Donald Boudreaux 
Don Boudreaux has been president of the Foundation for Economic Education since May of 1997. Before that, from 1992 to 1997, he was Professor of Law and Economics at Clemson University. He also served on the economics faculty at George Mason University from 1985 through 1990. During the Spring 1996 semester he was a Visiting Fellow in law and Economics at the Cornell Law School. His Ph.D. in economics is from Auburn University and his law degree is from the University of Virginia. Don has lectured--in both the U.S. and Europe-- on a side variety of topics, including the nature of law, antitrust law and economics, and international trade. He is published in The Wall Street Journal, Investor’s Business Daily, Regulation, Reason, The Freeman, The Washington Times, The Journal of Commerce, the Cato Journal, and several scholarly journals such as the Supreme Court Economic Review, Southern Economic Journal, and Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking.
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Can the mandated minimum wage be justified economically? Don Boudreaux talks with Jim Blasingame as they discuss the socialistic -- not economic basis -- for mandating a minimum wage, and how it actually hurts the people it is purported to help. Don also talks about his thoughts on the future of the economy.
Is globalization good or bad? Don Boudreaux talks with Jim Blasingame about the history of globalization and the impact of the 21st century version of this phenomenon. And of course, these two can't have a visit without invoking the timeless wisdom of Bastiat.
What does one of the top economists in the U.S. think about direction of the economy? Don joins Jim to talk about some of his ideas about the economy, taxes, globalization and politics.