2026-04-27
56 分钟Welcome to Macro Musings, where each week we pull back the curtain on the most important
macroeconomic issues of the past, present, and future.
I'm your host, David Beckworth, a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University,
and I'm glad you 've decided to join us.
Our guest today is Basil Halperin.
Basil is an assistant professor of economics at the University of Virginia,
where he works on the important and super interesting intersection of macroeconomics and AI.
He joins us today to help us make sense of where the economy is going and what AI might mean for macroeconomics.
Basil, welcome to the program.
Thanks, David.
Been listening since day one.
So excited to be here.
Yeah, we go way back.
And I was trying to think where we first connected.
I know it was somewhere in the blogosphere.
Scott Sumner's in the picture there somewhere, too.
What is your recollection where our paths first crossed?
You know, I think I do have a precise memory of that.
So I was a longtime reader of your blog and the econ blogosphere more generally.
That's sort of how I got sucked into econ.