Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchTyler Cowen on Talent
Episode 854
How do you hone your craft on an everyday basis? It could be writing, meeting with experts, even listening to podcasts, just so long, argues economis…
4 years, 2 months ago
Russ Roberts and Mike Munger on Wild Problems
Episode 853
Waze and Google Maps tell us the best way to get to where we're going. But no app or algorithm can tell us whether we should head there in the first …
4 years, 2 months ago
Gerd Gigerenzer on How to Stay Smart in a Smart World
Episode 852
IBM's super-computer Watson was a runaway success on Jeopardy! But it wasn't nearly as good at diagnosing cancer. This came as no surprise to Max Pla…
4 years, 3 months ago
John List on Scale, Uber, and the Voltage Effect
Episode 851
Economist John List of the University of Chicago talks about his book, The Voltage Effect, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. He discusses what determi…
4 years, 3 months ago
Vinay Prasad on the Pandemic
Episode 850
When it comes to the COVID-19 vaccination, is the risk of myocarditis greater than the benefit to a healthy male teen? Is natural immunity really bet…
4 years, 3 months ago
Nassim Nicholas Taleb on the Nations, States, and Scale
Episode 849
A language, a flag, a national anthem and shared history—like a heart that has to pump harder to support a heavier body, the bigger a nation gets, th…
4 years, 3 months ago
Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan on Immigration Then and Now
Episode 848
Immigration to the United States, say Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan, is more novel than short story: It takes decades for new immigrants to catch u…
4 years, 4 months ago
A.J. Jacobs on Solving Life's Puzzles
Episode 847
How much of life can be solved by algorithms, and how much just can't be solved? Listen as A.J. Jacobs, author of The Puzzler, talks with EconTalk ho…
4 years, 4 months ago
Roosevelt Montás on Rescuing Socrates
Episode 846
How do books change our lives? Educator and author Roosevelt Montás of Columbia University talks about his book Rescuing Socrates with EconTalk host …
4 years, 4 months ago
Sridhar 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, 4 months ago