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Back to SearchDon Boudreaux on Monetary Misunderstandings
Episode 246
Don Boudreaux of George Mason University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts on some of the common misunderstandings people have about prices, mone…
15 years, 7 months ago
Bruce Caldwell on Hayek
Episode 245
Bruce Caldwell of Duke University and the General Editor of the Collected Works of F. A. Hayek, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about Hayek, hi…
15 years, 7 months ago
Robin Hanson on the Technological Singularity
Episode 244
Robin Hanson of GMU talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the idea of a technological singularity--a sudden, large increase in the rate of grow…
15 years, 8 months ago
Peter Boettke on Mises
Episode 243
Pete Boettke of George Mason University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the life, work, and legacy of Ludwig von Mises. Boettke outlines …
15 years, 8 months ago
Joe Nocera on the Crisis and All the Devils Are Here
Episode 242
Joe Nocera, New York Times columnist and co-author with Bethany McLean of All the Devils Are Here, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the or…
15 years, 8 months ago
Wafaya Abdallah on Hair and Running a Small Business
Episode 241
Wafaya Abdallah of Oasis Hair Salon in Rockville, Maryland talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the challenges and rewards of running a small …
15 years, 8 months ago
George Selgin on the Fed
Episode 240
George Selgin, of the University of Georgia, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about whether the creation of the Federal Reserve in 1913 has been…
15 years, 8 months ago
Kevin Kelly on Technology and What Technology Wants
Episode 239
Kevin Kelly, author of What Technology Wants, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about technology and the ideas in the book. Kelly argues that tec…
15 years, 9 months ago
Nicholas Phillipson on Adam Smith
Episode 238
Nicholas Phillipson, author of Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life, talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the life of Adam Smith. Drawing on his rece…
15 years, 9 months ago
Robert Frank on Inequality
Episode 237
Robert Frank of Cornell University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about inequality. Is there a role for public policy in mitigating income ine…
15 years, 9 months ago