My former boss, Karol Boudreaux is interviewed on the latest edition of EconTalk. I worked for Karol and Enterprise Africa during the first two years of my PhD program. She does some tremendous work trying to understand more about how entreprenuership can be encouraged to combat poverty in Africa.
I haven't had a chance to listen to the podcast yet, but will as soon as exams finish up tomorrow. I'm sure it's very good!
Karol Boudreaux, Senior Research Fellow at George Mason University's Mercatus Center, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about her field work and research in Rwanda and South Africa. In Rwanda, she studied how a change in incentives and property rights for coffee farmers has allowed the coffee bean growers to improve quality and prosper. In South Africa's Langa Township, she looked at how renters were allowed to become homeowners and how the ability to own changed their lives.
Listen to this podcast:
Play time: 1:00:27 min.
(Right-click or Option-click, and select "Save Link/Target As") MP3. File size: 27.7 MB.
Readings and Links related to this podcast:
About this week's guest:
- Karol Boudreaux's Home page
- "State Power, Entrepreneurship, and Coffee: The Rwandan Experience," by Karol Boudreaux, Mercatus Center Policy Series
- "The Effects of Property Titling in Langa Township, South Africa," by Karol Boudreaux, Mercatus Center Policy Series
About ideas and people mentioned in this podcast:Books:
- The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere by Hernando de Soto. At amazon.
Articles:
- "Economics and the Ordinary Person: Re-reading Adam Smith" by Sam Fleischacker. On Econlib.
Web Pages:
- Enterprise Africa! Home page
Podcasts and Blogs:
1 comment:
It's interesting to see that home ownership does indeed "create incentives to improve property and build communities." That's funny because I was wondering about that after reading one of your previous posts!
That corresponds to my own conjecture that there are indeed large scale societal benefits to promoting home ownership. Indeed, there is the general concept of the "ownership society" which fosters a more responsible and stable population.
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