EconTalk

D. G. Myers on Cancer, Dying, and Living

14 Jul 2014

Contributed by Lukas

D.G. Myers, literary critic and cancer patient, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the lessons he has learned from receiving a cancer diagnos...

Michael Munger on the Sharing Economy

07 Jul 2014

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Mike Munger of Duke University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the sharing economy--companies like Uber, AirBnB, FlightApp, and DogVacay t...

Lars Peter Hansen on Risk, Ambiguity, and Measurement

30 Jun 2014

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Lars Peter Hansen of the University of Chicago and Nobel Laureate in economics, talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the power and limits of econ...

Gregory Zuckerman on the Frackers and the Energy Revolution

23 Jun 2014

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Gregory Zuckerman of the Wall Street Journal and author of The Frackers: The Outrageous Inside Story of the New Billionaire Wildcatters, talks to Econ...

William Easterly on the Tyranny of Experts

16 Jun 2014

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William Easterly of New York University and author of The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor talks to Eco...

Edward Lazear on Becker

09 Jun 2014

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Edward Lazear of Stanford University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about Gary Becker's innovative contributions to economics. The conversation...

Andrew McAfee, Megan McArdle, and Lee Ohanian on the Future of Work

02 Jun 2014

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Andrew 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 ...

Yuval Levin on Burke, Paine, and the Great Debate

26 May 2014

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Yuval 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 id...

Marc Andreessen on Venture Capital and the Digital Future

19 May 2014

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Marc Andreessen, venture capitalist and co-creator of the early web browser Mosaic, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about how success in venture...

Charles Marohn on Strong Towns, Urban Development, and the Future of American Cities

12 May 2014

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Charles Marohn, President of Strong Towns, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts urban development and what makes a strong town. The two discuss how t...

Gavin Andresen on the Present and Future of Bitcoin

05 May 2014

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Gavin Andresen, Chief Scientist of the Bitcoin Foundation, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about where Bitcoin has been and where it might be he...

Diane Coyle on GDP

28 Apr 2014

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Diane 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...

Megan McArdle on Failure, Success, and the Up Side of Down

21 Apr 2014

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Megan 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...

Steven Teles on Kludgeocracy

14 Apr 2014

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Steven Teles of Johns Hopkins talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about kludgeocracy, a term Teles coined in a National Affairs article to describe ...

Bryan Caplan on College, Signaling and Human Capital

07 Apr 2014

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Bryan Caplan of George Mason University and blogger at EconLog talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the value of a college education. Caplan argu...

John Cochrane on Education and MOOCs

31 Mar 2014

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John Cochrane of the University of Chicago talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the experience of teaching a massive open online course (MOOC)--a...

John Christy and Kerry Emanuel on Climate Change

24 Mar 2014

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John Christy of the University of Alabama in Huntsville and Kerry Emanuel of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology talk with EconTalk host Russ Ro...

Jeffrey Sachs on the Millennium Villages Project

17 Mar 2014

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Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University and the Millennium Villages Project talks with EconTalk host about poverty in Africa and the efforts of the Mille...

Richard Epstein on Classical Liberalism, Libertarianism, and Lochner

10 Mar 2014

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Richard Epstein, of New York University and Stanford University's Hoover Institution, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the differences betw...

Moises Velasquez-Manoff on Autoimmune Disease, Parasites, and Complexity

03 Mar 2014

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Moises Velasquez-Manoff, author of An Epidemic of Absence, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his book--a discussion of why allergies and aut...

Robert Frank on Coase

24 Feb 2014

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Robert Frank of Cornell University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the implications of Ronald Coase's views on externalities. Drawing on h...

Charles Calomiris and Stephen Haber on Fragile by Design

17 Feb 2014

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Charles Calomiris of Columbia University and Stephen Haber of Stanford University, co-authors of Fragile by Design: The Political Origins of Banking C...

Paul Sabin on Ehrlich, Simon and the Bet

10 Feb 2014

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Paul 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 ...

Erik Brynjolfsson on the Second Machine Age

03 Feb 2014

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Erik 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 A...

Nina Munk on Poverty, Development, and the Idealist

27 Jan 2014

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Nina Munk, journalist and author of The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about her book. Mu...

Jonathan Haidt on the Righteous Mind

20 Jan 2014

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Jonathan Haidt of New York University and author of The Righteous Mind talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his book, the nature of human natur...

