The Soul of Enterprise: Business in the Transformation Economy by THRESHOLD

Ed and I are honored to interview economist Russ Roberts, the host of our favorite podcast, EconTalk. Russ is the author of four books, each of which Ron recommends highly. We will discuss these books, along with other topics that Russ has addressed on his show. Folks, you don't want to miss this episode, and if you don't already listen to EconTalk, go subscribe to it right now. It's one of the best podcasts out there.

Ron and Ed are excited to be joined by Erik Asgeirsson and Ron Quaranta. Erik is the President and Chief Executive Officer of CPA.com. He has more than 20 years of experience in leading technology organizations and driving business growth. Over the past ten years Erik has driven CPA.com's focus on cloud computing and the transforming opportunities available to accounting firms and their business clients. Erik is a frequent speaker at professional conferences and is regularly quoted in the accounting and business trade press. Ron Quaranta is the Founder and Chairman of the Wall Street Blockchain Alliance. He is a recognized expert in the area of blockchain innovation, particularly its impact on the world of financial markets. He has over 25 years of experience in the financial services and technology sectors.

The last Friday of every month Ed and Ron will do “Free-Rider Friday.” Most of our shows are “topic” driven, where we dive deep into one subject. Free-Rider Fridays are designed to be “event” driven, whatever issues are in the news that we (or you) find worthy of commentary. In economics, free riding means reaping the benefits from the actions of others and consequently refusing to bear the full costs of those actions. This means Ed and Ron will free ride off of the news, and each other, with no advanced knowledge of the events either will bring up. If you’d like to call-in during the live show, the listener line is: 866-472-5790. You can also participate on Twitter at #ASKTSOE, @asktsoe, or email us at asktsoe@verasage.com.

Ryan Lazanis has been operating Xen Accounting without timesheets for the past five years. Founder of Xen Accounting, an innovative firm in Canada, Ryan embraced the idea of blowing up the old ?We sell time? business model of traditional accounting firms. Join Ed and Ron and learn how Ryan?s done it, the lessons he?s learned, and what is it really like to work in a firm where time is merely a constraint, not a measure of anyone?s worth.

What happens when one country’s imports consistently exceed its exports, creating a deficit in the international balance of trade? There is probably no greater misunderstanding about the real nature of wealth than when a discussion turns to the balance-of-trade question. Henry Hazlitt, author of Economics in One Lesson explained this phenomenon when he wrote: … the same people who can be clearheaded and sensible when the subject is one of domestic trade can be incredibly emotional and muddleheaded when it becomes one of foreign trade.” The general consensus seems to be if other countries grow more prosperous we lose, illustrating how zero-sum thinking is endemic to this issue. Join Ed and Ron as they dissect this issue with some common sense economics.

The last Friday of every month Ed and Ron will do “Free-Rider Friday.” Most of our shows are “topic” driven, where we dive deep into one subject. Free-Rider Fridays are designed to be “event” driven, whatever issues are in the news that we (or you) find worthy of commentary. In economics, free riding means reaping the benefits from the actions of others and consequently refusing to bear the full costs of those actions. This means Ed and Ron will free ride off of the news, and each other, with no advanced knowledge of the events either will bring up. If you’d like to call-in during the live show, the listener line is: 866-472-5790. You can also participate on Twitter at #ASKTSOE, @asktsoe, or email us at asktsoe@verasage.com.

We are honored to have the opportunity to interview George Gilder for a second time. Writer, economist, technology advocate, and co-founder of the Discovery Institute. George’s latest book is Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy. His 1981 international bestseller, Wealth and Poverty, advanced a practical and moral case for supply-side economics and capitalism during the early months of the Reagan Administration and made him President Reagan's most quoted living author. In 2013 he published Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How It is Revolutionizing Our World, which reformulated economics in terms of the information theory of Alan Turing and Claude Shannon. Ron says: “George Gilder is the most profound thinker I have ever encountered, and his insights of how an economy creates wealth permeate The Soul of Enterprise. Every century needs an Adam Smith, and Gilder is ours for the twentieth and twenty-first.”

Join us for a great discussion with former Ogilvy marketer David Meikle, who opened up Ogilvy in Russia and ran it for four years. Ron met David earlier this year at a conference hosted by the Institute of Communication Agencies in Toronto, and thoroughly enjoyed his long conversation with David about his experiences in marketing, including working with Rory Sutherland. You won't want to miss this episode!

Ed and Ron are honored to interview economist Mark Skousen, one of Ron’s favorite economics author. He is a former analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency, a columnist to Forbes magazine and past president of the Foundation for Economic Education. His economic bestsellers include “The Structure of Production,” “Economics on Trial,” “Puzzles and Paradoxes on Economics,” “The Making of Modern Economics,” “The Big Three in Economics,” “EconoPower,” and “Economic Logic,” a market-friendly textbook. In 2009, “The Making of Modern Economics” won the Choice Book Award for Outstanding Academic Title. Based on his work “The Structure of Production,” the federal government began publishing a broader, more accurate measure of the economy, Gross Output (GO), every quarter along with GDP. It is the first macro statistic of the economy to be published quarterly since GDP was invented in the 1940s.

Ron and Ed are thrilled and honored to have John Stossel appear on the show. John Stossel joined Reason in 2017. The former host of Fox Business' Stossel and ABC's 20/20, he has won 19 Emmys and authored several best-sellers, most recently No, They Can't: Why Government Fails—But Individuals Succeed. He is also the author of a popular weekly column that is syndicated via Creators.