A podcast series hosted by Orley Ashenfelter

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An Oral History of Industrial Relations and Labor Economics

In this podcast series of conversations with leading thinkers and practitioners, we are creating an oral history of an entire generation of industrial relations experts and labor economists whose contributions to their fields have been absolutely extraordinary. Hosted by Orley Ashenfelter, the Joseph Douglas Green 1895 Professor of Economics at Princeton University.

Robert Flanagan
Episode
25
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Robert Flanagan on boosting union membership and why orchestras struggle financially

Bob Gregory
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24
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Bob Gregory on how polio changed his life–and inspired him as a student

Stephen Nickell
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23
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Stephen Nickell on his journey from math teacher to the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee

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22
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Robert Willis on jumping ship from trade to study fertility and demographics

Robert Pollak
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21
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Robert Pollak on the “two career problem” and modeling the economics of the family