Podcast Episodes

Robin Hanson on Signalling

Episode 104

Robin Hanson of George Mason University talks about the phenomenon of signalling--the ways people spend resources to convey information about ourselv…

18 years, 5 months ago

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Allan Meltzer on the Fed, Money, and Gold

Episode 103

Allan Meltzer of Carnegie Mellon University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about what the Fed really does and the political pressures facing t…

18 years, 5 months ago

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Chris Anderson on Free

Episode 102

Chris Anderson talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his next book project based on the idea that many delightful things in the world are incre…

18 years, 5 months ago

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John Nye on Wine, War and Trade

Episode 101

John Nye of George Mason University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his book, War, Wine, and Taxes. The conversation covers the history o…

18 years, 5 months ago

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William Bernstein on the History of Trade

Episode 100

William Bernstein talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the history of trade. Drawing on the insights from his recent book, A Splendid Exchange…

18 years, 6 months ago

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Russ Roberts on the Least Pleasant Jobs

Episode 99

EconTalk host Russ Roberts talks about the claim that for capitalism to succeed there have to be people at the bottom to do the unpleasant tasks and …

18 years, 6 months ago

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Diane Coyle on the Soulful Science

Episode 98

Diane Coyle talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in her new book, The Soulful Science: What Economists Really Do and Why it Matters.…

18 years, 6 months ago

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Christopher Coyne on Exporting Democracy after War

Episode 97

Christopher Coyne of West Virginia University and George Mason University's Mercatus Center talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his book, Aft…

18 years, 6 months ago

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Deirdre McCloskey on Capitalism and the Bourgeois Virtues

Episode 96

Deirdre McCloskey of the University of Illinois at Chicago and the author of The Bourgeois Virtues talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about capita…

18 years, 6 months ago

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Michael Munger on Subsidies and Externalities

Episode 95

Mike Munger of Duke University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the economics of subsidies. What is the economic argument for subsidies? W…

18 years, 7 months ago

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