Gliding Through Life: John Cochrane on the Making of an Economist | GoodFellows | Hoover Institution

人生滑行:约翰·科克伦谈经济学家之路 | 好友相随 | 胡佛研究所

GoodFellows: Conversations on Economics, History & Geopolitics

2025-07-04

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How does a promising young scholar go from dreams of designing glider planes to the study of physics and then on to a celebrated career as one of the world’s foremost monetary economists? In a “solo” installment of GoodFellows, John Cochrane—Hoover’s Rose-Marie and Jack Anderson senior fellow and coauthor of the newly released Crisis Cycle: Challenges, Evolution, and Future of the Euro—discusses his academic journey, his mentors, and the fellow economists who’ve inspired him along the way; his ongoing concerns with inflation and debt; plus his interest in penning a follow-up to Milton Friedman’s Free to Choose. Later, John takes part in a “Herbert Hoover Questionnaire,” in which he details proper airplane etiquette (if you occupy the window seat, raise the shade!), describes the virtues of his beloved family dog, and extols the culinary skills of his wife (author Elizabeth Fama, who makes a cameo appearance at the show’s end for the couple’s 39th wedding anniversary).
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  • It's Thursday, June 12th, 2025, and welcome back to Goodfellows,

  • a Hoover Institution broadcast examining social, economic, political, and geopolitical concerns.

  • I'm Bill Whalen.

  • I'm a Hoover Distinguished Policy Fellow.

  • I'll be your moderator today, looking forward to a spirited conversation,

  • not with three, two, but one good fellow.

  • In fact, maybe you should rename the show Goodfellow instead of Goodfellows.

  • And here's the reason why we have only one good fellow on today.

  • Summertime has hit the Hoover Institution and we dial back good fellows a little bit in the summer.

  • You'll notice this, we'll have a couple shows out in July as well as August.

  • But to keep you engaged, we periodically will give you a one-on-one good fellow,

  • and that's what today is.

  • And the first one out of the shoot,

  • it's the Hoover Institution's Rosemary Jack Anderson, Senior Fellow,

  • author of the Grumpy Economist blog, Wall Street Journal columnist,

  • and it's a book coming out next week we're gonna talk about.

  • Please welcome John Cochran.

  • John, good to see you.

  • Thanks.

  • Pleasure as always.