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Back to SearchSteven Teles on Kludgeocracy
Episode 416
Steven Teles of Johns Hopkins talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about kludgeocracy, a term Teles coined in a National Affairs article to describe…
12 years, 4 months ago
Bryan Caplan on College, Signaling and Human Capital
Episode 415
Bryan Caplan of George Mason University and blogger at EconLog talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the value of a college education. Caplan arg…
12 years, 4 months ago
John Cochrane on Education and MOOCs
Episode 414
John Cochrane of the University of Chicago talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the experience of teaching a massive open online course (MOOC)--…
12 years, 5 months ago
John Christy and Kerry Emanuel on Climate Change
Episode 413
John Christy of the University of Alabama in Huntsville and Kerry Emanuel of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology talk with EconTalk host Russ R…
12 years, 5 months ago
Jeffrey Sachs on the Millennium Villages Project
Episode 412
Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University and the Millennium Villages Project talks with EconTalk host about poverty in Africa and the efforts of the Mill…
12 years, 5 months ago
Richard Epstein on Classical Liberalism, Libertarianism, and Lochner
Episode 411
Richard Epstein, of New York University and Stanford University's Hoover Institution, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the differences bet…
12 years, 5 months ago
Moises Velasquez-Manoff on Autoimmune Disease, Parasites, and Complexity
Episode 410
Moises Velasquez-Manoff, author of An Epidemic of Absence, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his book--a discussion of why allergies and au…
12 years, 6 months ago
Robert Frank on Coase
Episode 409
Robert Frank of Cornell University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the implications of Ronald Coase's views on externalities. Drawing on …
12 years, 6 months ago
Charles Calomiris and Stephen Haber on Fragile by Design
Episode 408
Charles Calomiris of Columbia University and Stephen Haber of Stanford University, co-authors of Fragile by Design: The Political Origins of Banking …
12 years, 6 months ago
Paul Sabin on Ehrlich, Simon and the Bet
Episode 407
Paul Sabin of Yale University and author of The Bet talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his book. Sabin uses the bet between Paul Ehrlich and…
12 years, 6 months ago