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1The Great Fertility Collapse (with Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde)For the first time in human history, we're not having enough children to keep the world's population from falling. And fertility is collapsing fastest not in rich nations but in places like Colombia, Thailand, and Guatemala, upending decade…2026-10-12
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2Addiction, Faith, and the Limits of Willpower (with Meghan O'Gieblyn)Why do we keep doing things we know we shouldn't? And is that really a failure of will? Author Meghan O'Gieblyn spent years trying to answer that question, first in response to her struggle with alcoholism and her loss of faith, and then by…2026-10-05
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3Public Choice and Politics Without Romance (with Mike Munger)Before you give the government new powers, try the Munger Test: cross out "government" and insert the name of the politician you trust least. Then see if you still like the idea. In his 52nd EconTalk appearance, Mike Munger talks with host …2026-09-28
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4The Death of Reading (with James Marriott)Are we living in the new Dark Ages? Despite vast technological advances, our societies are increasingly looking like those that preceded the advent of literacy. So argues journalist James Marriott, who sees in our abandonment of reading a t…2026-09-21
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5Incentives Are for Losers (with Adam Mastroianni)Incentives matter, sure. But what should you do when following the incentives means quietly participating in something wrong? Psychologist Adam Mastroianni argues that obeying bad incentives--shading a headline for clicks, keeping the found…2026-09-14
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6Meritocracy, Exams, and the Knowledge That Matters (with Daisy Christodoulou)What does a failed 19th-century Chinese civil exam and one of the deadliest wars in history have to do with how we hire, educate, and test people today? In this EconTalk conversation, Russ Roberts and education expert Daisy Christodoulou&nb…2026-09-07
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7Hamas and the Future of Gaza (with Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib)He lost his childhood homes, dozens of family members, and most of his hearing in his left ear to Israeli bombs, yet Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib insists that Palestinians must also take responsibility for Gaza's destruction and for peace. Most Gaz…2026-08-31
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8Are We Alone? Cosmic Loneliness and the Longing to Believe (with Adam Kirsch)Has the earth been visited by extraterrestrials? Are we alone? Despite no formal evidence for conscious life outside of earth, the belief that we are not alone has become more common among both scientists and everyday people. Listen as auth…2026-08-24
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9The Hidden Cause of the Industrial Revolution (with Ben Southwood)What if the Industrial Revolution wasn't sparked by the steam engine, but by a quiet legal revolution in how England handled property rights? Ben Southwood of Works in Progress argues that the Glorious Revolution of the 1680s unleashed Brit…2026-08-17
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10Ben Sasse on Faith, Family, and Facing DeathSix months into a stage-four pancreatic cancer diagnosis that gave him 90 days to live, Ben Sasse sits down with EconTalk's Russ Roberts for a conversation that refuses easy comfort. The former U.S. senator and University of Florida preside…2026-08-10
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11The Political Economy of Palestine (with Hussein Aboubakr Mansour)Most discourses about Israel or Palestine are morality plays of good guys vs bad guys. Egyptian-born Hussein Aboubakr Mansour takes a different approach, seeing the conflict as a self-reproducing system of political and economic extraction …2026-08-03
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12Savage Landscapes (with Cal Flyn)What is wilderness when seven billion people share the planet and nowhere remains truly untouched? Author and journalist Cal Flyn discusses her book The Savage Landscape with EconTalk host Russ Roberts, weaving together journeys to some of …2026-07-27
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13Dwayne Betts on the IliadWhat happens when a poet who survived prison sits down with the world's oldest war story--and reads it in three sleepless, wandering days? In this second episode of the EconTalk Book Club on the Iliad , Dwayne Betts and EconTalk host Russ R…2026-07-20
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14From Sawdust to Paw Patrol: The Spin Master Story (with Ronnen Harary)A nylon stocking filled with sawdust that grows grass for hair launched one of the most successful toy companies in the world. Ronnen Harary, co-founder of Spin Master and co-creator of Paw Patrol, talks about his book No Experience Necessa…2026-07-13
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15EconTalk Book Club on the Iliad (with Ido Hevroni)Ego, pride, wrath, fear, gods, superheroes, mortals, and lots of killing. Welcome to Homer's Iliad , which reads at times like a script for a Tarantino film or the latest installment of the Avengers franchise. In the first episode of the Ec…2026-07-06
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16Do Less, Heal More: The Case for Medical Conservatism (with John Mandrola)What if the surgery that fixed your knee did no better than fake surgery? EconTalk host Russ Roberts speaks with Dr. John Mandrola about a striking clinical trial in which patients who received sham knee surgery (a real incision, but no act…2026-06-29
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17Can a Phone Be a Cow? (with Philip Auerswald)Can a phone be a cow? It could in 1990s Bangladesh. This was the insight of a small number of mobile phone market pioneers who helped catalyze the spread of the greatest technological revolution in human history. Listen as George Mason Univ…2026-06-22
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18The Case for Sunshine (with Rowan Jacobsen)Skin cancer comes from the sun. But so do many good things, according to author Rowan Jacobsen. Jacobsen talks with EconTalk's Russ Roberts about the health benefits of sunshine and makes the case for prudent sun exposure. Topics discussed …2026-06-15
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19The Self, the Crowd, and Social Contagion (with Luke Burgis)Finding community can be difficult. But author Luke Burgis thinks the real challenge begins once we've found it and we're subject to social pressures to conform. Listen as Burgis and EconTalk's Russ Roberts trace the tension between individ…2026-06-08
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20Making Your 80,000 Hours Count (with Benjamin Todd)If you want to change the world, how you spend your 80,000 working hours may be the most important decision you can make. Benjamin Todd, founder of 80,000 Hours, joins EconTalk's Russ Roberts to dismantle the career advice you've been fed s…2026-06-01
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21Facing Death (with Sebastian Junger)What does a lifelong atheist do when his dead father appears above him in the emergency room? Author and war reporter Sebastian Junger nearly bled to death in 2020 from a ruptured aneurysm, and what he saw in those moments sent him on a jou…2026-05-25
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22Tom Cruise's Body of Work (with Aled Maclean-Jones)What can Tom Cruise's last impossible mission teach us about usefulness in the digital age? Aled Maclean-Jones argues that dangling from cargo planes, soldering hard drives, and skydiving nineteen consecutive times is really an extended tri…2026-05-18
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23Thinking Inside the Box (with David Epstein)What do the inventor of the periodic table, the novelist Isabel Allende, and the almost-creators of the iPhone have in common? Join author David Epstein and EconTalk's Russ Roberts to explore a counterintuitive idea: that boundaries, and no…2026-05-11
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24Golfing Alone (with Gary Belsky)No rush, no noise, no one else on the golf course: solo golf is an entirely different game, offering physical, mental, and spiritual benefits that playing with others can't. Listen as author and former editor of ESPN The Magazine Gary Belsk…2026-05-04
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25Claude, War, and the State of the Republic (with Dean Ball)The Department of War wanted to deploy Anthropic's Claude for "all lawful use." What begins as a policy dispute between a tech company and the Department of War quietly unfolds into something far more unsettling. Listen as Dean Ball and Eco…2026-04-27
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26Adam Smith's Warning About Wealth, Fame, and Status (with Ross Levine)What can Adam Smith teach us today? In this conversation between Ross Levine of Stanford's Hoover Institution and EconTalk's Russ Roberts, Smith emerges as a penetrating psychologist who understood that our deepest hunger isn't for wealth b…2026-04-20
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27The Man Who Built NVIDIA (with Stephen Witt)He arrived in America as a child with no English. He was mistakenly sent to a school for juvenile delinquents. He faced rampant prejudice--yet Jensen Huang, the under-the-radar CEO of NVIDIA, became a catalyzing figure behind the AI revolut…2026-04-13
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28The Unseen Work: Stewart Brand on Maintenance and CivilizationWhat does a lone sailor circling the globe have to do with the fall of empires, the Model T, and the rise of AI? Everything--because maintenance, the quiet act of keeping things going, turns out to be the hidden force behind success and fai…2026-04-06
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29AI, Employment, and Education (with Tyler Cowen)Tyler Cowen is bullish on the integration of AI into higher education. He's also not worried about its effects on the future workplace. Listen as Cowen speaks with EconTalk's Russ Roberts about the reasons for his optimism, and argues that …2026-03-30
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30The Match That Lit the Flame: Hannah Senesh and the Creation of Modern Israel (with Matti Friedman)Why would a group of young Jews who escaped the Holocaust choose to parachute back into Nazi-occupied Europe? How did they become heroes despite the failure of that mission? Author Matti Friedman joins EconTalk's Russ Roberts to unravel the…2026-03-23
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31The Economics of Scarcity and the UNC-Duke Basketball Game (with Michael Munger)Duke University leaves millions of dollars on the table every year by giving away free tickets to the most sought-after game in college basketball. The bizarre ticket allocation system includes weeks of camping in tents, a 58-question trivi…2026-03-16
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32How We Tamed Ourselves and Invented Good and Evil (with Hanno Sauer)What if humanity's capacity for cruelty was actually one of our greatest moral achievements? That's just one of the provocative ideas philosopher Hanno Sauer explores in this conversation about his book The Invention of Good and Evil with E…2026-03-09
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33The Power of Introverts (with Susan Cain)Introverts are underrated. So says Susan Cain in her conversation with EconTalk's Russ Roberts about her book, Quiet . She explains why introversion isn't the same thing as shyness and she speaks of the many benefits of solitude and silent …2026-03-02
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34The Man Who Would Be King of Saudi Arabia (with Karen Elliott House)Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has been dragging Saudi Arabia into the modern world over the last decade. Journalist and author Karen Elliott House lays out the Saudi leader's motivations, hopes, and contradictions. Listen as she and Econ…2026-02-23
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35Seiko, Swatch, and the Swiss Watch Industry (with Aled Maclean-Jones)How did an industry survive a technology that should have made it obsolete? Aled Maclean-Jones explains to EconTalk's Russ Roberts how Japanese quartz watches nearly wiped out Swiss watchmaking with cheaper, more accurate alternatives--and …2026-02-16
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36A Military Analysis of Israel's War in Gaza (with Andrew Fox)What does war look like when fought under the harshest scrutiny? Veteran soldier and military researcher Andrew Fox talks about his first-hand experience in Gaza with EconTalk's Russ Roberts. He and Roberts explore the challenges of reporti…2026-02-09
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37How to Flourish (with Daniel Coyle)Author Daniel Coyle talks with EconTalk's Russ Roberts on the art of flourishing: why it's a natural phenomenon rather than mechanical; how taking life's "yellow doors"--or detours from a straight, expected path--is often the key to a flour…2026-02-02
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38Zionism, the Melting Pot, and the Galveston Project (with Rachel Cockerell)What happens when a writer discovers her "boring" great-grandfather was actually a household name across the Russian Empire who helped 10,000 Jews escape to Texas? Rachel Cockerell's The Melting Point traces this forgotten history through a…2026-01-26
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39Nature, Nurture, and Identical Twins (with David Bessis)Are your genes your destiny? Despite famous studies of identical twins that seem to answer in the affirmative, mathematician David Bessis says: Not so fast. He and EconTalk's Russ Roberts take a deep dive into the "twins reared apart" liter…2026-01-19
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40The Mattering Instinct (with Rebecca Newberger Goldstein)Philosopher and author Rebecca Newberger Goldstein discusses her new book, The Mattering Instinct , which argues that our lives are a quest to validate our inherent self-centeredness. Tracing this essential longing from physics and biology …2026-01-12
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41Conversation, Interintellect, and Arcadia (with Anna Gat)If technology is ruining the art of conversation, maybe it can save it, too. Anna Gat--poet, screenwriter, playwright, and founder of Interintellect--talks with EconTalk's Russ Roberts on how she's reviving the French salon in the digital a…2026-01-05
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42In Defense of Intuition (with Gerd Gigerenzer)Psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer explains the power of intuition, how intuition became gendered, what he thinks Kahneman and Tversky's research agenda got wrong, and why it's a mistake to place intuition and conscious thinking on opposing ends …2025-12-29
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43David Deutsch on the PatternA world-class physicist makes a shocking claim: across 2,500 years and every kind of society, there has been a recurring moral exception carved out just for Jews--the idea that hurting Jews is, in some sense, legitimate . Most of the time, …2025-12-22
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44Free Will Is Real (with Kevin Mitchell)Are we truly characters with agency, or are we just playing out our programming in the great video game of life? Contrary to those in his field who claim that free will is an illusion, neuroscientist Kevin Mitchell insists that we're agents…2025-12-15
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45Colonialism, Slavery, and Foreign Aid (with William Easterly)Can the promise of economic progress ever justify conquest, coercion, and control over other people’s lives? Economist William Easterly joins EconTalk's Russ Roberts to argue no--and to rethink what "development" really means in theory, in …2025-12-08
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46The Perfect Tuba: How Band, Grit, and Community Build a Better Life (with Sam Quinones)Journalist and author Sam Quinones talks about his newest book, The Perfect Tuba: Forging Fulfillment from the Brass Horn, Band, and Hard Work with EconTalk's Russ Roberts. Known for his reporting on the opioid crisis, Quinones turns to a m…2025-12-01
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47The Status Game (with Will Storr)Will Storr talks about his book The Status Game with EconTalk host Russ Roberts, exploring how our deep need for respect and recognition shapes our behavior. The conversation delves into how we constantly judge others and compare ourselves …2025-11-24
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48The Wonder of the Emergent Mind (with Gaurav Suri)How is your brain like an ant colony? They both use simple parts following simple rules which allows the whole to be so much more than the sum of the parts. Listen as neuroscientist and author Gaurav Suri explains how the mind emerges from …2025-11-17
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49Shampoo, Property Rights, and Civilization (with Anthony Gill)Why is it okay to take the little shampoo bottles in hotels home with you but not the towels? And what stops people from taking the towels? Listen as political scientist Anthony Gill discusses the enforcement of property rights with EconTal…2025-11-10
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50Primal Intelligence (with Angus Fletcher)What do Shakespeare, Hollywood storytelling, and military special operations have in common? They all excel at inventing new plans, or improvising when we're facing radical uncertainty. Listen as professor of story science Angus Fletcher te…2025-11-03
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51A Mind-Blowing Way of Looking at Math (with David Bessis)What if math isn't about grinding through equations, but about training your intuition and changing how your brain works? Mathematician and author David Bessis tells EconTalk's Russ Roberts that the secret of mathematics isn't logic--it's t…2025-10-27
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52Twenty Years of Freakonomics (with Stephen Dubner)Quantitative, contrarian, and nuanced: these are the hallmarks of the Freakonomics approach. Hear journalist and podcaster Stephen Dubner speak with EconTalk's Russ Roberts about the 20th anniversary of the popular-economics book Dubner co-…2025-10-20
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53The Magic of Tokyo (with Joe McReynolds)What drives the seeming relentless dynamism of Tokyo? Is there something special about Japanese culture? Joe McReynolds, co-author of Emergent Tokyo, argues that the secret to Tokyo's energy and attractiveness as a place to live and visit c…2025-10-13
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54The Invisible Hierarchies that Rule Our World (with Toby Stuart)Status isn't fixed; it's transferred and "bestowed," shaping who gets resources, attention, and opportunity. So argues author Toby Stuart of UC Berkeley in his book, Anointed . He and EconTalk's Russ Roberts explore why hierarchies persist-…2025-10-06
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55Eating with Intelligence (with Julia Belluz)Losing weight should be simple: eat less, exercise more. But according to author and health journalist Julia Belluz, it's complicated. Listen as Belluz talks with EconTalk's Russ Roberts about her new book, Food Intelligence . Belluz argues…2025-09-29
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56Steven Pinker on Common KnowledgeWhy are Super Bowl ads so good for launching certain kinds of new products? Why do we all drive on the same side of the road? And why, despite laughing and crying together, do we often misread what others think? According to bestselling aut…2025-09-22
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57How Did America Build the Arsenal of Democracy? (with Brian Potter)American manufacturing of aircraft during WWII dwarfed that of its enemies. By the end of the war, an American assembly line was producing a B-24 bomber in less than an hour. But that success was far from inevitable. Structural engineer and…2025-09-15
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58How Teams Succeed (with Colin Fisher)What makes some groups thrive while others crash and burn? According to organizational-behavior scholar Colin Fisher, the real villains are rarely individuals, but dysfunctional teams and organizations. Listen as he and EconTalk's Russ Robe…2025-09-08
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59Humans Are Overrated (with Christine Webb)Are humans the most intelligent species, or just the most arrogant? NYU primatologist Christine Webb, author of The Arrogant Ape , believes that human exceptionalism is a myth that does more harm than good. Listen as she speaks with EconTal…2025-09-01
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60Hemingway, Love, and War (with David Wyatt)What can Ernest Hemingway teach us today about the morality of war, the eternal and transient nature of love, and how to write a masterpiece? Listen as author and teacher David Wyatt talks with EconTalk's Russ Roberts about Hemingway's epic…2025-08-25
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61Tim Ferriss on Tim Ferriss (and much much more)Cold plunges. Exogenous ketones. Pu-erh tea--but hold the breakfast: it's all par for the morning routine, at least if you're entrepreneur, self-experimenter, and king of the lifehacks, Tim Ferriss. From how he manages the challenges of his…2025-08-18
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62Learning to Think Like Someone Else (with David Marquet)Former submarine commander David Marquet joins EconTalk's Russ Roberts to explore how distancing--thinking like someone else, somewhere else, or sometime else--can unlock better choices in business and life. They talk about leadership witho…2025-08-11
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63Let Me Be Forgotten (with Lowry Pressly)What do we lose when every moment is recorded, every action scrutinized, and every past mistake preserved? Philosopher and author Lowry Pressly joins EconTalk's Russ Roberts to discuss why privacy isn't just about secrets or information con…2025-08-04
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64Read Like a Champion (with Doug Lemov)Many students graduate high school today without having read a book cover to cover. Many students struggle to learn to read at all. How did this happen? Listen as educator and author Doug Lemov talks with EconTalk's Russ Roberts about the f…2025-07-28
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65James Marriott on ReadingIs long form reading a dying pastime? Journalist and cultural critic James Marriott joins EconTalk's Russ Roberts to defend the increasingly quaint act of reading a book in our scrolling-obsessed, AI-summarized age. He urges juggling a pape…2025-07-21
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66How to Walk the World (with Chris Arnade)Skip the Mona Lisa when you visit Paris. Don't tour the Coliseum in Rome. Walk, don’t hurry. Chris Arnade speaks with EconTalk's Russ Roberts about a different way to travel. Listen as Arnade shares what he learned from Istanbul's small com…2025-07-14
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67What Is Capitalism? (with Mike Munger)What is capitalism, really? Drawing on Adam Smith, Douglass North, and his own experience as a teacher and economist, economist Michael Munger of Duke University discusses three stages of economic development with EconTalk's Russ Roberts: v…2025-07-07
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68The Deceptive Power of Maps (with Paulina Rowinska)How can the state of Colorado have nearly 700 sides? Why is a country's coastline as long as you want it to be? And how is it that your UPS driver has more routes to choose from than there are stars in the universe? Listen as mathematician …2025-06-30
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69How to Be a Super Ager (with Eric Topol)What if we could delay--or even prevent--Alzheimer's, cancer, and heart disease? What if much of what you know about aging is wrong? Listen as cardiologist and author Eric Topol of the Scripps Research Institute talks about his new book Sup…2025-06-23
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70Leon Kass on the Wisdom of RousseauDoes technology liberate us or enslave us? How do our social interactions affect our sense of self and our emotional health? Listen as author and master teacher Leon Kass and EconTalk's Russ Roberts do a close reading of a few paragraphs of…2025-06-16
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71Two Cheers for Libertarianism and Econ 101 (with Noah Smith)Economist Noah Smith was so focused on libertarianism's theoretical flaws, he overlooked its political importance. Trump's tariff policy opened his eyes and made him re-assess the virtues of both libertarianism and Econ 101. Listen as he an…2025-06-09
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72EconTalk #1000 (with Russ Roberts)In honor of EconTalk's 1,000th episode, host Russ Roberts reflects on his long, strange journey from pioneer of the podcast format to weekly interviewer of leading economists, authors, and thinkers. Hear him answer your--and Chat GPT's--que…2025-06-02
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73Nature vs. Nurture (with Paul Bloom)How much of our success or failure is written in our genes? How much is under our control? Is it nature or nurture or is that dichotomy too simplistic? Hear EconTalk's Russ Roberts and psychologist Paul Bloom discuss why the nature vs. nurt…2025-05-26
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74Inside the Mysterious World of Credit Cards (with Patrick McKenzie)Patrick McKenzie explains to EconTalk's Russ Roberts how credit cards work, who makes money from them and how, and gives his take on whether cash customers and debit card users subsidize the users of credit cards with reward programs.2025-05-19
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75The Past and Present of Privacy and Public Life (with Tiffany Jenkins)A paradox of our time is our willingness to bare all to strangers while worrying about who exactly is watching us online and anywhere else. Listen as author Tiffany Jenkins discusses her book, Strangers and Intimates , with EconTalk's Russ …2025-05-12
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76The Economics of Tariffs and Trade (with Doug Irwin)Is the United States victimized by trade? What causes trade deficits? Are higher tariffs a good idea? Can manufacturing jobs return to the United States? Economist Doug Irwin of Dartmouth College answers these questions and more in this wid…2025-05-05
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77The Past and Future of AI (with Dwarkesh Patel)Dwarkesh Patel interviewed the most influential thinkers and leaders in the world of AI and chronicled the history of AI up to now in his book, The Scaling Era . Listen as he talks to EconTalk's Russ Roberts about the book, the dangers and …2025-04-28
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78Why Christianity Needs to Help Save Democracy (with Jonathan Rauch)How does a nice Jewish boy who is also a gay atheist have the chutzpah to lecture Christianity on its obligations to democracy? Listen to author Jonathan Rauch talk about his book Cross Purposes with EconTalk's Russ Roberts as Rauch makes t…2025-04-21
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79Rational and Religious (with Ross Douthat)How can we explain the world's underlying order? How does consciousness emerge? And why do people from such different cultures have such similar near-death experiences? Listen as Ross Douthat, New York Times columnist and author of the new …2025-04-14
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80The Music and Magic of John and Paul (with Ian Leslie)At the heart of the success of the Beatles was the creative chemistry and volatile friendship between John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Listen as author Ian Leslie discusses his book, John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs with EconTalk's Russ Ro…2025-04-07
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81Do All Creatures, Great and Small, and Made From Silicon, Have Rights? (with Jeff Sebo)Should monkeys have the same rights as humans? What about elephants, ants, or invertebrates? NYU philosopher Jeff Sebo makes the case for expanding your moral circle to many more beings than you might expect, including those based on silico…2025-03-31
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82Bird Brains, Bird Sex, and All Kinds of Beauty (with Matt Ridley)Bright colors, long tails, and dances of seduction: they may hurt a bird's chances of survival in the wild, but they seem to increase the chances of reproduction. Is this all part of natural selection or is sexual selection its own force in…2025-03-24
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83How Better Feedback Can Revolutionize Education (with Daisy Christodoulou)Feedback on exams and papers--grades and comments--should be more than an assessment. It should point the way to improvement. So argues educational consultant Daisy Christodoulou, emphasizing that actionable feedback has to be more than com…2025-03-17
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84Will Guidara on Unreasonable HospitalityWhat can the restaurant business teach us about leadership and management? Listen as Will Guidara, the former owner of Eleven Madison Park, explains to EconTalk's Russ Roberts how his restaurant became good enough to be named the best resta…2025-03-10
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85The Unusual World of Israeli Democracy (with Rachel Gur)Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East but it seems a lot more alien and chaotic than many of the older democracies of the West. Hear Rachel Gur of Reichman University explain to EconTalk's Russ Roberts how the Israeli political sy…2025-03-03
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86The Struggle That Shaped the Middle East (with James Barr)Until the end of WWI, the Middle East as we know it didn't exist. No Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, or Iraq. Instead, there was the Ottoman Empire, whose dissolution using an arbitrary line on a map set the region on a course of upheaval t…2025-02-24
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87Who Won the Socialist Calculation Debate (with Peter Boettke)For more than a century, some economists have insisted that central planning can outperform markets. Economists like Mises, Hayek, and Friedman disagreed. Who won this debate? Is it over? Does AI change how we should think about the power o…2025-02-17
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88Minimalists and Hoarders (with Michael Easter)Why do we buy stuff we don't need? Maybe for the same reason that some people can't stand stuff at all. Listen as author Michael Easter speaks with EconTalk's Russ Roberts about how two seemingly opposed approaches to our possessions--minim…2025-02-10
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89Coase, the Rules of the Game, and the Costs of Perfection (with Daisy Christodoulou)Surely perfection is better than imperfection. But applying technology to improve decision-making can backfire. Listen as ed-tech innovator Daisy Christodoulou and EconTalk's Russ Roberts talk about the costs of seeking perfection when tech…2025-02-03
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90Why AI Is Good for Humans (with Reid Hoffman)Should we worry about the human future in a world of AI? Reid Hoffman is unafraid and even optimistic. He argues that the brave new world that awaits is going to be great for humanity. Listen as he talks about his book Superagency with Econ…2025-01-27
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91Weep, Shudder, Die: The Secret of Opera Revealed (with Dana Gioia)How can opera, with words we rarely understand, make us cry? Why does opera, filled with melodrama, move us? Listen as poet and librettist Dana Gioia explains to EconTalk's Russ Roberts why words matter more than we think, in both opera and…2025-01-20
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92Will DOGE and Musk Make a Difference? (with Michael Munger)Can Musk use DOGE to reduce the size and power of the bureaucracy and big government? Michael Munger of Duke University thinks not, but EconTalk's Russ Roberts isn't so sure. Listen as they discuss the risks of empowering bureaucrats to rei…2025-01-13
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93Understanding the Settler Colonialism Movement (with Adam Kirsch)Under settler colonialism, you're either a settler or indigenous and the sin of the founding of America, Australia, and Israel, for example, is not just a past injustice but a perpetuating mistake that explains the present. Listen as poet, …2025-01-06
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94The Power of Nuance: Lessons for Public Health (with Emily Oster)Public health officials should tell the truth, even when it's complicated. Even when some people might misunderstand. Otherwise, says economist Emily Oster of Brown University, the public will come to distrust the people we need to trust if…2024-12-30
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95Fixing Sick Cities (with Alain Bertaud)Why are European cities charming and American cities often so charmless? Simple, says urbanist Alain Bertaud: most American cities are zoned for single-family housing. The result is not enough customers within walking distance of a business…2024-12-23
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96Is This War With Lebanon Different? (with Matti Friedman)Is Israel's war with Lebanon going to end differently from past attempts to secure Israel's northern border? Journalist Matti Friedman, who recounted his experience as a soldier in Lebanon in his book Pumpkinflowers , reflects on that exper…2024-12-16
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97Why Industrial Policy Is (Almost) Always a Bad Idea (with Scott Sumner)Tariffs are in the air. Will they help or hurt Americans? Listen as economist Scott Sumner makes the case against tariffs and various other forms of government intervention that go by the name of industrial policy. Along the way he looks at…2024-12-09
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98Translating Life and Fate (with Robert Chandler)What does it take to translate a 900-page Russian novel written before the fall of the Soviet Union? For Robert Chandler it meant living in a seaside cottage for four months to immerse himself completely in the characters' lives and to meet…2024-12-02
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99Tyler Cowen on Life and FateLife and Fate might be the greatest novel of the 20th century or maybe ever. Tyler Cowen talks about this sprawling masterpiece and its author, Vasily Grossman, with EconTalk's Russ Roberts.2024-11-25
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100Terrorism, Israel, and Dreams of Peace (with Haviv Rettig Gur)Over the last 30 years, the Israeli public has moved to the right on the question of how to deal with the Palestinians. Why did this happen? How has this changed Israeli politics and the strategy of the Palestinians? Listen, as journalist H…2024-11-18
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101Who Needs Miracles? On Nature and the Miraculous (with Alan Lightman)How can we cultivate a sense of awe in our lives? Easy, says physicist and author Alan Lightman: Pay more attention. When we take the time to examine the world around us, from shooting stars to soap bubbles to everything in between, we can …2024-11-11
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102Give Away a Kidney? Are You Crazy? (with filmmaker Penny Lane)After filmmaker Penny Lane decided to donate a kidney to a stranger, it took three years and a complex, often infuriating, sometimes terrifying process to make it happen. Along the way, being a filmmaker, she eventually decided to chronicle…2024-11-04
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103Susan Cain on Bittersweet and the Happiness of MelancholyWhy do we like sad music or that poignant feeling that comes from attending a funeral? Author Susan Cain talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about her book Bittersweet and the seductive and sometimes deeply satisfying power of melancholy.2024-10-28
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104Why Housing Is Artificially Expensive and What Can Be Done About It (with Bryan Caplan)Housing is artificially expensive. Bryan Caplan of George Mason University and the author of Build, Baby, Build talks with EconTalk's Russ Roberts about the causes behind high housing prices and what can be done to bring prices down.2024-10-21
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105Misinformation and the Three Languages of Politics (with Arnold Kling)How big a problem is misinformation for a democracy? How do we arrive at the truth? Listen as economist and author Arnold Kling talks with EconTalk's Russ Roberts about how we should think about truth-seeking. The conversation also revisits…2024-10-14
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106Reclaiming Tribalism (with Michael Morris)Is tribalism destroying democracy? According to cultural psychologist Michael Morris of Columbia University, just the opposite may be the case. As he explains in his new book, Tribal , our tribal instincts can also be the source of our succ…2024-10-07
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107The Underrated Bruno Leoni (with Michael Munger)Friedrich Hayek credited Bruno Leoni with shaping his ideas on laws and legislation. James Buchanan said that Leoni identified problems that led to his own work on public choice. How is it possible, then, that so few of us know of the groun…2024-09-30
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108The Mysterious World of Owls (with Jennifer Ackerman)An owl will eat a rabbit whole, but owls can't digest the fur or the bones. So how do they survive? Why do their eyes face forward rather than to the side? Long-eared Owls don't have ears, so what's up with the name and how do they hear? Ho…2024-09-23
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109What Modern Medicine Gets Wrong (with Marty Makary)Johns Hopkins surgeon Dr. Marty Makary talks about his book Blind Spots with EconTalk's Russ Roberts. Makary argues that the medical establishment too often makes unsupported recommendations for treatment while condemning treatments and app…2024-09-16
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110Is Israel Winning the War in Gaza? (with Andrew Fox)British Army major and Sandhurst lecturer Andrew Fox recently spent a week with the Israel Defense Forces including a day inside Gaza. He was struck by the IDF's control of Gazan territory and shocked by the level of physical devastation. L…2024-09-09
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111The Problems of Boys and Men in Today's America (with Richard Reeves)Many boys and men in America are doing worse than girls and women in education while struggling with a culture that struggles to define what masculinity is in the 21st century. Is this a problem? Richard Reeves thinks so which is why he sta…2024-09-02
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112Chaos and Complexity Economics (with J. Doyne Farmer)Physicist J. Doyne Farmer wants a new kind of economics that takes account of what we've learned from chaos theory and that builds more accurate models of how humans actually behave. Listen as he makes the case for complexity economics with…2024-08-26
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113What's Happening Inside Your Doctor's Head and Heart (with Adam Cifu)Physician Adam Cifu keeps a binder of every patient of his who has passed away. Every once in a while, he opens it and remembers the lives of his past patients. Morbid? Maybe a little. But it's just one of the ways Cifu tries to make his pr…2024-08-19
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114How Do You Capture the Tragedy of War? (with Sabin Howard)A soldier goes off to war. Damaged in combat, he returns home, forever changed. Master sculptor Sabin Howard captures this tragic and powerful journey in bronze, for the new World War I Memorial that will be unveiled in Washington, D.C. on …2024-08-12
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115The Ever-Present Challenge of Escaping Poverty (with Noah Smith)The universe, points out economist Noah Smith, is always trying to kill us, whether through asteroids hurtling through space or our every-few-hours hunger pains. Why, then, should we expect anything but a gravitational pull toward poverty? …2024-08-05
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116Sam Harris on Jew-Hatred, Radical Islam, and the WestNeuroscientist and author Sam Harris of the podcast Making Sense talks with EconTalk's Russ Roberts about rising Jew-hatred in the West and what Harris sees as the dangers of radical Islam and Jihadism.2024-07-29
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117Does Parenting Make You a Better Person? (with Erik Hoel)Does parenting make you a better person? Can it improve your life? Neuroscientist Erik Hoel makes the self-interested case for parenting arguing that it makes you less jaded and more heartbroken (in a good way) for how you experience the wo…2024-07-22
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118Lessons from Lincoln, Then and Now (with Diana Schaub)What lessons can we take from the speeches of Abraham Lincoln for today's turbulent times? How did those speeches move the nation in Lincoln's day? Listen as political scientist Diana Schaub of Loyola University, Maryland talks with EconTal…2024-07-15
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119Reading, Writing, and Fighting (with Mark Helprin)For many men, surviving the test of battle intensifies the joy of being alive. A provocative claim, perhaps, but to novelist Mark Helprin, simply a fact, and one that drives his new book about men who commit themselves fully both to service…2024-07-08
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120Is Israel Occupying the West Bank? (with Eugene Kontorovich)To international law expert Eugene Kontorovich of George Mason University, all the arguments that make Israel out to be an occupying force collapse under the weight of a single, simple fact: A country cannot occupy territory to which it has…2024-07-01
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121René Girard, Mimesis, and Conflict (with Cynthia Haven)If you're always imitating others or aspiring to be something else, what's left of the "authentic" you? According to the French philosopher René Girard, not much: Nothing can be truly authentic, he argued--everything comes from somewhere el…2024-06-24
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122Does Market Failure Justify Government Intervention? (with Michael Munger)Economics students are often taught that government should intervene when there is market failure. But what about government failure? Should we expect government intervention to outperform market outcomes? Listen as Duke University economis…2024-06-17
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123How the Constitution Can Bring Us Together (with Yuval Levin)Can a document unify a nation? Yuval Levin of the American Enterprise Institute and author of American Covenant argues that the Constitution unified the United States at the founding of the country and that understanding the Constitution ca…2024-06-10
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124Injustice and the "Letter from Birmingham Jail" (with Dwayne Betts)When poet, lawyer, and MacArthur Fellow Dwayne Betts was imprisoned for nine years at the age of 16 for carjacking, he only wept twice. One of those times was when he read Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail." In this powe…2024-06-03
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125The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of the Covid Vaccine (with Vinay Prasad)The Covid vaccine saved many lives but so many mistakes were made in how public health officials discussed it, implemented it, and assessed its effectiveness. Epidemiologist Vinay Prasad of the University of California, San Francisco talks …2024-05-27
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126Purpose, Pleasure, and Meaning in a World Without Work (with Nicholas Bostrom)If you didn't have to work to enjoy material abundance, would you do it anyway? If an algorithm or a pill could achieve better results, would you bother shopping or going to the gym? These are the kinds of questions we'll need to ask oursel…2024-05-20
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127Glenn Loury Tells AllEconomist and social critic Glenn Loury talks about his memoir, Late Admissions , with EconTalk's Russ Roberts. In a wide-ranging and blunt conversation, Loury discusses his childhood, his at-times brilliant academic work, his roller-coaste…2024-05-13
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128Living with the Constitution (with A.J. Jacobs)What does it mean to live Constitutionally in the year 2024? For a start, it means getting off social media. It also means swapping a quill pen for your keyboard, and candlelight for electricity. And don't forget the tricorn hat and musket-…2024-05-06
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129The Top EconTalk Conversations of 2023 (with Russ Roberts)The favorite EconTalk episodes for host Russ Roberts are when he and his guest have an unusually powerful connection such as his recent episode with Charles Duhigg, and the ones where he learns something mind-blowing, like Adam Mastroianni’…2024-04-29
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130Seeking Immortality (with Paul Bloom)Would an AI simulation of your dead loved one be a blessing or an abomination? And if you knew that after your own death, your loved ones would create a simulation of you, how would that knowledge change the way you choose to live today? Th…2024-04-22
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131When Prediction Is Not Enough (with Teppo Felin)If the Wright Brothers could have used AI to guide their decision making, it's almost certain they would never have gotten off the ground. That's because, points out Teppo Felin of Utah State University and Oxford, all the evidence said hum…2024-04-15
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132Rituals Without Religion (with Michael Norton)While religion may play less of a role in many people's lives, rituals--the lifeblood of religion--remain central to the human experience. Listen as Michael Norton of the Harvard Business School explains how and why rituals remain at the ce…2024-04-08
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133A User's Guide to Our Emotional Thermostat (with Adam Mastroianni)Can you be too happy? Psychologist Adam Mastroianni talks with EconTalk's Russ Roberts about our emotional control systems, which seem to work at bringing both sadness and happiness back to a steady baseline. Too much happiness is--perhaps …2024-04-01
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134What Does "Unbiased" Mean in the Digital World? (with Megan McArdle)Listen as Megan McArdle and EconTalk's Russ Roberts use Google's new AI entrant Gemini as the starting point for a discussion about the future of our culture in the shadow of AI bias. They also discuss the tension between rules and discreti…2024-03-25
