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Prof. Jonathan Gruber, our guest for this episode, likes to tell his students that economics is a fundamentally right-wing science. What he means by that is that classical economics is built on one powerful explanatory insight: that free markets—networks of buyers and sellers, producers and consumers, weighing the trade-offs of different options and making self-interested choices based on supply and demand—do a better job of deciding how to allocate resources than can be achieved by a top-down, command-economy approach. But as Gruber goes on to explain, that principle only holds when all participants have equal access to markets and to information; in the real world, imbalances in that access lead to market failures, inefficient allocations of resources that leave most people worse off than they would otherwise be. That’s why government regulation still has a role in a properly functioning economy. Tune in to hear Prof. Gruber explain why we need “capitalism with gutter guards” to ensure equitable outcomes, especially in sectors of the economy such as healthcare where the ideal markets envisioned by classical economics are particularly unattainable or undesirable. Uploaded 05-11-25Relevant Resources:MIT OpenCourseWare (https://ocw.mit.edu/)The OCW Educator portal (https://ocw.mit.edu/educator)Prof. Gruber’s faculty page (https://economics.mit.edu/people/faculty/jonathan-gruber)14.01 Principles of Microeconomics on MIT OpenCourseWare (https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/14-01-principles-of-microeconomics-fall-2023/)14.41 Public Finance and Public Policy on MIT OpenCourseWare (https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/14-41-public-finance-and-public-policy-fall-2010/)Power and Progress (book by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson) (https://www.amazon.com/Power-Progress-Thousand-Year-Technology-Prosperity/dp/1541702549)Music in this episode by Blue Dot Sessions (https://www.sessions.blue/) Connect with Us If you have a suggestion for a new episode or have used OCW to change your life or those of others, tell us your story. We’d love to hear from you! Call us @ 617-715-2517 On our site (https://ocw.mit.edu/contact/)On Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/MITOCW/)On X (https://twitter.com/MITOCW)On Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/mitocw/)On Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/mitocw.bsky.social)On Mastodon (https://mastodon.social/@MITOCW) Stay Current Subscribe to the free monthly "MIT OpenCourseWare Update" e-newsletter. (https://ocw.mit.edu/newsletter/) Subscribe to Chalk Radio (https://chalk-radio.simplecast.com/) Support OCWIf you like Chalk Radio and OpenCourseware, donate to help keep these programs going! (https://giving.mit.edu/give/to/ocw/?utm_source=ocw&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=donate) CreditsSarah Hansen, host and producer (https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-e-hansen/)Brett Paci, producer (https://twitter.com/Brett_Paci)Dave Lishansky, producer (https://twitter.com/DaveResonates)Jackson Maher, producerShow notes by Peter Chipman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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