

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


Richard Epstein on Regulation

Alain de Botton on the Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

Arnold Kling on Knowledge, Power, and Unchecked and Unbalanced

Daniel Pink on Drive, Motivation, and Incentives

Michael Munger on Private and Public Rent-Seeking (and Chilean Buses)

David Kennedy on the Great Depression and the New Deal

Robert Laughlin on the Future of Carbon and Climate

David Brady on the State of the Electorate

Robert Service on Leon Trotsky

John Taylor on the State of the Economy

Paul Gregory on Politics, Murder, and Love in Stalin's Kremlin

Arnold Kling on the Unseen World of Banking, Mortgages, and Government

Bryan Caplan on Hayek, Richter, and Socialism

Scott Sumner on Growth and Economic Policy

Johanna Blakley on Fashion and Intellectual Property

Daniel Okrent on Prohibition and His Book, Last Call

Louis Menand on Psychiatry

Gary Belsky on Journalism, Editing, and Trivia

Russ Roberts on the Crisis
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