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
- š¬š§ English
- last modified
- 2024-11-18 17:34
- last episode published
- 2024-11-18 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
- 975
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Education Social Sciences Business Higher Education Science & Medicine
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Episodes
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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'sĀ Russ Roberts about the causes behind high housing prices and what can be done to bring prices down. |
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| 2024-10-14 |
Misinformation 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 talksĀ with EconTalk's Russ RobertsĀ about how we should think about truth-seeking. The conversation also revisits Kling's cla... |
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| 2024-10-07 | 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 instinctsĀ can also be the source of our success--in polit... |
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| 2024-09-30 | 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 theĀ groundbreakingĀ It... |
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| 2024-09-23 | 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? How can dogs h... |
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| 2024-09-16 | 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 approaches that... |
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