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Back to SearchYanis Varoufakis on Valve, Spontaneous Order, and the European Crisis
Episode 356
Yanis Varoufakis of the University of Athens, the University of Texas, and former economist-in-residence at Valve Software talks with EconTalk host R…
13 years, 6 months ago
Glenn Reynolds on Politics, the Constitution, and Technology
Episode 355
Glenn Reynolds of the University of Tennessee and blogger at Instapundit talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the political malaise in America…
13 years, 6 months ago
Cathy O'Neil on Wall St and Occupy Wall Street
Episode 354
Cathy O'Neil, data scientist and blogger at mathbabe.org, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about her journey from Wall Street to Occupy Wall Str…
13 years, 6 months ago
Louis Michael Seidman on the Constitution
Episode 353
Louis Michael Seidman of Georgetown University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the United States Constitution. Seidman argues that the we…
13 years, 7 months ago
Peter Boettke on Living Economics
Episode 352
Peter Boettke of George Mason University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his book, Living Economics. Boettke argues for embracing the tra…
13 years, 7 months ago
Kevin Kelly on the Future, Productivity, and the Quality of Life
Episode 351
Kevin Kelly talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about measuring productivity in the internet age and recent claims that the U.S. economy has entere…
13 years, 7 months ago
Esther Dyson on the Attention Economy and the Quantification of Everything
Episode 350
Esther Dyson talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the market for attention and how technology has changed, how much we pay attention to others…
13 years, 7 months ago
Morten Jerven on Measuring African Poverty and Progress
Episode 349
Morten Jerven of Simon Fraser University, author of Poor Numbers, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the quality of data coming out of Afric…
13 years, 7 months ago
Becky Pettit on the Prison Population, Survey Data and African-American Progress
Episode 348
Becky Pettit of the University of Washington and author of Invisible Men talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the growth of the prison populat…
13 years, 8 months ago
Lisa Turner on Organic Farming
Episode 347
Lisa Turner of Laughing Stock Farm talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about life as a small organic farmer. She describes her working day, the cha…
13 years, 8 months ago