Interview with Robert Barro: Empirical Macroeconomics - Conversable Economist
Jon Hartley serves as interlocutor in "Revisiting Empirical Macroeconomics with Robert Barro" (Hoover Institution, Capitalism and Freedom Podcast, March 25, 2025, audio and transcript available). Here are a few of the comments from Barro that especially caught my eye. One basic question in economics is about "the multiplier"--that is, how much will an increase in