Episode · Freakonomics Radio · 2025-05-30
Books mentioned on 634. “Fault-Finder Is a Minimum-Wage Job”
Austan Goolsbee, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, is less reserved than the average banker. He explains why vibes are overrated, why the Fed’s independence is non-negotiable, and why tariffs could bring the economy back to the Covid era.
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Plugged Microeconomics
“Including you to some degree, if I remember correctly, like in your textbook that you wrote with Steve Levit, you didn't want to give a whole lot of credence to the behavioral revolution. We have a chapter in there and I think it's a good chapter. It goes through, here's what's strong about it.”