economic growth.

 
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Rogue Economics: Capitalism’s New Reality

Fulbright scholar and economist Loretta Napoleoni is the author of Rogue Economics: Capitalism’s New Reality. The book argues that there’s a dark underside to globalism, with massive amounts of money being spent on drugs, prostitutes, and other nefarious activities.

“We live in a world where we’re trapped in a web of commercial, economic and [...]

 
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