R\xfcdiger (Rudi) Bachmann is a Stepan Family Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Notre Dame. He joins the show to discuss the economic history of his native Germany. David and Rudi also discuss how the German approach to macroeconomics is distinctly different from the approach taken in the United States. David\u2019s blog: macromarketmusings.blogspot.com/ Rudi\u2019s Notre Dame webpage: https://www3.nd.edu/~rbachman/ David\u2019s Twitter: @DavidBeckworth Related links: Rudi on his work on economic uncertainty: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XDlzBgf1uE NYT Upshot Article: \u201cHow Economists Came to Dominate the Conversation\u201d http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/24/upshot/how-economists-came-to-dominate-the-conversation.html?_r=0 Peter Bofinger\u2019s Vox EU article: \u201cGerman Macroeconomics: The Long Shadow of Walter Eucken\u201d http://voxeu.org/article/german-macroeconomics-long-shadow-walter-eucken