Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSridhar Ramaswamy on Google, Search, and Neeva
Episode 845
Former Google ads boss Sridhar Ramaswamy says that we live in a world that seems to give out free content when we use a search engine. But that world…
4 years, 2 months ago
Matti Friedman on Leonard Cohen and the Yom Kippur War
Episode 844
In October 1973, an unhappy Leonard Cohen was listening to the radio on his Greek island home when he heard that Israel was at war. He headed to Tel …
4 years, 2 months ago
Ian Leslie on Curiosity
Episode 843
Why are some people incurious? Is curiosity a teachable thing? And why, if all knowledge can be googled, is curiosity now the domain of a small elite…
4 years, 3 months ago
Diane Coyle on Cogs, Monsters, and Better Economics
Episode 842
Mainstream economics, says author Diane Coyle, keeps treating people like cogs: self-interested, rational agents. But in the digital economy, we're l…
4 years, 3 months ago
Marc Andreessen on Software, Immortality, and Bitcoin
Episode 841
What's the single best thing happening in technology right now? According to entrepreneur and venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, it's the ability to…
4 years, 3 months ago
Chris Blattman on Why We Fight
Episode 840
It's tempting to explain Russia's invasion of Ukraine with Putin's megalomania. Economist Chris Blattman of the University of Chicago talks about his…
4 years, 3 months ago
Dwayne Betts on Ellison, Levi, and Human Suffering
Episode 839
In his memoir of his time in Auschwitz, Primo Levi describes Jewish prisoners bathing in freezing water without soap--not because they thought it wou…
4 years, 4 months ago
Michael Munger on Antitrust
Episode 838
Are tech giants such as Google, Amazon, or Facebook dangerous? Do they have too much power? Dive into the murky waters of antitrust as Michael Munger…
4 years, 4 months ago
Tyler Cowen on Reading
Episode 837
Intellectual omnivore Tyler Cowen of George Mason University and EconTalk host Russ Roberts talk about their reading habits, their favorite books, an…
4 years, 4 months ago
Russ Roberts on Education
Episode 836
What do crossing rivers and investing in stocks have in common? Real education is seeing the connection between things that seem very different. Econ…
4 years, 4 months ago