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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


Andrew Gelman on Social Science, Small Samples, and the Garden of the Forking Paths

Robert Whaples on the Economics of Pope Francis

Nicholas Crafts, Luis Garicano, and Luigi Zingales on the Economic Future of Europe

Paul Bloom on Empathy

Tom Wainwright on Narconomics

Jim Epstein on Bitcoin, the Blockchain, and Freedom in Latin America

Gary Taubes on the Case Against Sugar

George Borjas on Immigration and We Wanted Workers

Sam Quinones on Heroin, the Opioid Epidemic, and Dreamland

Michael Munger on the Basic Income Guarantee

Robert Hall on Recession, Stagnation, and Monetary Policy

Mark Warshawsky on Compensation, Health Care Costs, and Inequality

Chris Blattman on Sweatshops

Terry Anderson on Native American Economics

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita on the Spoils of War

Thomas Leonard on Race, Eugenics, and Illiberal Reformers

Doug Lemov on Reading

Erik Hurst on Work, Play, and the Dynamics of U.S. Labor Markets

Tim Harford on the Virtues of Disorder and Messy
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