‘Inside UVA’: Podcast Season-Ender Features Beloved Professor Ken Elzinga

December 21, 2021 By Jane Kelly, jak4g@virginia.edu Jane Kelly, jak4g@virginia.edu

Audio: Inside UVA With Ken Elzinga(23:28)

Transcript

University of Virginia President Jim Ryan welcomed Ken Elzinga, UVA’s Robert C. Taylor Professor of Economics, as his final podcast guest of the season, and the two talked cars, antitrust policy and the Supreme Court.

Elzinga has been at UVA for 52 years, in that time teaching some 50,000 students in his large fall course, Economics 201.

He is also known for his love of hot rods, having grown up in Michigan in the 1950s and 1960s.

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Ken Elzinga has taught the fundamentals of economics to more than 50,000 students during his career at UVA. (Photo by Dan Addison, University Communications)

What people may not know is that because of his expertise in antitrust policy, Elzinga has also appeared before the U.S. Supreme Court on a number of occasions.

You can learn about this and more by tuning into the ninth and final episode of the season, which is available on most podcast apps, including Apple PodcastsSpotify and Google Podcasts.

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