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Back to SearchAlex Tabarrok on Private Cities
Episode 457
Alex Tabarrok of George Mason University talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about a recent paper Tabarrok co-authored with Shruti Rajagopalan on Gur…
11 years, 7 months ago
Nassim Nicholas Taleb on the Precautionary Principle and Genetically Modified Organisms
Episode 456
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of Antifragile, Black Swan, and Fooled by Randomness, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about a recent co-authored …
11 years, 7 months ago
Greg Page on Food, Agriculture, and Cargill
Episode 455
Greg Page, former CEO of Cargill, the largest privately-held company in America, talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the global food supply and…
11 years, 7 months ago
Joshua Greene on Moral Tribes, Moral Dilemmas, and Utilitarianism
Episode 454
Joshua Greene, of Harvard University and author of Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them, talks with EconTalk host Russ Robe…
11 years, 8 months ago
James Tooley on Private Schools for the Poor and the Beautiful Tree
Episode 453
James Tooley, Professor of Education at Newcastle University, talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about low-cost for-profit private schools in the sl…
11 years, 8 months ago
Joshua Angrist on Econometrics and Causation
Episode 452
Joshua Angrist of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the craft of econometrics--how to use economic …
11 years, 8 months ago
Gary Marcus on the Future of Artificial Intelligence and the Brain
Episode 451
Gary Marcus of New York University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the future of artificial intelligence (AI). While Marcus is concerned …
11 years, 8 months ago
James Otteson on the End of Socialism
Episode 450
James Otteson of Wake Forest University talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his new book, The End of Socialism. Otteson argues that socialism (…
11 years, 8 months ago
Nick Bostrom on Superintelligence
Episode 449
Nick Bostrom of the University of Oxford talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his book, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies. Bostrom…
11 years, 9 months ago
Emily Oster on Infant Mortality
Episode 448
Emily Oster of the University of Chicago talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about why U.S. infant mortality is twice that in Finland and high rela…
11 years, 9 months ago