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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


Abby Smith Rumsey on Remembering, Forgetting, and When We Are No More

Jason Zweig on Finance and the Devil's Financial Dictionary

David Beckworth on Money, Monetary Policy, and the Great Recession

James Bessen on Learning by Doing

Leif Wenar on Blood Oil

Pedro Domingos on Machine Learning and the Master Algorithm

Arnold Kling on Specialization and Trade

Alberto Alesina on Fiscal Policy and Austerity

Gary Belsky on the Origins of Sports

Robert Frank on Success and Luck

Richard Jones on Transhumanism

Jayson Lusk on Food, Technology, and Unnaturally Delicious

Marina Krakovsky on the Middleman Economy

David Autor on Trade, China, and U.S. Labor Markets

Will Davies on the Economics, Economists, and the Limits of Neoliberalism

Alison Wolf on Women, Inequality and the XX Factor

Matt Ridley on the Evolution of Everything

Adam Cifu on Ending Medical Reversal

Adam Ozimek on the Power of Econometrics and Data
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