Podcast Episodes

Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Skin in the Game

Episode 385

Nassim Taleb of NYU-Poly talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his recent paper (with Constantine Sandis) on the morality and effectiveness of …

13 years, 1 month ago

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Capitalism, Government, and the Good Society

Episode 384

On April 10, 2013, Liberty Fund and Butler University sponsored a symposium, "Capitalism, Government, and the Good Society." The evening began with s…

13 years, 2 months ago

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Michael Munger on Milk

Episode 383

Mike Munger of Duke University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about why milk is in the back of the grocery store. Michael Pollan and others ar…

13 years, 2 months ago

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Eric Hanushek on Education and Prosperity

Episode 382

Eric Hanushek of Stanford University's Hoover Institution talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his new book, Endangering Prosperity (co-author…

13 years, 2 months ago

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Jagdish Bhagwati on India

Episode 381

Jagdish Bhagwati of Columbia University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the economy of India based on his book with Arvind Panagariya, Wh…

13 years, 2 months ago

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Barry Weingast on the Violence Trap

Episode 380

Barry Weingast, the Ward C. Krebs Family Professor of Political Science at Stanford University and a Senior Fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution t…

13 years, 2 months ago

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Robert Pindyck on Climate Change

Episode 379

Robert Pindyck of MIT talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the challenges of global warming for policy makers. Pindyck argues that while there…

13 years, 3 months ago

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Amrita Narlikar on Fair Trade and Free Trade

Episode 378

Amrita Narlikar of the University of Cambridge talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about fair trade and policy issues related to trade. Narlikar ar…

13 years, 3 months ago

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Michael Lind on Libertarianism

Episode 377

Michael Lind of the New American Foundation talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about two recent articles by Lind at Salon.com. In the first articl…

13 years, 3 months ago

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Michael Clemens on Aid, Migration, and Poverty

Episode 376

Michael Clemens of the Center for Global Development talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the effects of aid and migration on world poverty. C…

13 years, 3 months ago

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