EconTalk
EconTalk is an award-winning weekly talk show about economics in daily life. Featured guests include renowned economics professors, Nobel Prize winners, and exciting speakers on all kinds of topical matters related to economic thought. Topics include health care, business cycles, economic growth, free trade, education, finance, politics, sports, book reviews, parenting, and the curiosities of everyday decision-making. Russ Roberts, of the Library of Economics and Liberty (econlib.org) and the Hoover Institution, draws you in with lively guests and creative repartee. Look for related readings and the complete archive of previous shows at EconTalk.org, where you can also comment on the podcasts and ask questions.
- Website
- http://www.EconTalk.org
- Description
- EconTalk is an award-winning weekly talk show about economics in daily life. Featured guests include renowned economics professors, Nobel Prize winners, and exciting speakers on all kinds of topical matters related to economic thought. Host Russ Roberts, of the Library of Economics and Liberty and the Hoover Institution, draws you in with lively guests and creative repartee. Topics include health care, business cycles, economic growth, free trade, education, finance, politics, sports, book reviews, and the curiosities of everyday decision-making. Look for related readings and the complete archive of previous shows at EconTalk.org, where you can also comment on the podcasts and ask questions.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2024-12-24 09:39
- last episode published
- 2024-12-23 11:30
- publication frequency
- 7.0 days
- Contributors
- EconTalk: Russ Roberts, Library of Economics and Liberty
- Author
- Library of Economics and Liberty
- Owner
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 980
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Education Social Sciences Business Higher Education Science & Medicine
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Episodes
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| 2024-12-23 | 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, and not en... |
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| 2024-12-16 | 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 experience in ligh... |
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| 2024-12-09 |
Why 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 some of the... |
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| 2024-12-02 | What does it take to translate a 900-page Russian novel written before the fall of the Soviet Union? For a start, it means learning what the Soviet censor cut and changed in the Russian original. It also means living in a seaside cottage for four month... |
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| 2024-11-25 | Life 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. |
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| 2024-11-18 |
Terrorism, 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 Haviv Rettig ... |
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| 2024-11-11 |
Who 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 feel a sense... |
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| 2024-11-04 |
Give 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 her experie... |
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| 2024-10-28 | Why 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. |
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| 2024-10-21 |
Why 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. |
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