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135Voices from Gaza (with Ahmed Alkhatib)Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib spent much of his childhood in Gaza before becoming an American citizen. He has lost dozens of family members and both his childhood homes in Israel's war in Gaza. But he hasn't lost hope for peace and the future of the…2024-03-18
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136Living with Exponential Change (with Azeem Azhar)The world of today would seem alien to someone living 30 years ago: people seduced by their screens in private and public and now AI blurring the lines between humans and the machine. Author and technologist Azeem Azhar chronicles the pace …2024-03-11
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137How to Avoid Lying With Statistics (with Jeremy Weber)There's often a gap between the textbook treatment of statistics and the cookbook treatment--how to cook up the numbers when you're in the kitchen of the real world. Jeremy Weber of the University of Pittsburgh and the author of Statistics …2024-03-04
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138The Secrets of Great Conversation (with Charles Duhigg)When EconTalk's Russ Roberts sat down with Charles Duhigg to talk about his new book on the art of conversation, Supercommunicators , Roberts tried to apply some of its lessons to his conversation with the author. The result is this special…2024-02-26
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139A Lively Debate on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (with Robert Wright)Journalist and author Robert Wright invited EconTalk's Russ Roberts to his podcast, NonZero, to discuss the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, knowing that there would be plenty to disagree about. The two then agreed to release their back-and-fo…2024-02-19
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140Year Zero of the Arab-Israeli Conflict (with Hillel Cohen)How far back should you go to understand the current moment in the relationship between Israel and its Palestinian neighbors and the attack of October 7? Some would say 2005, or 1967, or maybe 1948 when the State of Israel was founded. But …2024-02-12
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141Should Israel Depend on the US? (with Michael Oren)For decades, American aid to Israel has sent a strategic message: the greatest superpower in the world stands behind the Jewish state. But does it really? Historian and former Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren tells EconTalk's Rus…2024-02-05
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142What Palestinians Are Thinking (with Dahlia Scheindlin)Pollster and political scientist Dahlia Scheindlin has worked extensively with public opinion polls of both Palestinians and Israelis. Listen as she talks with EconTalk's Russ Roberts about the dreams, fears, anger, and frustration of both …2024-01-29
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143If Life Is Random, Is It Meaningless? (with Brian Klaas)How did a husband-and-wife vacation end up saving a city from the atomic bomb while destroying another? And how did a century-old murder of one family bring another into existence? Easily, explains political scientist Brian Klaas of Univers…2024-01-22
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144Can a Nation Plunder Its Way to Wealth (with Noah Smith)Did nations get rich on the backs of other nations? Did the West get rich from imperialism? Noah Smith says no. But why not? If you can steal stuff, isn't that better than having to make it yourself? Listen as Noah Smith and EconTalk's Russ…2024-01-15
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145The Challenge of Covering the Most Important Story on Earth (with Matti Friedman)Journalist Matti Friedman worked for the Jerusalem Bureau of the Associated Press from 2006 to 2011. Looking back at that experience, Friedman argues that little has changed in the journalism landscape. Listen as Friedman discusses with Eco…2024-01-08
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146From the Second Intifada to October 7th (with Daniel Gordis)Over the 25 years he's lived in Israel, author Daniel Gordis of Shalem College has seen many chapters of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, beginning with the Second Intifada that followed the Oslo Accords. Listen as he and EconTalk's Russ R…2024-01-01
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147Can Artificial Intelligence Be Moral? (with Paul Bloom)It seems obvious that moral artificial intelligence would be better than the alternative. But psychologist Paul Bloom of the University of Toronto thinks moral AI is not just a meaningless goal but a bad one. Listen as Bloom and EconTalk's …2023-12-25
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148An Extraordinary Introduction to the Birth of Israel and the Arab-Israeli Conflict (with Haviv Rettig Gur)Israeli journalist Haviv Rettig Gur takes us on a deep dive into the origins of Israel--how European Jew-hatred gave birth to Zionism and the founding of the Jewish state in 1948. He then turns to the rise of Palestinian terrorism and expla…2023-12-18
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149Niall Ferguson on Free Speech and Kissinger's Role in the Middle EastHow can we create a radically different atmosphere at American universities? Easy, says historian Niall Ferguson of Stanford University's Hoover Institution--have meaningful rules about free speech, and ensure that they're upheld. As with h…2023-12-11
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150Yossi Klein Halevi on the Palestinian-Israeli ConflictIn 2018, author Yossi Klein Halevi wanted Palestinians to understand his story of how Israel came into existence. At the same time, he wanted Palestinians to tell him their personal and national stories, too, about the same land. The result…2023-12-04
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151Tyler Cowen on the GOAT of EconomicsWho is the greatest economist of all time? In Tyler Cowen's eclectic view, you need both breadth and depth, macro and micro. You can't have been too wrong--and you need to be mostly right. You have to have had a lasting impact, and done bot…2023-11-27
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152Andrew McAfee on the Geek WayWhat's different about companies that accomplish amazing things? Perhaps surprisingly, says Andrew McAfee of MIT, it has nothing to do with being agile or with better technology. Instead, they've developed what he calls "geek" cultures, whi…2023-11-20
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153Jennifer Burns on Milton FriedmanWho was Milton Friedman? Jennifer Burns of Stanford University finds in her biography of Friedman that the answer to that question is more complicated than she thought. Listen as she and EconTalk's Russ Roberts discuss how the now-forgotten…2023-11-13
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154Zach Weinersmith on Space Settlement and A City on MarsLoss of taste for most foods, vision problems, loss of muscle mass and bone density. In light of these and the many unpleasant our outright dangerous effects of space travel on human physiology, science writer and cartoonist Zach Weinersmit…2023-11-06
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155Michael Easter on Excess, Moderation, and the Scarcity BrainSlot machines, social media, and potato chips: we humans seem to find a lot of things hard to consume in moderation. Why does "enough" seem so much harder to say than "more?" Listen as Michael Easter discusses these questions and his book, …2023-10-30
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156Robert Sapolsky on Determinism, Free Will, and ResponsibilityYour mother's socio-economic status at the time of your birth. Whether your ancestors raised crops or led camels through the desert. The smell of the room you're in when you're making a decision--all of these things, says neuroscientist Rob…2023-10-23
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157Alexandra Hudson on the Soul of CivilityWhen Alexandra Hudson arrived in Washington, DC, she discovered that outward behavior is not always a reflection of a person's character. Her disillusionment led to an in-depth exploration of the historical concept and practice of civility,…2023-10-16
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158Adam Mastroianni on Learning and Mostly ForgettingHow much do we remember of what we learn in school or from conversation? Psychologist Adam Mastroianni says: from little to nothing much. What do our brains retain? Mastroianni argues that often it's a mix of emotions, meanings, and values …2023-10-09
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159Elie Hassenfeld on GiveWellWhen then-hedge fund manager Elie Hassenfeld began his philanthropic journey in 2006, he knew that he wanted to get the most charitable bang for his buck. He quickly realized, however, that detailed data on charitable impact simply didn't e…2023-10-02
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160Peter Attia on Lifespan, Healthspan, and OutliveWe spend too much of our health care focus on lifespan and not enough on healthspan--the quality of our life as we get older. So argues Dr. Peter Attia, author of Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity . Attia speaks with EconTalk's Russ…2023-09-25
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161Michael Munger on How Adam Smith Solved the Trolley ProblemIn the original version of a now classic thought experiment, five people are about to be killed by a runaway trolley. Would you divert the trolley knowing that your choice will kill a single innocent bystander? Listen as Michael Munger of D…2023-09-18
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162Anupam Bapu Jena on Random Acts of MedicineDo marathons kill people who aren't in the race? Does when you're born make you more likely to get the flu? And what's the difference between a good doctor and a bad one? These are some of the questions Anupam Bapu Jena of Harvard Universit…2023-09-11
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163Roland Fryer on Race, Diversity, and Affirmative ActionCan economics and better measurement help us understand racial disparities and suggest how to reduce or eliminate them? Economist Roland Fryer of Harvard University believes deeply in the power of data to help us understand how the world wo…2023-09-04
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164Vinay Prasad on Cancer ScreeningEarly detection of cancer seems like a very good idea. But it's a lot more complicated than it seems. Oncologist and epidemiologist Vinay Prasad of the University of California, San Francisco talks to EconTalk's Russ Roberts about why many …2023-08-28
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165Walter Russell Mead on Innovation, Religion, and the State of the WorldHistorian and author Walter Russell Mead of Bard College and the Hudson Institute talks with EconTalk's Russ Roberts about how innovation and religion can help us make sense of the current state of the world.2023-08-21
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166Adam Mastroianni on the Brain, the Ears, and How We LearnPsychologist and writer Adam Mastroianni says our minds are like the keep of a castle protecting our deepest held values and beliefs from even the most skilled attacks. The only problem with this design for self-preservation is that it also…2023-08-14
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167Zvi Mowshowitz on AI and the Dial of ProgressThe future of AI keeps Zvi Mowshowitz up at night. He also wonders why so many smart people seem to think that AI is more likely to save humanity than destroy it. Listen as Mowshowitz talks with EconTalk's Russ Roberts about the current sta…2023-08-07
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168Daron Acemoglu on Innovation and Shared ProsperityEconomist and author Daron Acemoglu of MIT discusses his book Power and Progress with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Acemoglu argues that the productivity and prosperity that results from innovation is not always shared widely across the popul…2023-07-31
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169Erik Hoel on Consciousness, Free Will, and the Limits of ScienceNeuroscientist and author Erik Hoel talks about his book, The World Behind the World , with EconTalk's Russ Roberts. Is it possible to reconcile the seemingly subjective inner world of human experience with the seemingly objective outer wor…2023-07-24
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170Lydia Dugdale on the Lost Art of DyingPhysician and author Lydia Dugdale wants to teach us a better way to die. She argues that this will help us find a better way to live. Listen as she discusses her book, The Lost Art of Dying , with EconTalk's Russ Roberts.2023-07-17
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171Marc Andreessen on Why AI Will Save the WorldMarc Andreessen thinks AI will make everything better--if only we get out of the way. He argues that in every aspect of human activity, our ability to understand, synthesize, and generate knowledge results in better outcomes. Listen as the …2023-07-10
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172James Rebanks on the Shepherd's LifeJames Rebanks's family has raised sheep in the same small English village for at least four centuries. There are records of people with his same last name going back a few hundred more. Even his sheep are rooted in place: their DNA is from …2023-07-03
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173Jacob Howland on the Hidden Human Costs of AIIn the early 1900s, the philosopher Henry Adams expressed concern about the rapid rate of social change ushered in by new technologies, from the railways to the telegraph and ultimately airplanes. If we transpose Adams's concerns onto the p…2023-06-26
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174Michael Munger on Obedience to the UnenforceableCivilization and the pleasantness of everyday life depend on unwritten rules. Early in the 20th century, an English mathematician and government official, Lord Moulton, described complying with these rules as "obedience to the unenforceable…2023-06-19
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175Rebecca Struthers on Watches, Watchmaking, and the Hands of TimeCalled "a poem in clockwork," the self-winding Breguet watch made for Marie Antoinette was meant to be the most beautiful example of mechanical art in the world. Yet when she was imprisoned in the Tour du Temple, she wanted only a simple wa…2023-06-12
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176Les Snead on Risk, Decisions, and FootballAfter nearly 12 years as general manager for the L.A. Rams, Les Snead has learned the power of humility when it comes to making big decisions--who to draft, who to hire as head coach, and how to create a shared vision for his team. Listen a…2023-06-05
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177Luca Dellanna on Risk, Ruin, and ErgodicityAuthor and consultant Luca Dellanna talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the importance of avoiding ruin when facing risk. Along the way Dellanna makes understandable the arcane concept of ergodicity and shows the importance of avoid…2023-05-29
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178Casey Mulligan on Vaccines, the Pandemic, and the FDAWhen there's no vaccine on the market, people will look for other ways to be safe, including school closures and the handwashing of groceries. Listen as economist Casey Mulligan of the University Chicago talks with EconTalk's Russ Roberts a…2023-05-22
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179Tyler Cowen on the Risks and Impact of Artificial IntelligenceEconomist Tyler Cowen of George Mason University talks with EconTalk's Russ Roberts about the benefits and dangers of artificial intelligence. Cowen argues that the worriers--those who think that artificial intelligence will destroy mankind…2023-05-15
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180Eliezer Yudkowsky on the Dangers of AIEliezer Yudkowsky insists that once artificial intelligence becomes smarter than people, everyone on earth will die. Listen as Yudkowsky speaks with EconTalk's Russ Roberts on why we should be very, very afraid, and why we're not prepared o…2023-05-08
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181Patrick House and Itzhak Fried on the Brain's MysteriesWhile operating on a 16-year-old girl who suffered from severe seizures, neurosurgeon Itzhak Fried stumbled on the region of the brain that makes us laugh. To neuroscientist Patrick House, Fried's ability to produce laughter surgically rais…2023-05-01
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182Michael Munger on the Perfect vs. the GoodIs the perfect really the enemy of the good? Or is it the other way around? In 2008, Duke University economist Michael Munger ran for governor and proposed increasing school choice through vouchers for the state's poorest counties. But some…2023-04-24
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183Dana Gioia on Poetry, Death and MortalityWhen he was a child, poet Dana Gioia's mother would come home from a long day of work and recite poems while she cleaned. It was a way, he realized later, for her to express the feelings she didn't want to describe directly, and to vent her…2023-04-17
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184Daniel Gordis on Israel and Impossible Takes LongerAs Israel turns 75, has it fulfilled the promise of its founders? Daniel Gordis of Shalem College talks about his book, Impossible Takes Longer , with EconTalk's Russ Roberts looking at the successes and failures of Israel. Topics discussed…2023-04-10
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185Erik Hoel on the Threat to Humanity from AIThey operate according to rules we can never fully understand. They can be unreliable, uncontrollable, and misaligned with human values. They're fast becoming as intelligent as humans--and they're exclusively in the hands of profit-seeking …2023-04-03
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186Kevin Kelly on Advice, AI, and TechnologyPhotographer, author, and visionary Kevin Kelly talks about his book Excellent Advice for Living with EconTalk's Russ Roberts. His advice includes how to have a deep conversation, why it's better to control time than money--and whether, in …2023-03-27
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187Megan McArdle on the Oedipus TrapWhen physician Walter Freeman died in 1972, he still believed that lobotomies were the best treatment for mental illness. A pioneer in the method, he was a deeply confident and charismatic man who eagerly spread the technique in America, lo…2023-03-20
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188Zach Weinersmith on Beowulf and Bea WolfTolkien read it as a tale about mortality. The poet David Whyte said it was a metaphor for the psychological demons deep in our minds. And that, insists the cartoonist and writer Zach Weinersmith, is precisely Beowulf's appeal: Its richness…2023-03-13
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189Omer Moav on the Emergence of the StateSince at least Adam Smith, the common wisdom has been that the transition from hunter-gathering to farming allowed the creation of the State. Farming, so went the theory, led to agricultural surplus, and that surplus is the prerequisite for…2023-03-06
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190Paul Bloom on Psych, Psychology, and the Human MindDo psychologists know anything? Psychologist Paul Bloom says yes--but not the things that you might think. Bloom discusses his book Psych with EconTalk's Russ Roberts and what the field of psychology can teach us about human intelligence, c…2023-02-27
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191Marco Ramos on Misunderstanding Mental IllnessWhen psychiatrist Marco Ramos of Yale University prescribes antidepressants to patients in distress and they ask him how they work, Ramos admits: We don't really know. And too often, they don't work at all. Despite decades of brain research…2023-02-20
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192Adam Mastroianni on Peer Review and the Academic KitchenPsychologist Adam Mastroianni says peer review has failed. Papers with major errors make it through the process. The ones without errors often fail to replicate. One approach to improve the process is better incentives. But Mastroianni argu…2023-02-13
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193Sam Harris on Meditation, Mindfulness, and MoralityAccording to neuroscientist and philosopher Sam Harris, rationality is the key to safeguarding everything we cherish, and its only true enemy is dogmatic inflexibility. Harris speaks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the views that have…2023-02-06
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194Vinay Prasad on Pharmaceuticals, the FDA, and the Death of DutyOncologist and epidemiologist Vinay Prasad argues that too many very expensive drugs get approved by the FDA that have very limited impact on the lives of patients. Prasad explains the incentives that distort the current system. The general…2023-01-30
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195Dwayne Betts on Beauty, Prison, and RedactionDwayne Betts was a 16-year-old in solitary confinement when a fellow inmate slid a book of poetry under his cell door. What happened next is an astounding story of transformation: from desperation to the discovery of beauty, even behind bar…2023-01-23
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196Tiffany Jenkins on Plunder, Museums, and MarblesShould the British Museum return the Elgin Marbles, taken from the Parthenon in Athens about 200 years ago? What should be the purpose of museums, education or social justice? Listen as Tiffany Jenkins, author of Keeping Their Marbles, disc…2023-01-16
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197Ian Leslie on Being Human in the Age of AIWhen OpenAI launched its conversational chatbot this past November, author Ian Leslie was struck by the humanness of the computer's dialogue. Then he realized that he had it exactly backward: In an age that favors the formulaic and generic …2023-01-09
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198Hannah Ritchie on Eating LocalHaving completed several degrees in environmental science, Hannah Ritchie nearly left the field out of helplessness and frustration, worried she would never make a real difference. Today, she's a passionate advocate for changing climate mes…2023-01-02
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199Judge Glock on Zoning and Local GovernmentEconomic historian Judge Glock talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about zoning and the housing market. Glock argues the impact on zoning on housing affordability is small and that we should learn to love property taxes as long as they're a…2022-12-26
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200Arnold Kling on Twitter, FTX, and ChatGPTEconomist and author Arnold Kling talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the recent drama in the tech world--Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter, the collapse of FTX, and the appearance of ChatGPT. Underlying topics discussed include th…2022-12-19
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201Monica Guzman on Curiosity and Conversation in Contentious TimesIn our highly polarized times, everyone seems obsessed with the truth: what is it, who has it, and which side's got it all wrong. What we don't seem to care about, says journalist Monica Guzman, is the truth behind perspectives other than o…2022-12-12
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202Patrick House on ConsciousnessHow does the mind work? What makes us sad? What makes us laugh? Despite advances in neuroscience, the answers to these questions remain elusive. Neuroscientist Patrick House talks about these mysteries and about his book Nineteen Ways of Lo…2022-12-05
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203Annie Duke on the Power of QuittingAnnie Duke is angry that quitting gets such a bad rap. Instead of our relentless focus on grit and "going for it," the former professional poker player, decision strategist, and author of Quit wants us to recognize the costs associated with…2022-11-28
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204Johnathan Bi on Mimesis and René GirardWhen the 20-year-old overachiever Johnathan Bi's first startup crashed and burned, he headed to a Zen retreat in the Catskills to "debug himself." He discovered René Girard and his mimetic theory--the idea that imitation is a key and often …2022-11-21
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205Agnes Callard on Meaning, the Human Quest, and the Aims of EducationSuppose all of humanity was infected by a virus that left us all infertile--no one will come along after us. How would you react to such a world? Agnes Callard of the University of Chicago says she would be filled with despair. But why does…2022-11-14
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206Jessica Todd Harper on Beauty, Family, and PhotographyWhen everyone is carrying a camera in their pocket, what raises the act of taking pictures to the level of fine art photography? Jessica Todd Harper, the award-winning portrait photographer, says that it's equal parts mindset and technique-…2022-11-07
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207Michael Munger on Industrial PolicyEconomist and political scientist Michael Munger of Duke University talks about industrial policy with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Munger argues that in a democracy, the default outcome for industrial policy is crony capitalism--attempts to…2022-10-31
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208Ryan Holiday on Discipline Is DestinyAuthor Ryan Holiday talks about his book, Discipline Is Destiny , with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Holiday discusses the mentor who taught him discipline, the self-control of Queen Elizabeth, the world-champion boxer who counseled the man w…2022-10-24
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209Devon Zuegel on Inflation, Argentina, and CryptoDevon Zuegel talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the crazy world of money and finance in Argentina. When inflation is often high and unpredictable, people look for unusual ways to hold their savings. And when banks are unreliable be…2022-10-17
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210Roland Fryer on Educational ReformThe good news about educational reform, says Harvard economist Roland Fryer, is that we know what it takes to turn a school around. The bad news is that it's hard work--and implementing it won't win you any popularity contests. Listen as th…2022-10-10
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211Sonat Birnecker Hart on WhiskeyScholar and distiller Sonat Birnecker Hart of the Koval Distillery talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about her career move from academia to whiskey-making. She explains that the heart is the key to great flavor--when making whiskey, and…2022-10-03
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212Erik Hoel on Effective Altruism, Utilitarianism, and the Repugnant ConclusionNeuroscientist Erik Hoel talks about why he is not an "effective altruist" with EconTalk host, Russ Roberts. Hoel argues that the utilitarianism that underlies effective altruism--a movement co-founded by Will MacAskill and Peter Singer--is…2022-09-26
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213Kieran Setiya on MidlifeJohn Stuart Mill's midlife crisis came at 20 when he realized that if he got what he desired he still wouldn't be happy. Art and poetry (and maybe love) saved the day for him. In this week's episode, philosopher Kieran Setiya of MIT talks a…2022-09-19
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214David McRaney on How Minds ChangeTo the Founding Fathers it was free libraries. To the 19th century rationalist philosophers it was a system of public schools. Today it's access to the internet. Since its beginnings, Americans have believed that if facts and information we…2022-09-12
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215Will MacAskill on Longtermism and What We Owe the FuturePhilosopher William MacAskill of the University of Oxford and a founder of the effective altruism movement talks about his book What We Owe the Future with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. MacAskill advocates "longtermism," giving great attentio…2022-09-05
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216Amor Towles on A Gentleman in Moscow and the Writer's CraftAuthor Amor Towles talks about his book, A Gentleman in Moscow , with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Along the way they discuss the craft of writing, the wellsprings of persistence, and Towles's reading habits.2022-08-29
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217Raj Chetty on Economic MobilityEconomist Raj Chetty of Harvard University talks about his work on economic mobility with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. The focus is on Chetty's recent co-authored study in Nature where he finds that poor people in America who are only connec…2022-08-22
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218Tyler Cowen on TalentHow do you hone your craft on an everyday basis? It could be writing, meeting with experts, even listening to podcasts, just so long, argues economist and blogger Tyler Cowen, as it makes you better at what you already do. Perhaps more than…2022-08-15
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219Russ Roberts and Mike Munger on Wild ProblemsWaze and Google Maps tell us the best way to get to where we're going. But no app or algorithm can tell us whether we should head there in the first place. To economist Russ Roberts, the reason is simple: Humans are dynamic and aspirational…2022-08-08
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220Gerd Gigerenzer on How to Stay Smart in a Smart WorldIBM's super-computer Watson was a runaway success on Jeopardy! But it wasn't nearly as good at diagnosing cancer. This came as no surprise to Max Planck Institute psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer, who argues that when it comes to life-and-death…2022-08-01
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221John List on Scale, Uber, and the Voltage EffectEconomist John List of the University of Chicago talks about his book, The Voltage Effect , with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. He discusses what determines scalability and argues that the only good ideas that count are those that scale. Along…2022-07-25
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222Vinay Prasad on the PandemicWhen it comes to the COVID-19 vaccination, is the risk of myocarditis greater than the benefit to a healthy male teen? Is natural immunity really better than vaccination--and were we right to mask the kids? Dr. Vinay Prasad of the Universit…2022-07-18
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223Nassim Nicholas Taleb on the Nations, States, and ScaleA language, a flag, a national anthem and shared history—like a heart that has to pump harder to support a heavier body, the bigger a nation gets, the harder to curate an identity. Nassim Nicholas Taleb talks about scale and governance with…2022-07-11
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224Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan on Immigration Then and NowImmigration to the United States, say Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan, is more novel than short story: It takes decades for new immigrants to catch up economically. But their kids on average thrive economically and have higher rates of upwa…2022-07-04
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225A.J. Jacobs on Solving Life's PuzzlesHow much of life can be solved by algorithms, and how much just can't be solved? Listen as A.J. Jacobs, author of The Puzzler , talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the lessons he learned from solving every kind of puzzle imaginable,…2022-06-27
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226Roosevelt Montás on Rescuing SocratesHow do books change our lives? Educator and author Roosevelt Montás of Columbia University talks about his book Rescuing Socrates with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Drawing on his own educational and life journey, Montás shows how great books…2022-06-20
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227Sridhar Ramaswamy on Google, Search, and NeevaFormer Google ads boss Sridhar Ramaswamy says that we live in a world that seems to give out free content when we use a search engine. But that world comes with a hidden cost--search results that distort what we find and serve advertisers r…2022-06-13
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228Matti Friedman on Leonard Cohen and the Yom Kippur WarIn October 1973, an unhappy Leonard Cohen was listening to the radio on his Greek island home when he heard that Israel was at war. He headed to Tel Aviv, exchanging a personal and creative crisis for a national one. Absent a plan and even …2022-06-06
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229Ian Leslie on CuriosityWhy are some people incurious? Is curiosity a teachable thing? And why, if all knowledge can be googled, is curiosity now the domain of a small elite? Listen as Ian Leslie, author of Curious , talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts why curio…2022-05-30
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230Diane Coyle on Cogs, Monsters, and Better EconomicsMainstream economics, says author Diane Coyle, keeps treating people like cogs: self-interested, rational agents. But in the digital economy, we're less sophisticated consumer and more monster under the influece of social media. Listen as t…2022-05-23
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231Marc Andreessen on Software, Immortality, and BitcoinWhat's the single best thing happening in technology right now? According to entrepreneur and venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, it's the ability to live in rural Wisconsin but still earn a Silicon Valley salary. Andreessen also explains t…2022-05-16
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232Chris Blattman on Why We FightIt's tempting to explain Russia's invasion of Ukraine with Putin's megalomania. Economist Chris Blattman of the University of Chicago talks about his book Why We Fight with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Blattman explains why only a fraction o…2022-05-09
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233Dwayne Betts on Ellison, Levi, and Human SufferingIn his memoir of his time in Auschwitz, Primo Levi describes Jewish prisoners bathing in freezing water without soap--not because they thought it would make them cleaner, but because it helped them hold on to their dignity. For poet and aut…2022-05-02
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234Michael Munger on AntitrustAre tech giants such as Google, Amazon, or Facebook dangerous? Do they have too much power? Dive into the murky waters of antitrust as Michael Munger of Duke University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about monopoly, antitrust policy,…2022-04-25
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235Tyler Cowen on ReadingIntellectual omnivore Tyler Cowen of George Mason University and EconTalk host Russ Roberts talk about their reading habits, their favorite books, and the pile of books on their nightstands right now.2022-04-18
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236Russ Roberts on EducationWhat do crossing rivers and investing in stocks have in common? Real education is seeing the connection between things that seem very different. EconTalk's host Russ Roberts talks about education with Alex Aragona of the podcast, The Curiou…2022-04-11
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237Richard Gunderman on Greed, Adam Smith, and Leo TolstoyPhysician and careful reader Richard Gunderman of Indiana University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about how Adam Smith and Leo Tolstoy looked at greed. Drawing on Tolstoy's short story, "Master and Man," and adding some Thomas Hobb…2022-04-04
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238Pano Kanelos on Education and UATXWhat is real education? What can colleges provide their students? Pano Kanelos, president of the new college-to-be in Austin, UATX, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the nature of education, what the Great Books can teach us, and …2022-03-28
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239Robert Pindyck on Averting and Adapting to Climate ChangeEconomist Robert Pindyck of MIT talks about his book, Climate Future, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Pindyck lays out what we know and do not know about climate change. He argues that because of the nature of greenhouse gases, adaptation …2022-03-21
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240Maxine Clark on Building the Build-a-Bear WorkshopStuff it, fluff it, stitch it, dress it: Build-a-Bear Founder and former CEO Maxine Clark built a retail-entertainment empire by letting people make their own furry friends. Two hundred million of them. What's the secret to her success? Lis…2022-03-14
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241Angela Duckworth on CharacterMany people think schools are no place for teaching character. Psychologist Angela Duckworth of the University of Pennsylvania and founder of Character Lab, disagrees. She talks with EconTalk's Russ Roberts about the implicit curriculum for…2022-03-07
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242Tamar Haspel on First-Hand FoodWhat did author and Washington Post columnist Tamar Haspel learn from her quest to eat at least one thing she'd grown, caught, or killed every day? For starters, that just-caught fish always tastes better (unless you've caught a false albac…2022-02-28
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243Luca Dellanna on Compulsion, Self-deception, and the BrainWhy do people eat too much even when they don't want to? Why are there so many bad managers? And why might anti-vaxxers be useful? Luca Dellanna, author of The Control Heuristic , thinks the answers to all of these questions are in our head…2022-02-21
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244Michael Eisenberg on the Start-Up Nation, Storytelling, and the Power of TechnologyMichael Eisenberg, venture capitalist and the author of The Tree of Life and Prosperity talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the secret of the Start-Up Nation, the role of principles in investing, and why he's optimistic about techno…2022-02-14
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245John Taylor on Inflation, the Fed, and the Taylor RuleWhat's so bad about rising inflation? Why should we aim for a rate of 2 percent? Why is it a problem if interest rates are too low--and what do we mean by inflation, anyway? Stanford University's John Taylor talks with EconTalk host Russ Ro…2022-02-07
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246Moshe Koppel on Norms, Tradition, and Resilient SocietiesTraditions and norms can seem at best out-of-touch and at worst offensive to many a modern mind. But Israeli computer scientist and Talmud scholar Moshe Koppel argues that traditions and norms--if they evolve slowly--create trust, develop o…2022-01-31
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247Penny Lane on Loving and Loathing Kenny GLove it or hate it, but you've definitely heard it: the so-called "smooth jazz" of saxophonist Kenny G. Filmmaker Penny Lane talks about her documentary, Listening to Kenny G with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. They discuss the pursuit of perf…2022-01-24
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248Tyler Cowen and Russ Roberts on Nation, Immigration, and IsraelCan Israeli society survive the loss of universal military service? Will the deregulation of Israel's kosher supervision spell the end of its Jewish character? And, speaking of Israel, what is it that makes its television dramas so good? Ty…2022-01-17
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249Gregory Zuckerman on the Crazy Race to Create the COVID VaccineIn the race for a COVID vaccine, how did a couple of companies who had never produced a successful vaccine make it to the finish line so quickly? Gregory Zuckerman talks about his book, A Shot to Save the World , with EconTalk's Russ Robert…2022-01-10
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250Lorne Buchman on Creativity, Leadership, and ArtWhen we see Michaelangelo's David or the design of the Apple Store, we assume a genius with a predetermined vision was the key to the outcome. Yet as Lorne Buchman, author of Make to Know , tells EconTalk's Russ Roberts, great art is more a…2022-01-03
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251Megan McArdle on Belonging, Home, and National IdentityAfter being stranded with a bunch of Brits for eight hours at a German airport in 2016, journalist Megan McArdle felt that Brexit was going to happen. The giveaway? Not the concerns over economics or politics. Rather, it was about something…2021-12-27
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252Michael Munger on ConstitutionsMore than we need rules, argues Michael Munger, we need rules about the rules. So does the United States need a new Constitution? Listen as the Duke University economist and political scientist talks to host Russ Roberts about public choice…2021-12-20
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253Frank Rose on Internet NarrativesOnce it was The Shadow radio show; now it's the podcast Serial . Is every old storytelling medium new again? Frank Rose, author of The Sea We Swim In , concedes that some things remain sacred--from the power of a great hook to the hope that…2021-12-13
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254Michael Faye and Paul Niehaus on GiveDirectlyEconomic theory teaches that people make choices that provide them with the greatest benefit. So why not extend this idea to the realm of charity? Economists and social entrepreneurs Michael Faye and Paul Niehaus of GiveDirectly argue that …2021-12-06
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255Nina Kraus on Hearing, Noise, and Of Sound MindWe undervalue our sense of hearing and we under-appreciate the impact sweet sounds and disturbing noises have on our well-being. Neuroscientist Nina Kraus of Northwestern University talks about her book, Of Sound Mind . Kraus argues that ou…2021-11-29
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256Eric Jacobus on the Art and Science of ViolenceStuntman and action designer Eric Jacobus joins EconTalk host Russ Roberts for a no-holds-barred discussion of the biological basis for violence and how to avoid the worst of it, the value of violence as spectator sport, and the vast superi…2021-11-22
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257Emily Oster on the Family FirmAuthor and economist Emily Oster of Brown University talks about her book, The Family Firm , with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Oster argues that running your family life the way you'd run your own business makes for a better family in today'…2021-11-15
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258Sandra Faber on the Future of the EarthOf all the scenarios that keep astrophysicist Sandra Faber up at night, it's not the Earth's increasing volcanism, the loss of photosynthesis, or even the impact of a massive asteroid. Rather, it's the collapse she's certain will result fro…2021-11-08
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259Jennifer Frey on Education, Philosophy, and the UniversityPhilosopher Jennifer Frey of the University of South Carolina talks about the state of the university in American education. Frey urges a stronger focus on virtue and human flourishing and a reduced focus on career preparation. Roberts, des…2021-11-01
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260Paul Bloom on Happiness, Suffering, and the Sweet SpotAuthor and psychologist Paul Bloom of the University of Toronto talks about his book, The Sweet Spot , with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Bloom argues that suffering is underrated--suffering is part of happiness and meaning. This is a wide-ra…2021-10-25
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261Rowan Jacobsen on Truffle HoundJournalist and author Rowan Jacobsen talks about his book Truffle Hound with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. This conversation has nothing to do with chocolate. It's about the strange world of underground fungi, found in the forest by specially…2021-10-18
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262Sam Quinones on Meth, Fentanyl, and the Least of UsAuthor and journalist Sam Quinones talks about his book, The Least of Us , with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Quinones focuses on the devastation caused by methamphetamine and fentanyl, the latest evolution of innovation in the supply of mind…2021-10-11
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263Arnold Kling on Reforming Government and ExpertiseEconomist and author Arnold Kling talks about improving government regulation with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Kling suggests ways to improve the administrative state--the agencies and regulatory bodies that often write the regulations that…2021-10-04
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264Noreena Hertz on the Lonely CenturyAuthor and economist Noreena Hertz of University College London talks about her book, The Lonely Century , with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Hertz blames social media and the individualist, pro-capitalism worldviews of leaders like Margaret …2021-09-27
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265David Henderson on the Essential UCLA School of EconomicsEconomist and author David Henderson talks about his book (co-authored with Steve Globerman) The Essential UCLA School of Economics with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Much of the conversation focuses on the work of Armen Alchian and Harold De…2021-09-20
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266Glen Weyl on Antitrust, Capitalism, and Radical ReformAuthor and Microsoft executive Glen Weyl talks about radical reforms of capitalism with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Weyl is worried about the concentration of corporate power, especially in the tech sector. But rather than use the tradition…2021-09-13
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267Johann Hari on Lost ConnectionsAuthor and journalist Johann Hari talks about his book, Lost Connections: Why You Are Depressed and How to Find Hope , with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Hari, who has suffered with depression as a teenager and an adult, offers a sweeping cri…2021-09-06
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268Bret Devereaux on Ancient Greece and RomeHistorian Bret Devereaux of the University of North Carolina talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about our understanding of the ancient Greeks and Romans. Devereaux highlights the gap between the reality of Greece and Rome and how they're…2021-08-30
