

EconTalk
EconTalk: Conversations for the Curious is an award-winning weekly podcast hosted by Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford's Hoover Institution. The eclectic guest list includes authors, doctors, psychologists, historians, philosophers, economists, and more. Learn how the health care system really works, the serenity that comes from humility, the challenge of interpreting data, how potato chips are made, what it's like to run an upscale Manhattan restaurant, what caused the 2008 financial crisis, the nature of consciousness, the conflicts and history of the Middle East, and more. EconTalk has been taking the Monday out of Mondays since 2006. All 1000+ episodes are available in the archive. Go to EconTalk.org for transcripts, related resources, and comments.
Episodes


Nassim Nicholas Taleb on the Nations, States, and Scale

Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan on Immigration Then and Now

A.J. Jacobs on Solving Life's Puzzles

Roosevelt Montás on Rescuing Socrates

Sridhar Ramaswamy on Google, Search, and Neeva

Matti Friedman on Leonard Cohen and the Yom Kippur War

Ian Leslie on Curiosity

Diane Coyle on Cogs, Monsters, and Better Economics

Marc Andreessen on Software, Immortality, and Bitcoin

Chris Blattman on Why We Fight

Dwayne Betts on Ellison, Levi, and Human Suffering

Michael Munger on Antitrust

Tyler Cowen on Reading

Russ Roberts on Education

Richard Gunderman on Greed, Adam Smith, and Leo Tolstoy

Pano Kanelos on Education and UATX

Robert Pindyck on Averting and Adapting to Climate Change

Maxine Clark on Building the Build-a-Bear Workshop

Angela Duckworth on Character
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