Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSimeon 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, 11 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, 11 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, 11 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…
9 years 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…
9 years 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…
9 years 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 …
9 years 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…
9 years 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…
9 years, 1 month ago
Philip Auerswald on the Rise of Populism
Episode 596
Author and professor Philip Auerswald of George Mason University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the rise of populism in the United State…
9 years, 1 month ago