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269Michael Heller and James Salzman on Mine!Law professors Michael Heller and James Salzman talk about their book, Mine! with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Heller and Salzman argue that ownership is trickier and more complicated than it looks. While we tend to think of something as eit…2021-08-23
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270Nicholas Wapshott on Samuelson and FriedmanJournalist and author Nicholas Wapshott talks about his book Samuelson Friedman with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Milton Friedman and Paul Samuelson were two of the most influential economists of the last century. They competed for professio…2021-08-16
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271Michael Munger on Free MarketsAuthor and economist Michael Munger of Duke University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the virtues--and the flaws--of free markets. Munger says the best argument for a free market approach is not that it's perfect but that it's …2021-08-09
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272Jonathan Rauch on the Constitution of Knowledge2021-08-02
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273James Heckman on Inequality and Economic MobilityEconomist and Nobel Laureate James Heckman of the University of Chicago talks about inequality and economic mobility with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Drawing on research on inequality in Denmark with Rasmus Landerso, Heckman argues that des…2021-07-26
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274Michael Easter on the Comfort CrisisJournalist and author Michael Easter talks about his book The Comfort Crisis with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Easter thinks modern life is too easy, too comfortable. To be healthy, he says, we need to move out of our comfort zones and every…2021-07-19
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275Don Boudreaux on the PandemicEconomist Don Boudreaux of George Mason University talks about the pandemic with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Boudreaux argues that a perfect storm of factors created a huge overreaction, including unnecessary lockdowns that accomplished lit…2021-07-12
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276Claudia Hauer on War, Education, and Strategic HumanismClaudia Hauer of St. John's College and the Air Force Academy talks about her book Strategic Humanism with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Topics discussed include war, rage, terrorism, and what a modern warrior might learn from Homer.2021-07-05
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277Sebastian Junger on FreedomJournalist and author Sebastian Junger talks about his book, Freedom , with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. The book and conversation are based on a 400-mile walk Junger took with buddies along railroad rights-of-way, evading police, railroad s…2021-06-28
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278Anja Shortland on Lost ArtEconomist and author Anja Shortland of King's College London talks about her new book, Lost Art , with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. When a famous painting disappears into the underworld of stolen art, how does it make its way back into the l…2021-06-21
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279Donald Shoup on the Economics of ParkingAuthor and economist Donald Shoup of UCLA talks about destructive parking policies with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Shoup argues that most parking policies inflict unseen damage on the economy. He urges cities to charge for curbside parking…2021-06-14
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280Ian Leslie on ConflictedAuthor Ian Leslie talks about his book Conflicted with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Leslie argues that, far from being a negative thing, conflict is often the essential ingredient that helps us get to the right answer or best solution. Becau…2021-06-07
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281Bruce Meyer on PovertyEconomist Bruce Meyer of the University of Chicago talks about poverty with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. In recent years, a number of scholars have claimed that millions of Americans live in extreme poverty, akin to the standard of living in…2021-05-31
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282Jason Riley on Race in AmericaJournalist and author Jason Riley talks about race with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Riley argues that the challenges facing Black America go beyond racial discrimination and the threat of police violence. He argues that both the history of …2021-05-24
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283Julia Galef on the Scout MindsetPodcaster and author Julia Galef talks about her book The Scout Mindset with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Galef urges us to be more rational--to be open-minded about what we might discover about the world--rather than simply defend what we a…2021-05-17
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284Agnes Callard on AngerPhilosopher Agnes Callard of the University of Chicago talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about anger. Is anger something we should vilify and strive to eradicate in ourselves? Or should we accept it as a necessary and appropriate human …2021-05-10
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285Katy Milkman on How to ChangeBehavioral scientist Katy Milkman of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania talks about her book How to Change with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. What can we learn from research in psychology and behavioral economics about break…2021-05-03
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286Roya Hakakian on A Beginner's Guide to AmericaAuthor and poet Roya Hakakian talks about her latest book, A Beginner's Guide to America: For the Immigrant and the Curious with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Hakakian was born in Iran and came to the United States as a 19 year-old, not speak…2021-04-26
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287Mark Rank on Poverty and Poorly UnderstoodSociologist and author Mark Rank talks about his book, Poorly Understood , with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Rank looks at a wide variety of aspects of poverty. He argues that many widely-held views on poverty are inaccurate, and in particul…2021-04-19
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288Emiliana Simon-Thomas on HappinessPsychologist Emiliana Simon-Thomas of the University of California, Berkeley talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the science of happiness--what research can teach us about happiness.2021-04-12
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289Tyler Cowen on the Pandemic, RevisitedBlogger, author, podcaster, economist Tyler Cowen of George Mason University discusses the lessons learned from the pandemic with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Appearing roughly one year after his first conversation on the pandemic, Cowen rev…2021-04-05
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290Max Kenner on Crime, Education, and the Bard Prison InitiativeMax Kenner, founder and executive director of the Bard Prison Initiative--which offers college degrees to prisoners--talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the program, which replicates the coursework of students at Bard College. The B…2021-03-29
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291Megan McArdle on Catastrophes and the PandemicWhether it's a pandemic or a Texas-sized ice storm that leaves millions of people without power, we'd like to avoid a repetition. Megan McArdle of the Washington Post talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the challenge of learning the…2021-03-22
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292Sherry Turkle on Family, Artificial Intelligence, and the Empathy DiariesPsychologist and author Sherry Turkle of MIT talks about her book, T he Empathy Diaries , with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. The Empathy Diaries is a memoir about Turkle's secretive family and how that secrecy turned Turkle into an acute obse…2021-03-15
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293Leon Kass on Human Flourishing, Living Well, and AristotleLeon Kass, long-time teacher of classic works at the University of Chicago and now Dean of Faculty at Shalem College in Jerusalem, talks about human flourishing with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Drawing on an essay from his book, Leading a W…2021-03-08
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294Michael Munger on Desires, Morality, and Self-InterestEconomist and author Michael Munger of Duke University talks about human wants and desires with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Human beings have desires about our desires. Can we change what we want? And how should economists and normal human …2021-03-01
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295John Cochrane on the PandemicWould the impact of the pandemic have been different if government and policymakers had been more open to more market-based responses and less committed to a top-down approach? Economist John Cochrane of Stanford University's Hoover Institu…2021-02-22
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296Dana Gioia on Learning, Poetry, and Studying with Miss BishopPoet and author Dana Gioia talks about his book Studying with Miss Bishop with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. They talk about the craft of being a poet, the business world, mentorship, loss, why poetry no longer seems to matter, and how it mig…2021-02-15
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297Lamorna Ash on Dark, Salt, ClearLamorna Ash talks about her book Dark, Salt, Clear with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Ash leaves London and moves to the small fishing village of Newlyn, near where her mother grew up on the Cornish coast. In Newlyn, everything revolves aroun…2021-02-08
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298Michael McCullough on the Kindness of StrangersAuthor and psychologist Michael McCullough of the University of California, San Diego talks about his book The Kindness of Strangers with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. McCullough traces the history of human empathy and tries to explain why we…2021-02-01
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299Scott Newstok on How to Think Like ShakespeareAuthor Scott Newstok of Rhodes College talks about his book, How to Think Like Shakespeare , with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Newstok draws on Shakespeare and other great writers and thinkers to explore the nature of education and the life …2021-01-25
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300Gary Shiffman on the Economics of ViolenceEconomist and author Gary Shiffman of Georgetown University talks about his book, The Economics of Violence , with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Shiffman argues that we should view terrorism, insurgency, and crime as being less about ideology…2021-01-18
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301Don Boudreaux on BuchananEconomist and author Don Boudreaux of George Mason University discusses the life and work of the economist James Buchanan with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Buchanan received the Nobel Prize in 1986 for his work creating and developing public…2021-01-11
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302Matthew Crawford on Why We DriveAuthor Matthew Crawford talks about his book Why We Drive with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. The conversation is about driving but also much more: how human beings interact with technology and what we gain and give up when we embrace technolo…2021-01-04
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303Michael Blastland on the Hidden HalfAuthor Michael Blastland talks about his book The Hidden Half with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Blastland argues that the deeper you delve into science, medicine, astrophysics--pick a topic--the more you realize there is a lot we don't under…2020-12-28
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304Jay Bhattacharya on the PandemicEconomist and physician Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford University talks about the pandemic with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Bhattacharya, along with Sunetra Gupta of the University of Oxford and Martin Kulldorff of Harvard University, authore…2020-12-21
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305Katherine Levine Einstein on Neighborhood DefendersWhy is affordable housing in such short supply? Author and political scientist Katherine Levine Einstein of Boston University talks about her book Neighborhood Defenders with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Einstein focuses on the ability of lo…2020-12-14
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306Branko Milanovic on the Big Questions of EconomicsAuthor and economist Branko Milanovic of CUNY talks about the big questions in economics with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Milanovic argues that the Nobel Prize Committee is missing an opportunity to encourage more ambitious work by awarding…2020-12-07
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307Emily Oster on the PandemicEconomist and author Emily Oster of Brown University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the challenge of reopening schools in a pandemic. Oster has been collecting data from K-12 schools around the country. Her preliminary analysis…2020-11-30
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308Daniel Haybron on HappinessPhilosopher and author Daniel Haybron of St. Louis University talks about his book, Happiness, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Happiness turns out to be a little more complicated than it sounds. Haybron discusses the good life and differen…2020-11-23
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309Virginia Postrel on Textiles and the Fabric of CivilizationAuthor and journalist Virginia Postrel talks about her book The Fabric of Civilization and How Textiles Made the World with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Postrel tells the fascinating story behind the clothes we wear and everything that goes …2020-11-16
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310Steven Levitt on Freakonomics and the State of EconomicsAuthor and economist Steven Levitt is the William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago and host of the podcast "People I (Mostly) Admire." He is best known as the co-author, with Steph…2020-11-09
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311Rob Wiblin and Russ Roberts on Charity, Science, and UtilitarianismRob Wiblin, host of the 80,000 Hours podcast, interviews EconTalk host Russ Roberts about charity, the reliability of data to inform decision-making, and utilitarianism.2020-11-02
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312Fredrik deBoer on the Cult of SmartAuthor and journalist Fredrik deBoer discusses his book The Cult of Smart with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. DeBoer argues that there is little that can be done to change the distribution of success in K-12 education. He argues that education…2020-10-26
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313Dwayne Betts on Reading, Prison, and the Million Book ProjectAuthor, lawyer, and poet Dwayne Betts talks about his time in prison and the power of reading with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Betts is the founder of the Million Book Project, which aims to put a small library of great books in 1,000 U.S. …2020-10-19
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314Anne Applebaum on the Twilight of DemocracyJournalist and author Anne Applebaum talks about her book, Twilight of Democracy, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Applebaum discusses the rise of populist and nationalist movements in Eastern Europe as well as in the West, and the appeal o…2020-10-12
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315Zena Hitz on Lost in ThoughtPhilosopher and author Zena Hitz of St. John's College talks about her book, Lost in Thought, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Hitz defends learning for its own sake--learning that has nothing to do with passing an exam or preparing for a c…2020-10-05
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316Agnes Callard on AspirationWhere do our deepest personal values come from? Can we choose those values? Philosopher and author Agnes Callard of the University of Chicago talks about her book, Aspiration, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Callard explores the challenge …2020-09-28
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317Lisa Cook on Racism, Patents, and Black EntrepreneurshipHow much has racism held back the U.S. economy? What would the country look like today if Black entrepreneurs and inventors had been welcomed and encouraged over the past century and a half? Economist Lisa Cook of Michigan State University …2020-09-21
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318Robert Chitester on Milton Friedman and Free to ChooseOnce upon a time, a man had an idea for a documentary on free-market ideas. Then that man was introduced to Milton Friedman. The result of their collaboration was a wildly successful book and PBS series, Free to Choose, capturing Friedman's…2020-09-14
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319Margaret Heffernan on UnchartedHow do we prepare for a future that is unpredictable? That's the question at the heart of Margaret Heffernan's new book, Uncharted: How to Navigate the Future. Heffernan is a professor at the University of Bath, but she is also a serial ent…2020-09-07
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320Matt Ridley on How Innovation WorksWhat's the difference between invention and innovation? Could it be that innovation--the process of making a breakthrough invention available, affordable, and reliable--is actually the hard part? In this week's EconTalk episode, author Matt…2020-08-31
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321Franklin Zimring on When Police KillFranklin Zimring's 2017 book, When Police Kill, starts with an alarming statistic: Roughly 1,000 Americans die each year at the hands of police. Zimring, criminologist and law professor at the University of California at Berkeley, talks abo…2020-08-24
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322Michael Munger on the Future of Higher EducationIn this c750th (!) episode, Duke University's Michael Munger talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about whether the pandemic might create an opportunity for colleges and universities to experiment and innovate. Munger is Professor of Polit…2020-08-17
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323Ben Cohen on the Hot HandJournalist and author Ben Cohen talks about his book, The Hot Hand, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. At times in sports and elsewhere in life, a person seems to be "on fire," playing at an unusually high level. Is this real or an …2020-08-10
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324John Kay and Mervyn King on Radical UncertaintyJohn Kay and Mervyn King talk about their book, Radical Uncertainty, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. This is a wide-ranging discussion based on the book looking at rationality, decision-making under uncertainty, and the economists' view of…2020-08-03
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325Nassim Nicholas Taleb on the PandemicNassim Nicholas Taleb talks about the pandemic with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Topics discussed include how to handle the rest of this pandemic and the next one, the power of the mask, geronticide, and soul in the game.2020-07-27
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326Glenn Loury on Race, Inequality, and AmericaEconomist and author Glenn Loury of Brown University talks about race in America with EconTalk host Russ Roberts.2020-07-20
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327Josh Williams on Online Gaming, Blockchain, and ForteJosh Williams, co-founder and CEO of the blockchain gaming company Forte, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the state of online gaming and the potential of a blockchain-based gaming platform to create market economies with propert…2020-07-13
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328Robert Lerman on ApprenticeshipsEconomist Robert Lerman of the Urban Institute talks about apprenticeships with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Lerman argues that apprenticeships--a combination of work experience and classroom learning--have the potential to expand opportunit…2020-07-06
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329Vivian Lee on The Long FixPhysician and author Vivian Lee talks about her book The Long Fix with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Lee argues that we can transform health care in the United States, though it may take a while. She argues that the current fee-for-service sy…2020-06-29
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330Agnes Callard on Philosophy, Progress, and WisdomPhilosopher and author Agnes Callard talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the state of philosophy, the power of philosophy, and the search for wisdom and truth. This is a wide-ranging conversation related to the question of how we le…2020-06-22
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331Diane Ravitch on Slaying GoliathAuthor and historian Diane Ravitch of New York University talks about her book, Slaying Goliath, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Ravitch argues that the charter school movement is a failure and that it drains needed money from public schoo…2020-06-15
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332Rebecca Henderson on Reimagining CapitalismAuthor and economist Rebecca Henderson of the Harvard Business School talks about her book Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Henderson argues that the focus on shareholder value threatens to destroy …2020-06-08
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333Sarah Carr on Charter Schools, Educational Reform, and Hope Against HopeJournalist and author Sarah Carr talks about her book Hope Against Hope with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Carr looked at three schools in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and chronicled their successes, failures, and the cha…2020-06-01
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334Martin Gurri on the Revolt of the PublicAuthor Martin Gurri, Visiting Fellow at George Mason University's Mercatus Center, talks about his book The Revolt of the Public with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Gurri argues that a digital tsunami--the increase in information that the web …2020-05-25
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335Robert Pondiscio on How the Other Half LearnsAuthor and teacher Robert Pondiscio of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute talks about his book How the Other Half Learns with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Pondiscio shares his experience of being embedded in a Success Academy Charter School in …2020-05-18
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336Paul Romer on the COVID-19 PandemicIn this bonus episode of EconTalk, economist and Nobel Laureate Paul Romer discusses the coronavirus pandemic with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Romer argues that the status quo of shutdown and fear of infection is unsustainable. Returning to…2020-05-15
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337Branko Milanovic on Capitalism, AloneEconomist and author Branko Milanovic of the Graduate Center, CUNY, talks about his book, Capitalism, Alone, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. They discuss inequality, the challenge of corruption in the Chinese system, and Milanovic's claim …2020-05-11
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338L.A. Paul on Vampires, Life Choices, and TransformationPhilosopher and author L.A. Paul talks about her book Transformative Experience with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Paul explores the uncertainties that surround the transformative experiences that we choose and that happen to us without choos…2020-05-04
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339Alan Lightman on Stardust, Meaning, Religion, and SciencePhysicist and author Alan Lightman talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the origins of the universe, meaning, transcendence, and the relationship between science and religion.2020-04-27
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340Vinay Prasad on Cancer Drugs, Medical Ethics, and MalignantOncologist, author, and podcaster Vinay Prasad talks about his book Malignant with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Prasad lays out the conflicts of interest and scientific challenges that make drugs that fight cancer so disappointing at times. …2020-04-20
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341Ed Leamer on Manufacturing, Effort, and InequalityEconomist Ed Leamer of UCLA talks about manufacturing, effort, and inequality with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. The conversation draws on recent empirical work of Leamer's on how measured inequality is affected by the work effort of American…2020-04-13
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342Arnold Kling on the Three Languages of Politics, RevisitedEconomist and author Arnold Kling talks about the revised edition of his book The Three Languages of Politics in front of a live audience at the Cato Institute, recorded in September of 2019. Kling talks about the changed political landscap…2020-04-06
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343Jenny Schuetz on Land Regulation and the Housing MarketJenny Schuetz of the Brookings Institution talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about zoning, boarding houses, real estate development, and the housing market.2020-03-30
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344Azra Raza on The First CellAuthor and oncologist Azra Raza talks about her book The First Cell with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Raza argues that we have made little progress in fighting cancer over the last 50 years. The tools available to oncologists haven't changed…2020-03-23
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345Tyler Cowen on the COVID-19 PandemicEconomist and infovore Tyler Cowen of George Mason University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the political, social, and economic aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic.2020-03-19
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346Isabella Tree on WildingAuthor and conservationist Isabella Tree talks about her book Wilding with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Tree and her husband decided to turn their 3500 acre farm, the Knepp Castle Estate, into something wilder, a place for wild ponies, wild …2020-03-16
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347Richard Davies on Extreme EconomiesEconomist and author Richard Davies talks about his book Extreme Economies with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. The conversation explores economic life in extreme situations. Examples discussed are the Angola State Penitentiary in Louisiana, tw…2020-03-09
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348Yuval Levin on A Time to BuildAuthor and political scientist Yuval Levin of the American Enterprise Institute talks about his book A Time to Build with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Levin argues that institutions in America are less trustworthy than they have been in the …2020-03-02
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349Richard Robb on WillfulEconomist, author, and investor Richard Robb talks about his book Willful with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Robb is interested in what motivates and explains the choices we make. He explores alternatives to the optimizing model of economics …2020-02-24
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350Peter Singer on The Life You Can SavePhilosopher and author Peter Singer of Princeton University talks about his book, The Life You Can Save with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Singer argues that those of us in the developed world with a high standard of living can and should giv…2020-02-17
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351Marty Makary on the Price We PayPhysician and author Marty Makary of Johns Hopkins University talks about his book The Price We Pay with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Makary highlights some of the stranger aspects of our current health care system including the encouragemen…2020-02-10
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352Robert Shiller on Narrative EconomicsEconomist, author, and Nobel Laureate Robert Shiller of Yale University discusses his book Narrative Economics with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Shiller proposes a novel idea--that the narratives that people believe and use to understand the…2020-02-03
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353Daniel Klein on Honest IncomeEconomist and author Daniel Klein of George Mason University talks about the ethics of working and the potential for our working lives to make the world a better place. This is a wide-ranging conversation that includes discussion of Adam Sm…2020-01-27
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354Janine Barchas on the Lost Books of Jane AustenAuthor and professor Janine Barchas of the University of Texas talks about her book, The Lost Books of Jane Austen, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. The conversation explores Austen's enduring reputation, how the cheap reprints of her work …2020-01-20
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355Adam Minter on SecondhandJournalist and author Adam Minter talks about his book Secondhand with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Minter explores the strange and fascinating world of secondhand stuff--the downsizing that the elderly do when they move to smaller quarters,…2020-01-13
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356Melanie Mitchell on Artificial IntelligenceComputer Scientist and author Melanie Mitchell of Portland State University and the Santa Fe Institute talks about her book Artificial Intelligence with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Mitchell explains where we are today in the world of artifi…2020-01-06
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357Kimberly Clausing on Open and the Progressive Case for Free TradeEconomist and author Kimberly Clausing of Reed College talks about her book Open with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Clausing, a self-described progressive, argues that the United States should continue to embrace free trade but she argues for…2019-12-30
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358Joe Posnanski on the Life and Afterlife of Harry HoudiniJournalist and author Joe Posnanski talks about his book, The Life and Afterlife of Harry Houdini, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Posnanski explores the enduring fame of Houdini who remains an iconic cultural figure almost a century after…2019-12-23
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359Binyamin Appelbaum on the Economists' HourJournalist and author Binyamin Appelbaum of the New York Times talks about his book, The Economists' Hour, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Appelbaum blames the triumph of free-market ideology for the rise in inequality and the decline in g…2019-12-16
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360Terry Moe on Educational Reform, Katrina, and Hidden PowerPolitical Scientist and author Terry Moe of Stanford University talks about his book, The Politics of Institutional Reform with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Moe explores the politics and effectiveness of educational reform in the New Orleans…2019-12-09
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361Gerd Gigerenzer on Gut FeelingsPsychologist and author Gerd Gigerenzer of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development talks about his book Gut Feelings with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Gigerenzer argues for the power of simple heuristics--rules of thumb--over more com…2019-12-02
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362Susan Mayer on What Money Can't BuySociologist Susan Mayer of the University of Chicago talks about her book What Money Can't Buy with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Mayer reports on her research which found that giving poor parents money had little measured effect on improving…2019-11-25
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363Keith Smith on Free Market Health CareEntrepreneur and Anesthesiologist Keith Smith of the Surgery Center of Oklahoma talks with host Russ Roberts about what it's like to run a surgery center that posts prices on the internet and that does not take insurance. Along the way, he …2019-11-18
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364Rory Sutherland on AlchemyAuthor and Advertising Executive Rory Sutherland of Ogilvy talks about his book Alchemy with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Sutherland makes the case for the magic (yes, magic!) of advertising and branding in helping markets work well. This is…2019-11-11
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365Venkatesh Rao on WaldenpondingWriter and management consultant Venkatesh Rao talks about Waldenponding with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Rao coined the term Waldenponding to describe various levels of retreating from technology akin to how Thoreau extolled the virtues of…2019-11-04
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366Michele Gelfand on Rule Makers, Rule BreakersPsychologist Michele Gelfand talks about her book, Rule Makers, Rule Breakers, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Gelfand distinguishes between loose cultures and tight cultures--the degree to which culture and regulation restrict behavior or…2019-10-28
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367Susan Houseman on ManufacturingEconomist Susan Houseman of the Upjohn Institute for Employment Research talks about the manufacturing sector with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Houseman argues that the data surrounding both manufacturing output and employment have been misu…2019-10-21
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368Andrew McAfee on More from LessAndrew McAfee of MIT's Sloan School of Management talks about his book, More from Less, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. McAfee argues that technology is helping developed nations use fewer resources in producing higher levels of economic o…2019-10-14
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369Ryan Holiday on Stillness Is the KeyRyan Holiday talks about his latest book, Stillness Is the Key, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Holiday explores how stillness--the cultivation of serenity and focus--can affect how we live and how we perceive life. Topics discussed includ…2019-10-07
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370Sabine Hossenfelder on Physics, Reality, and Lost in MathPhysicist Sabine Hossenfelder talks about her book Lost in Math with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Hossenfelder argues that the latest theories in physics have failed to find empirical confirmation. Particles that were predicted to be discove…2019-09-30
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371Dani Rodrik on NeoliberalismDani Rodrik of Harvard University talks about neoliberalism with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Rodrik argues that a dogmatic embrace of markets has increased inequality and limited who benefits from economic growth. He argues for a more inter…2019-09-23
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372George Will on the Conservative SensibilityGeorge Will talks about his new book, The Conservative Sensibility, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Will argues for a conservative vision that embraces the dynamic nature of life. Topics discussed include the current political landscape, t…2019-09-16
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373Daron Acemoglu on Shared Prosperity and Good JobsEconomist and author Daron Acemoglu of MIT discusses with EconTalk host Russ Roberts the challenge of shared prosperity and the policies that could bring about a more inclusive economy. Acemoglu argues for the importance of good jobs over r…2019-09-09
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374David Deppner on Leadership, Confidence, and HumilityCan a great leader or manager be humble in public? Or is exuding confidence, even when it may not be merited, a key part of leadership? In this episode of EconTalk, host Russ Roberts talks with David Deppner, CEO of Psyberware, about an ema…2019-09-02
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375Andrew Roberts on Churchill and the Craft of BiographyHistorian Andrew Roberts talks about the life of Winston Churchill and the art of biography with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. How did Churchill deal with the mistakes he inevitably made in a long career? Was he prescient or just the right ma…2019-08-26
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376Tyler Cowen on Big BusinessAuthor and economist Tyler Cowen of George Mason University talks about his book, Big Business, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Cowen argues that big corporations in America are underrated and under-appreciated. He even defends the financi…2019-08-19
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377Arthur Diamond on Openness to Creative DestructionArthur Diamond of the University of Nebraska at Omaha talks about his book, Openness to Creative Destruction, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Diamond sings the sometimes forgotten virtues of innovation and entrepreneurship and argues that …2019-08-12
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378Andy Matuschak on Books and LearningSoftware Engineer Andy Matuschak talks about his essay "Why Books Don't Work" with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Matuschak argues that most books rely on transmissionism, the idea that an author can share an idea in print and the re…2019-08-05
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379Shoshana Zuboff on Surveillance CapitalismShoshana Zuboff of Harvard University talks about her book Surveillance Capitalism with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Zuboff argues that the monetization of search engines and social networks by Google, Facebook, and other large tech firms th…2019-07-29
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380Chris Arnade on DignityPhotographer, author, and former Wall St. trader Chris Arnade talks about his book, Dignity, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Arnade quit his Wall Street trading job and criss-crossed America photographing and getting to know the addicted a…2019-07-22
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381Michael Brendan Dougherty on My Father Left Me IrelandAuthor and journalist Michael Brendan Dougherty talks about his book My Father Left Me Ireland with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Dougherty talks about the role of cultural and national roots in our lives and the challenges of cultural freedo…2019-07-15
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382Arthur Brooks on Love Your EnemiesEconomist and author Arthur Brooks talks about his book Love Your Enemies with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Brooks argues that contempt is destroying our political conversations and it's not good for us at the personal level either. Brooks m…2019-07-08
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383Adam Cifu on the Case for Being a Medical ConservativePhysician and author Adam Cifu of the University of Chicago talks about being a medical conservative with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Cifu encourages doctors to appreciate the complexity of medical care and the reality that many medical tec…2019-07-01
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384Eric Topol on Deep MedicineCardiologist and author Eric Topol talks about his book Deep Medicine with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Topol argues that doctors spend too little face-to-face time with patients, and the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning i…2019-06-24
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385Anja Shortland on KidnapAnja Shortland of King's College London talks about her book Kidnap with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Kidnapping is relatively common in parts of the world where government authority is weak. Shortland explores this strange, frightening, but…2019-06-17
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386Bjorn Lomborg on the Costs and Benefits of Attacking Climate ChangeBjorn Lomborg, President of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, talks about the costs and benefits of attacking climate change with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Lomborg argues that we should always be aware of tradeoffs and effectiveness when a…2019-06-10
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387Alain Bertaud on Cities, Planning, and Order Without DesignUrbanist and author Alain Bertaud of NYU talks about his book Order Without Design with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Bertaud explores the role of zoning and planning alongside the emergent factors that affect the growth of cities. He emphasi…2019-06-03
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388David Epstein on Mastery, Specialization, and RangeJournalist and author David Epstein talks about his book Range with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Epstein explores the costs of specialization and the value of breadth in helping to create mastery in our careers and in life. What are the best…2019-05-27
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389Mary Hirschfeld on Economics, Culture, and Aquinas and the MarketAuthor, economist, and theologian Mary Hirschfeld of Villanova University talks about her book, Aquinas and the Market, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Hirschfeld looks at the nature of our economic activity as buyers and sellers and wheth…2019-05-20
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390Robert Burton on Being CertainNeurologist and author Robert Burton talks about his book, On Being Certain, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Burton explores our need for certainty and the challenge of being skeptical about what our brain tells us must be true. Where does…2019-05-13
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391Mauricio Miller on Poverty, Social Work, and the AlternativePoverty activist, social entrepreneur and author, Mauricio Miller, talks about his book The Alternative with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Miller, a MacArthur genius grant recipient, argues that we have made poverty tolerable when we should b…2019-05-06
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392Emily Oster on CribsheetEconomist and author Emily Oster of Brown University talks about her book Cribsheet with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Oster explores what the data and evidence can tell us about parenting in areas such as breastfeeding, sleep habits, discipl…2019-04-29
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393Paul Romer on Growth, Cities, and the State of EconomicsNobel Laureate Paul Romer of New York University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the nature of growth, the role of cities in the economy, and the state of economics. Romer also reflects on his time at the World Bank and why he l…2019-04-22
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394Jill Lepore on Nationalism, Populism, and the State of AmericaHistorian and author Jill Lepore talks about nationalism, populism, and the state of America with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Lepore argues that we need a new Americanism, a common story we share and tell ourselves. Along the way, topics in…2019-04-15
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395Robin Feldman on Drugs, Money, and Secret HandshakesLaw professor and author Robin Feldman of UC Hastings College of the Law talks about her book Drugs, Money, and Secret Handshakes with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Feldman argues that the legal and regulatory environment for drug companies e…2019-04-08
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396Jacob Stegenga on Medical NihilismPhilosopher and author Jacob Stegenga of the University of Cambridge talks about his book Medical Nihilism with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Stegenga argues that many medical treatments either fail to achieve their intended goals or achieve …2019-04-01
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397Daniel Hamermesh on Spending TimeEconomist and author Daniel Hamermesh of Barnard College and the Institute for the Study of Labor talks about his latest book, Spending Time, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Hamermesh explores how we treat time relative to money, how much …2019-03-25
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398Amy Tuteur on Birth, Natural Parenting, and Push BackObstetrician gynecologist Amy Tuteur and author of Push Back, talks about the book with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Tuteur argues that natural parenting--the encouragement to women to give birth without epidurals or caesarians and to breast…2019-03-18
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399Amy Webb on Artificial Intelligence, Humanity, and the Big NineFuturist and author Amy Webb talks about her book, The Big Nine, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Webb observes that artificial intelligence is currently evolving in a handful of companies in the United States and China. She worries that in…2019-03-11
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400Jacob Vigdor on the Seattle Minimum WageJacob Vigdor of the University of Washington talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the impact of Seattle's minimum wage increases in recent years. Vigdor along with others from the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance have tri…2019-03-04
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401Michael Munger on Crony CapitalismMichael Munger of Duke University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about whether real capitalism is unstable and leads inevitably to crony capitalism. They also discuss ways to prevent the descent into cronyism and speculate on their o…2019-02-25
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402Catherine Semcer on Poaching, Preserves, and African WildlifeCatherine Semcer of the Property and Environment Research Center (PERC) talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the role of incentives in preserving wildlife in Africa. The conversation discusses how allowing limited hunting of big game…2019-02-18
