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Back to SearchMichael Munger on Cultural Norms
Episode 174
Michael Munger of Duke University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about cultural norms--the subtle signals we send to each other in our daily i…
17 years, 2 months ago
David Brady on Health Care Reform, Public Opinion, and Party Politics
Episode 173
David Brady of Stanford University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about American public opinion on changing the health care system. Brady disc…
17 years, 2 months ago
Christopher Hitchens on George Orwell
Episode 172
Christopher Hitchens talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about George Orwell. Drawing on his book Why Orwell Matters, Hitchens talks about Orwell's…
17 years, 2 months ago
Eric Hanushek on Test-based Accountability, Federal Funding, and School Finance
Episode 171
Eric Hanushek of Stanford University's Hoover Institution talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the current state of education and education po…
17 years, 2 months ago
Paul Graham on Start-ups, Innovation, and Creativity
Episode 170
Paul Graham, essayist, programmer and partner in the y-combinator talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about start-ups, innovation, and creativity. …
17 years, 2 months ago
Peter Henry on Growth, Development, and Policy
Episode 169
Peter Blair Henry of Stanford University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about economic development. Henry compares and contrasts the policy an…
17 years, 3 months ago
John Taylor on the Financial Crisis
Episode 168
John Taylor of Stanford University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the fundamental causes of the financial crisis of 2008. Taylor argues …
17 years, 3 months ago
Justin Fox on the Rationality of Markets
Episode 167
Justin Fox, author of The Myth of the Rational Market, talks about the ideas in his book with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Fox traces the history of t…
17 years, 3 months ago
Paul Collier on Democracy and Violence
Episode 166
Paul Collier of Oxford University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in his new book, Wars, Guns, and Votes, a study of democracy …
17 years, 3 months ago
Mark Helprin on Copyright
Episode 165
Novelist Mark Helprin talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about copyright and the ideas in his book, Digital Barbarism. Helprin argues for an exten…
17 years, 4 months ago