Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchCan a Phone Be a Cow? (with Philip Auerswald)
Episode 1055
Can a phone be a cow? It could in 1990s Bangladesh. This was the insight of a small number of mobile phone market pioneers who helped catalyze the sp…
2 months, 1 week ago
The Case for Sunshine (with Rowan Jacobsen)
Episode 1054
Skin cancer comes from the sun. But so do many good things, according to author Rowan Jacobsen. Jacobsen talks with EconTalk's Russ Roberts about the…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
The Self, the Crowd, and Social Contagion (with Luke Burgis)
Episode 1053
Finding community can be difficult. But author Luke Burgis thinks the real challenge begins once we've found it and we're subject to social pressures…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Making Your 80,000 Hours Count (with Benjamin Todd)
Episode 1052
If you want to change the world, how you spend your 80,000 working hours may be the most important decision you can make. Benjamin Todd, founder of 8…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
Facing Death (with Sebastian Junger)
Episode 1051
What does a lifelong atheist do when his dead father appears above him in the emergency room? Author and war reporter Sebastian Junger nearly bled to…
3 months ago
Tom Cruise's Body of Work (with Aled Maclean-Jones)
Episode 1050
What can Tom Cruise's last impossible mission teach us about usefulness in the digital age? Aled Maclean-Jones argues that dangling from cargo planes…
3 months, 1 week ago
Thinking Inside the Box (with David Epstein)
Episode 1049
What do the inventor of the periodic table, the novelist Isabel Allende, and the almost-creators of the iPhone have in common? Join author David Epst…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Golfing Alone (with Gary Belsky)
Episode 1048
No rush, no noise, no one else on the golf course: solo golf is an entirely different game, offering physical, mental, and spiritual benefits that pl…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Claude, War, and the State of the Republic (with Dean Ball)
Episode 1047
The Department of War wanted to deploy Anthropic's Claude for "all lawful use." What begins as a policy dispute between a tech company and the Depart…
4 months ago
Adam Smith's Warning About Wealth, Fame, and Status (with Ross Levine)
Episode 1046
What can Adam Smith teach us today? In this conversation between Ross Levine of Stanford's Hoover Institution and EconTalk's Russ Roberts, Smith emer…
4 months, 1 week ago