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403Jessica Riskin on Life, Machinery, and the Restless ClockHistorian Jessica Riskin of Stanford University talks about her book The Restless Clock with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. What is the difference between human beings and machines? How has science thought about this distinction? When do we ha…2019-02-11
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404Gary Greenberg on the Placebo EffectAuthor and psychotherapist Gary Greenberg talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the placebo effect. Is it real? How does the placebo effect influence drug testing? If it's real, what is the underlying mechanism of why it works and how…2019-02-04
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405Patrick Collison on Innovation and Scientific ProgressPatrick Collison, co-founder and CEO of Stripe, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the pace of innovation. Collison argues that despite enormous increases in the numbers of scientists and researchers, the pace of progress in scient…2019-01-28
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406Jennifer Doleac on CrimeEconomist Jennifer Doleac of Texas A&M University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about her research on crime, police, and the unexpected consequences of the criminal justice system. Topics discussed include legislation banning as…2019-01-21
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407Stephen Kotkin on SolzhenitsynHistorian and author Stephen Kotkin of Princeton University and Stanford University's Hoover Institution talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the historical significance of the life and work of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn on the occasion …2019-01-14
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408Ed Dolan on Employer-Sponsored Health InsuranceEconomist Ed Dolan of the Niskanen Center talks about employer-based health insurance with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Dolan discusses how unusual it is relative to other countries that so many Americans get their health insurance through t…2019-01-07
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409Sebastian Junger on TribeJournalist and author Sebastian Junger talks about his book Tribe with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Junger explores the human need to be needed and the challenges facing many individuals in modern society who struggle to connect with others.…2018-12-31
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410Mariana Mazzucato on the Value of EverythingEconomist and author Mariana Mazzucato talks about her book The Value of Everything with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Mazzucato argues that economists have mismeasured value and have failed to appreciate the role of government as innovator. …2018-12-24
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411John Horgan on Mind-Body ProblemsScience journalist and author John Horgan talks about his book, Mind-Body Problems, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Horgan interviewed an array of scientists, philosophers, and others who have worked on consciousness, free-will, and what i…2018-12-17
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412Peter Berkowitz on Locke, Liberty, and LiberalismPeter Berkowitz of Stanford University's Hoover Institution talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the origins of liberalism and the importance of John Locke. Berkowitz defends the liberal project of individual rights and liberty and a…2018-12-09
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413Maeve Cohen on Rethinking EconomicsMaeve Cohen, Co-director of Rethinking Economics, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about her organization and its efforts to change economics education. Cohen, who co-founded the Post-Crash Economics Society, argues for a more human-ce…2018-12-03
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414Anat Admati on the Financial Crisis of 2008Anat Admati of Stanford's Graduate School of Business talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the financial crisis of 2008, the lessons she has learned, and how it has changed her view of economics, finance, and her career.2018-11-26
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415A.J. Jacobs on Thanks a ThousandJournalist and author A. J. Jacobs talks about his book, Thanks a Thousand, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Jacobs thanked a thousand different people who contributed to his morning cup of coffee. In this conversation, Jacobs talks about t…2018-11-19
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416Julia Belluz on Epidemiology, Nutrition, and MetabolismScience writer Julia Belluz of Vox.com talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the state of epidemiology, nutrition, and the relationship between obesity and metabolism.2018-11-12
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417Alan Lightman on Science, Spirituality, and Searching for Stars on an Island in MaineAuthor and Physicist Alan Lightman talks about his book Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. This is a wide-ranging conversation on religion, science, transcendence, consciousness, impermanence, and whe…2018-11-05
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418Michael Munger on Sharing, Transaction Costs, and Tomorrow 3.0Economist and author Michael Munger of Duke University talks about his book, Tomorrow 3.0, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Munger analyzes the rise of companies like Uber and AirBnB as an example of how technology lowers transactions costs…2018-10-29
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419Ran Abramitzky on the Mystery of the KibbutzEconomist and author Ran Abramitzky of Stanford University talks about his book, The Mystery of the Kibbutz, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Abramitzky traces the evolution of the kibbutz movement in Israel and how the kibbutz structure ch…2018-10-22
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420Kevin McKenna on Characters, Plot, and Themes of In the First CircleRussian Literature Professor Kevin McKenna of the University of Vermont talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the characters, plot, and themes of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's masterpiece, In the First Circle. This is the second episode of…2018-10-18
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421John Gray on the Seven Kinds of AtheismPhilosopher and author John Gray talks about his latest book, Seven Types of Atheism, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Gray argues that progress is an illusion and that most atheisms inherit, unknowingly, a religious belief in progress that…2018-10-15
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422Neil Monnery on Hong Kong and the Architect of ProsperityNeil Monnery, author of Architect of Prosperity, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his book--a biography of John Cowperthwaite, the man often credited with the economic success of Hong Kong. Monnery describes the policies that Cow…2018-10-08
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423Noah Smith on Worker Compensation, Co-determination, and Market PowerBloomberg Opinion columnist and economist Noah Smith talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about corporate control, wages, and monopoly power. Smith discusses the costs and benefits of co-determination--the idea of putting workers on corpor…2018-10-01
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424Rodney Brooks on Artificial IntelligenceRodney Brooks, emeritus professor of robotics at MIT, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the future of robots and artificial intelligence. Brooks argues that we both under-appreciate and over-appreciate the impact of innovation. He…2018-09-24
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425Paul Bloom on CrueltyYale University psychologist Paul Bloom talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about cruelty--what motivates cruelty, the cruelty of small acts that accumulate into something monstrous, and the question of whether the abuse of a robot is a f…2018-09-17
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426Kevin McKenna on Solzhenitsyn, the Soviet Union, and In the First CircleRussian Literature Professor Kevin McKenna of the University of Vermont talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the life and times of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. This is the opening episode of the EconTalk Book Club for Solzhenitsyn's maste…2018-09-10
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427Yoram Hazony on the Virtue of NationalismYoram Hazony discusses his book, The Virtue of Nationalism, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Hazony argues that nationalism, for all its flaws, is a better system than a global system of governance. He argues that while the competition betw…2018-09-03
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428Charlan Nemeth on In Defense of TroublemakersPsychologist Charlan Nemeth of the University of California, Berkeley and author of In Defense of Troublemakers talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in the book--the power of groupthink, the power of conviction, and the opp…2018-08-27
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429Lilliana Mason on Uncivil AgreementPolitical scientist Lilliana Mason of the University Maryland and author of Uncivil Agreement talks about the book with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Mason argues that political partisanship has become stronger in America in recent years beca…2018-08-20
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430David Meltzer on the Doctor-Patient RelationshipPhysician David Meltzer of the University of Chicago talks about the power of the doctor-patient relationship with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Meltzer, who also has a Ph.D. in economics, discusses a controlled experiment he has been running…2018-08-13
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431Frank Dikotter on Mao's Great FamineHistorian Frank Dikotter of the University of Hong Kong and author of Mao's Great Famine talks about the book with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Dikotter chronicles the strategies Mao and Chinese leadership implemented to increase grain and s…2018-08-06
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432Alberto Alesina on Immigration and RedistributionAlberto Alesina of Harvard University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about how people in the US and five European countries perceive the population and characteristics of legal immigrants. Reporting on research with Armando Miano and…2018-07-30
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433Teppo Felin on Blindness, Rationality, and PerceptionTeppo Felin of the University of Oxford talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about perception, cognition, and rationality. Felin argues that some of the standard experimental critiques of human rationality assume an omniscience that mislea…2018-07-23
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434Russ Roberts on the Information Revolution, Politics, Yeats, and YellingEconTalk host Russ Roberts does a monologue on how political discourse seems to have deteriorated in recent years and the growth in outrage, tribalism, and intolerance for those with different views from one's own. Roberts suggests that par…2018-07-16
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435Patrick Deneen on Why Liberalism FailedPolitical Scientist and author Patrick Deneen of the University of Notre Dame talks about his book Why Liberalism Failed with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. By liberalism, Deneen means the modern enterprise--the push for self-actualization fre…2018-07-09
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436Arnold Kling on Morality, Culture, and TribalismEconomist and author Arnold Kling talks about the economic impact of culture and morality with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Drawing on a recent essay on the importance of social interactions, Kling explores the role of culture and norms and …2018-07-02
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437Michael Pollan on Psychedelic Drugs and How to Change Your MindJournalist and author Michael Pollan talks about his book, How to Change Your Mind, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Pollan chronicles the history of the use of psychedelic drugs, particularly LSD and psilocybin, to treat addiction, depress…2018-06-25
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438Richard Reinsch on the Enlightenment, Tradition, and PopulismRichard Reinsch, editor of Law and Liberty and the host of the podcast Liberty Law Talk, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the Enlightenment. Topics discussed include the search for meaning, the stability of liberalism, the rise o…2018-06-18
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439Moises Velasquez-Manoff on Cows, Carbon Farming, and Climate ChangeJournalist and author Moises Velasquez-Manoff talks about the role of dirt in fighting climate change with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Velasquez-Manoff explains how changes in farming can allow dirt and plants to absorb carbon and potential…2018-06-11
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440Janet Golden on Babies Made Us ModernHistorian and author Janet Golden talks about her book, Babies Made Us Modern, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Golden chronicles the transformation of parenting in first half of the 20th century. It's a fascinating story of how our knowled…2018-06-04
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441Iain McGilchrist on the Divided Brain and the Master and His EmissaryPsychiatrist and author Iain McGilchrist talks about his book, The Master and His Emissary, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. McGilchrist argues we have misunderstand the purpose and effect of the divided brain. The left side is focused, con…2018-05-28
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442Glen Weyl on Radical MarketsEconomist Glen Weyl of Microsoft Research New England and Visiting Senior Research Scholar at Yale University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his book (co-authored with Eric Posner) Radical Markets. Weyl urges a radical transfor…2018-05-21
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443Peter Boettke on Public Administration, Liberty, and the Proper Role of GovernmentPeter Boettke of George Mason University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the proper role of the state in the economy. This is a wide-ranging conversation on political economy. Topics include Adam Smith's view of the state, the t…2018-05-20
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444Joel Peterson on Leadership, Betrayal, and the 10 Laws of TrustHow did the CEO of a real estate development company become chairman of an airline? How can a competent manager learn to trust his subordinates? Joel Peterson, chairman of the Board at JetBlue Airways and author of The 10 Laws of Trust, tal…2018-05-07
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445Ryan Holiday on Conspiracy, Gawker, and the Hulk Hogan TrialAuthor Ryan Holiday discusses his book, Conspiracy, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. This is a crazy episode about a crazy book about a crazy set of events--the Hulk Hogan lawsuit against the website Gawker, a lawsuit that was secretly fund…2018-04-30
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446Jonah Goldberg on The Suicide of the WestJonah Goldberg of National Review talks about his latest book, Suicide of the West, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Goldberg argues that both capitalism and democracy are at risk in the current contentious political environment. He argues …2018-04-23
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447Jerry Muller on the Tyranny of MetricsHistorian and author Jerry Muller of Catholic University talks about his latest book, The Tyranny of Metrics, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Muller argues that public policy and management are overly focused on measurable outcomes as a me…2018-04-16
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448Vincent Rajkumar on the High Price of Cancer DrugsCan a life-saving drug be too expensive? What explains the high price of cancer drugs? Dr. Vincent Rajkumar of the Mayo Clinic talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the high price of cancer drugs--drugs that can cost an American with …2018-04-09
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449Michael Munger on TrafficDoes rush-hour traffic drive you crazy? Is a congestion tax on car travel a good idea? Michael Munger of Duke University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the economics of traffic and congestion taxes. It takes a while to get ther…2018-04-02
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450Edward Glaeser on Joblessness and the War on WorkWhy are fewer men working over the last few decades? Is a universal basic income a good policy for coping with the loss of employment? Economist Edward Glaeser of Harvard University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about what Glaeser c…2018-03-26
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451Beth Redbird on LicensingEconomists often oppose the expansion of licensing in America in recent years because it makes it harder for people with low skills to get access to opportunity. Sociologist Beth Redbird of Northwestern University talks with EconTalk host R…2018-03-19
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452Arnold Kling on Economics for the 21st CenturyEconomist, blogger, and author Arnold Kling talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the state of economics in the 21st century. Kling argues that economics would be more useful if it took account of intangibles like culture, incorporate…2018-03-12
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453Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Rationality, Risk, and Skin in the GameNassim Nicholas Taleb, author of Skin in the Game, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in the book. This is the third episode of EconTalk with Taleb related to the general topic of skin in the game and how it affects decis…2018-03-05
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454Elizabeth Anderson on Worker Rights and Private GovernmentPhilosopher Elizabeth Anderson of the University of Michigan and author of Private Government talks about her book with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Anderson argues that employers have excessive power over employees that we would never accep…2018-02-26
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455Jordan Peterson on 12 Rules for LifeJordan Peterson, author of 12 Rules for Life, talks about the book with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Topics covered include parenting, conversation, the role of literature in everyday life, and the relationship between sacrificial rites and …2018-02-19
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456Bryan Caplan on the Case Against EducationBryan Caplan of George Mason University and the author of The Case Against Education talks about the book with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Caplan argues that very little learning takes place in formal education and that very little of the r…2018-02-12
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457Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay on the Enemies of ModernityHelen Pluckrose and James Lindsay talk with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about their essay on the enemies of modernity. Pluckrose and Lindsay argue that modernity--by which they mean democracy, reason, and individual liberty--is under attack …2018-02-05
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458Marian Goodell on Burning ManMarian Goodell, CEO of the Burning Man Project, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about Burning Man, the 8-day art and music festival in the Nevada Desert. Goodell explains how Burning Man has evolved over the years, the principles and …2018-01-29
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459John Ioannidis on Statistical Significance, Economics, and ReplicationJohn Ioannidis of Stanford University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his research on the reliability of published research findings. They discuss Ioannidis's recent study on bias in economics research, meta-analysis, the challe…2018-01-22
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460Bill James on Baseball, Facts, and the Rules of the GameBaseball stats guru and author Bill James talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the challenges of understanding complexity in baseball and elsewhere. James reflects on the lessons he has learned as a long-time student of data and the …2018-01-14
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461Dick Carpenter on BottleneckersDick Carpenter of the Institute for Justice and author of Bottleneckers talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his book--a look at how occupational licensing and other regulations protect existing job holders from competition.2018-01-08
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462Kelly Weinersmith and Zach Weinersmith on SoonishEcologist Kelly Weinersmith and cartoonist Zach Weinersmith--creator of Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal--talk with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about their new book, Soonish--a look at cutting-edge and not-quite cutting edge technologies. T…2018-01-01
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463Matt Stoller on Modern MonopoliesMatt Stoller of the Open Market Institute talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the growing influence of Google, Facebook, and Amazon on commercial and political life. Stoller argues that these large firms have too much power over our…2017-12-25
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464Brink Lindsey and Steven Teles on the Captured EconomyBrink Lindsey of the Niskanen Center and Steven Teles of the Niskanen Center and Johns Hopkins University talk with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about their book, The Captured Economy. Lindsey and Teles argue that inequality has been worsened…2017-12-18
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465John Cogan on Entitlements and the High Cost of Good IntentionsJohn Cogan of Stanford University's Hoover Institution talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about Cogan's book, The High Cost of Good Intentions, a history of U.S. entitlement policy. Cogan traces the evolution of government pensions begin…2017-12-12
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466Rachel Laudan on Food WasteHistorian Rachel Laudan talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about food waste. Laudan argues that there are tradeoffs in preventing food waste--in reduced time for example, or a reduction in food security, and that these tradeoffs need to …2017-12-04
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467Simeon Djankov and Matt Warner on the Doing Business Report and Development AidSimeon Djankov, creator of the World Bank's Doing Business Report, and Matt Warner, Chief Operating Officer of Atlas Network talk with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the role regulation plays in economic development and the challenges of …2017-11-27
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468Tim Harford on Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern EconomyFinancial Times columnist and author Tim Harford talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about Harford's latest book, Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy. Highlights include how elevators are an important form of mass transit, why…2017-11-20
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469Anthony Gill on TippingWhy does tipping persist? Despite the efforts of some restaurants to stop tipping, it remains a healthy institution and has recently spread to Uber. Political scientist Anthony Gill of the University of Washington talks with EconTalk host R…2017-11-13
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470Dennis Rasmussen on Hume and Smith and The Infidel and the ProfessorHow did the friendship between David Hume and Adam Smith influence their ideas? Why do their ideas still matter today? Political Scientist Dennis Rasmussen of Tufts University and author of The Infidel and the Professor talks with EconTalk …2017-11-06
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471Michael Munger on Permissionless InnovationMichael Munger of Duke University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about permissionless innovation. Munger argues that the ability to innovate without permission is the most important concept of political economy. Munger defends this c…2017-10-30
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472Jennifer Burns on Ayn Rand and the Goddess of the MarketJennifer Burns of Stanford University and the Hoover Institution talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about her biography of Ayn Rand, Goddess of the Market. They discuss Rand's philosophy, her influence, her relationship with the conserva…2017-10-23
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473Megan McArdle on Internet Shaming and Online MobsAuthor and journalist Megan McArdle of Bloomberg View talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about how the internet has allowed a new kind of shaming via social media and how episodes of bad behavior live on because Google's memory is very, …2017-10-16
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474Tim O'Reilly on What's the FutureAuthor Tim O'Reilly, founder of O'Reilly Media and long-time observer and commenter on the internet and technology, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his new book, WTF? What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us. O'Reilly surveys the…2017-10-09
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475Robert Wright on Meditation, Mindfulness, and Why Buddhism is TrueRobert Wright, author of Why Buddhism Is True, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the psychotherapeutic insights of Buddhism and the benefits of meditation and mindfulness. Wright argues our evolutionary past has endowed us with a …2017-10-02
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476Philip Auerswald on the Rise of PopulismAuthor and professor Philip Auerswald of George Mason University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the rise of populism in the United States and throughout the world. Auerswald argues that the rise of cities and the productivity o…2017-09-25
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477Gabriel Zucman on Inequality, Growth, and Distributional National AccountsGabriel Zucman of the University of California, Berkeley talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his research on inequality and the distribution of income in the United States over the last 35 years. Zucman finds that there has been no …2017-09-18
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478Gillian Hadfield on Law and Rules For a Flat WorldLaw professor Gillian Hadfield of the University of Southern California and author of Rules for a Flat World talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in her book for regulating the digital future. Hadfield suggests the competit…2017-09-11
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479Rob Reich on Foundations and PhilanthropyIs private charity always a good thing? Do large foundations have too much power? Political Scientist Rob Reich of Stanford University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the power and effectiveness of foundations--large collections…2017-09-03
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480Benedict Evans on the Future of CarsBenedict Evans of Andreessen Horowitz talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about two important trends for the future of personal travel--the increasing number of electric cars and a world of autonomous vehicles. Evans talks about how these…2017-08-28
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481John McWhorter on the Evolution of Language and Words on the MoveHow did bad come to mean good? Why is Shakespeare so hard to understand? Is there anything good about "like" and "you know?" Author and professor John McWhorter of Columbia University talks with EconTalk host Russ Robert…2017-08-21
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482Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Work, Slavery, the Minority Rule, and Skin in the GameNassim Nicholas Taleb talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the manuscript version of his forthcoming book, Skin in the Game. Topics discussed include the role of skin in the game in labor markets, the power of minorities, the Lindy e…2017-08-14
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483Tyler Cowen on Stubborn Attachments, Prosperity, and the Good SocietyTyler Cowen of George Mason University and the co-host of the blog Marginal Revolution talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about Stubborn Attachments, his book-length treatment of how to think about public policy. Cowen argues that econom…2017-08-07
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484Alex Guarnaschelli on FoodAlex Guarnaschelli, Food Channel star and chef at Butter in midtown Manhattan, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about what it's like to run a restaurant, the challenges of a career in cooking, her favorite dishes, her least favorite di…2017-07-31
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485Sally Satel on Organ DonationSally Satel, psychiatrist and resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the challenges of increasing the supply of donated organs for transplantation and ways that public policy might…2017-07-24
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486Tamar Haspel on Food Costs, Animal Welfare, and the Honey BeeTamar Haspel, who writes "Unearthed," a column on food and agriculture at the Washington Post, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about a wide variety of issues related to the cost of food and how it's produced. Topics discusse…2017-07-17
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487Martha Nussbaum on Alexander HamiltonMartha Nussbaum, professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about Alexander Hamilton. Nussbaum talks about the tension between acquiring power and living a life of virtue. The topics discussed…2017-07-10
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488Chris Blattman on Chickens, Cash, and Development EconomicsChris Blattman of the University of Chicago talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about whether it's better to give poor Africans cash or chickens and the role of experiments in helping us figure out the answer. Along the way he discusses t…2017-07-03
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489Robin Feldman on Drug Patents, Generics, and Drug WarsRobin Feldman of the University of California Hastings College of Law and author of Drug Wars talks about her book with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Feldman explores the various ways that pharmaceutical companies try to reduce competition fr…2017-06-26
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490Thomas Ricks on Churchill and OrwellAuthor and historian Thomas Ricks talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his book, Churchill and Orwell. Ricks makes the case that the odd couple of Winston Churchill and George Orwell played and play an important role in preserving in…2017-06-19
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491Don Boudreaux, Michael Munger, and Russ Roberts on Emergent OrderWhy is it that people in large cities like Paris or New York City people sleep peacefully, unworried about whether there will be enough bread or other necessities available for purchase the next morning? No one is in charge--no bread czar. …2017-06-12
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492Christy Ford Chapin on the Evolution of the American Health Care SystemHistorian Christy Ford Chapin of University of Maryland Baltimore County and Johns Hopkins and author of Ensuring America's Health talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about her book--a history of how America's health care system came to b…2017-06-05
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493David Boaz, P.J. O'Rourke, and George Will on the State of LibertyWhat is the state of liberty in America? Is liberty increasing or decreasing? Should we be optimistic or pessimistic about the future? This week EconTalk features David Boaz, P.J. O'Rourke, and George Will discussing these questions and mor…2017-05-29
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494Lant Pritchett on Poverty, Growth, and ExperimentsHow should we think about growth and poverty? How important is the goal of reducing the proportion of the world's population living on less than a dollar a day? Does poverty persist because people lack skills or because they live in economi…2017-05-22
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495Cass Sunstein on #RepublicAuthor and legal scholar Cass Sunstein of Harvard University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his latest book, #Republic. Sunstein argues that the internet has encouraged people to frequent informational echo chambers where their…2017-05-15
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496Tyler Cowen on The Complacent ClassAuthor and economist Tyler Cowen of George Mason University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his book, The Complacent Class. Cowen argues that the United States has become complacent and the result is a loss of dynamism in the ec…2017-05-08
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497Jennifer Pahlka on Code for AmericaJennifer Pahlka, founder of Code for America, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the organization she started. Code for America works with private sector tech people to bring technology to the provision of government services. Pahl…2017-05-01
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498Elizabeth Pape on Manufacturing and Selling Women's Clothing and Elizabeth SuzannElizabeth Pape, founder of the women's clothing company Elizabeth Suzann, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about starting and running her company--a manufacturer and seller of high-end women's clothing in Nashville, Tennessee. The conv…2017-04-24
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499Rana Foroohar on the Financial Sector and Makers and TakersJournalist and author Rana Foroohar of the Financial Times talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about her book, Makers and Takers. Foroohar argues that finance has become an increasingly powerful part of the U.S. economy and has handicappe…2017-04-17
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500Erica Sandberg on Homelessness and Downtown Streets TeamPodcaster and writer Erica Sandberg talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about homelessness in San Francisco. Sandberg talks about what the city can do about homelessness and her experience with Downtown Streets Team, which gives homeless …2017-04-10
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501Vanessa Williamson on Taxes and Read My LipsAre Americans overtaxed? How does the average American feel about the tax system and tax reform? Vanessa Williamson of the Brookings Institution talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about her book, Read My Lips. Williamson shares the resul…2017-04-03
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502Jason Barr on Building the Skyline and the Economics of SkyscrapersWhy does the Manhattan skyline look like it does with incredible skyscrapers south of City Hall then almost no tall buildings until midtown? Jason Barr of Rutgers University-Newark and author of Building the Skyline talks with EconTalk host…2017-03-27
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503Andrew Gelman on Social Science, Small Samples, and the Garden of the Forking PathsStatistician, blogger, and author Andrew Gelman of Columbia University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the challenges facing psychologists and economists when using small samples. On the surface, finding statistically significan…2017-03-20
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504Robert Whaples on the Economics of Pope FrancisIs capitalism part of the poverty problem facing the world or part of the solution? Are human beings doing a good job preserving the earth for future generations? To improve the world, should we improve capitalism or ourselves? Robert Whapl…2017-03-13
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505Nicholas Crafts, Luis Garicano, and Luigi Zingales on the Economic Future of EuropeWhat is the future of the European economy? What are the challenges facing Europe? What are the implications of Brexit for the United Kingdom and the rest of the Europe? Nicholas Crafts of the University of Warwick, Luis Garicano of the Lon…2017-03-06
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506Paul Bloom on EmpathyPsychologist Paul Bloom of Yale University talks about his book Against Empathy with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Bloom argues that empathy--the ability to feel the emotions of others--is a bad guide to charitable giving and public policy. B…2017-02-27
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507Tom Wainwright on NarconomicsWhen fighting the war on drugs, governments typically devote enormous resources trying to reduce the supply. But is this effective? Journalist and author Tom Wainwright of the Economist and author of Narconomics talks with EconTalk host Rus…2017-02-20
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508Jim Epstein on Bitcoin, the Blockchain, and Freedom in Latin AmericaWriter, reporter, and film producer Jim Epstein talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about mining Bitcoins in Venezuela as a way to import food. Venezuela is a tragicomic example of how policy can lead to strange and presumably unexpected …2017-02-13
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509Gary Taubes on the Case Against SugarSugar appears to have no nutritional value. But is it more than just empty calories? Is it actually bad for us? Author and journalist Gary Taubes talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his latest book, The Case Against Sugar. Taubes ar…2017-02-06
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510George Borjas on Immigration and We Wanted WorkersGeorge Borjas of Harvard University and author of We Wanted Workers talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about immigration and the challenges of measuring the impact of increased immigration on American workers and consumers. The discussio…2017-01-30
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511Sam Quinones on Heroin, the Opioid Epidemic, and DreamlandHow did heroin spread beyond big cities in America? What's the connection between heroin and America's opioid problem? Sam Quinones, author of Dreamland, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the explosion in heroin use and how one sm…2017-01-23
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512Michael Munger on the Basic Income GuaranteeMichael Munger of Duke University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the virtues and negatives of a basic guaranteed income--giving every American adult an annual amount of money to guarantee a subsistence level of well-being. How …2017-01-16
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513Robert Hall on Recession, Stagnation, and Monetary PolicyEconomist Robert Hall of Stanford University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the current state of the U.S. economy and what we know and don't know about the recovery from the Great Recession. Much of the conversation focuses on …2017-01-09
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514Mark Warshawsky on Compensation, Health Care Costs, and InequalityEconomist and author Mark Warshawsky of George Mason Univerity's Mercatus Center talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his work on the role health care benefits play in measuring inequality. Using data from the Bureau of Labor Statist…2017-01-02
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515Chris Blattman on SweatshopsIf you were a poor person in a poor country, would you prefer steady work in a factory or to be your own boss, buying and selling in the local market? Economist Chris Blattman of the University of Chicago talks with EconTalk host Russ Rober…2016-12-26
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516Terry Anderson on Native American EconomicsTerry Anderson of PERC talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about economic life for Native Americans. Anderson discusses economic life before the arrival of Europeans and how current policy affects Native Americans living on reservations t…2016-12-19
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517Bruce Bueno de Mesquita on the Spoils of WarThere is a fascinating and depressing positive correlation between the reputation of an American president and the number of people dying in wars while that president is in office. Political scientist Bruce Bueno de Mesquita of NYU and co-a…2016-12-12
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518Thomas Leonard on Race, Eugenics, and Illiberal ReformersWere the first professional economists racists? Thomas Leonard of Princeton University and author of Illiberal Reformers talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his book--a portrait of the progressive movement and its early advocates at…2016-12-05
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519Doug Lemov on ReadingDoug Lemov of Uncommon School and co-author of Reading Reconsidered talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about reading. Lemov makes the case for the educational importance of critical reading of challenging books and texts. Along the way, …2016-11-28
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520Erik Hurst on Work, Play, and the Dynamics of U.S. Labor MarketsErik Hurst of the University of Chicago talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the state of the labor market in the United States. Hurst notes dramatic changes in employment rates for men and speculates about the causes. Two factors di…2016-11-21
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521Tim Harford on the Virtues of Disorder and MessyTim Harford, journalist and author, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his latest book, Messy. Harford argues that we have a weakness for order and neat solutions causing us to miss opportunities to find happiness or success with m…2016-11-14
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522David Gelernter on Consciousness, Computers, and the Tides of MindDavid Gelernter, professor of computer science at Yale University and author of The Tides of Mind, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about consciousness and how our minds evolve through the course of the day and as we grow up. Other top…2016-11-07
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523Judith Donath on Signaling, Design, and the Social MachineJudith Donath, author of The Social Machine, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in her book--an examination of signaling, online identity, and online community. Donath argues that design elements in technology play a key …2016-10-31
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524Casey Mulligan on CubaCasey Mulligan of the University of Chicago talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about life in Cuba. Mulligan, who recently returned from a trip to Cuba, discusses the economy, the standard of living and some of the peculiarities of commun…2016-10-24
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525Chris Arnade on the Mexican Crisis, TARP, and American PovertyChris Arnade, former Wall Street trader turned photographer and social chronicler, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about what he learned from the front lines of the financial industry in the 1990s and 2000s when everything slowly and …2016-10-17
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526Angus Deaton on Inequality, Trade, and the Robin Hood PrincipleNobel Laureate in Economics Angus Deaton of Princeton University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the economics of trade and aid. Deaton wonders if economists should re-think the widely-held view that redistribution from rich nat…2016-10-10
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527Cathy O'Neil on Weapons of Math DestructionCathy O'Neil, data scientist and author of Weapons of Math Destruction talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in her book. O'Neil argues that the commercial application of big data often harms individuals in unknown ways. She…2016-10-03
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528John Cochrane on Economic Growth and Changing the Policy DebateHow are those in favor of bigger government and those who want smaller government like a couple stuck in a bad marriage? Economist John Cochrane of Stanford University's Hoover Institution talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about how to …2016-09-26
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529Eric Wakin on Archiving, Preservation, and HistoryWhat does an x-ray of Hitler's skull have in common with a jar of Ronald Reagan's jelly beans? They are both part of the Hoover Institution archives. Eric Wakin, Director of the Library and Archives of the Hoover Institution at Stanford Uni…2016-09-19
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530Susan Athey on Machine Learning, Big Data, and CausationCan machine learning improve the use of data and evidence for understanding economics and public policy? Susan Athey of Stanford University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about how machine learning can be used in conjunction with tra…2016-09-12
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531Terry Moe on the Constitution, the Presidency, and RelicAre there many Americans today who wish the President of the United States had more power relative to the other branches of Congress? Terry Moe is one of them. In this week's EconTalk episode, Moe--a professor of political science at Stanfo…2016-09-05
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532Leo Katz on Why the Law is So PerverseLeo Katz, professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his book, Why the Law Is So Perverse. Katz argues that certain seemingly inexplicable features of the law are the result of conflicts …2016-08-29
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533Michael Munger on Slavery and RacismMichael Munger of Duke University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about how attitudes in the American South toward slavery evolved over time and what we can learn from that evolution about the role culture plays in our lives.2016-08-22
