The Archbridge Podcast

Gonzalo Schwarz

Conversations with a wide variety of scholars, writers, and community leaders interested in exploring the American Dream, human flourishing, and everything in between. A product of the Archbridge Institute, we strive to bring listeners the best insights from both inside and outside the policy world on the barriers holding back personal achievement and how they can be lifted so each person has the opportunity to live a better, fuller, and richer life. read less
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The Economics of Flourishing: James Heckman & Rasmus Landerso on Skills Development
22-04-2024
The Economics of Flourishing: James Heckman & Rasmus Landerso on Skills Development
About the SeriesAt the Archbridge Institute, we define the "economics of flourishing" as the study of how markets, people, organizations, and institutions support the economic foundations of social mobility and human flourishing.   About the ExpertsDr. James Heckman is the Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and the College at the University of Chicago since 1973. He is the Director of the Center for the Economics of Human Development and also a Senior Fellow with the Archbridge Institute. He has devoted his professional life to understanding the origins of major social and economic problems related to inequality, social mobility, discrimination, skill formation and regulation, and to devising and evaluating alternative strategies for addressing those problems. In 2000, Dr. Heckman won the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for his "for his development of theory and methods used in the analysis of individual or household behavior."  Dr. Rasmus Landersø is a Research Professor at the Rockwool Foundation Research Unit in Denmark, where he studies labor economics, the economics of education, the economics of crime, and applied microeconometrics. His work covers both studies of intergenerational mobility, welfare policies and the role of the public sector, inequality, skill formation, and spillovers in criminal behavior. ResourcesSocial Mobility in the 50 States
True Progress: Polarization | Episode 3: Finding Solutions
18-03-2024
True Progress: Polarization | Episode 3: Finding Solutions
CreditsWritten, Edited, and Directed by Arash AyromProduced by Clay Routledge and Ben WilterdinkNarrated by Robert Anthony PetersFeaturing interviews with:Ben Klutsey, Director of Academic Outreach, Director of the Program on Pluralism and Civil Exchange, Mercatus CenterIlana Redstone, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Illinois; Co-Director, Mill Institute, University of AustinClay Routledge, Vice President of Research and Director of the Human Flourishing Lab, Archbridge InstituteDan Vallone, Director, More in Common, USATony Woodlief, Senior Executive Vice President at State Policy Network and Author of  “I, Citizen: A Blueprint for Reclaiming American Self-Governance” ResourcesThe Hidden Tribes of America  [report]We Need a Psychology of Progress [essay]American Dream Survey [report]Undivide Us [film]Mill Institute [organization]Program on Pluralism and Civil Exchange [organization]Lyceum Movement [organization] About the ShowTrue Progress is a podcast documentary dedicated to investigating the forces that can move our society forward. Our first installment focuses on one of the biggest and most harmful barriers to progress today: polarization. Polarization is something we’ve all heard about and possibly even felt in our everyday relationships. With another presidential election on the horizon and polls showing America’s widening divides, it’s time to take a serious look at how our society became fractured and what we can do, as individuals and collectively, to heal. In conversations with experts, True Progress explores the causes of polarization, its effects on our society, and pathways to solutions.  True Progress: Polarization is presented by Profectus Magazine. It is a product of the Archbridge Institute—a non-partisan, independent, 501(c)(3) public policy think tank—whose mission is to lift barriers to human flourishing.
True Progress: Polarization | Episode 2: Fracturing Society
18-03-2024
True Progress: Polarization | Episode 2: Fracturing Society
CreditsWritten, Edited, and Directed by Arash AyromProduced by Clay Routledge and Ben WilterdinkNarrated by Robert Anthony PetersFeaturing interviews with:Ben Klutsey, Director of Academic Outreach, Director of the Program on Pluralism and Civil Exchange, Mercatus CenterIlana Redstone, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Illinois; Co-Director, Mill Institute, University of AustinClay Routledge, Vice President of Research and Director of the Human Flourishing Lab, Archbridge InstituteDan Vallone, Director, More in Common, USATony Woodlief, Senior Executive Vice President at State Policy Network and Author of  “I, Citizen: A Blueprint for Reclaiming American Self-Governance” ResourcesThe Hidden Tribes of America  [report]We Need a Psychology of Progress [essay]American Dream Survey [report]Undivide Us [film]Mill Institute [organization]Program on Pluralism and Civil Exchange [organization]Lyceum Movement [organization] About the ShowTrue Progress is a podcast documentary dedicated to investigating the forces that can move our society forward. Our first installment focuses on one of the biggest and most harmful barriers to progress today: polarization. Polarization is something we’ve all heard about and possibly even felt in our everyday relationships. With another presidential election on the horizon and polls showing America’s widening divides, it’s time to take a serious look at how our society became fractured and what we can do, as individuals and collectively, to heal. In conversations with experts, True Progress explores the causes of polarization, its effects on our society, and pathways to solutions.  True Progress: Polarization is presented by Profectus Magazine. It is a product of the Archbridge Institute—a non-partisan, independent, 501(c)(3) public policy think tank—whose mission is to lift barriers to human flourishing.
True Progress: Polarization | Episode 1: Defining Division
18-03-2024
True Progress: Polarization | Episode 1: Defining Division
CreditsWritten, Edited, and Directed by Arash AyromProduced by Clay Routledge and Ben WilterdinkNarrated by Robert Anthony PetersFeaturing interviews with:Ben Klutsey, Director of Academic Outreach, Director of the Program on Pluralism and Civil Exchange, Mercatus CenterIlana Redstone, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Illinois; Co-Director, Mill Institute, University of AustinClay Routledge, Vice President of Research and Director of the Human Flourishing Lab, Archbridge InstituteDan Vallone, Director, More in Common, USATony Woodlief, Senior Executive Vice President at State Policy Network and Author of  “I, Citizen: A Blueprint for Reclaiming American Self-Governance” ResourcesThe Hidden Tribes of America  [report]We Need a Psychology of Progress [essay]American Dream Survey [report]Undivide Us [film]Mill Institute [organization]Program on Pluralism and Civil Exchange [organization]Lyceum Movement [organization] About the ShowTrue Progress is a podcast documentary dedicated to investigating the forces that can move our society forward. Our first installment focuses on one of the biggest and most harmful barriers to progress today: polarization. Polarization is something we’ve all heard about and possibly even felt in our everyday relationships. With another presidential election on the horizon and polls showing America’s widening divides, it’s time to take a serious look at how our society became fractured and what we can do, as individuals and collectively, to heal. In conversations with experts, True Progress explores the causes of polarization, its effects on our society, and pathways to solutions.  True Progress: Polarization is presented by Profectus Magazine. It is a product of the Archbridge Institute—a non-partisan, independent, 501(c)(3) public policy think tank—whose mission is to lift barriers to human flourishing.