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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


Matt Stoller on Modern Monopolies

Brink Lindsey and Steven Teles on the Captured Economy

John Cogan on Entitlements and the High Cost of Good Intentions

Rachel Laudan on Food Waste

Simeon Djankov and Matt Warner on the Doing Business Report and Development Aid

Tim Harford on Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy

Anthony Gill on Tipping

Dennis Rasmussen on Hume and Smith and The Infidel and the Professor

Michael Munger on Permissionless Innovation

Jennifer Burns on Ayn Rand and the Goddess of the Market

Megan McArdle on Internet Shaming and Online Mobs

Tim O'Reilly on What's the Future

Robert Wright on Meditation, Mindfulness, and Why Buddhism is True

Philip Auerswald on the Rise of Populism

Gabriel Zucman on Inequality, Growth, and Distributional National Accounts

Gillian Hadfield on Law and Rules For a Flat World

Rob Reich on Foundations and Philanthropy

Benedict Evans on the Future of Cars

John McWhorter on the Evolution of Language and Words on the Move
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