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The voice of Econ Journal Watch, EJW Audio is hosted by Lawrence H. White, a co-editor of EJW and professor of economics at George Mason University. In a typical EJW Audio podcast, Professor White and the author of a recent EJW article discuss that article and related issues.

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episode Michael Weissman on Lab Leak and Science artwork

Michael Weissman on Lab Leak and Science

An influential article by Jonathan Pekar and 28 other authors published in Science in 2022 claimed that Bayesian analysis of the molecular phylogeny of early SARS-CoV-2 cases indicated that the likelihood that two successful introductions to humans had occurred was greater than the likelihood that just one had occurred. Michael Weissman explains his EJW article [https://econjwatch.org/articles/an-article-in-science-on-covid-origins-contains-a-fundamental-error], which discusses a fundamental error hiding in plain sight and initially pointed out by Angus McCowan. Weissman uses a simple analogy to explain the error. Correcting the error using the data, model, and simulations of the original paper reverses the implication of the analysis-the single-introduction likelihood becomes greater than the two-introductions likelihood. That undermines the article’s supposed support for natural origin. Weissman is interviewed by James M. Robins of Harvard University [https://hsph.harvard.edu/profile/james-m-robins/]. Weissman and Robins discuss the editorial practices at Science, which, they suggest, ought to retract the article.

31 Mar 2026 - 26 min
episode Dan Johansson on Economics without Entrepreneurship or Institutions artwork

Dan Johansson on Economics without Entrepreneurship or Institutions

Dan Johansson discusses his 2004 vocabulary analysis of graduate textbooks [https://econjwatch.org/articles/economics-without-entrepreneurship-or-institutions-a-vocabulary-analysis-of-graduate-textbooks] used in economics programs. He investigated their treatment of two sets of ideas. One is knowledge and discovery: entrepreneur, innovation, invention, tacit knowledge, and bounded rationality. The other deals with social rules: institutions, property rights, and economic freedom. Today, mainstream economics gives more attention to institutions, property rights, and economic freedom. But the textbooks remain pretty much the same today, and the mainstream generally continues to neglect entrepreneurship, discovery, and the richness of knowledge.

1 Jan 2026 - 34 min
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Henry Hardy on Isaiah Berlin

The writings of Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997), now published chiefly by Princeton University Press, have in large part been brought to light thanks to the work—over five decades—of Henry Hardy. A Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, Hardy discusses Berlin’s life, work, and thoughts. Hardy maintains The Isaiah Berlin Virtual Library (link [https://berlin.wolf.ox.ac.uk/index.html]). Selections from Berlin on Karl Marx were republished in Econ Journal Watch in September 2025 (here [https://econjwatch.org/articles/isaiah-berlins-karl-marx-a-selection] and here [https://econjwatch.org/articles/marxism-and-the-international-in-the-nineteenth-century]). Hardy’s book In Search of Isaiah Berlin: A Literary Adventure (2018, Amazon link [https://berlin.wolf.ox.ac.uk/index.html]) tells of his own interaction with Berlin and his writings.

4 Nov 2025 - 51 min
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