Samuel Bowles, Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts and Research Professor and Director of the Behavioral Sciences Program at the Santa Fe Institute, discusses his deep-rooted interest in economic inequality and how his work has challenged many of the conventional assumptions of modern economic theory. 

Read a transcript of the podcast here: https://irs100.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/2024-10/032-TWGO-Bowles_transcript.pdf

For more details on this episode, visit: https://irs100.princeton.edu/podcasts/samuel-bowles-2024

Samuel Bowles on his deep interest in the causes of inequality & his work to transform economics

Robert Moffitt, the Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Economics at Johns Hopkins University, discusses his early education, his interest in labor economics, applied microeconometrics, and welfare policy, and how his work has influenced major debates in public policy, especially the economics of low-income populations in the United States.

Read a transcript of the podcast here: https://irs100.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/2024-10/033-TWGO-Moffitt_transcript.pdf

For more details on this episode, visit: https://irs100.princeton.edu/podcasts/robert-moffitt-2024

Robert Moffitt on his “rewarding” career integrating economics, sociology and public policy

Henry Farber, Hughes-Rogers Professor of Economics emeritus at Princeton University, discusses his early life growing up in an industrial, working-class town in New Jersey, his early interest in labor unions and his nearly fifty-year-long study of labor economics.

Read a transcript of the podcast here: https://irs100.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/2024-11/035-TWGO-Farber_transcript.pdf

For more details on this episode, visit: https://irs100.princeton.edu/podcasts/henry-farber-2024

Henry Farber on his path from Teamster to one of the preeminent researchers of labor economics

Harry Katz, the Jack Sheinkman Professor of Collective Bargaining at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations, discusses his academic background, his studies of collective bargaining, his work with the United Auto Workers (UAW), and his ongoing thoughts on how to make labor negotiations more inclusive and cooperative.

Read a transcript of the podcast here: https://irs100.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/2024-12/036-TWGO-Katz_transcript.pdf

For more details on this episode, visit: https://irs100.princeton.edu/podcasts/harry-katz-2024

Harry Katz on his push for a more cooperative environment in labor-management relationships

Gavin Wright, William Robertson Coe Professor of American Economic History, emeritus, at Stanford University, discusses his work on the economics of slavery, Black mobility patterns after the Civil War, and his thoughts on the current state of Black economies in the American South.

Read a transcript of the podcast here: https://irs100.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/2025-04/039-TWGO-Wright_transcript.pdf  

For more details on this episode, visit: https://irs100.princeton.edu/podcasts/gavin-wright-2025

Gavin Wright on the Civil Rights Revolution through the eyes of an economic historian

Michael Moskow, the vice chair and distinguished fellow, global economy at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, discusses his work on labor relations, collective bargaining, and his numerous posts in both the private and public sectors, including at the U.S. Labor Department, and the Council of Economic Advisers.

Read a transcript of the podcast here: https://irs100.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/2025-04/040-TWGO-Moskow_transcript.pdf

For more details on this episode, visit: https://irs100.princeton.edu/podcasts/michael-moskow-2025

Michael Moskow on his path from Paterson, NJ to “…one of the best jobs you can have in Washington”

Charles Brown, professor of economics and research professor of the Survey Research Center, emeritus at the University of Michigan, discusses his upbringing in Ohio, his academic studies at Boston College and Harvard, his work on labor economics, and his time as director of the Panel Survey of Income Dynamics (PSID). 

Read a transcript of the podcast here: https://irs100.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/2025-09/042-TWGO-Brown_transcript.pdf

For more details on this episode, visit: https://irs100.princeton.edu/podcasts/charles-brown-2025

Charles Brown on pay gaps, unions, productivity, and the firing of the BLS Commissioner

Morris Kleiner, professor and AFL-CIO Chair in Labor Policy at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota, discusses his academic background, his research on state-to-state labor migration and occupational licensing, and his impact on public policy.

Read a transcript of the podcast here: https://irs100.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/2025-09/043-TWGO-Kleiner_transcript.pdf

For more details on this episode, visit: https://irs100.princeton.edu/podcasts/morris-kleiner-2025

Morris Kleiner on the public policy effects of his work on labor migration & occupational licensing

Judy Gueron, President Emerita at Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation (MDRC), discusses her education at Radcliffe and Harvard, her pioneering work utilizing randomized field trials at the MDRC, her research on welfare reform, and the challenges of pursuing a career in economics as a woman. 

Read a transcript of the podcast here: 
https://irs100.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/2025-10/044-TWGO-Gueron_transcript.pdf

For more details on this episode, visit: https://irs100.princeton.edu/podcasts/judy-gueron-2025

Judy Gueron on "never quitting" as a female economist and her groundbreaking work at MDRC

Eric Hanushek, Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, discusses his significant contributions to educational policy, his work on the economic returns to educational quality, the impact of No Child Left Behind, and how teacher effectiveness is best measured by student outcomes.

Read a transcript of the podcast here: https://irs100.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/2025-10/045-TWGO%20Hanushek_transcript.pdf

For more details on this episode, visit: https://irs100.princeton.edu/podcasts/eric-hanushek-2025

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