Political Economy Creators & Guests

Lori Larocco is a journalist.

Mike Masnick is an editor of Techdirt. He is the founder and CEO of Floor64.

Dr. Michael Andrew Clemens is an economist who studies international migration and global economic development. Currently, he is a Professor in the Department of Economics at George Mason University and a non-resident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. He is also affiliated with IZA, the Institute of Labor Economics in Bonn, Germany, the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration at University College London, and is a Distinguished Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for Global Development.

Jeff Kosseff is a cybersecurity law professor at the United States Naval Academy.

Bryan Douglas Caplan is an American economist, author, professor of economics at George Mason University, research fellow at the Mercatus Center, adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, and frequent contributor to Freakonomics as well as publishing his own blog, EconLog.

Annie M. Lowrey is a journalist who writes on politics and economic policy. She currently reports for The Atlantic.Previously, Lowrey covered economic policy for The New York Times. Prior to that, she covered the economy as the Moneybox columnist for Slate. She has also been a staff writer for the Washington Independent and served on the editorial staffs of Foreign Policy and The New Yorker.Lowrey's first book, "Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World," was published in 2018.Lowery attended Harvard University and wrote for the Harvard Crimson.

Toby Ord is an Australian philosopher. He founded Giving What We Can, an international society whose members pledge to donate at least 10% of their income to effective charities, and is a key figure in the effective altruism movement, which promotes using reason and evidence to help the lives of others as much as possible.

Dalibor Rohac is an author, senior fellow at AEI, and research associate at MartensCentre.

Dr. Margaret O'Mara (born 1970) is an American historian and professor at the University of Washington. She writes and teaches about the growth of the high-tech economy, and connections between high-tech and the history of U.S. politics.O'Mara's writing on technology, politics, and society has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, WIRED, MIT Technology Review, and The American Prospect. Her first book, "Cities of Knowledge: Cold War Science and the Search For The Next Silicon Valley," was published in 2005. Her second book, "Pivotal Tuesdays: Four Elections that Shaped the Twentieth Century," was published in 2015. Her third book, "The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of America," was published in 2019. O'Mara has also appeared on major broadcast television and radio outlets, including CNN, MSNBC, PBS, BBC, CBC, and NPR. She is a public speaker, regularly lecturing before general and academic audiences about Silicon Valley's evolution and the impact of its people, companies, and politics on the United States and the world and about the past, present, and future of the American presidency.Prior to her academic career, O'Mara served in the Clinton Administration, working on economic and social policy in the White House and in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.O'Mara received her B.A. from Northwestern University, and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.

Safi Bahcall is a technologist, business executive, and author of the book Loonshots.

Timothy Shiou-Ming Wu is a legal scholar and professor at Columbia Law School who specializes in antitrust, copyright, and telecommunications law. He is also a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times.Wu is best known for having coined the term "network neutrality." He has advocated for an antitrust break-up of Facebook. He also served as a senior adviser to the Federal Trade Commission, and on the National Economic Council during the Obama Administration.Wu has written three books and co-edited a fourth. His most recent book, "The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age," was published in 2018.Wu received his B.Sc from MgGill University and his J.D. from Harvard Law School.

Jason Delisle is a nonresident senior fellow in the Center on Education Data and Policy at the Urban Institute. His work focuses on higher education finance and regulation.Delisle has published papers and articles on student debt, college enrollment, the for-profit higher education sector, and international higher education. His work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and National Review, and he has appeared on NPR and PBS NewsHour.Delisle started his career in the office of former US Representative Thomas Petri. He was an analyst for the US Senate Committee on the Budget. He has also been a project director at New America, and then he was a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.Delisle received his B.A. in Government from Lawrence University and his Master's in Public Policy in Budget and Public Finance from the George Washington University.