# Alex Macdonald

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Adjudication versus Rulemaking: A Look at How NLRB Sets Labor Policy

The National Labor Relations Board is responsible for developing national labor policy, but it has historically accomplished its mission through case-by-case decision making rather than through rulemaking. And while that approach has been criticized over the years, it remains the Board’s customary …

The Faster Labor Contracts Act: What’s at Stake for Collective Bargaining?

This summer, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Faster Labor Contracts Act, a bill that would transform how unions and employers negotiate their first agreements. It would impose quick deadlines for negotiations, after which it would send the parties to mediation and eventually binding ar…

Ornellaia: Uncorking the Wine That Changed Italy

In 1981, someone had the nerve to plant Cabernet and Merlot on the Tuscan coast in a place no one thought could grow great wine. Forty years later, Ornellaia is one of the most celebrated estates on the planet. Lamberto Frescobaldi joins Jeff Zacharia to tell the whole story and to explain why the …

Space Policy Edition: The Long Space Age with Alex MacDonald

We tend to think of private space exploration as a recent phenomenon. But as Alex MacDonald, former Chief Economist at NASA, argues in his book "The Long Space Age," privately funded space exploration has deep roots in American history, stretching back more than two centuries. In this 2017 convers…

The Long Space Age with Alex MacDonald

Alex MacDonald, former Chief Economist at NASA and author of "The Long Space Age," joins Casey Dreier to explore more than two centuries of privately funded space exploration in America.

Who's In Charge of Labor Law? States, Sectoral Bargaining and Federal Preemption

For most of the last century, labor law meant federal law: one system, applied the same way whether the dispute was in Sacramento or Syracuse. Alex MacDonald, co-chair of Littler Mendelson's Workplace Policy Institute (WPI), joins Phil Wilson to explain why that assumption no longer holds, and why …

The Clinton Baptiste Show: Series 1 - Episode 14

Linda opens things by tellin us say she’s not going on holiday and Clinton invites her to guess where he is off to. We hear from listener Alex Macdonald and Sharon Craine with their suggestions for Clinton’s next tour and then we hear from James G via Patreon with his ghost story. Next it’s My Spoo…

683. In the New Space Race, Who Makes the Rules?

Governments started the space age. Now, billionaires and private firms are reinventing it. Guest host Steve Levitt explores what the past can teach us about a high-stakes future. (Part two of a two-part series.)   SOURCES: Blaise Agüera y Arcas, vice president and fellow at Google, C.T.O. of…

Episode 13: Alex Macdonald

Send us Fan Mail This week we are joined by serial entrepreneur Alex Macdonald who first came into the public eye when he co-founded Velocity Black with Zia Yusuf and sold it for a reported $500mm.  Since then he has gone on a mission to back the founders who want to advance humanity.