Laurence Kotlikoff on Debt, Default, and the Federal Government's Finances

13 Jan 2014

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Laurence Kotlikoff of Boston University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the fiscal health of the federal government of the United States. ...

Anthony Gill on Religion

06 Jan 2014

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Anthony Gill of the University of Washington and host of the podcast Research on Religion talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the economics of...

Richard Fisher on Too Big to Fail and the Fed

30 Dec 2013

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Richard Fisher, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the problems with "too big to fail&q...

Judith Curry on Climate Change

23 Dec 2013

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Judith Curry of the Georgia Institute of Technology and blogger at Climate Etc. talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about climate change. Curry argu...

Wally Thurman on Bees, Beekeeping, and Coase

16 Dec 2013

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Wally Thurman of North Carolina State University and PERC talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the world of bees, beekeepers, and the market fo...

Doug Lemov on Teaching

09 Dec 2013

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Doug Lemov of Uncommon Schools and author of Teach Like a Champion talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about teaching and education. Drawing on his ...

Lant Pritchett on Education in Poor Countries

02 Dec 2013

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Lant Pritchett of Harvard University and author of The Rebirth of Education talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in the book. Pritche...

Joel Mokyr on Growth, Innovation, and Stagnation

25 Nov 2013

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Joel Mokyr of Northwestern University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the future of the American economy. Mokyr rejects the claims that th...

Angus Deaton on Health, Wealth, and Poverty

18 Nov 2013

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Angus Deaton of Princeton University and author of the Great Escape talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the book--the vast improvements in hea...

Edmund Phelps on Mass Flourishing

11 Nov 2013

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Edmund Phelps of Columbia University, Nobel Laureate in economics, and author of Mass Flourishing talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the idea...

John Ralston Saul on Reason, Elites, and Voltaire's Bastards

04 Nov 2013

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John Ralston Saul, author and head of PEN International, speaks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his book, Voltaire's Bastards, and the role of r...

Don Boudreaux on Coase

28 Oct 2013

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Don Boudreaux of George Mason University and Cafe Hayek talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the intellectual legacy of Ronald Coase. The conve...

Guillermo Calvo on the Crisis, Money, and Macro

21 Oct 2013

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Guillermo Calvo of Columbia University and the National Bureau of Economic Research talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the nature of macroeco...

Cliff Winston on Transportation

14 Oct 2013

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Cliff Winston of the Brookings Institution talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his recent article in the Journal of Economic Literature on the...

Emily Oster on Pregnancy, Causation, and Expecting Better

07 Oct 2013

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Emily Oster of the University of Chicago and author of Expecting Better talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about her book on pregnancy and the chal...

Tyler Cowen on Inequality, the Future, and Average is Over

30 Sep 2013

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Tyler Cowen of George Mason University and blogger at Marginal Revolution talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his latest book, Average is Over...

David Epstein on the Sports Gene

23 Sep 2013

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David Epstein, writer for ProPublica and author of The Sports Gene, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the book. Epstein discusses a number o...

David Laidler on Money

16 Sep 2013

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David Laidler of the University of Western Ontario talks about money and monetary policy with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Laidler sketches the monetar...

Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Skin in the Game

09 Sep 2013

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Nassim Taleb of NYU-Poly talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his recent paper (with Constantine Sandis) on the morality and effectiveness of &...

Capitalism, Government, and the Good Society

04 Sep 2013

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On April 10, 2013, Liberty Fund and Butler University sponsored a symposium, "Capitalism, Government, and the Good Society." The evening beg...

Michael Munger on Milk

02 Sep 2013

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Mike 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 arg...

Eric Hanushek on Education and Prosperity

26 Aug 2013

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Eric Hanushek of Stanford University's Hoover Institution talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his new book, Endangering Prosperity (co-authore...

Jagdish Bhagwati on India

19 Aug 2013

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Jagdish Bhagwati of Columbia University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the economy of India based on his book with Arvind Panagariya, Why...

Barry Weingast on the Violence Trap

12 Aug 2013

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Barry Weingast, the Ward C. Krebs Family Professor of Political Science at Stanford University and a Senior Fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution ta...

Robert Pindyck on Climate Change

05 Aug 2013

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Robert Pindyck of MIT talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the challenges of global warming for policy makers. Pindyck argues that while there ...

