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2025-03-24

  Bird 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 the bird wo... 		  EconTalk: Russ Roberts author
2025-03-17

  How 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 comments scribb... 		  EconTalk: Russ Roberts author
2025-03-10

  Will Guidara on Unreasonable Hospitality

What 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 restaurant in the... 		  EconTalk: Russ Roberts author
2025-03-03

  The 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 system works a... 		  EconTalk: Russ Roberts author
2025-02-24

  The 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 that's still ... 		  EconTalk: Russ Roberts author
2025-02-17

  Who 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 of planning? ... 		  EconTalk: Russ Roberts author
2025-02-10

  Minimalists 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--minimalism and ho... 		  EconTalk: Russ Roberts author
2025-02-03

  Coase, 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 technology is us... 		  EconTalk: Russ Roberts author
2025-01-27

  Why 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 EconTalk's Russ ... 		  EconTalk: Russ Roberts author
2025-01-20

  Weep, 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 on Broadway... 		  EconTalk: Russ Roberts author