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Back to SearchNoah Smith on Whether Economics is a Science
Episode 505
Noah Smith of Stony Brook University and writer at Bloomberg View talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about whether economics is a science in some …
10 years, 10 months ago
Philip Tetlock on Superforecasting
Episode 504
Can you predict the future? Or at least gauge the probability of political or economic events in the near future? Philip Tetlock of the University of…
10 years, 10 months ago
George Selgin on Monetary Policy and the Great Recession
Episode 503
Did Ben Bernanke and the Fed save the U.S. economy from disaster in 2008 or did the Fed make things worse? Why did the Fed reward banks that kept res…
10 years, 10 months ago
Canice Prendergast on How Prices Can Improve a Food Fight (and Help the Poor)
Episode 502
If you have 250 million pounds of food to give away every year to local food banks how should you do it? Canice Prendergast of the University of Chic…
10 years, 11 months ago
David Mindell on Our Robots, Ourselves
Episode 501
Are we on the verge of driverless cars and other forms of autonomous robots and artificial intelligence? David Mindell of MIT and the author of Our R…
10 years, 11 months ago
Michael Munger on EconTalk's 500th Episode
Episode 500
Michael Munger of Duke University makes his 29th appearance on the 500th episode of EconTalk alongside EconTalk host Russ Roberts. He talks about his…
10 years, 11 months ago
Brian Nosek on the Reproducibility Project
Episode 499
Brian Nosek of the University of Virginia and the Center for Open Science talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the Reproducibility Project--an…
10 years, 11 months ago
Robert Aronowitz on Risky Medicine
Episode 498
Should women get routine mammograms? Should men get regular PSA exams? Robert Aronowitz of the University of Pennsylvania and the author of Risky Med…
10 years, 11 months ago
Michael Matheson Miller on Poverty, Inc
Episode 497
Michael Matheson Miller of the Acton Institute and the Director of the documentary Poverty, Inc., talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his awa…
11 years ago
Cesar Hidalgo on Why Information Grows
Episode 496
Cesar Hidalgo of MIT and the author of Why Information Grows talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the growth of knowledge and know-how in the …
11 years ago