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EconTalk

EconTalk: Conversations for the Curious is an award-winning weekly podcast hosted by Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford's Hoover Institution. The eclectic guest list includes aut... Read more

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Daphne Koller on Education, Coursera, and MOOCs

Daphne Koller on Education, Coursera, and MOOCs

Daphne Koller of Coursera talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about online educational website Coursera and the future... Read more

25 Aug 2014

1hr 2mins

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Martha Nussbaum on Creating Capabilities and GDP

Martha Nussbaum on Creating Capabilities and GDP

Martha Nussbaum of the University of Chicago and author of Creating Capabilities talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts a... Read more

29 Sep 2014

1hr 1min

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Josh Luber on Sneakers, Sneakerheads, and the Second-hand Market

Josh Luber on Sneakers, Sneakerheads, and the Second-hand Market

How many pairs of sneakers do you own? Josh Luber of Campless and StockX talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the... Read more

18 Jan 2016

1hr 2mins

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Virginia Postrel on Textiles and the Fabric of Civilization

Virginia Postrel on Textiles and the Fabric of Civilization

Author and journalist Virginia Postrel talks about her book The Fabric of Civilization and How Textiles Made the World w... Read more

16 Nov 2020

1hr 6mins

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Jordan Peterson on 12 Rules for Life

Jordan Peterson on 12 Rules for Life

Jordan Peterson, author of 12 Rules for Life, talks about the book with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Topics covered inclu... Read more

19 Feb 2018

1hr 18mins

Ranked #6

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Work, Slavery, the Minority Rule, and Skin in the Game

Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Work, Slavery, the Minority Rule, and Skin in the Game

Nassim Nicholas Taleb talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the manuscript version of his forthcoming book, Skin i... Read more

14 Aug 2017

1hr 24mins

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Michael Pollan on Psychedelic Drugs and How to Change Your Mind

Michael Pollan on Psychedelic Drugs and How to Change Your Mind

Journalist and author Michael Pollan talks about his book, How to Change Your Mind, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Pol... Read more

25 Jun 2018

1hr 12mins

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Yuval Harari on Sapiens

Yuval Harari on Sapiens

Yuval Harari of Hebrew University and author of Sapiens talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the history of human... Read more

19 Oct 2015

1hr 12mins

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James Bessen on Learning by Doing

James Bessen on Learning by Doing

Are workers being left behind when the economy grows? Is technology making the human workforce obsolete? James Bessen, a... Read more

23 May 2016

1hr 4mins

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Emily Oster on the Pandemic

Emily Oster on the Pandemic

Economist and author Emily Oster of Brown University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the challenge of reopen... Read more

30 Nov 2020

1hr 4mins

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Charles Calomiris and Stephen Haber on Fragile by Design

Charles Calomiris and Stephen Haber on Fragile by Design

Charles Calomiris of Columbia University and Stephen Haber of Stanford University, co-authors of Fragile by Design: The ... Read more

17 Feb 2014

1hr 17mins

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Steven Teles on Kludgeocracy

Steven Teles on Kludgeocracy

Steven Teles of Johns Hopkins talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about kludgeocracy, a term Teles coined in a Nationa... Read more

14 Apr 2014

1hr 2mins

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Michael Matheson Miller on Poverty, Inc

Michael Matheson Miller on Poverty, Inc

Michael Matheson Miller of the Acton Institute and the Director of the documentary Poverty, Inc., talks with EconTalk ho... Read more

2 Nov 2015

1hr 9mins

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Bjorn Lomborg on the Costs and Benefits of Attacking Climate Change

Bjorn Lomborg on the Costs and Benefits of Attacking Climate Change

Bjorn Lomborg, President of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, talks about the costs and benefits of attacking climate cha... Read more

10 Jun 2019

1hr 10mins

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Patrick Deneen on Why Liberalism Failed

Patrick Deneen on Why Liberalism Failed

Political Scientist and author Patrick Deneen of the University of Notre Dame talks about his book Why Liberalism Failed... Read more

9 Jul 2018

1hr 14mins

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Phil Rosenzweig on Leadership, Decisions, and Behavioral Economics

Phil Rosenzweig on Leadership, Decisions, and Behavioral Economics

Phil Rosenzweig, professor of strategy and international business at IMD in Switzerland and author of the book Left Brai... Read more

13 Apr 2015

1hr 2mins

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Tyler Cowen on the COVID-19 Pandemic

Tyler Cowen on the COVID-19 Pandemic

Economist and infovore Tyler Cowen of George Mason University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the political,... Read more

19 Mar 2020

1hr 19mins

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Sebastian Junger on Tribe

Sebastian Junger on Tribe

Journalist and author Sebastian Junger talks about his book Tribe with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Junger explores the h... Read more

31 Dec 2018

1hr 16mins

Ranked #19

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David Autor on Trade, China, and U.S. Labor Markets

David Autor on Trade, China, and U.S. Labor Markets

David Autor of MIT talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the fundamentals of trade and his research on the impact ... Read more

14 Mar 2016

1hr 12mins

Ranked #20

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Chuck Klosterman on But What If We're Wrong

Chuck Klosterman on But What If We're Wrong

Chuck Klosterman, author of But What If We're Wrong, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the possibility that th... Read more

15 Aug 2016

1hr 2mins

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