Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchNathan Blecharczyk on Airbnb and the Sharing Economy
Episode 436
Nathan Blecharczyk, co-founder and chief technology officer of Airbnb, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about Airbnb, one of the earliest compan…
12 years ago
Daphne Koller on Education, Coursera, and MOOCs
Episode 435
Daphne Koller of Coursera talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about online educational website Coursera and the future of education both online and…
12 years ago
Terry Anderson on the Environment and Property Rights
Episode 434
Terry Anderson, Distinguished Fellow at the Property and Environment Research Center (PERC) and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, talks to Eco…
12 years ago
Barry Weingast on Law
Episode 433
Barry Weingast, professor of political science at Stanford University and senior fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution, talks with EconTalk host Ru…
12 years ago
Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha on LinkedIn and The Alliance
Episode 432
Reid Hoffman, co-founder of professional networking site LinkedIn, and Ben Casnocha, former Chief-of-Staff of LinkedIn, talk to EconTalk host Russ Ro…
12 years, 1 month ago
Sam Altman on Start-ups, Venture Capital, and the Y Combinator
Episode 431
Sam Altman, president of startup accelerating firm Y Combinator, talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about Y Combinator's innovative strategy for dis…
12 years, 1 month ago
Chris Blattman on Cash, Poverty, and Development
Episode 430
Chris Blattman of Columbia University talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about a radical approach to fighting poverty in desperately poor countries:…
12 years, 1 month ago
D. G. Myers on Cancer, Dying, and Living
Episode 429
D.G. Myers, literary critic and cancer patient, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the lessons he has learned from receiving a cancer diagno…
12 years, 1 month ago
Michael Munger on the Sharing Economy
Episode 428
Mike Munger of Duke University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the sharing economy--companies like Uber, AirBnB, FlightApp, and DogVacay …
12 years, 1 month ago
Lars Peter Hansen on Risk, Ambiguity, and Measurement
Episode 427
Lars Peter Hansen of the University of Chicago and Nobel Laureate in economics, talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the power and limits of eco…
12 years, 2 months ago