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Back to SearchRachel Laudan on Food Waste
Episode 606
Historian Rachel Laudan talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about food waste. Laudan argues that there are tradeoffs in preventing food waste--in r…
8 years, 9 months ago
Simeon Djankov and Matt Warner on the Doing Business Report and Development Aid
Episode 605
Simeon Djankov, creator of the World Bank's Doing Business Report, and Matt Warner, Chief Operating Officer of Atlas Network talk with EconTalk host …
8 years, 9 months ago
Tim Harford on Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy
Episode 604
Financial Times columnist and author Tim Harford talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about Harford's latest book, Fifty Inventions That Shaped the …
8 years, 9 months ago
Anthony Gill on Tipping
Episode 603
Why does tipping persist? Despite the efforts of some restaurants to stop tipping, it remains a healthy institution and has recently spread to Uber. …
8 years, 9 months ago
Dennis Rasmussen on Hume and Smith and The Infidel and the Professor
Episode 602
How did the friendship between David Hume and Adam Smith influence their ideas? Why do their ideas still matter today? Political Scientist Dennis Ras…
8 years, 9 months ago
Michael Munger on Permissionless Innovation
Episode 601
Michael Munger of Duke University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about permissionless innovation. Munger argues that the ability to innovate w…
8 years, 10 months ago
Jennifer Burns on Ayn Rand and the Goddess of the Market
Episode 600
Jennifer Burns of Stanford University and the Hoover Institution talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about her biography of Ayn Rand, Goddess of th…
8 years, 10 months ago
Megan McArdle on Internet Shaming and Online Mobs
Episode 599
Author and journalist Megan McArdle of Bloomberg View talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about how the internet has allowed a new kind of shaming …
8 years, 10 months ago
Tim O'Reilly on What's the Future
Episode 598
Author Tim O'Reilly, founder of O'Reilly Media and long-time observer and commenter on the internet and technology, talks with EconTalk host Russ Rob…
8 years, 10 months ago
Robert Wright on Meditation, Mindfulness, and Why Buddhism is True
Episode 597
Robert Wright, author of Why Buddhism Is True, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the psychotherapeutic insights of Buddhism and the benefit…
8 years, 11 months ago