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Back to SearchRyan Holiday on Discipline Is Destiny
Episode 864
Author Ryan Holiday talks about his book, Discipline Is Destiny, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Holiday discusses the mentor who taught him discipl…
4 years ago
Devon Zuegel on Inflation, Argentina, and Crypto
Episode 863
Devon Zuegel talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the crazy world of money and finance in Argentina. When inflation is often high and unpredic…
4 years ago
Roland Fryer on Educational Reform
Episode 862
The good news about educational reform, says Harvard economist Roland Fryer, is that we know what it takes to turn a school around. The bad news is t…
4 years ago
Sonat Birnecker Hart on Whiskey
Episode 861
Scholar and distiller Sonat Birnecker Hart of the Koval Distillery talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about her career move from academia to whisk…
4 years, 1 month ago
Erik Hoel on Effective Altruism, Utilitarianism, and the Repugnant Conclusion
Episode 860
Neuroscientist Erik Hoel talks about why he is not an "effective altruist" with EconTalk host, Russ Roberts. Hoel argues that the utilitarianism that…
4 years, 1 month ago
Kieran Setiya on Midlife
Episode 859
John Stuart Mill's midlife crisis came at 20 when he realized that if he got what he desired he still wouldn't be happy. Art and poetry (and maybe lo…
4 years, 1 month ago
David McRaney on How Minds Change
Episode 858
To the Founding Fathers it was free libraries. To the 19th century rationalist philosophers it was a system of public schools. Today it's access to t…
4 years, 1 month ago
Will MacAskill on Longtermism and What We Owe the Future
Episode 857
Philosopher William MacAskill of the University of Oxford and a founder of the effective altruism movement talks about his book What We Owe the Futur…
4 years, 2 months ago
Amor Towles on A Gentleman in Moscow and the Writer's Craft
Episode 856
Author Amor Towles talks about his book, A Gentleman in Moscow, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Along the way they discuss the craft of writing, the…
4 years, 2 months ago
Raj Chetty on Economic Mobility
Episode 855
Economist Raj Chetty of Harvard University talks about his work on economic mobility with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. The focus is on Chetty's recent…
4 years, 2 months ago