Amrita Narlikar on Fair Trade and Free Trade

29 Jul 2013

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Amrita Narlikar of the University of Cambridge talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about fair trade and policy issues related to trade. Narlikar arg...

Michael Lind on Libertarianism

22 Jul 2013

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Michael 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...

Michael Clemens on Aid, Migration, and Poverty

15 Jul 2013

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Michael Clemens of the Center for Global Development talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the effects of aid and migration on world poverty. Cl...

Morris Fiorina on Polarization, Stability, and the State of the Electorate

08 Jul 2013

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Morris Fiorina, the Wendt Family Professor of Political Science and Hoover Institution Senior Fellow at Stanford University, talks with EconTalk host ...

Michael Munger on Sports, Norms, Rules, and the Code

01 Jul 2013

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Michael Munger of Duke University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the role of formal rules and informal rules in sports. Many sports restr...

Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers on Happiness, Growth, and the Reinhart-Rogoff Controversy

24 Jun 2013

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Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers, of the University of Michigan talk with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about their work on the relationship between i...

Dan Pallotta on Charity and the Culture of the Non-Profit Sector

17 Jun 2013

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Dan Pallotta, Chief Humanity Officer of Advertising for Humanity and author of Uncharitable talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in h...

Bruce Schneier on Power, the Internet, and Security

10 Jun 2013

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Bruce Schneier, author and security guru, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about power and the internet. Schneier argues that the internet enhanc...

Arnold Kling on the Three Languages of Politics

03 Jun 2013

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Arnold Kling, author of The Three Languages of Politics, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in the book. Kling argues that Progress...

Jim Manzi on the Oregon Medicaid Study, Experimental Evidence, and Causality

27 May 2013

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Jim Manzi, founder and chair of Applied Predictive Technologies, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and author of Uncontrolled, talks with Econ...

Richard Epstein on the Constitution

20 May 2013

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Richard Epstein of New York University and Stanford University's Hoover Institution talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the U.S. Constitution....

Austin Frakt on Medicaid and the Oregon Medicaid Study

13 May 2013

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Austin Frakt of Boston University and blogger at The Incidental Economist talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about Medicaid and the recent results ...

William Bernstein on Communication, Power and the Masters of the Word

06 May 2013

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William Bernstein talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his latest book, Masters of the Word. Bernstein traces the history of language, writing,...

James Galbraith on Inequality

29 Apr 2013

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James Galbraith of the University of Texas and author of Inequality and Instability talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about inequality. Galbraith ...

Edward Glaeser on Cities

22 Apr 2013

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Edward Glaeser of Harvard University and author of The Triumph of Cities talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about American cities. The conversation...

Jeffrey Sachs on the Crisis, the Recovery, and the Future

15 Apr 2013

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Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University and author of The Price of Civilization talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the state of the American eco...

Anat Admati on Bank Regulation and the Bankers' New Clothes

08 Apr 2013

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Anat Admati of Stanford University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about her new book (co-authored with Martin Hellwig), The Bankers' New Clothe...

Eric Topol on the Creative Destruction of Medicine

01 Apr 2013

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Eric Topol of the Scripps Research Institute and the author of The Creative Destruction of Medicine talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the id...

Scott Sumner on Money, Business Cycles, and Monetary Policy

25 Mar 2013

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Scott Sumner of Bentley University and blogger at The Money Illusion talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the basics of money, monetary policy,...

Angus Burgin on Hayek, Friedman, and the Great Persuasion

18 Mar 2013

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Angus 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 ...

Doc Searls on the Intention Economy

11 Mar 2013

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Doc Searls, author of The Intention Economy and head of Project VRM at Harvard University's Berkman Center talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about...

Leigh Steinberg on Sports, Agents, and Athletes

04 Mar 2013

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Leigh Steinberg, legendary sports agent, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his career as a sports agent. He discusses the challenges of buil...

Yanis Varoufakis on Valve, Spontaneous Order, and the European Crisis

25 Feb 2013

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Yanis Varoufakis of the University of Athens, the University of Texas, and former economist-in-residence at Valve Software talks with EconTalk host Ru...

Glenn Reynolds on Politics, the Constitution, and Technology

18 Feb 2013

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Glenn Reynolds of the University of Tennessee and blogger at Instapundit talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the political malaise in America,...

