Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMatthew Futterman on Players and the Business of Sports
Episode 536
Fifty years ago, many of the best players in the National Football League took jobs in the off-season to augment the salaries they earned playing foo…
10 years, 1 month ago
Angela Duckworth on Grit
Episode 535
How important is grit relative to talent? Can grit be taught? Angela Duckworth of the University of Pennsylvania and author of Grit: The Power of Pas…
10 years, 1 month ago
Ryan Holiday on Ego is the Enemy
Episode 534
How does our attitude toward ourselves affect our success or failure in the world of business or in friendship? Ryan Holiday, author of Ego Is the En…
10 years, 1 month ago
Jonathan Skinner on Health Care Costs, Technology, and Rising Mortality
Episode 533
Technology and innovation usually mean higher quality and lower prices. Is health care different? Jonathan Skinner of Dartmouth College talks with Ec…
10 years, 1 month ago
Yuval Levin on The Fractured Republic
Episode 532
Yuval Levin, author and editor of National Affairs, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in his latest book, The Fractured Republic.…
10 years, 2 months ago
Richard Epstein on Cruises, First-Class Travel, and Inequality
Episode 531
How should we feel about cruise lines that offer special amenities for top-paying travelers, or first-class sections of airplanes? Do such consumptio…
10 years, 2 months ago
Kevin Kelly on the Inevitable
Episode 530
Futurist, author, and visionary Kevin Kelly talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his latest book, The Inevitable, Kelly's look at what the fut…
10 years, 2 months ago
Abby Smith Rumsey on Remembering, Forgetting, and When We Are No More
Episode 529
You might think your tweets on Twitter belong to you. But in 2010, the Library of Congress acquired the entire archive of Twitter. Why would such a m…
10 years, 2 months ago
Jason Zweig on Finance and the Devil's Financial Dictionary
Episode 528
Jason Zweig of the Wall Street Journal and author of The Devil's Financial Dictionary talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about finance, financial …
10 years, 3 months ago
David Beckworth on Money, Monetary Policy, and the Great Recession
Episode 527
Was the Financial Crisis of 2008 caused by a crisis in the housing market? Or did the Federal Reserve turn a garden-variety recession into the Great …
10 years, 3 months ago