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534Chuck Klosterman on But What If We're WrongChuck Klosterman, author of But What If We're Wrong, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the possibility that things we hold to be undeniably true may turn out to be totally false in the future. This wide-ranging conversation covers…2016-08-15
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535Adam D'Angelo on Knowledge, Experimentation, and QuoraAdam D'Angelo, CEO of the question and answer website, Quora, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the history, evolution, and challenges of Quora. Along the way they discuss the aggregation of knowledge and the power of experiments …2016-08-08
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536Matthew Futterman on Players and the Business of SportsFifty years ago, many of the best players in the National Football League took jobs in the off-season to augment the salaries they earned playing football. Matthew Futterman of the Wall Street Journal and author of Players talks with EconTa…2016-08-01
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537Angela Duckworth on GritHow important is grit relative to talent? Can grit be taught? Angela Duckworth of the University of Pennsylvania and author of Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance talks with with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the nature of succes…2016-07-25
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538Ryan Holiday on Ego is the EnemyHow does our attitude toward ourselves affect our success or failure in the world of business or in friendship? Ryan Holiday, author of Ego Is the Enemy, talks with Econtalk host Russ Roberts about the role of ego in business, our personal …2016-07-18
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539Jonathan Skinner on Health Care Costs, Technology, and Rising MortalityTechnology and innovation usually mean higher quality and lower prices. Is health care different? Jonathan Skinner of Dartmouth College talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about how technology and innovation affect the cost and efficacy o…2016-07-11
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540Yuval Levin on The Fractured RepublicYuval Levin, author and editor of National Affairs, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in his latest book, The Fractured Republic. Levin argues that both major political parties suffer from a misplaced nostalgia--a yearni…2016-07-04
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541Richard Epstein on Cruises, First-Class Travel, and InequalityHow should we feel about cruise lines that offer special amenities for top-paying travelers, or first-class sections of airplanes? Do such consumption inequalities harm the social fabric or is there more to the story? Richard Epstein of New…2016-06-27
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542Kevin Kelly on the InevitableFuturist, author, and visionary Kevin Kelly talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his latest book, The Inevitable, Kelly's look at what the future might be like and the role of the human experience in a world increasingly filled with …2016-06-20
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543Abby Smith Rumsey on Remembering, Forgetting, and When We Are No MoreYou might think your tweets on Twitter belong to you. But in 2010, the Library of Congress acquired the entire archive of Twitter. Why would such a majestic library acquire such seemingly ephemeral material? Historian Abby Smith Rumsey, aut…2016-06-13
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544Jason Zweig on Finance and the Devil's Financial DictionaryJason Zweig of the Wall Street Journal and author of The Devil's Financial Dictionary talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about finance, financial journalism and Zweig's new book. Zweig discusses rationality and the investor's challenge o…2016-06-06
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545David Beckworth on Money, Monetary Policy, and the Great RecessionWas the Financial Crisis of 2008 caused by a crisis in the housing market? Or did the Federal Reserve turn a garden-variety recession into the Great Recession? David Beckworth of Western Kentucky University talks with EconTalk host Russ Rob…2016-05-30
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546James Bessen on Learning by DoingAre workers being left behind when the economy grows? Is technology making the human workforce obsolete? James Bessen, author of Learning by Doing, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the role of learning on the job in the past and …2016-05-23
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547Leif Wenar on Blood OilShould the United States allow its citizens to buy oil from countries run by bad men? Is this a case where morality trumps the usual case for free trade? Leif Wenar, professor of philosophy at King's College, London and author of Blood Oil,…2016-05-16
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548Pedro Domingos on Machine Learning and the Master AlgorithmWhat is machine learning? How is it transforming our lives and workplaces? What might the future hold? Pedro Domingos of the University of Washington and author of The Master Algorithm talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the present…2016-05-09
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549Arnold Kling on Specialization and TradeArnold Kling, economist and author, speaks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his latest book, Specialization and Trade: A Reintroduction to Economics. Kling argues that macroeconomics ignores the challenges of buyers and sellers working…2016-05-02
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550Alberto Alesina on Fiscal Policy and AusterityAlberto Alesina of Harvard University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his research on fiscal policy and austerity. Alesina's research shows that spending cuts to reduce budget deficits are less harmful than tax increases. Alesin…2016-04-25
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551Gary Belsky on the Origins of SportsGary Belsky, co-author of On the Origins of Sports and former editor-in-chief of ESPN the Magazine, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the origins of sports--how various sports evolved and emerged into their current incarnations. A…2016-04-18
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552Robert Frank on Success and LuckIs your success in life your own doing? Robert Frank of Cornell University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his latest book, Success and Luck. Frank argues that we underestimate the role that luck plays in our success and makes t…2016-04-11
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553Richard Jones on TranshumanismWill our brains ever be uploaded into a computer? Will we live forever? Richard Jones, physicist at the University of Sheffield and author of Against Transhumanism, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about transhumanism--the effort to ra…2016-04-04
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554Jayson Lusk on Food, Technology, and Unnaturally DeliciousHow bad is pink slime? Are free-range chickens happier? Can robots cook? Jayson Lusk of Oklahoma State University and the author of Unnaturally Delicious talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about these questions and more from his new book…2016-03-28
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555Marina Krakovsky on the Middleman EconomyWhy would anyone want to hire a middleman, like a wedding planner, especially if you have time to take care of the planning yourself? Marina Krakovsky, author of The Middleman Economy talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about middlemen in…2016-03-21
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556David Autor on Trade, China, and U.S. Labor MarketsDavid Autor of MIT talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the fundamentals of trade and his research on the impact on workers and communities from trade with China. Autor's research finds large and persistent effects on manufacturing j…2016-03-14
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557Will Davies on the Economics, Economists, and the Limits of NeoliberalismWill Davies of Goldsmith's, University of London and author of The Limits of Neoliberalism talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in his book. Davies argues that the free-market vision of economists like Milton Friedman and F…2016-03-07
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558Alison Wolf on Women, Inequality and the XX FactorAlison Wolf author of The XX Factor, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the changing roles of women in the family and the workplace. Wolf argues that highly educated women are increasingly similar to highly educated men in their li…2016-02-29
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559Matt Ridley on the Evolution of EverythingMatt Ridley talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his latest book, The Evolution of Everything. Ridley applies the lens of emergent order to a wide variety of phenomena including culture, morality, religion, commerce, innovation, and …2016-02-22
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560Adam Cifu on Ending Medical ReversalWhy do so many medical practices that begin with such promise and confidence turn out to be either ineffective at best or harmful at worst? Adam Cifu of the University of Chicago's School of Medicine and co-author (with Vinayak Prasad) of E…2016-02-15
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561Adam Ozimek on the Power of Econometrics and DataAdam Ozimek of Moody's Analytics and blogger at Forbes talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about why economists change their minds or don't. Ozimek argues that economists make erratic but steady progress using econometrics and other forms…2016-02-08
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562Timothy Taylor on Government vs. BusinessTimothy Taylor, blogger at the Conversable Economist and editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the role of government and business in taking care of workers and creating economic growth. …2016-02-01
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563James Heckman on Facts, Evidence, and the State of EconometricsNobel Laureate James Heckman of the University of Chicago talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the state of econometrics and the challenges of measurement in assessing economic theories and public policy. Heckman gives us his take on…2016-01-25
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564Josh Luber on Sneakers, Sneakerheads, and the Second-hand MarketHow many pairs of sneakers do you own? Josh Luber of Campless and StockX talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the world of sneakerheads--people passionate for collecting and trading sneakers. Each week people line up to buy classic s…2016-01-18
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565Greg Ip on FoolproofWhen does the pursuit of safety lead us into danger? Greg Ip, of the Wall Street Journal and author of Foolproof talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in his book--the way we publicly and privately try to cope with risk and …2016-01-11
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566Robert Frank on Dinner Table EconomicsHow can you learn to think like an economist? One way is to think about what might be called dinner table economics--puzzles or patterns that arise in everyday life that would be good to understand. Robert Frank of Cornell University and au…2016-01-04
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567Noah Smith on Whether Economics is a ScienceNoah Smith of Stony Brook University and writer at Bloomberg View talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about whether economics is a science in some sense of that word. How reliable are experiments in economics? What about the statistical a…2015-12-28
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568Philip Tetlock on SuperforecastingCan you predict the future? Or at least gauge the probability of political or economic events in the near future? Philip Tetlock of the University of Pennsylvania and author of Superforecasting talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about hi…2015-12-21
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569George Selgin on Monetary Policy and the Great RecessionDid Ben Bernanke and the Fed save the U.S. economy from disaster in 2008 or did the Fed make things worse? Why did the Fed reward banks that kept reserves rather than releasing funds into the economy? George Selgin of the Cato Institute tri…2015-12-14
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570Canice Prendergast on How Prices Can Improve a Food Fight (and Help the Poor)If you have 250 million pounds of food to give away every year to local food banks how should you do it? Canice Prendergast of the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about how he and a tea…2015-12-07
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571David Mindell on Our Robots, OurselvesAre we on the verge of driverless cars and other forms of autonomous robots and artificial intelligence? David Mindell of MIT and the author of Our Robots, Ourselves talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the robotic revolution. Mindel…2015-11-30
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572Michael Munger on EconTalk's 500th EpisodeMichael Munger of Duke University makes his 29th appearance on the 500th episode of EconTalk alongside EconTalk host Russ Roberts. He talks about his personal intellectual journey, his interest in public choice, and Unicorn economics. Other…2015-11-23
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573Brian Nosek on the Reproducibility ProjectBrian Nosek of the University of Virginia and the Center for Open Science talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the Reproducibility Project--an effort to reproduce the findings of 100 articles in three top psychology journals. Nosek t…2015-11-16
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574Robert Aronowitz on Risky MedicineShould women get routine mammograms? Should men get regular PSA exams? Robert Aronowitz of the University of Pennsylvania and the author of Risky Medicine talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the increasing focus on risk reduction ra…2015-11-09
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575Michael Matheson Miller on Poverty, IncMichael Matheson Miller of the Acton Institute and the Director of the documentary Poverty, Inc., talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his award-winning documentary on the barriers facing the poor around the world. Topics discussed i…2015-11-02
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576Cesar Hidalgo on Why Information GrowsCesar Hidalgo of MIT and the author of Why Information Grows talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the growth of knowledge and know-how in the modern economy. Hidalgo emphasizes the importance of networks among innovators and creators…2015-10-26
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577Yuval Harari on SapiensYuval Harari of Hebrew University and author of Sapiens talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the history of humanity. Topics discussed include the move from hunting and gathering to agriculture, the role of fiction in sustaining imag…2015-10-19
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578Peter Boettke on Katrina, Ten Years AfterPete Boettke of George Mason University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the political and economic lessons he has learned as program director of research in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In this wide-ranging conversation, …2015-10-12
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579Tim O'Reilly on Technology and WorkTim O'Reilly of O'Reilly Media talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his career in technology and media and the challenges facing low-wage workers as technology advances. Topics include the early days of the Internet, the efficacy of …2015-10-05
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580Pete Geddes on the American Prairie ReserveWhen Lewis and Clark crossed through Montana, they encountered an extraordinary cornucopia of wildlife. Most of that ecosystem and the animals that once thrived there are gone. But a non-profit wants to bring it all back. Pete Geddes, Manag…2015-09-28
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581Tina Rosenberg on the Kidney Market in IranThere is only one country in the world where a person can sell a kidney to another citizen who buys it. That country is Iran. Tina Rosenberg of The New York Times talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the Iranian kidney market--how it…2015-09-21
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582Mitch Weiss on the Business of BroadwayEver wonder what goes on behind the scenes at a Broadway show? This week's EconTalk lifts the curtain on the magical world of Broadway: Mitch Weiss, co-author of The Business of Broadway, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his book…2015-09-14
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583William MacAskill on Effective Altruism and Doing Good BetterHow much care do you take when you make a donation to a charity? What careers make the biggest difference when it comes to helping others? William MacAskill of Oxford University and the author of Doing Good Better talks with EconTalk host R…2015-09-07
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584Paul Robinson on Cooperation, Punishment and the Criminal Justice SystemAre human beings naturally cooperative or selfish? Can people thrive without government law? Paul Robinson of the University of Pennsylvania and author of Pirates, Prisoners and Lepers talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts the ideas in his …2015-08-31
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585Jesse Ausubel on Agriculture, Technology, and the Return of NatureThousands of bears in New Jersey. Humpback whales near New York City. Acres devoted to farming stable or declining even as food production soars. Jesse Ausubel of the Rockefeller University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the re…2015-08-24
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586Rachel Laudan on the History of Food and CuisineRachel Laudan, visiting scholar at the University of Texas and author of Cuisine and Empire, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the history of food. Topics covered include the importance of grain, the spread of various styles of co…2015-08-17
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587Summer Brennan on Wilderness, Politics and the Oyster WarSummer Brennan, author of The Oyster War, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about her book and the fight between the Drakes Bay Oyster Company and the federal government over farming oysters in the Point Reyes National Seashore. Along t…2015-08-10
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588Roger Berkowitz on Fish, Food, and Legal Sea FoodsSeafood is highly perishable and supply is often uncertain. Roger Berkowitz, CEO of Legal Sea Foods talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the challenges of running 34 seafood restaurants up and down the east coast. Berkowitz draws on …2015-08-03
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589Eric Hanushek on the Education, Skills, and the Millennium Development GoalsHow important are basic skills for economic success and growth? Eric Hanushek of Stanford University's Hoover Institution talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the importance of basic education in math and literacy and their relations…2015-07-27
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590Wences Casares on Bitcoin and XapoWences Casares, bitcoin evangelist and founder and CEO of Xapo, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about how bitcoin works, the genius of bitcoin's creator, and how Xapo is structured to create security for bitcoin banking.2015-07-20
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591Lee Ohanian, Arnold Kling, and John Cochrane on the Future of Freedom, Democracy, and ProsperityLee Ohanian, Arnold Kling, and John Cochrane talk with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the future of freedom, democracy, and prosperity. Recorded in front of a live audience at Stanford University's Hoover Institution as part of a conferen…2015-07-13
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592Alvin Roth on Matching MarketsNobel Laureate Alvin Roth of Stanford University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his work on matching markets. Examples include marriage, matching kidney donors to kidney recipients, and students to schools in cities that allow …2015-07-06
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593Matt Ridley on Climate ChangeScience writer and author Matt Ridley discusses climate change with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Based on his reading of the scientific evidence, Ridley describes himself as a "lukewarmer." While Ridley agrees that humans have made…2015-06-29
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594Morten Jerven on African Economic GrowthMorten Jerven of Simon Frasier University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his new book, Africa: Why Economists Get It Wrong. Jerven, who will be joining Noragric at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences this fall, argues tha…2015-06-22
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595Adam Davidson on Hollywood and the Future of WorkWhat's it like to hang out with Brad Pitt, Christian Bale, Ryan Gosling, and Steve Carell for two months? Adam Davidson, who writes for the New York Times Sunday Magazine, was the technical advisor to the upcoming movie, The Big Short. Besi…2015-06-15
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596Nathaniel Popper on Bitcoin and Digital GoldNathaniel Popper of the New York Times and the author of Digital Gold talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about Bitcoin. Can Bitcoin make it? What went wrong with Mt. Gox? Why did Ross Ulbricht, the creator of Silk Road, just get sentence…2015-06-08
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597Martin Weitzman on Climate ChangeIs climate change the ultimate Black Swan? Martin Weitzman of Harvard University and co-author of Climate Shock talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the risks of climate change. Weitzman argues that climate change is a fat-tailed phe…2015-06-01
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598Bent Flyvbjerg on MegaprojectsBent Flyvbjerg of Oxford University speaks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the political economy of megaprojects--massive investments of a billion dollars or more in infrastructure or technology. Flyvbjerg argues that such projects co…2015-05-25
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599Nicholas Vincent on the Magna CartaDid an 800-year old piece of parchment really change the world? Nicholas Vincent of the University of East Anglia talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the Magna Carta, the founding document of English law and liberty. The Magna Carta…2015-05-18
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600Eric Topol on the Power of Patients in a Digital WorldWe're in the middle of a healthcare revolution but it's about more than marvelous life-saving and life-enhancing apps on our smartphone. Eric Topol of the Scripps Translational Science Institute and author of The Patient Will See You Now ar…2015-05-11
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601Michael O'Hare on Art MuseumsMichael O'Hare of the University of California, Berkeley talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the management of art museums. O'Hare suggests a number of changes that would allow museums to be more effective and to justify their non-p…2015-05-04
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602Leonard Wong on Honesty and Ethics in the MilitaryLeonard Wong of the Strategic Studies Institute at the U.S. Army War College talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about honesty in the military. Based on a recent co-authored paper, Wong argues that the paperwork and training burden on U.S…2015-04-27
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603Scott Sumner on Interest RatesScott Sumner, of Bentley University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about interest rates. Sumner suggests that professional economists sometimes confuse cause and effect with respect to prices and quantities. Low interest rates need n…2015-04-20
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604Phil Rosenzweig on Leadership, Decisions, and Behavioral EconomicsPhil Rosenzweig, professor of strategy and international business at IMD in Switzerland and author of the book Left Brain, Right Stuff: How Leaders Make Winning Decisions talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his book. The focus of th…2015-04-13
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605Vernon Smith and James Otteson on Adam SmithVernon Smith and James Otteson talk with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about Adam Smith in front of a live audience at Ball State University. Topics discussed include Smith's view of human nature, the relevance of Smith for philosophy and econ…2015-04-06
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606David Skarbek on Prison Gangs and the Social Order of the UnderworldDavid Skarbek of King's College London and author of The Social Order of the Underworld: How Prison Gangs Govern The American Penal System talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the written and unwritten rules in America's prisons for …2015-03-30
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607Campbell Harvey on Randomness, Skill, and Investment StrategiesCampbell Harvey of Duke University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his research evaluating various investment and trading strategies and the challenge of measuring their effectiveness. Topics discussed include skill vs. luck, se…2015-03-23
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608Paul Romer on Urban GrowthPaul Romer of New York University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about reforming cities to allow growth and human flourishing. Topics discussed include charter cities, the role of population density in city life, driverless cars, and…2015-03-16
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609Lawrence H. White on Monetary ConstitutionsLawrence H. White of George Mason University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the possibility of a monetary constitution. Based on a new book, Renewing the Search for a Monetary Constitution, White explores different constitution…2015-03-09
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610David Zetland on WaterDavid Zetland of Leiden University College in the Netherlands and author of Living with Water Scarcity talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the challenges of water management. Issues covered include the sustainability of water suppli…2015-03-02
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611Michael Munger on Choosing in GroupsMichael Munger of Duke University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his latest book (co-authored with Kevin Munger), Choosing in Groups. Munger lays out the challenges of group decision-making and the challenges of agreeing on con…2015-02-23
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612Benn Steil on the Battle of Bretton WoodsBenn Steil of the Council on Foreign Relations and author of The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about Bretton Woods, the conference…2015-02-16
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613Daniel Sumner on the Political Economy of AgricultureDaniel Sumner of the University of California talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about agricultural subsidies in the United States, the winners and losers from those subsidies, and how the structure of subsidies has changed from the New …2015-02-09
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614Luigi Zingales on the Costs and Benefits of the Financial SectorLuigi Zingales of the University of Chicago talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts on whether the financial sector is good for society and about the gap between how banks and bankers are perceived by the public vs. finance professors. Zingal…2015-02-02
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615Alex Tabarrok on Private CitiesAlex Tabarrok of George Mason University talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about a recent paper Tabarrok co-authored with Shruti Rajagopalan on Gurgaon, a city in India that until recently had little or no municipal government. The two di…2015-01-26
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616Nassim Nicholas Taleb on the Precautionary Principle and Genetically Modified OrganismsNassim Nicholas Taleb, author of Antifragile, Black Swan, and Fooled by Randomness, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about a recent co-authored paper on the risks of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and the use of the Precautionar…2015-01-19
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617Greg Page on Food, Agriculture, and CargillGreg Page, former CEO of Cargill, the largest privately-held company in America, talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the global food supply and the challenges of running a company with employees and activity all over the world. Page t…2015-01-12
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618Joshua Greene on Moral Tribes, Moral Dilemmas, and UtilitarianismJoshua Greene, of Harvard University and author of Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about morality and the challenges we face when our morality conflicts with that of othe…2015-01-05
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619James Tooley on Private Schools for the Poor and the Beautiful TreeJames Tooley, Professor of Education at Newcastle University, talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about low-cost for-profit private schools in the slums and rural areas of poor countries. Tooley shows how surprisingly widespread private sch…2014-12-29
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620Joshua Angrist on Econometrics and CausationJoshua Angrist of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the craft of econometrics--how to use economic thinking and statistical methods to make sense of data and uncover causation. Angrist argue…2014-12-22
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621Gary Marcus on the Future of Artificial Intelligence and the BrainGary Marcus of New York University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the future of artificial intelligence (AI). While Marcus is concerned about how advances in AI might hurt human flourishing, he argues that truly transformative …2014-12-15
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622James Otteson on the End of SocialismJames Otteson of Wake Forest University talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his new book, The End of Socialism. Otteson argues that socialism (including what he calls the "socialist inclination") is morally and practically i…2014-12-08
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623Nick Bostrom on SuperintelligenceNick Bostrom of the University of Oxford talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his book, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies. Bostrom argues that when machines exist which dwarf human intelligence they will threaten human ex…2014-12-01
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624Emily Oster on Infant MortalityEmily Oster of the University of Chicago talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about why U.S. infant mortality is twice that in Finland and high relative to the rest of the world, given high income levels in the United States. The conversat…2014-11-24
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625Vernon Smith on Adam Smith and the Human EnterpriseNobel Laureate Vernon L. Smith of Chapman University talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about how Adam Smith's book, The Theory of Moral Sentiments has enriched his understanding of human behavior. He contrasts Adam Smith's vision in Senti…2014-11-17
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626Becky Liddicoat Yamarik on Palliative Care and End-of-Life Medical IssuesBecky Liddicoat Yamarik, Hospice Palliative Care Physician, talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the joys and challenges of providing care for terminally ill patients. The two discuss the services palliative care provides, how patients…2014-11-10
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627Daron Acemoglu on Inequality, Institutions, and PikettyDaron Acemoglu, the Elizabeth and James Killian Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his new paper co-authored with James Robinson, "The Rise and Fall of General Laws of Ca…2014-11-03
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628Robert Solow on Growth and the State of EconomicsRobert Solow, Professor Emeritus at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Nobel Laureate, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his hugely influential theory of growth and inspiration to create a model that better reflected the st…2014-10-27
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629Luigi Zingales on Incentives and the Potential Capture of Economists by Special InterestsLuigi Zingales of the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about Zingales's essay, "Preventing Economists' Capture." Zingales argues that just as regulators become swayed by the im…2014-10-20
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630Russ Roberts and Michael Munger on How Adam Smith Can Change Your LifeEconTalk host Russ Roberts is interviewed by long-time EconTalk guest Michael Munger about Russ's new book, How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness. Topics discussed include how economists view…2014-10-13
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631David Autor on the Future of Work and Polanyi's ParadoxDavid Autor of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the future of work and the role that automation and smart machines might play in the workforce. Autor stresses the importance of Michael Po…2014-10-06
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632Martha Nussbaum on Creating Capabilities and GDPMartha Nussbaum of the University of Chicago and author of Creating Capabilities talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about an alternative to GDP for measuring economic performance at the national level. She is a proponent of the capabilit…2014-09-29
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633Thomas Piketty on Inequality and Capital in the 21st CenturyThomas Piketty of the Paris School of Economics and author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century talks to Econtalk host Russ Roberts about the book. The conversation covers some of the key empirical findings of the book along with a discus…2014-09-22
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634Elizabeth Green on Education and Building a Better TeacherElizabeth Green, author of the new book Building a Better Teacher: How Teaching Works (and How to Teach it to Anyone), talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the art of teaching and the history of various reforms, mostly failed, trying…2014-09-15
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635Paul Pfleiderer on the Misuse of Economic ModelsPaul Pfleiderer, C.O.G. Miller Distinguished Professor of Finance at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his recent paper critiquing what Pfleiderer calls "Chameleon Model…2014-09-08
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636Nathan Blecharczyk on Airbnb and the Sharing EconomyNathan Blecharczyk, co-founder and chief technology officer of Airbnb, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about Airbnb, one of the earliest companies to use technology to allow individuals to share underused resources, and in the case of…2014-09-01
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637Daphne Koller on Education, Coursera, and MOOCsDaphne Koller of Coursera talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about online educational website Coursera and the future of education both online and via bricks-and-mortar. Koller, co-founder of Coursera with Andrew Ng, explains how Courser…2014-08-25
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638Terry Anderson on the Environment and Property RightsTerry Anderson, Distinguished Fellow at the Property and Environment Research Center (PERC) and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about free-market environmentalism, the dynamics of the Yellowstone…2014-08-18
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639Barry Weingast on LawBarry Weingast, professor of political science at Stanford University and senior fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the nature of law. Weingast takes issue with some of the standard views of…2014-08-11
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640Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha on LinkedIn and The AllianceReid Hoffman, co-founder of professional networking site LinkedIn, and Ben Casnocha, former Chief-of-Staff of LinkedIn, talk to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about LinkedIn and their book The Alliance. Hoffman and Casnocha discuss the founding…2014-08-04
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641Sam Altman on Start-ups, Venture Capital, and the Y CombinatorSam Altman, president of startup accelerating firm Y Combinator, talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about Y Combinator's innovative strategy for discovering, funding, and coaching groundbreaking startups, what the company looks for in a po…2014-07-28
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642Chris Blattman on Cash, Poverty, and DevelopmentChris Blattman of Columbia University talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about a radical approach to fighting poverty in desperately poor countries: giving cash to aid recipients and allowing them to spend it as they please. Blattman share…2014-07-21
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643D. G. Myers on Cancer, Dying, and LivingD.G. Myers, literary critic and cancer patient, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the lessons he has learned from receiving a cancer diagnosis six years ago. Myers emphasizes the importance of dealing with cancer honestly and usin…2014-07-14
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644Michael Munger on the Sharing EconomyMike Munger of Duke University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the sharing economy--companies like Uber, AirBnB, FlightApp, and DogVacay that let people share their houses, cars, or other assets with strangers in exchange for mo…2014-07-07
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645Lars Peter Hansen on Risk, Ambiguity, and MeasurementLars Peter Hansen of the University of Chicago and Nobel Laureate in economics, talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the power and limits of economic models and quantitative methods. Hanson defends the value of models while recognizing…2014-06-30
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646Gregory Zuckerman on the Frackers and the Energy RevolutionGregory Zuckerman of the Wall Street Journal and author of The Frackers: The Outrageous Inside Story of the New Billionaire Wildcatters, talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his new book, the rise of hydraulic fracturing (fracking), ho…2014-06-23
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647William Easterly on the Tyranny of ExpertsWilliam Easterly of New York University and author of The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in his book. Easterly argues that poverty endures …2014-06-16
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648Edward Lazear on BeckerEdward Lazear of Stanford University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about Gary Becker's innovative contributions to economics. The conversation opens with personal reminiscences by Lazear and Roberts. They then discuss Becker's appli…2014-06-09
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649Andrew McAfee, Megan McArdle, and Lee Ohanian on the Future of WorkAndrew McAfee, Megan McArdle, and Lee Ohanian talk with EconTalk host Russ Roberts on the future of work. Recorded before a live audience at the 33rd Santa Barbara Economic Summit, the conversation begins with each participant making a brie…2014-06-02
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650Yuval Levin on Burke, Paine, and the Great DebateYuval Levin, author of The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left, talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas of Burke and Paine and their influence on the evolution of political philosophy. Levin…2014-05-26
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651Marc Andreessen on Venture Capital and the Digital FutureMarc Andreessen, venture capitalist and co-creator of the early web browser Mosaic, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about how success in venture capital is more about winners that you missed and not losers that you backed. Other topic…2014-05-19
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652Charles Marohn on Strong Towns, Urban Development, and the Future of American CitiesCharles Marohn, President of Strong Towns, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts urban development and what makes a strong town. The two discuss how the post-World War II approach to town and city planning has led to debt problems and waste…2014-05-12
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653Gavin Andresen on the Present and Future of BitcoinGavin Andresen, Chief Scientist of the Bitcoin Foundation, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about where Bitcoin has been and where it might be headed in the future. Topics discussed include competing cryptocurrencies such as Dogecoin, …2014-05-05
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654Diane Coyle on GDPDiane Coyle, author of GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the history of GDP, its uses, and its abuses. Topics discussed include the origins of GDP in the developed countries, the challenges o…2014-04-28
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655Megan McArdle on Failure, Success, and the Up Side of DownMegan McArdle of Bloomberg View and author of The Up Side of Down talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about her book. McArdle argues that failure is a crucial part of success in personal life and in the large economy. Topics covered inclu…2014-04-21
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656Steven Teles on KludgeocracySteven Teles of Johns Hopkins talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about kludgeocracy, a term Teles coined in a National Affairs article to describe what Teles sees as the complex and unproductive state of political governance in the Unite…2014-04-14
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657Bryan Caplan on College, Signaling and Human CapitalBryan Caplan of George Mason University and blogger at EconLog talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the value of a college education. Caplan argues that the extra amount that college graduates earn relative to high school graduates is …2014-04-07
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658John Cochrane on Education and MOOCsJohn Cochrane of the University of Chicago talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the experience of teaching a massive open online course (MOOC)--a class delivered over the internet available to anyone around the world. Cochrane contrast…2014-03-31
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659John Christy and Kerry Emanuel on Climate ChangeJohn Christy of the University of Alabama in Huntsville and Kerry Emanuel of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology talk with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about climate change. Topics discussed include what we know and don't know about glo…2014-03-24
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660Jeffrey Sachs on the Millennium Villages ProjectJeffrey Sachs of Columbia University and the Millennium Villages Project talks with EconTalk host about poverty in Africa and the efforts of the Millennium Villages Project to fight hunger, disease, and illiteracy. The project tries to achi…2014-03-17
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661Richard Epstein on Classical Liberalism, Libertarianism, and LochnerRichard Epstein, of New York University and Stanford University's Hoover Institution, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the differences between classical liberalism and hard-line libertarianism. What is the proper role of the stat…2014-03-10
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662Moises Velasquez-Manoff on Autoimmune Disease, Parasites, and ComplexityMoises Velasquez-Manoff, author of An Epidemic of Absence, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his book--a discussion of why allergies and autoimmune diseases have been on the rise in the developed world for the last half-century. V…2014-03-03
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663Robert Frank on CoaseRobert Frank of Cornell University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the implications of Ronald Coase's views on externalities. Drawing on his book, The Darwin Economy, Frank explores the implications of Coase's perspective for as…2014-02-24
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664Charles Calomiris and Stephen Haber on Fragile by DesignCharles Calomiris of Columbia University and Stephen Haber of Stanford University, co-authors of Fragile by Design: The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit, talk with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about their book. The conver…2014-02-17
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665Paul Sabin on Ehrlich, Simon and the BetPaul Sabin of Yale University and author of The Bet talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his book. Sabin uses the bet between Paul Ehrlich and Julian Simon--a bet over whether natural resources are getting scarcer as population grows…2014-02-10
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666Erik Brynjolfsson on the Second Machine AgeErik Brynjolfsson of MIT and co-author of The Second Machine Age talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in the book, co-authored with Andrew McAfee. He argues we are entering a new age of economic activity dominated by smart …2014-02-03
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667Nina Munk on Poverty, Development, and the IdealistNina Munk, journalist and author of The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about her book. Munk spent six years following Jeffrey Sachs and the evolution of the Millennium Villages Pr…2014-01-27
