Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDaniel Pink on Drive, Motivation, and Incentives
Episode 226
Daniel Pink, author of Drive, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about drive, motivation, compensation, and incentives. Pink discusses the implica…
16 years ago
Michael Munger on Private and Public Rent-Seeking (and Chilean Buses)
Episode 225
Mike Munger of Duke University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about private and public rent-seeking. When firms compete for either private pro…
16 years ago
David Kennedy on the Great Depression and the New Deal
Episode 224
David Kennedy of Stanford University and the author of Freedom from Fear talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the Great Depression and its pol…
16 years ago
Robert Laughlin on the Future of Carbon and Climate
Episode 223
Robert Laughlin of Stanford University and the 1998 co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about energy use…
16 years ago
David Brady on the State of the Electorate
Episode 222
David Brady of Stanford University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the state of the electorate and what current and past political scienc…
16 years, 1 month ago
Robert Service on Leon Trotsky
Episode 221
Robert Service of Stanford University's Hoover Institution and the University of Oxford talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the life and deat…
16 years, 1 month ago
John Taylor on the State of the Economy
Episode 220
John Taylor of Stanford University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the state of the economy. Is the economy recovering? What policies hav…
16 years, 1 month ago
Paul Gregory on Politics, Murder, and Love in Stalin's Kremlin
Episode 219
Paul Gregory of the University of Houston and a Research Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts abo…
16 years, 1 month ago
Arnold Kling on the Unseen World of Banking, Mortgages, and Government
Episode 218
Arnold Kling of EconLog talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the weird world of banking. Why do mortgages look the way they do? What do banks …
16 years, 1 month ago
Bryan Caplan on Hayek, Richter, and Socialism
Episode 217
Bryan Caplan of George Mason University and blogger at EconLog talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about two books: Eugene Richter's Pictures of the …
16 years, 2 months ago