Episodes
Wednesday Aug 26, 2015
MRW - Podcast - OPEN SHOW - August 26, 2015
Wednesday Aug 26, 2015
Wednesday Aug 26, 2015
This week, Drew and Tom took the time to answer the pressing questions listeners have on personal finance, investing, the economy and much more! ...
Wednesday Aug 19, 2015
MRW - Podcast - Jim Bessen (guest) - August 19, 2015
Wednesday Aug 19, 2015
Wednesday Aug 19, 2015
Drew and Chris are joined by Jim Bessen.
James Bessen (born 1950) is an economist who has been a Lecturer at Boston University School of Law since 2004, and was previously a software developer and CEO of a software company. Bessen was also a Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society.
Bessen researches the economics of innovation, including patents and economic history. He has written about software patents with Eric Maskin, arguing that they might inhibit innovation rather than stimulate progress. With Michael J. Meurer, he wrote Patent Failure: How Judges, Bureaucrats, and Lawyers Put Innovators at Risk as well as papers on patent trolls. His book Learning by Doing: The Real Connection Between Innovation, Wages, and Wealth argues that major new technologies require new skills and knowledge that are slow and difficult to develop, affecting jobs and wages.
Bessen developed the first WYSIWYG desktop publishing program at a community newspaper in Philadelphia in 1983. He established and ran a company, Bestinfo, to sell that program commercially. In 1993, Bestinfo was sold to Intergraph.
Wednesday Aug 12, 2015
MRW - Podcast - OPEN SHOW - August 12, 2015
Wednesday Aug 12, 2015
Wednesday Aug 12, 2015
This week, Drew and Chris took the time to answer the pressing questions listeners have on personal finance, investing, the economy and much more! ...
Wednesday Aug 05, 2015
MRW - Podcast - Mr. Social Security (guest) - August 5th, 2015
Wednesday Aug 05, 2015
Wednesday Aug 05, 2015
This week, Drew and Tom are joined by Mr. Social Security and take numerous listener questions on this most important issue.