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668Jonathan Haidt on the Righteous MindJonathan Haidt of New York University and author of The Righteous Mind talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his book, the nature of human nature, and how our brain affects our morality and politics. Haidt argues that reason often ser…2014-01-20
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669Laurence Kotlikoff on Debt, Default, and the Federal Government's FinancesLaurence Kotlikoff of Boston University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the fiscal health of the federal government of the United States. Kotlikoff argues that the U.S. government is essentially bankrupt because future taxes wil…2014-01-13
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670Anthony Gill on ReligionAnthony Gill of the University of Washington and host of the podcast Research on Religion talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the economics of religion. The conversation focuses on the relationship between religion and the State--ho…2014-01-06
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671Richard Fisher on Too Big to Fail and the FedRichard Fisher, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the problems with "too big to fail"--the policy idea that certain financial institutions are too large to face the bankru…2013-12-30
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672Judith Curry on Climate ChangeJudith Curry of the Georgia Institute of Technology and blogger at Climate Etc. talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about climate change. Curry argues that climate change is a "wicked problem" with a great deal of uncertainty su…2013-12-23
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673Wally Thurman on Bees, Beekeeping, and CoaseWally Thurman of North Carolina State University and PERC talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the world of bees, beekeepers, and the market for pollination. Thurman describes how farmers hire beekeepers to pollinate their crops and …2013-12-16
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674Doug Lemov on TeachingDoug Lemov of Uncommon Schools and author of Teach Like a Champion talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about teaching and education. Drawing on his experience working in charter schools with children in poverty, Lemov discusses what makes…2013-12-09
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675Lant Pritchett on Education in Poor CountriesLant Pritchett of Harvard University and author of The Rebirth of Education talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in the book. Pritchett argues that increases in years of schooling for students in poor countries do not trans…2013-12-02
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676Joel Mokyr on Growth, Innovation, and StagnationJoel Mokyr of Northwestern University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the future of the American economy. Mokyr rejects the claims that the we are entering an area of stagnation or permanently lower economic growth. He argues th…2013-11-25
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677Angus Deaton on Health, Wealth, and PovertyAngus Deaton of Princeton University and author of the Great Escape talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the book--the vast improvements in health and standard of living in recent times. Deaton surveys the improvements in life expect…2013-11-18
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678Edmund Phelps on Mass FlourishingEdmund Phelps of Columbia University, Nobel Laureate in economics, and author of Mass Flourishing talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in the book. Phelps argues that human flourishing requires challenges, struggles, and su…2013-11-11
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679John Ralston Saul on Reason, Elites, and Voltaire's BastardsJohn Ralston Saul, author and head of PEN International, speaks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his book, Voltaire's Bastards, and the role of reason in the modern world. Saul argues that the illegitimate offspring of the champions of…2013-11-04
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680Don Boudreaux on CoaseDon Boudreaux of George Mason University and Cafe Hayek talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the intellectual legacy of Ronald Coase. The conversation centers on Coase's four most important academic articles. Most of the discussion i…2013-10-28
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681Guillermo Calvo on the Crisis, Money, and MacroGuillermo Calvo of Columbia University and the National Bureau of Economic Research talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the nature of macroeconomic crises and what we have learned or should have learned in the aftermath of the most …2013-10-21
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682Cliff Winston on TransportationCliff Winston of the Brookings Institution talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his recent article in the Journal of Economic Literature on the U.S. transportation system. Winston argues that the while the United States has a very go…2013-10-14
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683Emily Oster on Pregnancy, Causation, and Expecting BetterEmily Oster of the University of Chicago and author of Expecting Better talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about her book on pregnancy and the challenges of decision-making under uncertainty. Oster argues that many of the standard behavi…2013-10-07
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684Tyler Cowen on Inequality, the Future, and Average is OverTyler Cowen of George Mason University and blogger at Marginal Revolution talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his latest book, Average is Over. Cowen takes a provocative look at how the growing power of artificial intelligence embod…2013-09-30
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685David Epstein on the Sports GeneDavid Epstein, writer for ProPublica and author of The Sports Gene, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the book. Epstein discusses a number of the ideas in the book including what we have learned about the nature vs. nurture debate…2013-09-23
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686David Laidler on MoneyDavid Laidler of the University of Western Ontario talks about money and monetary policy with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Laidler sketches the monetarist approach to the Great Depression and the Great Recession. He defends the Federal Reser…2013-09-16
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687Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Skin in the GameNassim Taleb of NYU-Poly talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his recent paper (with Constantine Sandis) on the morality and effectiveness of "skin in the game." When decision makers have skin in the game--when they share i…2013-09-09
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688Capitalism, Government, and the Good SocietyOn April 10, 2013, Liberty Fund and Butler University sponsored a symposium, "Capitalism, Government, and the Good Society." The evening began with solo presentations by the three participants--Michael Munger of Duke University, R…2013-09-04
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689Michael Munger on MilkMike Munger of Duke University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about why milk is in the back of the grocery store. Michael Pollan and others argue that milk is in the back so that customers, who often buy milk, will be forced to walk …2013-09-02
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690Eric Hanushek on Education and ProsperityEric Hanushek of Stanford University's Hoover Institution talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his new book, Endangering Prosperity (co-authored with Paul Peterson and Ludger Woessmann). Hanushek argues that America's educational sys…2013-08-26
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691Jagdish Bhagwati on IndiaJagdish Bhagwati of Columbia University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the economy of India based on his book with Arvind Panagariya, Why Growth Matters. Bhagwati argues that the economic reforms of 1991 ushered in a new era of…2013-08-19
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692Barry Weingast on the Violence TrapBarry Weingast, the Ward C. Krebs Family Professor of Political Science at Stanford University and a Senior Fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the role of violence and the threat of violence …2013-08-12
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693Robert Pindyck on Climate ChangeRobert Pindyck of MIT talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the challenges of global warming for policy makers. Pindyck argues that while there is little doubt about the existence of human-caused global warming via carbon emissions, t…2013-08-05
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694Amrita Narlikar on Fair Trade and Free TradeAmrita Narlikar of the University of Cambridge talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about fair trade and policy issues related to trade. Narlikar argues--based on a recent article with Dan Kim--that the Fair Trade movement hurts workers ou…2013-07-29
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695Michael Lind on LibertarianismMichael Lind of the New American Foundation talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about two recent articles by Lind at Salon.com. In the first article, Lind argues that libertarians are wrong about how to organize a society because they emb…2013-07-22
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696Michael Clemens on Aid, Migration, and PovertyMichael Clemens of the Center for Global Development talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the effects of aid and migration on world poverty. Clemens argues that the effects of aid are positive but small. But emigration has the potent…2013-07-15
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697Morris Fiorina on Polarization, Stability, and the State of the ElectorateMorris Fiorina, the Wendt Family Professor of Political Science and Hoover Institution Senior Fellow at Stanford University, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the state of the American electorate and recent election results. Fiori…2013-07-08
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698Michael Munger on Sports, Norms, Rules, and the CodeMichael Munger of Duke University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the role of formal rules and informal rules in sports. Many sports restrain violence and retaliation through formal rules while in others, protective equipment is…2013-07-01
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699Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers on Happiness, Growth, and the Reinhart-Rogoff ControversyBetsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers, of the University of Michigan talk with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about their work on the relationship between income and happiness. They argue that there is a positive relationship over time and across…2013-06-24
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700Dan Pallotta on Charity and the Culture of the Non-Profit SectorDan Pallotta, Chief Humanity Officer of Advertising for Humanity and author of Uncharitable talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in his book. Pallotta argues that charities are deeply handicapped by their culture and how we…2013-06-17
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701Bruce Schneier on Power, the Internet, and SecurityBruce Schneier, author and security guru, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about power and the internet. Schneier argues that the internet enhances the power of the powerless but it also enhances the power of the powerful. He argues th…2013-06-10
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702Arnold Kling on the Three Languages of PoliticsArnold Kling, author of The Three Languages of Politics , talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in the book. Kling argues that Progressives, Conservatives, and Libertarians each have their own language and way of looking at …2013-06-03
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703Jim Manzi on the Oregon Medicaid Study, Experimental Evidence, and CausalityJim Manzi, founder and chair of Applied Predictive Technologies, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and author of Uncontrolled, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the Oregon Medicaid study and the challenges of interpreting …2013-05-27
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704Richard Epstein on the ConstitutionRichard Epstein of New York University and Stanford University's Hoover Institution talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the U.S. Constitution. Topics covered in this wide-ranging conversation include how the interpretation of the Co…2013-05-20
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705Austin Frakt on Medicaid and the Oregon Medicaid StudyAustin Frakt of Boston University and blogger at The Incidental Economist talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about Medicaid and the recent results released from the Oregon Medicaid study, a randomized experiment that looked at individual…2013-05-13
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706William Bernstein on Communication, Power and the Masters of the WordWilliam Bernstein talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his latest book, Masters of the Word. Bernstein traces the history of language, writing, and communication and its impact on freedom. The discussion begins with the evolution of …2013-05-06
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707James Galbraith on InequalityJames Galbraith of the University of Texas and author of Inequality and Instability talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about inequality. Galbraith argues that much of the mainstream analysis of inequality in the economics literature is f…2013-04-29
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708Edward Glaeser on CitiesEdward Glaeser of Harvard University and author of The Triumph of Cities talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about American cities. The conversation begins with a discussion of the history of Detroit over the last century and its current …2013-04-22
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709Jeffrey Sachs on the Crisis, the Recovery, and the FutureJeffrey Sachs of Columbia University and author of The Price of Civilization talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the state of the American economy. Sachs sees the current malaise as a chronic problem rather than a short-term challen…2013-04-15
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710Anat Admati on Bank Regulation and the Bankers' New ClothesAnat Admati of Stanford University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about her new book (co-authored with Martin Hellwig), The Bankers' New Clothes. Admati argues that the best way to reduce the fragility of the banking system is to inc…2013-04-08
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711Eric Topol on the Creative Destruction of MedicineEric Topol of the Scripps Research Institute and the author of The Creative Destruction of Medicine talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in his book. Topics discussed include "evidence-based" medicine, the influen…2013-04-01
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712Scott Sumner on Money, Business Cycles, and Monetary PolicyScott Sumner of Bentley University and blogger at The Money Illusion talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the basics of money, monetary policy, and the Fed. After a discussion of some of the basics of the money supply, Sumner explain…2013-03-25
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713Angus Burgin on Hayek, Friedman, and the Great PersuasionAngus Burgin of Johns Hopkins University and the author of The Great Persuasion talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the idea in his book--the return of free market economics in the aftermath of the Great Depression. Burgin describes…2013-03-18
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714Doc Searls on the Intention EconomyDoc Searls, author of The Intention Economy and head of Project VRM at Harvard University's Berkman Center talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the how the relationship between buyers and sellers might evolve as the internet evolves.…2013-03-11
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715Leigh Steinberg on Sports, Agents, and AthletesLeigh Steinberg, legendary sports agent, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his career as a sports agent. He discusses the challenges of building a clientele, how sports agents spend their time, strategies for building a brand as a…2013-03-04
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716Yanis Varoufakis on Valve, Spontaneous Order, and the European CrisisYanis Varoufakis of the University of Athens, the University of Texas, and former economist-in-residence at Valve Software talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the unusual structure of the workplace at Valve. Valve, a software compan…2013-02-25
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717Glenn Reynolds on Politics, the Constitution, and TechnologyGlenn Reynolds of the University of Tennessee and blogger at Instapundit talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the political malaise in America, whether it could lead to a Constitutional Convention, and what might emerge were such an …2013-02-18
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718Cathy O'Neil on Wall St and Occupy Wall StreetCathy O'Neil, data scientist and blogger at mathbabe.org, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about her journey from Wall Street to Occupy Wall Street. She talks about her experiences on Wall Street that ultimately led her to join the Occ…2013-02-11
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719Louis Michael Seidman on the ConstitutionLouis Michael Seidman of Georgetown University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the United States Constitution. Seidman argues that the we should ignore the Constitution in designing public policy, relying instead on the merits o…2013-02-04
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720Peter Boettke on Living EconomicsPeter Boettke of George Mason University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his book, Living Economics. Boettke argues for embracing the tradition of Smith and Hayek in both teaching and research, arguing that economics took a wron…2013-01-28
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721Kevin Kelly on the Future, Productivity, and the Quality of LifeKevin Kelly talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about measuring productivity in the internet age and recent claims that the U.S. economy has entered a prolonged period of stagnation. Then the conversation turns to the potential of robots …2013-01-21
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722Esther Dyson on the Attention Economy and the Quantification of EverythingEsther Dyson talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the market for attention and how technology has changed, how much we pay attention to others, and vice versa. Along the way Dyson reminisces about Steve Jobs, the nature of the start-…2013-01-14
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723Morten Jerven on Measuring African Poverty and ProgressMorten Jerven of Simon Fraser University, author of Poor Numbers, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the quality of data coming out of Africa on income, growth, and population. Jerven argues that the inconsistency of the numbers an…2013-01-07
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724Becky Pettit on the Prison Population, Survey Data and African-American ProgressBecky Pettit of the University of Washington and author of Invisible Men talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the growth of the prison population in the United States in recent decades. Pettit describes the magnitude of the increase …2012-12-31
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725Lisa Turner on Organic FarmingLisa Turner of Laughing Stock Farm talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about life as a small organic farmer. She describes her working day, the challenges of farming, the role of the U.S. Department of Agriculture in her life and what som…2012-12-24
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726Don Boudreaux on Reading HayekDon Boudreaux of George Mason University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the work of F. A. Hayek, particularly his writings on philosophy and political economy. Boudreaux provides an audio annotated bibliography of Hayek's most …2012-12-17
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727Chris Anderson on Makers and ManufacturingChris Anderson, author of Makers: The New Industrial Revolution, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his new book--the story of how technology is transforming the manufacturing business. Anderson argues that the plummeting prices of…2012-12-10
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728Mulligan on Redistribution, Unemployment, and the Labor MarketCasey Mulligan of the University of Chicago and the author of The Redistribution Recession, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in the book. Mulligan argues that increases in the benefits available to unemployed workers ex…2012-12-03
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729Marcia Angell on Big PharmaMarcia Angell of Harvard Medical School and the author of The Truth About the Drug Companies talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the impact of pharmaceutical companies on academic research, clinical trials and the political process.…2012-11-26
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730John Cochrane on Health CareJohn Cochrane of the University of Chicago and Stanford University's Hoover Institution talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about how existing regulations distort the market for health care. Cochrane argues that many of the problems in th…2012-11-19
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731Michael Munger on John Locke, Prices, and Hurricane SandyMike Munger of Duke University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the gas shortage following Hurricane Sandy and John Locke's view of the just price. Drawing on a short, obscure essay of Locke's titled "Venditio," Munger …2012-11-12
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732Joshua Rauh on Public PensionsJoshua Rauh, Professor of Finance at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business and a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the unfunded liabilities from state employee…2012-11-05
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733Steve Hanke on Hyperinflation, Monetary Policy, and DebtSteve Hanke of Johns Hopkins and the Cato Institute talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about hyperinflation and the U.S. fiscal situation. Hanke argues that despite the seemingly aggressive policies of the Federal Reserve over the last f…2012-10-29
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734Jonathan Rodden on the Geography of VotingJonathan Rodden, political science professor at Stanford and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution speaks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the geography of voting. The main focus is on the tendency of urban voters around the world …2012-10-22
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735Arnold Kling on Education and the InternetArnold Kling, economist and teacher, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about recent technological innovations in education and Kling's forecast for their impact on learning and how they might affect traditional education. Examples inclu…2012-10-15
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736Garett Jones on Fisher, Debt, and DeflationGarett Jones of George Mason University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas of Irving Fisher on debt and deflation. In a book, Booms and Depressions and in a 1933 Econometrica article, Fisher argued that debt-fueled invest…2012-10-08
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737Robert Skidelsky on Money, the Good Life, and How Much is EnoughRobert Skidelsky, noted biographer of John Maynard Keynes and author (with his son Edward) of the recently published How Much is Enough, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about materialism, growth, insatiability, and the good life. Skid…2012-10-01
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738Robert Frank and Russ Roberts on InfrastructureRobert Frank of Cornell University and EconTalk host Russ Roberts debate the merits of a large increase of infrastructure spending. In the summer of 2012, Frank and Roberts were interviewed by Alex Blumberg of NPR's Planet Money. That inter…2012-09-24
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739Paul Tough on How Children SucceedPaul Tough, author of How Children Succeed, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about why children succeed and fail in school and beyond school. He argues that conscientiousness--a mixture of self-control and determination--can be a more …2012-09-17
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740Brian Nosek on Truth, Science, and Academic IncentivesBrian Nosek of the University of Virginia talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about how incentives in academic life create a tension between truth-seeking and professional advancement. Nosek argues that these incentives create a subconsci…2012-09-10
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741Neil Barofsky on BailoutsNeil Barofsky, author of Bailout and the former Special Inspector General for the TARP program, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his book and the government bailouts by the Bush and Obama Administrations. Barofsky recounts what h…2012-09-03
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742Roger Noll on the Economics of SportsRoger Noll of Stanford University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the economics of sports. Noll discusses the economic effects of stadium subsidies, the labor market for athletes, the business side of college sports, competitive…2012-08-27
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743Lee Ohanian on the Great Recession and the Labor MarketLee Ohanian of UCLA talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the recession, the recovery, and the state of labor market. Ohanian describes the unusual aspects of this recession and recovery in the United States as shown by the labor mark…2012-08-20
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744Tammy Frisby on Tax ReformTammy Frisby of Stanford University's Hoover Institution talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the likelihood of U.S. tax reform in the near future. Frisby reviews the changes in tax policy over the last 30 years focusing on the chang…2012-08-13
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745Josiah Ober on the Ancient Greek EconomyJosiah Ober of Stanford University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the economy of ancient Greece, particularly Athens. Ober notes that the standard view of ancient Greece is that it was very poor. Drawing on various kinds of evi…2012-08-06
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746Scott Atlas on American Health CareScott Atlas, Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and author of In Excellent Health, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the U.S. health care system. Atlas argues that the U.S. health care system is top-notch re…2012-07-30
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747David Brady on the 2012 US ElectionDavid Brady, Professor of Political Science and the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University and a senior fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the November elections in the United Sta…2012-07-23
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748Gary Taubes on Why We Get FatGary Taubes, author of Why We Get Fat, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about why we get fat and the nature of evidence in a complex system. The current mainstream view is that we get fat because we eat too much and don't exercise enou…2012-07-16
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749Joseph Stiglitz on InequalityNobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz of Columbia University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in his recent book, The Price of Inequality. Stiglitz argues that the American economy is dysfunctional, benefitting only those at t…2012-07-09
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750Luigi Zingales on Capitalism and Crony CapitalismLuigi Zingales of the University of Chicago and author of A Capitalism for the People talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in his book. Zingales argues that the financial sector has used its political power to enhance the s…2012-07-02
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751Enrico Moretti on Jobs, Cities, and InnovationEnrico Moretti of the University of California, Berkeley and the author of the New Geography of Jobs talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in his book. Moretti traces how the economic success of cities and the workers who live…2012-06-25
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752Jim Manzi on Knowledge, Policy, and UncontrolledJim Manzi, author of Uncontrolled, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the reliability of science and the ideas in his book. Manzi argues that unlike science, which can produce useful results using controlled experiments, social sci…2012-06-18
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753Jonah Lehrer on Creativity and ImagineJonah Lehrer, staff writer for The New Yorker and author of Imagine: How Creativity Works, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the science of creativity. They discuss focusing vs. ignoring as a way to solve problems, the potential f…2012-06-11
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754Ed Yong on Science, Replication, and JournalismEd Yong, science writer and blogger at "Not Exactly Rocket Science" at Discover Magazine, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the challenges of science and science journalism. Yong was recently entangled in a controversy o…2012-06-04
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755Larry White on the Clash of Economic IdeasLawrence H. White of George Mason University and author of The Clash of Economic Ideas talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the economists and their ideas of the past one hundred years. They discuss Keynes and Hayek, monetary policy an…2012-05-28
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756Ronald Coase on Externalities, the Firm, and the State of EconomicsNobel Laureate Ronald Coase of the University of Chicago talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his career, the current state of economics, and the Chinese economy. Coase, born in 1910, reflects on his youth, his two great papers, &quo…2012-05-21
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757David Owen on Parenting, Money, and the First National Bank of DadDavid Owen, author of The First National Bank of Dad, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about how to educate our children about money and finance. Owen explains how he created his own savings accounts for his kids that gave them an ince…2012-05-14
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758David Schmidtz on Rawls, Nozick, and JusticeDavid Schmidtz of the University of Arizona talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the work of John Rawls and Robert Nozick. The conversation covers the basic ideas of Rawls and Nozick on inequality and justice and the appropriate role…2012-05-07
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759John Taylor on Rules, Discretion, and First PrinciplesJohn Taylor of Stanford University's Hoover Institution talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his new book, First Principles: Five Keys to Restoring America's Prosperity. Taylor argues that when economic policy adhere to the right bas…2012-04-30
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760Tyler Cowen on FoodTyler Cowen of George Mason U. and author of An Economist Gets Lunch, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about food, the economics of food, and his new book. In this wide-ranging conversation, Cowen explains why American food was once a …2012-04-23
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761David Autor on DisabilityDavid Autor of MIT talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program. SSDI has grown dramatically in recent years and now costs about $200 billion a year. Autor explains how the program work…2012-04-16
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762Richard Burkhauser on the Middle ClassRichard Burkhauser of Cornell University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the state of the middle class. Drawing on recently published papers, Burkhauser shows that changes in the standard of living of the middle class and other …2012-04-09
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763Eugene White on Bank RegulationEugene White of Rutgers University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the regulation of banks and financial crises. White argues that most regulation tries to limit the choices of banks to restrain them from making choices that cre…2012-04-02
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764Don Boudreaux on Public DebtDon Boudreaux of George Mason University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the nature of public debt. One view is that there is no burden of the public debt as long as the purchasers of U.S. debt are fellow Americans. In that case…2012-03-26
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765Daron Acemoglu on Why Nations FailDaron Acemoglu of MIT and author (with James Robinson) of Why Nations Fail talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in his book: why some nations fail and others succeed, why some nations grow over time and sustain that growth,…2012-03-19
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766Emanuel Derman on Theories, Models, and ScienceEmanuel Derman of Columbia University and author of Models. Behaving. Badly talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about theories and models, and the elusive nature of truth in the sciences and social sciences. Derman, a former physicist and…2012-03-12
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767Charles Calomiris on Capital Requirements, Leverage, and Financial RegulationCharles Calomiris of Columbia University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about corporate debt, capital requirements, and financial regulation. This is an in-depth conversation about how debt works on a firm's balance sheet and the ris…2012-03-05
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768David Weinberger on Too Big to KnowDavid Weinberger of Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet & Society and author of Too Big to Know, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in the book--how knowledge and data and our understanding of the world a…2012-02-27
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769Adam Davidson on ManufacturingAdam Davidson of NPR's Planet Money talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about manufacturing. Based on an article Davidson wrote for The Atlantic, the conversation looks at the past, present, and future of manufacturing. Davidson visited a…2012-02-20
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770David Owen on the Environment, Unintended Consequences, and The ConundrumDavid Owen of the New Yorker and author of The Conundrum talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in his book. Owen argues that innovation and energy innovation have increased energy use rather than reduced it and similarly, ot…2012-02-13
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771William Black on Financial FraudWilliam Black of University of Missouri-Kansas City and author of The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about financial fraud, starting with the Savings and Loan debacle up through the current finan…2012-02-06
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772Eugene Fama on FinanceEugene Fama of the University of Chicago talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the evolution of finance, the efficient market hypothesis, the current crisis, the economics of stimulus, and the role of empirical work in finance and eco…2012-01-30
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773David Rose on the Moral Foundations of Economic BehaviorDavid Rose of the University of Missouri, St. Louis and the author of The Moral Foundation of Economic Behavior talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the book and the role morality plays in prosperity. Rose argues that morality plays …2012-01-23
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774Nassim Nicholas Taleb on AntifragilityNassim Taleb, author of Fooled By Randomness and The Black Swan, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about antifragility, the concept behind Taleb's next book, a work in progress. Taleb talks about how we can cope with our ignorance and u…2012-01-16
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775Dean Baker on the CrisisDean Baker of the Center for Economic Policy and Research talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the financial crisis. Baker sees the crisis as part of a broader set of phenomena--rising inequality and declining unionization. Baker is …2012-01-09
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776Scott Sumner on Money and the FedScott Sumner of Bentley University and the blog The Money Illusion talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the state of monetary policy, the actions of the Federal Reserve over the past two years and the state of the economy. Sumner arg…2012-01-02
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777Alex Tabarrok on InnovationAlex Tabarrok of George Mason University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his new book, Launching the Innovation Renaissance. Tabarrok argues that innovation in the United States is being held back by patent law, the legal system…2011-12-26
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778Dan Klein on Knowledge and CoordinationDan Klein of George Mason University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in Klein's new book, Knowledge and Coordination. Klein argues that allegory is a powerful way to think about outcomes of emergent order. He goes deep…2011-12-19
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779Michael Munger on Profits, Entrepreneurship, and StorytellingMike Munger of Duke University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about profit. What is profit's role in allocating resources? How should we feel about the people who earn profits or who take them in ways that may not be earned? How easy…2011-12-12
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780Tyler Cowen on the European CrisisTyler Cowen of George Mason University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the European crisis. Cowen argues that Greece is likely to default either in fact or in spirit but that the key question is which nations might follow--wheth…2011-12-05
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781Simon Johnson on the Financial CrisisSimon Johnson of MIT and the author (with James Kwak) of 13 Bankers talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the origins of the financial crisis and how the next one might be prevented. Invoking the work of George Stigler, Johnson argues…2011-11-28
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782Gary Taubes on Fat, Sugar and Scientific DiscoveryGary Taubes, author of Good Calories, Bad Calories, talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about what we know about the relationship between diet and disease. Taubes argues that for decades, doctors, the medical establishment, and government a…2011-11-21
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783Roy Baumeister on Gender Differences and CultureRoy Baumeister of Florida State University and the author of Is There Anything Good About Men talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the differences between men and women in cultural and economic areas. Baumeister argues that men aren'…2011-11-14
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784Steven Kaplan on the Inequality and the Top 1%Steven Kaplan of the University of Chicago talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the richest Americans and income inequality. Drawing on work with Joshua Rauh, Kaplan talks about the composition of the richest 1% and 1/10 of 1%--what …2011-11-07
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785Ryan Avent on Cities, Urban Regulations, and GrowthRyan Avent of the Economist and author of The Gated City talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about The Gated City and how cities have restricted access to land and housing. Avent argues that restricted access has raised housing prices art…2011-10-31
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786Valerie Ramey on Stimulus and MultipliersValerie Ramey of the University of California, San Diego talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the effect of government spending on output and employment. Ramey's own work exploits the exogenous nature of wartime spending. She finds a…2011-10-24
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787Nicholas Wapshott on Keynes and HayekNicholas Wapshott, author of Keynes Hayek: The Clash That Defined Modern Economics, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about John Maynard Keynes and Friedrich A. Hayek--their ideas, their disagreements, their friendship and how the two m…2011-10-17
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788Frank Rose on Storytelling and the Art of ImmersionFrank Rose, author of The Art of Immersion and correspondent for Wired Magazine, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about how the web has changed the art of storytelling and the interactions between the web, advertising, games, movies, a…2011-10-10
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789Bruce Meyer on the Middle Class, Poverty, and InequalityBruce Meyer of the University of Chicago talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the middle class, poverty, and inequality. Many economists and pundits argue that the middle class has made little or no economic progress over the last 30…2011-10-03
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790Alex Rosenberg on the Nature of EconomicsAlex Rosenberg of Duke University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the scientific nature of economics. Rosenberg, a philosopher of science talks about whether economics is a science. He surveys the changes in economics over the l…2011-09-26
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791Garett Jones on StimulusGarett Jones of George Mason University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the workers who were hired with money from the 2009 American Recovery and Re-investment Act--the stimulus package. Jones (with co-author Daniel Rothschild) …2011-09-19
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792Robert Frank on Competition, Government, and DarwinRobert Frank of Cornell University and author of The Darwin Economy talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about competition, government and the relevance of Darwin for economics. In a lively and spirited discussion, Frank argues that becaus…2011-09-12
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793Clifford Winston on LawyersClifford Winston of the Brookings Institution talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the market for lawyers and the role of lawyers in the political process. Drawing on a new co-authored book, First Thing We Do, Let's Deregulate All th…2011-09-05
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794Eric Hanushek on TeachersEric Hanushek of Stanford University's Hoover Institution talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the importance of teacher quality in education. Hanushek argues that the standard measures of quality--experience and advanced degrees--ar…2011-08-29
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795Brendan O'Donohoe on Potato Chips and Salty SnacksBrendan O'Donohoe of Frito-Lay talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about how potato chips and other salty snacks get made, distributed, and marketed. The interview follows an hour-long tour of a local supermarket where O'Donohoe showed Ro…2011-08-22
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796David Brady on the Electorate and the Elections of 2010 and 2012David Brady of Stanford University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the lessons of the election of 2010 and what we might expect from the elections of 2012. Brady draws on political history as well as survey results from work wit…2011-08-15
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797Debra Satz on MarketsDebra Satz, Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about her book, Why Some Things Should Not Be For Sale: The Moral Limits of the Market. Satz argues that some markets are noxious and should n…2011-08-08
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798Anat Admati on Financial RegulationAnat Admati of Stanford University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about ways to make the financial system more stable. In particular, Admati explores the implications of higher capital requirements. She argues that current policies s…2011-08-01
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799Keith Hennessey on the Debt Ceiling and the Budget ProcessKeith Hennessey of Stanford University's Hoover Institution talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the debt ceiling and the budget process. Hennessey, who worked for Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott on budget issues in the late 1990s,…2011-07-25
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800John Taylor on Fiscal and Monetary PolicyJohn Taylor of Stanford University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the state of the economy and the prospects for recovery. Taylor argues that the design of the fiscal stimulus was ineffective and monetary policy, so-called quan…2011-07-18
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801Abhijit Banerjee on Poverty and Poor EconomicsAbhijit Banerjee of MIT talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about Banerjee's book (co-authored with Esther Duflo), Poor Economics. The conversation begins with how randomized control trials (a particular kind of social experiment) have be…2011-07-11