Cathy O'Neil on Wall St and Occupy Wall Street

11 Feb 2013

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Cathy O'Neil, data scientist and blogger at mathbabe.org, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about her journey from Wall Street to Occupy Wall Stre...

Louis Michael Seidman on the Constitution

04 Feb 2013

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Louis Michael Seidman of Georgetown University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the United States Constitution. Seidman argues that the we ...

Peter Boettke on Living Economics

28 Jan 2013

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Peter Boettke of George Mason University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his book, Living Economics. Boettke argues for embracing the trad...

Kevin Kelly on the Future, Productivity, and the Quality of Life

21 Jan 2013

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Kevin Kelly talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about measuring productivity in the internet age and recent claims that the U.S. economy has entered...

Esther Dyson on the Attention Economy and the Quantification of Everything

14 Jan 2013

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Esther Dyson talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the market for attention and how technology has changed, how much we pay attention to others,...

Morten Jerven on Measuring African Poverty and Progress

07 Jan 2013

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Morten Jerven of Simon Fraser University, author of Poor Numbers, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the quality of data coming out of Africa...

Becky Pettit on the Prison Population, Survey Data and African-American Progress

31 Dec 2012

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Becky Pettit of the University of Washington and author of Invisible Men talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the growth of the prison populati...

Lisa Turner on Organic Farming

24 Dec 2012

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Lisa Turner of Laughing Stock Farm talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about life as a small organic farmer. She describes her working day, the chal...

Don Boudreaux on Reading Hayek

17 Dec 2012

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Don Boudreaux of George Mason University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the work of F. A. Hayek, particularly his writings on philosophy ...

Chris Anderson on Makers and Manufacturing

10 Dec 2012

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Chris Anderson, author of Makers: The New Industrial Revolution, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his new book--the story of how technology...

Mulligan on Redistribution, Unemployment, and the Labor Market

03 Dec 2012

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Casey Mulligan of the University of Chicago and the author of The Redistribution Recession, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in t...

Marcia Angell on Big Pharma

26 Nov 2012

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Marcia 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...

John Cochrane on Health Care

19 Nov 2012

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John Cochrane of the University of Chicago and Stanford University's Hoover Institution talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about how existing regul...

Michael Munger on John Locke, Prices, and Hurricane Sandy

12 Nov 2012

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Mike Munger of Duke University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the gas shortage following Hurricane Sandy and John Locke's view of the jus...

Joshua Rauh on Public Pensions

05 Nov 2012

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Joshua Rauh, Professor of Finance at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business and a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution...

Steve Hanke on Hyperinflation, Monetary Policy, and Debt

29 Oct 2012

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Steve Hanke of Johns Hopkins and the Cato Institute talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about hyperinflation and the U.S. fiscal situation. Hanke ar...

Jonathan Rodden on the Geography of Voting

22 Oct 2012

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Jonathan Rodden, political science professor at Stanford and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution speaks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about th...

Arnold Kling on Education and the Internet

15 Oct 2012

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Arnold Kling, economist and teacher, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about recent technological innovations in education and Kling's forecast fo...

Garett Jones on Fisher, Debt, and Deflation

08 Oct 2012

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Garett 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...

Robert Skidelsky on Money, the Good Life, and How Much is Enough

01 Oct 2012

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Robert Skidelsky, noted biographer of John Maynard Keynes and author (with his son Edward) of the recently published How Much is Enough, talks with Ec...

Robert Frank and Russ Roberts on Infrastructure

24 Sep 2012

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Robert Frank of Cornell University and EconTalk host Russ Roberts debate the merits of a large increase of infrastructure spending. In the summer of 2...

Paul Tough on How Children Succeed

17 Sep 2012

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Paul Tough, author of How Children Succeed, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about why children succeed and fail in school and beyond school. He ...

Brian Nosek on Truth, Science, and Academic Incentives

10 Sep 2012

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Brian Nosek of the University of Virginia talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about how incentives in academic life create a tension between truth-s...

Neil Barofsky on Bailouts

03 Sep 2012

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Neil Barofsky, author of Bailout and the former Special Inspector General for the TARP program, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his book a...

Roger Noll on the Economics of Sports

27 Aug 2012

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Roger Noll of Stanford University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the economics of sports. Noll discusses the economic effects of stadium ...