Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchTamar Haspel on Food Costs, Animal Welfare, and the Honey Bee
Episode 586
Tamar Haspel, who writes "Unearthed," a column on food and agriculture at the Washington Post, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about a wide var…
9 years, 1 month ago
Martha Nussbaum on Alexander Hamilton
Episode 585
Martha Nussbaum, professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about Alexander Hamilton. Nussbaum talks …
9 years, 1 month ago
Chris Blattman on Chickens, Cash, and Development Economics
Episode 584
Chris Blattman of the University of Chicago talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about whether it's better to give poor Africans cash or chickens an…
9 years, 2 months ago
Robin Feldman on Drug Patents, Generics, and Drug Wars
Episode 583
Robin Feldman of the University of California Hastings College of Law and author of Drug Wars talks about her book with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. F…
9 years, 2 months ago
Thomas Ricks on Churchill and Orwell
Episode 582
Author and historian Thomas Ricks talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his book, Churchill and Orwell. Ricks makes the case that the odd coupl…
9 years, 2 months ago
Don Boudreaux, Michael Munger, and Russ Roberts on Emergent Order
Episode 581
Why is it that people in large cities like Paris or New York City people sleep peacefully, unworried about whether there will be enough bread or othe…
9 years, 2 months ago
Christy Ford Chapin on the Evolution of the American Health Care System
Episode 580
Historian Christy Ford Chapin of University of Maryland Baltimore County and Johns Hopkins and author of Ensuring America's Health talks with EconTal…
9 years, 3 months ago
David Boaz, P.J. O'Rourke, and George Will on the State of Liberty
Episode 579
What is the state of liberty in America? Is liberty increasing or decreasing? Should we be optimistic or pessimistic about the future? This week Econ…
9 years, 3 months ago
Lant Pritchett on Poverty, Growth, and Experiments
Episode 578
How should we think about growth and poverty? How important is the goal of reducing the proportion of the world's population living on less than a do…
9 years, 3 months ago
Cass Sunstein on #Republic
Episode 577
Author and legal scholar Cass Sunstein of Harvard University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his latest book, #Republic. Sunstein argues …
9 years, 3 months ago