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802David Skeel on Bankruptcy and the Auto Industry BailoutDavid Skeel of the University of Pennsylvania Law School talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about bankruptcy and the government bailout of the auto industry. Skeel argues that the bailout damaged the rule of law by not allowing a bankrup…2011-07-04
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803James Otteson on Adam SmithJames Otteson of Yeshiva University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about Adam Smith. The conversation begins with a brief sketch of David Hume and his influence on Smith and then turns to the so-called Adam Smith problem--the author …2011-06-27
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804Michael Munger on Exchange, Exploitation and Euvoluntary TransactionsMike Munger of Duke University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the psychology, sociology, and economics of buying and selling. Why are different transactions that seemingly make both parties better off frowned on and often made …2011-06-20
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805Todd Buchholz on Competition, Stress, and the Rat RaceTodd Buchholz, author of Rush: Why You Need and Love the Rat Race, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in the book. Buchholz argues that competition and striving for excellence is part of our evolutionary inheritance. He c…2011-06-13
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806Barry Eichengreen on the Dollar and International FinanceBarry Eichengreen of University of California, Berkeley and author of Exorbitant Privilege talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the history and importance of the dollar as the dominant international currency. Eichengreen explains the…2011-06-06
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807William Easterly on Benevolent Autocrats and GrowthWilliam Easterly of New York University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the oft-heard claim that poor countries led by autocrats grow faster than poor countries that are democratic. Drawing on a recent paper, "Benevolent Au…2011-05-30
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808Tim Harford on Adapt and the Virtues of FailureTim Harford, author and journalist, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about Adapt, Harford's book on the virtues of failure and the trial and error process. Harford argues that success is more likely when there is experimentation and tr…2011-05-23
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809William Byers on the Blind Spot, Science, and UncertaintyWilliam Byers of Canada's Concordia University and author of The Blind Spot talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the nature of knowledge, science and mathematics. Byers argues that there is an inherent uncertainty about science and o…2011-05-16
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810Bryan Caplan on ParentingBryan Caplan of George Mason University and EconLog talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in Caplan's new book, Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids. Caplan argues that parents spend too much time trying to influence how their …2011-05-09
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811John Papola on the Keynes Hayek Rap VideosJohn Papola of Emergent Order talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about their collaboration creating rap videos based on the ideas of John Maynard Keynes and F. A. Hayek. Their first was "Fear the Boom and Bust" which was releas…2011-05-02
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812Ariel Rubinstein on Game Theory and Behavioral EconomicsAriel Rubinstein of Tel Aviv University and New York University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the state of game theory and behavioral economics, two of the most influential areas of economics in recent years. Drawing on his Af…2011-04-25
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813Michael Munger on Microfinance, Savings, and PovertyMike Munger of Duke University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about microfinance. Munger argues that cultural forces make it difficult for some families to save, and the main value of microfinance is to allow a higher level of saving…2011-04-18
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814Dani Rodrik on Globalization, Development, and EmploymentDani Rodrik of Harvard University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about trade, the labor market, and trade policy. Drawing on a recent paper with Margaret McMillan on trade and productivity, Rodrik argues that countries have very diff…2011-04-11
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815Gavin Andresen on BitCoin and Virtual CurrencyGavin Andresen, Principal of the BitCoin Virtual Currency Project, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about BitCoin, an innovative attempt to create a decentralized electronic currency. Andresen explains the origins of BitCoin, how new c…2011-04-04
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816Vincent Reinhart on Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, and the Financial CrisisVincent Reinhart of the American Enterprise Institute talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the government interventions and non-interventions into financial markets in 2008. Conventional wisdom holds that the failure to intervene in …2011-03-28
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817Diane Coyle on the Economics of EnoughDiane Coyle, author of The Economics of Enough, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the future and the ideas in her book. Coyle argues that the financial crisis, the entitlement crisis, and climate change all reflect a failure to de…2011-03-21
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818Robert Townsend on Development, Poverty, and Financial InstitutionsRobert Townsend of MIT and the Consortium on Financial Systems and Poverty talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about development and the role of financial institutions in growth. Drawing on his research, particularly his surveys of househ…2011-03-14
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819Freeman Dyson on Heresy, Climate Change, and ScienceFreeman Dyson of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about science, his career, and the future. Dyson argues for the importance of what he calls heresy--challenging the scientific dogmas of th…2011-03-07
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820George Will on America, Politics, and BaseballAuthor and syndicated columnist George Will talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the state of the country, the nature of politics, and at the end, a little about baseball. The conversation begins with Will discussing his career and h…2011-02-28
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821Daron Acemoglu on Inequality and the Financial CrisisDaron Acemoglu of MIT talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the role income inequality may have played in creating the financial crisis. Raghuram Rajan in his book, Fault Lines, argues that growing income inequality in the last part o…2011-02-21
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822Tyler Cowen on the Great StagnationTyler Cowen of George Mason University and author of the e-book The Great Stagnation talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in the book. Cowen argues that in the last four decades, the growth in prosperity for the average fam…2011-02-14
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823Arnold Kling on Patterns of Sustainable Specialization and TradeArnold Kling of EconLog talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about a new paradigm for thinking about macroeconomics and the labor market. Kling calls it PSST--patterns of sustainable specialization and trade. Kling rejects the Keynesian ap…2011-02-07
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824Brian Deer on Autism, Vaccination, and Scientific FraudInvestigative journalist Brian Deer talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about Deer's seven years of reporting and legal issues surrounding the 1998 article in The Lancet claiming that the MMR vaccine causes autism and bowel problems. Deer…2011-01-31
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825Steve Fazzari on Stimulus and KeynesSteve Fazzari of Washington University in St. Louis talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the economics of Keynesian stimulus. They discuss the stimulus package passed in February 2009 and whether it improved the economy and created j…2011-01-24
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826Don Boudreaux on Monetary MisunderstandingsDon Boudreaux of George Mason University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts on some of the common misunderstandings people have about prices, money, inflation and deflation. They discuss what is harmful about inflation and deflation, the…2011-01-17
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827Bruce Caldwell on HayekBruce Caldwell of Duke University and the General Editor of the Collected Works of F. A. Hayek, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about Hayek, his life, his ideas, his books, and articles. The conversation covers Hayek's intellectual en…2011-01-10
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828Robin Hanson on the Technological SingularityRobin Hanson of GMU talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the idea of a technological singularity--a sudden, large increase in the rate of growth due to technological change. Hanson argues that it is plausible that a change in technol…2011-01-03
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829Peter Boettke on MisesPete Boettke of George Mason University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the life, work, and legacy of Ludwig von Mises. Boettke outlines Mises's most important contributions to economics--business cycle theory, the socialism/cal…2010-12-27
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830Joe Nocera on the Crisis and All the Devils Are HereJoe Nocera, New York Times columnist and co-author with Bethany McLean of All the Devils Are Here, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the origins of the financial crisis. Drawing on his book, Nocera identifies many people he consid…2010-12-20
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831Wafaya Abdallah on Hair and Running a Small BusinessWafaya Abdallah of Oasis Hair Salon in Rockville, Maryland talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the challenges and rewards of running a small business. Abdallah discusses her career path from would-be lawyer to owning her own salon w…2010-12-13
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832George Selgin on the FedGeorge Selgin, of the University of Georgia, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about whether the creation of the Federal Reserve in 1913 has been a boon or a bust for the U.S. economy. Drawing on a recent paper by William Lastrapes and …2010-12-06
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833Kevin Kelly on Technology and What Technology WantsKevin Kelly, author of What Technology Wants, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about technology and the ideas in the book. Kelly argues that technology is best understood as an emergent system subject to the natural forces underpinning…2010-11-29
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834Nicholas Phillipson on Adam SmithNicholas Phillipson, author of Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life, talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the life of Adam Smith. Drawing on his recent biography of Smith, Phillipson discusses his intellectual roots, his intellectual journe…2010-11-22
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835Robert Frank on InequalityRobert Frank of Cornell University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about inequality. Is there a role for public policy in mitigating income inequality? Is such intervention justified or effective? The conversation delves into both the…2010-11-15
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836Don Boudreaux on China, Currency Manipulation, and Trade DeficitsDon Boudreaux of George Mason University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about Chinese exchange rate policy and the claim that China keeps the value of its currency artificially low in order to boost exports to the United States and r…2010-11-08
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837John Quiggin on Zombie EconomicsJohn Quiggin of Crooked Timber and the author of Zombie Economics talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about ideas in economics that should stay dead and buried. Quiggin argues that many economic theories such as the Great Moderation, the …2010-11-01
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838Thomas Hazlett on Apple vs. GoogleThomas Hazlett of George Mason University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the growing rivalry between Apple and Google. It is commonly argued that Apple with its closed platform and tight control from the top via Steve Jobs is m…2010-10-25
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839Matt Ridley on Trade, Growth, and the Rational OptimistMatt Ridley, author of The Rational Optimist, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about why he is optimistic about the future and how trade and specialization explain the evolution of human development over the millennia. Ridley argues th…2010-10-18
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840Douglas Irwin on the Great Depression and the Gold StandardDouglas Irwin of Dartmouth College talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the role the gold standard played in the Great Depression. Irwin argues that France systematically accumulated large amounts of gold in the late 1920s and 1930s,…2010-10-11
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841Bryan Caplan on ImmigrationBryan Caplan of George Mason University and EconLog blogger talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about immigration. Caplan takes on the common arguments against open borders and argues that they are either exaggerated or can be overcome wh…2010-10-04
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842Gary Greenberg on Depression, Addiction, and the BrainGary Greenberg, psychologist and author of The Noble Lie and Manufacturing Depression , talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the nature of addiction, depression and mental illness. Drawing on ideas in the two books, Greenberg argues …2010-09-27
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843Richard Epstein on RegulationRichard Epstein of New York University and Stanford University's Hoover Institution talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the current state of the economy, particularly the regulatory climate. Epstein argues the current level of regul…2010-09-20
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844Alain de Botton on the Pleasures and Sorrows of WorkAuthor Alain de Botton talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his latest book, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work. How has the nature of work changed with the increase in specialization? Why is the search for meaningful work a modern ph…2010-09-13
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845Arnold Kling on Knowledge, Power, and Unchecked and UnbalancedArnold Kling of EconLog and author of Unchecked and Unbalanced, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the book and the relationship between knowledge and power. In a modern economy, specialization has increased and knowledge is increa…2010-09-06
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846Daniel Pink on Drive, Motivation, and IncentivesDaniel Pink, author of Drive, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about drive, motivation, compensation, and incentives. Pink discusses the implications of using monetary rewards as compensation in business and in education. Much of the c…2010-08-30
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847Michael Munger on Private and Public Rent-Seeking (and Chilean Buses)Mike Munger of Duke University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about private and public rent-seeking. When firms compete for either private profit opportunities or government contracts, there are inevitably firms or people who spend r…2010-08-23
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848David Kennedy on the Great Depression and the New DealDavid Kennedy of Stanford University and the author of Freedom from Fear talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the Great Depression and its political and economic relevance. Kennedy talks about the economic policies of Hoover and Roos…2010-08-16
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849Robert Laughlin on the Future of Carbon and ClimateRobert Laughlin of Stanford University and the 1998 co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about energy use and the future of the earth's climate. Drawing on his forthcoming book on energy, Laughlin…2010-08-09
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850David Brady on the State of the ElectorateDavid Brady of Stanford University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the state of the electorate and what current and past political science have to say about the upcoming midterm elections. Drawing on his own survey work and that…2010-08-02
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851Robert Service on Leon TrotskyRobert Service of Stanford University's Hoover Institution and the University of Oxford talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the life and death of Leon Trotsky. Based on Service's biography of Trotsky, the conversation covers Trotsky…2010-07-26
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852John Taylor on the State of the EconomyJohn Taylor of Stanford University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the state of the economy. Is the economy recovering? What policies have helped and hurt? Taylor gives his views on both monetary and fiscal policy including the …2010-07-19
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853Paul Gregory on Politics, Murder, and Love in Stalin's KremlinPaul Gregory of the University of Houston and a Research Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about Nikolai Bukharin's power struggle with Stalin and Bukharin's romance with Anna Larina, w…2010-07-12
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854Arnold Kling on the Unseen World of Banking, Mortgages, and GovernmentArnold Kling of EconLog talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the weird world of banking. Why do mortgages look the way they do? What do banks contribute to economic activity? How does regulation and legislation change the structure o…2010-07-05
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855Bryan Caplan on Hayek, Richter, and SocialismBryan Caplan of George Mason University and blogger at EconLog talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about two books: Eugene Richter's Pictures of the Socialistic Future and F. A. Hayek's The Road to Serfdom. Both books warn against the dange…2010-06-28
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856Scott Sumner on Growth and Economic PolicyScott Sumner of Bentley University and the blog, The Money Illusion, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the last 30 years of economic policy and macroeconomic success and failure. Sumner argues that there was a neoliberalism revolu…2010-06-21
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857Johanna Blakley on Fashion and Intellectual PropertyJohanna Blakley of the University of Southern California talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the fashion industry and the role of intellectual property. In the fashion industry there is limited protection for innovative designs and …2010-06-14
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858Daniel Okrent on Prohibition and His Book, Last CallDaniel Okent, author of Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition, talks about the book with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. They discuss how the 18th Amendment banning the manufacture, sale, and transport of intoxicating beverages came to pa…2010-06-07
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859Louis Menand on PsychiatryLouis Menand of Harvard University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the state of psychiatry. Drawing on a recent article of his in the New Yorker, Menand talks about the state of knowledge in psychiatry and the scientific basis f…2010-05-31
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860Gary Belsky on Journalism, Editing, and TriviaGary Belsky, Editor-in-Chief at ESPN The Magazine, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his career path in journalism and the day-to-day life of editing a major American magazine. Belsky discusses some of the lessons of his early car…2010-05-24
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861Russ Roberts on the CrisisRuss Roberts, host of EconTalk, discusses his paper, "Gambling with Other People's Money: How Perverted Incentives Created the Financial Crisis." Roberts reflects on the past eighteen months of podcasts on the crisis, and then tur…2010-05-17
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862Ed Leamer on the State of EconometricsEd Leamer of UCLA talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the state of econometrics. He discusses his 1983 article, "Let's Take the 'Con' Out of Econometrics" and the recent interest in natural experiments as a way to improve …2010-05-10
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863Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Black Swans, Fragility, and MistakesNassim Taleb, author of The Black Swan and Fooled by Randomness, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his latest thoughts on robustness, fragility, debt, insurance, uncertainty, exercise, moral hazard, knowledge, and the challenges o…2010-05-03
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864Paul Romer on Charter CitiesPaul Romer of Stanford University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about charter cities, Romer's idea for helping the poorest of the poor around the world. Romer envisions a city where the rules about property and safety and contract a…2010-04-26
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865Michael Munger on Love, Money, Profits, and Non-profitsMike Munger of Duke University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the world of profit, money, love, gifts, and incentives. What motivates people, self-interest or altruism? Both obviously. But how do these forces interact with each…2010-04-19
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866Diane Ravitch on EducationDiane Ravitch of NYU talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in her new book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education. Ravitch argues that the two most popular e…2010-04-12
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867Yochai Benkler on Net Neutrality, Competition, and the Future of the InternetYochai Benkler of Harvard University talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about net neutrality, access to the internet, and innovation. Benkler argues in favor of net neutrality and government support of broadband access. He is skeptical of …2010-04-05
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868Arthur De Vany on Steroids, Baseball, and Evolutionary FitnessArthur De Vany, of the University of California, Irvine, and creator of Evolutionary Fitness, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about performance-enhancing drugs in baseball and Evolutionary Fitness, De Vany's ideas about diet and fitne…2010-03-29
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869Steve Meyer on the Music Industry and the InternetSteve Meyer, music industry veteran and publisher of the Disc and Dat Newsletter, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the evolution of the music industry and the impact of the digital revolution. After discussing his background and …2010-03-22
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870Don Boudreaux on Public ChoiceDon Boudreaux of George Mason University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about public choice: the application of economics to the political process. Boudreaux argues that political competition is a blunt instrument that works less eff…2010-03-15
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871Katherine Newman on Low-wage WorkersKatherine Newman, Professor of Sociology at Princeton University, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about Newman's case studies of fast-food workers in Harlem. Newman discusses the evolution of their careers and fortunes over time along…2010-03-08
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872Barry Ritholtz on Bailouts, the Fed, and the CrisisBarry Ritholtz, author of Bailout Nation: How Greed and Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World Economy, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the history of bailouts in recent times, beginning with Lockheed and Chrysler …2010-03-01
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873Garett Jones on Macro and TwitterGarett Jones of George Mason University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the art of communicating economics via puzzles and short provocative insights. They discuss Jones's Twitter strategy of posting quotes and short puzzles to …2010-02-22
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874Edmund Phelps on Unemployment and the State of MacroeonomicsNobel Laureate Edmund Phelps of Columbia University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the market for labor, unemployment, and the evolution of macroeconomics over the past century. The conversation begins with a discussion of Phel…2010-02-15
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875Russ Roberts on Smith, Ricardo, and TradeRuss Roberts, host of EconTalk, does a monologue this week on the economics of trade and specialization. Economists have focused on David Ricardo's idea of comparative advantage as the source of specialization and wealth creation from trade…2010-02-08
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876Larry White on Hayek and MoneyLarry White of George Mason University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about Hayek's ideas on the business cycle and money. White lays out Hayek's view of business cycles and the role of monetary policy in creating a boom and bust cyc…2010-02-01
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877Michael Spence on GrowthNobel Laureate Michael Spence of Stanford University's Hoover Institution and the Commission on Growth and Development talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the determinants of economic growth. Spence discusses the findings of the Com…2010-01-25
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878Michael Munger on Many ThingsMike Munger of Duke University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about many things. Listeners sent in questions for Mike and Russ to talk about and they chose ten of the most interesting questions with the idea of talking about each for…2010-01-18
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879Michael Belongia on the FedMichael Belongia of the University of Mississippi and former economist at the St. Louis Federal Reserve talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the inner workings, politics, and economics of the Federal Reserve. Belongia talks about the…2010-01-11
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880Thomas Rustici on Smoot-Hawley and the Great DepressionThomas Rustici of George Mason University and author of Lessons from the Great Depression talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the impact of the Smoot-Hawley Act on the economy. The standard view is that the decrease in trade that fo…2010-01-04
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881Clifford Winston on Market Failure and Government FailureClifford Winston of the Brookings Institution talks about the ideas in his book, Market Failure vs. Government Failure, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Winston summarizes a large literature on antitrust, safety regulation and environmental…2009-12-28
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882James Hamilton on Debt, Default, and OilJames Hamilton of the University of California, San Diego, and blogger at EconBrowser talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the rising levels of the national debt and the growing Federal budget deficit. What is the possibility of an a…2009-12-21
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883Arnold Kling on Prosperity, Poverty, and Economics 2.0Arnold Kling of EconLog and the author (with Nick Schulz) of From Poverty to Prosperity: Intangible Assets, Hidden Liabilities and the Lasting Triumph over Scarcity talks about the book with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Kling discusses how m…2009-12-14
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884Megan McArdle on Debt and Self-RestraintMegan McArdle, who writes the blog Asymmetrical Information at The Atlantic, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about debt and the challenge of self-restraint. She discusses her recent Atlantic article on her experience at a Dave Ramsey …2009-12-07
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885Peter Boettke on Elinor Ostrom, Vincent Ostrom, and the Bloomington SchoolPeter Boettke of George Mason University and author of Challenging Institutional Analysis and Development: The Bloomington School (co-authored with Paul Dragos Aligica), talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the Bloomington School--th…2009-11-30
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886Carmen Reinhart on Financial CrisesCarmen Reinhart of the University of Maryland talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in her book This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly (co-authored with Kenneth Rogoff). They discuss the role of capital i…2009-11-23
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887Richard Posner on the Financial CrisisRichard Posner, federal judge and prolific author, discusses the financial crisis with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Posner (despite the title of his recent book on the crisis, A Failure of Capitalism) places most of the blame for the crisis …2009-11-16
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888Scott Sumner on Monetary PolicyScott Sumner of Bentley University and the blog The Money Illusion talks with host Russ Roberts about monetary policy and the state of the economy. Sumner argues that tight money in late 2008 precipitated the recession. He argues that the s…2009-11-09
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889Michael Heller on Gridlock and the Tragedy of the AnticommonsMichael Heller of Columbia Law School and author of The Gridlock Economy talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the book and the idea that fragmented ownership is a barrier to innovation. Heller makes an analogy between the tragedy of th…2009-11-02
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890Charles Calomiris on the Financial CrisisCharles Calomiris of Columbia Business School talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the financial crisis. Calomiris argues that it is important to put the crisis in historical perspective in the context of other bank crises. He argues…2009-10-26
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891Munger on Shortages, Prices, and CompetitionMike Munger of Duke University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the limits of prices and markets, especially in the area of health. They talk about vaccines, organ transplants, the ethics of triage and what role price should play…2009-10-19
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892Daniel Willingham on Education, School, and NeuroscienceDaniel Willingham of the University of Virginia and author of the book Why Don't Students Like School? talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about how the brain works and the implications for teaching, learning, and educational policy. Topi…2009-10-12
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893Gary Stern on Too Big to FailGary Stern, former President of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about Stern's book, Too Big To Fail (co-authored with Ron Feldman), a prescient warning of the moral hazard created when government …2009-10-05
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894Willaim Cohan on the Life and Death of Bear StearnsWilliam Cohan, author of House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Steet, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the life and death of Bear Stearns. The discussion starts with how Bear Stearns and other Wall Street f…2009-09-28
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895Paul Buchheit on Google, Friendfeed, and Start-upsPaul Buchheit, developer of Gmail and founder of FriendFeed, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the evolution of the Gmail project, how innovation works and doesn't work in a large corporation, how Google has changed as it has grow…2009-09-21
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896John Nye on the Great Depression, Political Economy, and the Evolution of the StateJohn Nye of George Mason University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the Great Depression, the evolution of the State, and attitudes people have toward free markets. Nye argues that support for modern capitalism is fragile becaus…2009-09-14
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897Tyler Cowen on Culture, Autism, and Creating Your Own EconomyTyler Cowen of George Mason University and author of Create Your Own Economy talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in his recent book. The conversation ranges across a wide array of topics related to information, the arts, a…2009-09-07
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898Michael Munger on Cultural NormsMichael Munger of Duke University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about cultural norms--the subtle signals we send to each other in our daily interactions. Mike, having returned from a four-month stint as a visiting professor in Germa…2009-08-31
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899David Brady on Health Care Reform, Public Opinion, and Party PoliticsDavid Brady of Stanford University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about American public opinion on changing the health care system. Brady discusses the impact of taxation on public opinion toward health care reform--if the poll inclu…2009-08-24
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900Christopher Hitchens on George OrwellChristopher Hitchens talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about George Orwell. Drawing on his book Why Orwell Matters, Hitchens talks about Orwell's opposition to imperialism, fascism, and Stalinism, his moral courage, and his devotion to …2009-08-17
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901Eric Hanushek on Test-based Accountability, Federal Funding, and School FinanceEric Hanushek of Stanford University's Hoover Institution talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the current state of education and education policy. Hanushek summarizes the impact of No Child Left Behind and the current state of the c…2009-08-10
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902Paul Graham on Start-ups, Innovation, and CreativityPaul Graham, essayist, programmer and partner in the y-combinator talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about start-ups, innovation, and creativity. Graham draws on his experience as entrepreneur and investor to discuss the current state of…2009-08-03
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903Peter Henry on Growth, Development, and PolicyPeter Blair Henry of Stanford University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about economic development. Henry compares and contrasts the policy and growth experience of Barbados and Jamaica. Both became independent of England in the 1960…2009-07-27
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904John Taylor on the Financial CrisisJohn Taylor of Stanford University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the fundamental causes of the financial crisis of 2008. Taylor argues that the housing bubble of the early 2000s was caused by excessively loose monetary policy,…2009-07-20
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905Justin Fox on the Rationality of MarketsJustin Fox, author of The Myth of the Rational Market, talks about the ideas in his book with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Fox traces the history of the application of math and economics to finance, particularly to the question of how market…2009-07-13
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906Paul Collier on Democracy and ViolencePaul Collier of Oxford University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in his new book, Wars, Guns, and Votes, a study of democracy and violence. Collier lays out the incentives facing a dictator who is considering the sedu…2009-07-06
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907Mark Helprin on CopyrightNovelist Mark Helprin talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about copyright and the ideas in his book, Digital Barbarism. Helprin argues for an extension rather than a reduction in the length of time that authors have control over their wor…2009-06-29
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908Michael Munger on Franchising, Vertical Integration, and the Auto IndustryMichael Munger, of Duke University, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about franchising, particularly car dealerships. Munger highlights how the dealers used state regulations to protect their profits and how bankruptcy appears to be un…2009-06-22
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909Charles Platt on Working at Wal-MartCharles Platt, author and journalist, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts what it was like to apply for a job at Wal-Mart, get one, and work there. He discusses the hiring process, the training process, and the degree of autonomy Wal-Mart…2009-06-15
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910Riccardo Rebonato on Risk Management and the CrisisRiccardo Rebonato of the Royal Bank of Scotland and author of Plight of the Fortune Tellers talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the challenges of measuring risk and making decisions and creating regulation in the face of risk and un…2009-06-08
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911Richard Epstein on the Rule of LawRichard Epstein of the University of Chicago and Stanford University's Hoover Institution talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the rule of law. Epstein lays out a minimalist definition and a more expansive definition when considering…2009-06-01
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912Dan Klein on The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Episode 6--A Discussion of Parts VI and VII, and SummaryThis is the sixth and concluding podcast in the EconTalk Book Club discussion of The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith. In this episode, Dan Klein of George Mason University and EconTalk host Russ Roberts discuss Parts VI and VII of …2009-05-27
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913Peter Leeson on Pirates and the Invisible HookPeter Leeson of George Mason University and author of The Invisible Hook talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the economics of 18th century pirates and what we can learn from their behavior. Leeson argues that pirates pioneered a num…2009-05-25
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914Michele Boldrin on Intellectual PropertyMichele Boldrin of Washington University in St. Louis talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about intellectual property and Boldrin's book, co-written with David Levine, Against Intellectual Monopoly. Boldrin argues that copyright and paten…2009-05-18
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915Dan Klein on The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Episode 5--A Discussion of Parts III (cont.), IV, and VThis is the fifth podcast in the EconTalk Book Club discussion of The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith. In this episode, Dan Klein of George Mason University and EconTalk host Russ Roberts finish discussing Part III, and discuss Par…2009-05-13
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916Alan Wolfe on LiberalismAlan Wolfe, Professor of Political Science at Boston College and author of The Future of Liberalism, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about liberalism. Wolfe argues that the essence of liberalism is giving as many people as possible co…2009-05-11
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917Ed Leamer on Macroeconomic Patterns and StoriesEd Leamer, of UCLA and author of Macroeconomic Patterns and Stories, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about how we should use patterns in macroeconomic data and stories about those patterns to improve our understanding of the economy. …2009-05-04
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918Dan Klein on The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Episode 4--A Discussion of Part IIIThis is the fourth podcast in the EconTalk Book Club discussion of The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith. In this episode, Dan Klein of George Mason University and EconTalk host Russ Roberts discuss Part III of the book.2009-04-29
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919Ricardo Reis on Keynes, Macroeconomics, and Monetary PolicyRicardo Reis of Columbia University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about Keynesian economics in the classroom and in research. Reis argues that Keynesian models are a useful framework for helping undergraduates understand macroeconom…2009-04-27
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920Dan Klein on The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Episode 3--A Discussion of Part IIThis is the third podcast in the EconTalk Book Club discussion of The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith. In this episode, Dan Klein of George Mason University and EconTalk host Russ Roberts discuss Part II of the book.2009-04-22
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921Russ Roberts on Wealth, Growth, and Economics as a ScienceEconTalk host Russ Roberts talks with reporter Robert Pollie about the basics of wealth and growth. What happens when the stock market goes down or the price of housing? When wealth goes down, where does the wealth go? How do these changes …2009-04-20
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922Dan Klein on The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Episode 2--A Discussion of Part IThis is the second podcast in the EconTalk Book Club discussion of The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith. In this episode, Dan Klein of George Mason University and EconTalk host Russ Roberts discuss Part I of the book.2009-04-15
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923Don Boudreaux on Macroeconomics and Austrian Business Cycle TheoryDon Boudreaux, of George Mason University, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the microfoundations of macroeconomics and the Austrian theory of business cycles. Boudreaux draws on Erik Lindahl's distinction between microeconomics a…2009-04-13
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924Dan Klein on The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Episode 1--An OverviewDan Klein, of George Mason University, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about Adam Smith's lesser-known masterpiece, The Theory of Moral Sentiments. Klein highlights key passages and concepts of the book including its relation to The W…2009-04-06
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925Brink Lindsey on the Age of AbundanceBrink Lindsey, of the Cato Institute and author of The Age of Abundance: How Prosperity Transformed America's Politics and Culture, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the interaction between culture and politics and prosperity. Lin…2009-03-30
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926Nassim Nicholas Taleb on the Financial CrisisNassim Taleb talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the financial crisis, how we misunderstand rare events, the fragility of the banking system, the moral hazard of government bailouts, the unprecedented nature of really, really bad ev…2009-03-23
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927Dan Klein on Truth, Bias, and DisagreementDan Klein, of George Mason University, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts on truth in economics, bias, and groupthink in academic life. Along the way they discuss the Food and Drug Administration (and the drug approval process), the cult…2009-03-16
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928Jimmy Wales on WikipediaJimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the birth and growth of Wikipedia. He talks about the role of Hayek's insights into the design of Wikipedia, how Wikipedia deals with controversy, the reliabilit…2009-03-09
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929Todd Zywicki on Debt and BankruptcyTodd Zywicki, of George Mason University Law School, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the evolving world of consumer debt and how institutions and public policy have influenced consumer access to debt and credit. Zywicki defends …2009-03-02
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930Allan Meltzer on InflationAllan Meltzer, of Carnegie Mellon University, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the current state of monetary policy and the potential for inflation. Meltzer explains why inflation hasn't happened yet, despite massive increases in…2009-02-23
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931Amar Bhide on Outsourcing, Uncertainty, and the Venturesome EconomyAmar Bhide, of Columbia University and author of The Venturesome Economy, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the role of entrepreneurship and innovation in a global economy. Bhide argues that the worries about outsourcing and Ameri…2009-02-16
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932Daron Acemoglu on the Financial CrisisDaron Acemoglu, of MIT, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the financial crisis and the lessons that need to be learned from the crisis. He argues that economists overestimated the stability of self-interest and ignored the institu…2009-02-09
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933John Cochrane on the Financial CrisisJohn Cochrane, of the University of Chicago, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the financial crisis. He talks about the origins of the crisis, why the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP) was flawed from the beginning, why mark-t…2009-02-02
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934Russ Roberts (and Robin Hanson) on Truth and EconomicsEconTalk host Russ Roberts talks about the role of empirical evidence and bias in economics and why economists disagree. Roberts talks about how his interviews with various economists at EconTalk have forced him to reassess the role of empi…2009-01-26
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935Eric Raymond on Hacking, Open Source, and the Cathedral and the BazaarEric Raymond, author of The Cathedral and the Bazaar, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in the book--why open source software development has been so successful, the culture of open source, under what conditions open sou…2009-01-19
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936Steve Fazzari on Keynesian EconomicsSteve Fazzari, of Washington University in St. Louis, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about Keynesian economics. Fazzari talks about the paradox of thrift, makes the case for a government stimulus plan, and weighs the empirical eviden…2009-01-12
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937Peter Boettke on the Austrian Perspective on Business Cycles and Monetary PolicyPeter Boettke, of George Mason University, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the Austrian perspective on business cycles, monetary policy and the current state of the economy.2009-01-05
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938George Srour on Education, African Schools, and Building TomorrowGeorge Srour, founder of Building Tomorrow, a non-profit that builds schools in Uganda, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his experience starting, funding, and running an organization that tries to change the world one school at a…2008-12-22
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939Robert Higgs on the Great DepressionRobert Higgs, of the Independent Institute, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the Great Depression, the New Deal, and the effect of World War II on the American economy. Using survey results, financial data, and the pattern of inv…2008-12-15
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940Steven Lipstein on HospitalsSteven Lipstein, President and CEO of BJC HealthCare--a $3 billion hospital system in St. Louis, Missouri--talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the economics of hospitals. They discuss pricing, the advantages and disadvantages of spe…2008-12-08
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941Eric Rauchway on the Great Depresson and the New DealEric Rauchway of the University of California at Davis and the author of The Great Depression and the New Deal: A Very Short Introduction , talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the 1920s and the lead-up to the Great Depression, Hoove…2008-12-01
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942Thomas Hazlett on TelecommunicationsThomas Hazlett of George Mason University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about a number of key issues in telecommunications and telecommunication policy including net neutrality, FCC policy, and the state of antitrust. Hazlett argues…2008-11-24
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943George Selgin on Free BankingGeorge Selgin of West Virginia University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about free banking, where government treats banks as no different from other firms in the economy. Rather than rely on government guarantees to protect deposito…2008-11-17
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944Arnold Kling on Credit Default Swaps, Counterparty Risk, and the Political Economy of Financial RegulationArnold Kling of EconLog talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the role of credit default swaps and counterparty risks in the current financial mess. The conversation opens with the logistics of credit default swaps and counterparty ri…2008-11-10
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945Richard Epstein on Happiness, Inequality, and EnvyRichard Epstein of the University of Chicago talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the relationship between happiness and wealth, the effects of inequality on happiness, and the economics of envy and altruism. He also applies the theo…2008-11-03
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946Michael Munger on MiddlemenMike Munger of Duke University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the often-vilified middleman--someone who buys cheap, sells dear and does nothing to improve the product. Munger explains the economic function of arbitrage using a …2008-10-27
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947Clay Shirky on Coase, Collaboration and Here Comes EverybodyClay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations, talks about the economics of organizations with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. The conversation centers on Shirky's book. Topics include Coase on the t…2008-10-20
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948Patri Friedman on SeasteadingPatri Friedman, Executive Director of the Seasteading Institute, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about seasteading, the creation of autonomous ocean communities as an alternative to existing political and cultural forms. Topics discus…2008-10-13
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949William Bernstein on InequalityWilliam Bernstein, author of A Splendid Exchange , talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about inequality. Bernstein is worried about it; Roberts is not. Bernstein argues that inequality is damaging to the health of low-status people and hu…2008-10-06
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950Arnold Kling on Freddie and Fannie and the Recent History of the U.S. Housing MarketArnold Kling of EconLog talks with host Russ Roberts about the economics of the housing market with a focus on the role of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The conversation closes with a postscript on the current financial crisis.2008-09-29
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951Karol Boudreaux on Wildlife, Property, and Poverty in AfricaKarol Boudreaux, Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about wildlife management in Africa. Their conversation focuses on community-based wildlife management in Namib…2008-09-22
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952Robert Shiller on Housing and BubblesRobert Shiller of Yale University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the current housing mess and related financial market problems. Shiller argues that the decade-long run up in housing prices was a bubble where speculative fervor…2008-09-15
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953Joseph Ellis on American Creation and the FoundingJoseph Ellis, of Mt. Holyoke College and author of American Creation , talks about the triumphs and tragedies of the founding of the United States. His goal in the book and in this podcast is to tell a story for grownups rather than for chi…2008-09-08
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954Jonathan Rauch on the Volt, Risk, and Corporate CultureJonathan Rauch, of the Brookings Institution and the Atlantic Monthly, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the evolution of the Chevy Volt, GM's planned electric car. Due to the transparency of GM's effort, Rauch was able to spend a…2008-09-01
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955Russ Roberts on the Price of EverythingRuss Roberts, host of EconTalk and author of the economics novel, The Price of Everything, talks with guest host Arnold Kling about the ideas in The Price of Everything: price gouging, the role of prices in the aftermath of natural disaster…2008-08-25
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956John Taylor on Monetary PolicyJohn Taylor of Stanford University talks about the Taylor Rule, his description of what the Fed ought to do and what it sometimes actually does, to keep inflation in check and the economy on a steady path. He argues that when the Fed has de…2008-08-18
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957Bruce Bueno de Mesquita on Iran and Threats to U.S. SecurityBruce Bueno de Mesquita of Stanford University's Hoover Institution and New York University talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about threats to U.S. security, particularly Iran. Bueno de Mesquita argues that Iran is of little danger to the…2008-08-11
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958Robert Barro on DisastersRobert Barro of Harvard University and Stanford University's Hoover Institution talks about disasters--significant national and international catastrophes such as the Great Depression, war, and the flu epidemic in the early part of the 20th…2008-08-04
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959Hal Varian on TechnologyHal Varian, Google's Chief Economist and University of California at Berkeley professor, talks with Russ Roberts about Google, the role of technology in our everyday lives, the unintended paths of innovation, and the value of economics.2008-07-28
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960Doug Rivers on PollingDoug Rivers of Stanford University and YouGov.com talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the world of political polling. Rivers explains why publicly provided margins of error overstate the reliability of most polls and why it's gettin…2008-07-21
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961Eric Hanushek on Education and School FinanceEric Hanushek of Stanford University's Hoover Institution talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the strange evolution of school finance in the last four decades. In particular, the courts have played an important role in recent years …2008-07-14
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962Michael Munger on the Political Economy of Public TransportationMichael Munger of Duke University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about Munger's recent trip to Chile and the changes Chile has made to Santiago's bus system. What was once a private decentralized system with differing levels of quali…2008-07-07
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963Arnold Kling on Hospitals and Health CareArnold Kling of EconLog talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the death of his father and the lessons to be learned for how hospitals treat patients and our health care system treats hospitals.2008-06-30
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964Richard McKenzie on PricesRichard McKenzie of the University California, Irvine and the author of Why Popcorn Costs So Much at the Movies and Other Pricing Puzzles, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about a wide range of pricing puzzles. They discuss why Souther…2008-06-23
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965Don Boudreaux on Energy PricesDon Boudreaux of George Mason University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the recent surge in energy prices. They talk about why prices have risen, the implications for America's standard of living and the implications for public…2008-06-16
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966Steve Cole on the Market for New CarsSteve Cole, the Sales Manager at Ourisman Honda of Laurel in Laurel, Maryland talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the strange world of new car pricing. They talk about dealer markup, the role of information and the internet in bring…2008-06-09
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967Gene Epstein on Gold, the Fed, and MoneyGene Epstein, Barron's economics editor, talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the virtues of the gold standard relative to fiat money. Epstein argues that privately issued money, backed by gold, would lead to an economy with much great…2008-06-02
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968Robin Hanson on SignallingRobin Hanson of George Mason University talks about the phenomenon of signalling--the ways people spend resources to convey information about ourselves to others. It begins with Hanson revisiting his theory from an earlier podcast that we s…2008-05-26
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969Allan Meltzer on the Fed, Money, and GoldAllan Meltzer of Carnegie Mellon University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about what the Fed really does and the political pressures facing the Chair of the Fed. He describes and analyzes some fascinating episodes in U.S. monetary h…2008-05-19
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970Chris Anderson on FreeChris Anderson talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his next book project based on the idea that many delightful things in the world are increasingly free--internet-based email with infinite storage, on-line encyclopedias and even po…2008-05-12
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971John Nye on Wine, War and TradeJohn Nye of George Mason University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his book, War, Wine, and Taxes. The conversation covers the history of Britain and France's trade policy, why the British drink beer and why Ricardo's example o…2008-05-05
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972William Bernstein on the History of TradeWilliam Bernstein talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the history of trade. Drawing on the insights from his recent book, A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World , Bernstein talks about the magic of spices, how trade in suga…2008-04-28
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973Russ Roberts on the Least Pleasant JobsEconTalk host Russ Roberts talks about the claim that for capitalism to succeed there have to be people at the bottom to do the unpleasant tasks and that the rich thrive because of the suffering of those at the bottom. He critiques the idea…2008-04-21
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974Diane Coyle on the Soulful ScienceDiane Coyle talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in her new book, The Soulful Science: What Economists Really Do and Why it Matters. The discussions starts with the issue of growth--measurement issues and what economists ha…2008-04-14
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975Christopher Coyne on Exporting Democracy after WarChristopher Coyne of West Virginia University and George Mason University's Mercatus Center talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his book, After War: The Political Economy of Exporting Democracy. They talk about the successes and fai…2008-04-07
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976Deirdre McCloskey on Capitalism and the Bourgeois VirtuesDeirdre McCloskey of the University of Illinois at Chicago and the author of The Bourgeois Virtues talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about capitalism and whether markets make people more ethical or less. They also discuss Adam Smith's w…2008-03-31
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977Michael Munger on Subsidies and ExternalitiesMike Munger of Duke University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the economics of subsidies. What is the economic argument for subsidies? What is the history of the economic argument and what is its relevance today? Munger draws o…2008-03-24
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978Tyler Cowen on Monetary PolicyTyler Cowen of George Mason University and Marginal Revolution talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about money, inflation, the Federal Reserve and the gold standard. Cowen argues that alternatives to the current Federal Reserve system pro…2008-03-17
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979Stephen Marglin on Markets and CommunityStephen Marglin of Harvard University and author of The Dismal Science: How Thinking Like an Economist Undermines Community talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the markets and community. Marglin argues that markets and commercial tr…2008-03-10
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980Vernon Smith on Rationality in EconomicsNobel Laureate Vernon Smith of Chapman University and George Mason University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in his new book, Rationality in Economics: Constructivist and Ecological Forms. They discuss the social and …2008-03-03
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981Thomas Sowell on Economic Facts and FallaciesThomas Sowell of Stanford University's Hoover Institution talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in his new book, Economic Facts and Fallacies . He discusses the misleading nature of measured income inequality, CEO pay, why n…2008-02-25
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982Timothy Brook on Vermeer's Hat and the Dawn of Global TradeTimothy Brook, professor of history at the University of British Columbia and author of Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the expansion of global trade betwe…2008-02-20
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983William Easterly on Growth, Poverty, and AidWilliam Easterly of NYU talks about why some nations escape poverty while others do not, why aid almost always fails to create growth, and what can realistically be done to help the poorest people in the world.2008-02-11
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984Dan Klein on Coordination and CooperationDan Klein of George Mason University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the marvel of economic coordination that takes place without a coordinator--the sequence of complex tasks done by individuals often separated by immense distan…2008-02-04
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985Paul Collier on the Bottom BillionPaul Collier of Oxford University talks about the ideas in his recent book, The Bottom Billion, an analysis of why the poorest countries in the world fail to grow. He talks about conflict, natural resources, being landlocked, and bad govern…2008-01-28
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986Don Boudreaux on Globalization and Trade DeficitsDon Boudreaux, of George Mason University, talks about the ideas in his book, Globalization. He discusses comparative advantage, the winners and losers from trade, trade deficits, and inequality with EconTalk host Russ Roberts.2008-01-21
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987Michael Munger on the Nature of the FirmMike Munger, of Duke University, talks about why firms exist. If prices and markets work so well (and they do) in steering economic resources, then why does so much economic activity take place within organizations that use command-and-cont…2008-01-14
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988Edward Castronova on the Exodus to the Virtual WorldEdward Castronova, of Indiana University and author of Exodus to the Virtual World, talks about his provocative thesis that a growing number of people around the world will be spending more and more time playing multiplayer games in virtual…2008-01-07
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989William Duggan on Strategic IntuitionWilliam Duggan, professor of management at Columbia Business School at Columbia University, talks about his latest book, Strategic Intuition. Duggan critiques traditional methods of strategy and planning and suggests that the opportunism an…2007-12-24
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990Karol Boudreaux on Property Rights and Incentives in AfricaKarol Boudreaux, Senior Research Fellow at George Mason University's Mercatus Center, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about her field work and research in Rwanda and South Africa. In Rwanda, she studied how a change in incentives and …2007-12-17
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991Peter Boettke on Austrian EconomicsPete Boettke, of George Mason University, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the origins and tenets of Austrian economics. This is a wonderful introduction to how the so-called Austrian economists look at the world and how they con…2007-12-10
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992Michael Munger on Fair Trade and Free TradeMike Munger, frequent guest and longtime Econlib contributor, speaks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about fair trade coffee and free trade agreements. Does the premium for fair trade coffee end up in the hands of the grower? What economic …2007-12-03
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993Daniel Botkin on Nature, the Environment and Global WarmingDaniel Botkin, ecologist and author, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about how we think about our role as humans in the natural world, the dynamic nature of environmental reality and the implications for how we react to global warming…2007-11-26
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994Cass Sunstein on Worst-case ScenariosCass Sunstein of the University of Chicago talks about the ideas in his latest book, Worst-Case Scenarios. How should individuals and societies cope with low-probability events with potentially catastrophic consequences? In this conversatio…2007-11-19
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995Henry Aaron on Health Care CostsIn this bonus middle-of-the-week podcast, Henry Aaron of the Brookings Institution talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about health care costs. Researchers in a New England Journal of Medicine article have estimated that the US could save…2007-11-15
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996Joel Waldfogel on Markets, Choice, and the Tyranny of the MarketJoel Waldfogel of the Wharton School of Business talks about the idea in his new book, The Tyranny of Markets: Why You Can't Always Get What You Want. He argues that when fixed costs are large, markets don't necessarily give people what the…2007-11-12
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997Arnold Kling on the Economics of Health Care and the Crisis of AbundanceArnold Kling of EconLog talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the economics of health care and his book, A Crisis of Abundance: Rethinking How We Pay for Health Care. Kling discusses whether we get what we pay for when we spend money …2007-11-05
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998Bruce Yandle on the Tragedy of the Commons and the Implications for Environmental RegulationBruce Yandle of Clemson University and George Mason University's Mercatus Center looks at the tragedy of the commons and the various ways that people have avoided the overuse of resources that are held in common. Examples discussed include …2007-10-29
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999Ian Ayres on Super Crunchers and the Power of DataIan Ayres of Yale University Law School talks about the ideas in his new book, Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart. Ayres argues for the power of data and analysis over more traditional decision-making method…2007-10-22
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1000Robert Frank on Economics Education and the Economic NaturalistAuthor Robert Frank of Cornell University talks about economic education and his recent book, The Economic Naturalist. Frank argues that the traditional way of teaching economics via graphs and equations often fails to make any impression o…2007-10-15
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1001Thomas McCraw on Schumpeter, Innovation, and Creative DestructionThomas McCraw of Harvard University talks about the ideas of Joseph Schumpeter from his book, Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction. McCraw and EconTalk host Russ Roberts discuss innovation, business strategy, th…2007-10-08
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1002Don Boudreaux on Market Failure, Government Failure and the Economics of Antitrust RegulationDon Boudreaux of George Mason University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about when market failure can be improved by government intervention. After discussing the evolution of economic thinking about externalities and public goods, t…2007-10-01
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1003Grab Bag: Mike Munger and Russ Roberts on Recycling, Peak Oil and SteroidsMike Munger, of Duke University, and EconTalk host Russ Roberts clean up some loose ends from their previous conversation on recycling, move on to talk about the idea of buying local to reduce one's carbon footprint and then talk about the …2007-09-24
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1004Richard Epstein on Property Rights, Zoning and KeloRichard Epstein, of the University of Chicago and Stanford's Hoover Institution, makes the case that many current zoning restrictions are essentially "takings" and property owners should receive compensation for the lost value of …2007-09-17
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1005Tyler Cowen on Your Inner EconomistTyler Cowen, of George Mason University, talks about his new book, Discover Your Inner Economist: Use Incentives to Fall in Love, Survive Your Next Meeting, and Motivate Your Dentist. Cowen, legendary blogger at MarginalRevolution.com, talk…2007-09-10
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1006George Shultz on Economics, Human Rights and the Fall of the Soviet UnionGeorge Shultz, the Thomas W. and Susan B. Ford Distinguished Fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution and Secretary of State under Ronald Reagan, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the role of economics in his career, the tension be…2007-09-03
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1007Paul Romer on GrowthPaul Romer, Stanford University professor and Hoover Institution Senior Fellow talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about growth, China, innovation, and the role of human capital. Also discussed are ideas in creating growth, the idea that …2007-08-27
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1008Deborah Gordon on Ants, Humans, the Division of Labor and Emergent OrderDeborah M. Gordon, Professor of Biological Sciences at Stanford University, is an authority on ants and order that emerges without control or centralized authority. The conversation begins with what might be called the economics of ant colo…2007-08-21
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1009Barry Weingast on Violence, Power and a Theory of Nearly EverythingBarry Weingast, Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and the Ward C. Krebs Family Professor in the Department of Political Science at Stanford University, talks about the ideas in his forthcoming book with Doug North an…2007-08-13
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1010Eric Hanushek on Educational Quality and Economic GrowthEric Hanushek, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, talks about his research on the impact of educational quality on economic growth. Past efforts to increase the economic growth rate of poor countries have focused on years of schooling…2007-08-06
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1011David Henderson on Disagreeable EconomistsDavid Henderson, editor of the Concise Encyclopedia of Economics and a research fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about when and why economists disagree. Harry Truman longed for a one-armed econo…2007-07-30
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1012Bruce Bueno de Mesquita on Reagan, Yeltsin, and the Strategy of Political CampaigningBruce Bueno de Mesquita, NYU and the Hoover Institute, talks about the political economy of political campaigns and his forthcoming book, The Strategy of Campaigning: Lessons from Ronald Reagan and Boris Yeltsin. He talks with EconTalk host…2007-07-23
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1013Russ Roberts on Ticket Prices and ScalpingEconTalk host Russ Roberts talks about scalping and visits AT&T Park hours before Major League Baseball's All-Star Game to talk with a scalper, a merchandiser, a fan, and the police about prices, tickets, baseball and the law.2007-07-16
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1014Ed Leamer on Outsourcing and GlobalizationIs outsourcing good for America? How does foreign competition affect wages in the United States? Ed Leamer, professor of economics at UCLA, talks about the effects of outsourcing on wages, jobs, and the U.S. standard of living. Drawing on a…2007-07-09
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1015Michael Munger on RecyclingMike Munger, professor of economics and political science at Duke University and frequent guest of EconTalk, talks with host Russ Roberts about the economics and politics of recycling. Munger argues that recycling can save resources, of cou…2007-07-02
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1016Bryan Caplan on the Myth of the Rational VoterBryan Caplan, of George Mason University and blogger at EconLog, talks about his book, The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies. Caplan argues that democracies work well in giving voters what they want but unfortu…2007-06-25
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1017David Weinberger on Everything is Miscellaneous and the Wonderful World of Digital InformationAuthor David Weinberger, a fellow at Harvard's Berkman Institute for Internet and Society, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in his latest book, Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder. Topics …2007-06-18
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1018Dan Pink on How Half Your Brain Can Save Your JobAuthor Dan Pink, talks about the ideas in his book, A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future. He argues that the skills of the right side of the brain--skills such as creativity, empathy, contextual thinking and big picture…2007-06-11
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1019Amity Shlaes on the Great DepressionAmity Shlaes, Bloomberg columnist and visiting senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, talks about her new book, The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression. She and EconTalk host Russ Roberts discuss Herbert Hoover,…2007-06-04
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1020Robin Hanson on HealthRobin Hanson, of George Mason University, argues that health care is different, but not in the usual ways people claim. He describes a set of paradoxical empirical findings in the study of health care and tries to explain these paradoxes in…2007-05-28
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1021Vernon Smith on Markets and Experimental EconomicsVernon Smith, Professor of Economics at George Mason University and the 2002 Nobel Laureate in Economics, talks about experimental economics, markets, risk, behavioral economics and the evolution of his career.2007-05-21
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1022Cass Sunstein on Infotopia, Information and Decision-MakingCass Sunstein of the University of Chicago talks about the ideas in his latest book, Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge. What are the best ways to get the information needed to make wise decisions when that information is spread ou…2007-05-14
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1023John Allison on Strategy, Profits, and Self-InterestJohn Allison, CEO of BB and T Bank, lays out his business philosophy arguing for the virtues of profits, self-interest and production. His definition of justice, one of the core values of his firm, is that those who produce more, get more. …2007-05-07
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1024Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Black SwansNassim Taleb talks about the challenges of coping with uncertainty, predicting events, and understanding history. This wide-ranging conversation looks at investment, health, history and other areas where data play a key role. Taleb, the aut…2007-04-30
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1025Alvin Rabushka on the Flat TaxAlvin Rabushka of Stanford University's Hoover Institution lays out the case for the flat tax, a reform of the current system that would replace the 66,000 page U.S. tax code with a single rate and no deductions other than personal exemptio…2007-04-23
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1026Don Boudreaux on the Economics of "Buy Local"Proponents of buying local argue that it is better to buy from the local hardware store owner and nearby farmer than from the Big Box chain store or the grocery store headquartered out of town because the money from the purchase is more lik…2007-04-16
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1027John Bogle on InvestingThe legendary John Bogle, founder of the Vanguard Group and creator of the index mutual fund, talks about the Great Depression, the riskiness of bond funds, how he created the Index 500 mutual fund--now the largest single mutual fund in the…2007-04-09
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1028Mike Munger on the Division of LaborMike Munger of Duke University and EconTalk host Russ Roberts talk about specialization, the role of technology in aiding specialization and how the division of labor creates wealth.2007-04-02
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1029Kevin Kelly on the Future of the Web and Everything ElseAuthor Kevin Kelly talks about the role of technology in our lives, the future of the web, how to time travel, the wisdom of the hive, the economics of reputation, the convergence of the biological and the mechanical, and his impact on the …2007-03-26
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1030David Leonhardt on the MediaDavid Leonhardt of the New York Times talks with Russ Roberts about media bias, competition between old and new media, global warming, and the role of information as an incentive to provide better health care.2007-03-19
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1031Tyler Cowen on Liberty, Art, Food and Everything Else in BetweenTyler Cowen, co-blogger (with Alex Tabarrok) at MarginalRevolution.com, talks about liberty, global warming, using the courts vs. regulation to protect people, the challenges of leading a country out of poverty, the political economy of cui…2007-03-12
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1032Gregg Easterbrook on the American Standard of LivingAuthor Gregg Easterbrook talks about the ideas in his latest book, The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse. How has life changed in America over the last century? Is the average person getting ahead or are the ric…2007-03-05
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1033Viviana Zelizer on Money and IntimacyViviana Zelizer, Princeton University sociologist, talks about the ideas in her new book, The Purchase of Intimacy. Does money ruin intimacy? Does intimacy ruin our commercial transactions? Zelizer and host Russ Roberts have a lively conver…2007-02-26
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1034Richard Epstein on Property Rights and Drug PatentsRichard Epstein of the University of Chicago and Stanford University's Hoover Institution talks about property rights, drug patents, the FDA, and the ideas in his latest book, Overdose: How Excessive Government Regulation Stifles Pharmaceut…2007-02-19
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1035Bruce Bueno de Mesquita on Democracies and DictatorshipsBruce Bueno de Mesquita of NYU and Stanford University's Hoover Institution talks about the incentives facing dictators and democratic leaders. Both have to face competition from rivals. Both try to please their constituents and cronies to …2007-02-12
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1036Bob Lucas on Growth, Poverty and Business CyclesBob Lucas, Nobel Laureate and professor of economics at the University of Chicago talks about wealth and poverty, what affects living standards around the world and over time, the causes of business cycles and the role of the money in our e…2007-02-05
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1037Michael Lewis on the Hidden Economics of Baseball and FootballMichael Lewis talks about the economics of sports--the financial and decision-making side of baseball and football--using the insights from his bestselling books on baseball and football: Moneyball and The Blind Side. Along the way he discu…2007-01-29
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1038Greg Mankiw on Gasoline Taxes, Keynes and MacroeconomicsGreg Mankiw of Harvard University and Greg Mankiw's Blog talks about the state of modern macroeconomics and Keynes vs. the Chicago School. He defends his proposal to raise gasoline taxes and discusses the politics of tax policy.2007-01-22
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1039Bruce Yandle on Bootleggers and BaptistsBruce Yandle of Clemson University explains why politics makes such strange bedfellows and the often peculiar alliance of self-interested special interests with more altruistic motives. He uses his insights to explain some of the seemingly …2007-01-15
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1040Michael Munger on Price GougingMike Munger of Duke University recounts the harrowing (and fascinating) experience of being in the path of a hurricane and the economic forces that were set in motion as a result. One of the most important is the import of urgent supplies w…2007-01-08
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1041Peter Boettke on Katrina and the Economics of DisasterPete Boettke of George Mason University talks about the role of government and voluntary efforts in relieving suffering during and after a crisis such as Katrina. Drawing on field research he is directing into the aftermath of Hurricane Kat…2006-12-18
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1042Don Boudreaux on Law and LegislationDon Boudreaux of George Mason University talks about the fundamental principles of economics and civilization: spontaneous order and law. Drawing on volume one of Friedrich Hayek's classic, Law, Legislation and Liberty, Boudreaux talks abou…2006-12-11
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1043Bryan Caplan on Discrimination and Labor MarketsBryan Caplan and Russ Roberts discuss the economics of discrimination and government's regulation of labor markets. They talk about the role of the profit motive in reducing or eliminating discrimination and the role of government, particul…2006-12-04
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1044Virginia Postrel on StyleAuthor and journalist Virginia Postrel talks about how business competes for customers using style and beauty, going beyond price and the standard measures of quality. She looks at the role of appearance in our daily lives and the change fr…2006-11-27
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1045Stanley Engerman on SlaveryStanley Engerman of the University of Rochester talks about slavery throughout world history, the role it played (or didn't play) in the Civil War and the incentives facing slaves and slave owners. This is a wide-ranging, fascinating conver…2006-11-21
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1046Sam Peltzman on RegulationSam Peltzman of the University of Chicago talks about his views on safety, regulation, unintended consequences and the political economy of bad regulation. The focus is on his pioneering studies of automobile safety and FDA pharmaceutical r…2006-11-13
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1047Richard Thaler on Libertarian PaternalismRichard Thaler of the U. of Chicago Graduate School of Business defends the idea of libertarian paternalism--how government might use the insights of behavioral economics to help citizens make better choices. Host Russ Roberts accepts the p…2006-11-06
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1048Clint Bolick Defends Judicial ActivismClint Bolick, co-founder of the Institute for Justice and President of the Alliance for School Choice makes the case for judicial activism. He and Russ Roberts discuss school choice, interstate wine sales, the Kelo eminent domain case and t…2006-10-31
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1049Skip Sauer on the Economics of MoneyballSkip Sauer of Clemson University and Russ Roberts discuss the economics of Michael Lewis's Moneyball. Lewis claims that the Oakland As found an undervalued asset--the ability of a baseball player to draw a walk--and used that insight to suc…2006-10-23
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1050Walter Williams on Life, Liberty and EconomicsProfessor, Radio Host, and Syndicated Columnist Walter Williams of George Mason University talks with EconTalk's Russ Roberts about his early days as an economist, his controversial view of the Civil War, the insights of Adam Smith and Frie…2006-10-16
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1051Larry Iannaccone on the Economics of ReligionLarry Iannaccone of George Mason University talks with EconTalk's Russ Roberts about the economics of religion. Iannaccone explains why Americans are more religious than Europeans, why Americans became more religious after the colonies beca…2006-10-09
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1052Michael Munger on Private vs. Public Risk-TakingMike Munger and Russ Roberts discuss the differences between public and private risk-taking. Their conversation includes the history of Honda, the Apple computer and even the use of turkey carcasses as an energy source. They also try to und…2006-10-03
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1053Darius Lakdawalla on the Economics of ObesityRuss Roberts talks with Darius Lakdawalla of Rand and the National Bureau of Economic Research on the economics of obesity, how much fatter are Americans and why. How much is due to the spread of fast food vs. the falling price of food and …2006-09-25
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1054Ed Glaeser on the Economics of PaternalismEconomist Ed Glaeser of Harvard University talks with host Russ Roberts about the dangers of soft paternalism--various forms of government regulation that fall short of outright bans or taxes but that are meant to correct alleged flaws in t…2006-09-18
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1055Richard Epstein on Legislators vs. Wal-MartRuss Roberts and Richard Epstein discuss the attempts to use legislation to handicap Wal-Mart. They also discuss the evolution of the union movement and the constitutionality of various legislative attacks on Wal-Mart.2006-09-11
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1056Milton Friedman on Capitalism and FreedomRuss Roberts talks to Milton Friedman about the radical ideas he put forward almost 50 years ago in Capitalism and Freedom. Listen to the most influential economist of the past 50 years discuss the principles of liberty, social responsibili…2006-09-04
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1057Milton Friedman on MoneyRuss Roberts talks with Milton Friedman about his research and views on inflation, the Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan and Ben Bernanke, and what the future holds.2006-08-28
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1058The Political Economy of PowerRuss Roberts talks with Hoover Institution and NYU political scientist Bruce Bueno de Mesquita about his theory of political power--how dictators and democratically elected leaders respond to the political forces that keep them in office. T…2006-08-14
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1059Chris Anderson and the Long TailRuss Roberts talks with Chris Anderson of Wired Magazine about the ideas in his new book, The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More. Topics include the weird world of internet distribution and production, how the Sea…2006-08-07
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1060John Cogan on Improving the Health Care SystemRuss Roberts talks with Stanford University's John Cogan about what's wrong with America's health care system and how to make it right.2006-07-31
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1061Making Schools Better: A Conversation with Rick HanushekRuss Roberts and Rick Hanushek, of Stanford University, talk about why the standard reforms such as more spending or better educated teachers have failed and what needs to be done in the future.2006-07-24
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1062Robert Barro on GrowthRuss Roberts interviews Robert Barro, Harvard University Professor and Hoover Institution Senior Fellow, on the economics of growth, what the developed world can do to help poor people around the world, and the role of US assets and the dol…2006-07-17
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1063An Interview with Gary BeckerRuss Roberts interviews Gary Becker, of the University of Chicago, on the challenges of being an intellectual maverick, the economic approach to human behavior, the influences of Adam Smith and Alfred Marshall on Becker's work and Becker's …2006-07-10
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1064Michael Munger on Giving Away Money: An Economist's Guide to Political LifeMike Munger, of Duke University, and Russ Roberts talk about the economics of politics, rent-seeking, lobbying and the sometimes perverse incentives of the political world.2006-06-23
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1065Russ Roberts on Intermittent Explosive Disorder: Mental Illness or Made-Up Malady?Russ Roberts looks at the economics and science of intermittent explosive disorder--violent rage out of proportion to its cause. Was the recent study that discovered this problem good science or unreliable? Was the media coverage of the stu…2006-06-17
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1066Richard Epstein on the Economics of Organ DonationRichard Epstein, law professor at the University of Chicago, and Russ Roberts discuss the market for kidneys. Should people be allowed to buy and sell kidneys? How might a market for kidneys actually work in practice? Should mercenary motiv…2006-06-05
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1067Alex Tabarrok on the Economics of Medical MalpracticeAlex Tabarrok of George Mason U. and Russ Roberts talk about medical malpractice, why insurance premiums vary by state, price gouging by insurance companies, the politics of being a judge and an idea for a new TV show using a tried-and-true…2006-05-30
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1068Don Cox on the Economics of InheritanceDon Cox of Boston College and Russ Roberts discuss the economics of inheritance, estates and the family. They look at how parents divide their time and money between their children and our concerns for what people think of us after we are g…2006-05-04
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1069Skip Sauer on the Economics of SportsSkip Sauer of Clemson University and Russ Roberts talk about the economic impact of sports stadiums, how to create incentives in baseball, football and soccer, and the virtues and failings of socialism in sports.2006-04-18
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1070Michael Munger on Ticket Scalping and Opportunity CostMichael Munger of Duke University talks with Russ Roberts about the economics of ticket scalping, examining our reactions to free and found goods, gifts, e-Bay, value in use vs. value in exchange, and opportunity costs.2006-04-10
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1071Don Cox on the Economics of ParentingDon Cox of Boston College talks with Russ Roberts about how creating incentives can ease daily life with toddlers and young children.2006-03-16
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