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EconTalk Archives, 2014

EconTalk is an award-winning weekly talk show about economics in daily life. Featured guests include renowned economics professors, Nobel Prize winners, and exciting speakers on all kinds of topical m... Read more

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William Easterly on the Tyranny of Experts

William Easterly on the Tyranny of Experts

William Easterly of New York University and author of The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten R... Read more

16 Jun 2014

1hr 4mins

Ranked #2

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Bryan Caplan on College, Signaling and Human Capital

Bryan Caplan on College, Signaling and Human Capital

Bryan Caplan of George Mason University and blogger at EconLog talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the value of a ... Read more

7 Apr 2014

1hr 2mins

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Marc Andreessen on Venture Capital and the Digital Future

Marc Andreessen on Venture Capital and the Digital Future

Marc Andreessen, venture capitalist and co-creator of the early web browser Mosaic, talks with EconTalk host Russ Robert... Read more

19 May 2014

1hr 8mins

Ranked #4

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Yuval Levin on Burke, Paine, and the Great Debate

Yuval Levin on Burke, Paine, and the Great Debate

Yuval Levin, author of The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left, talks to EconTalk ... Read more

26 May 2014

1hr 8mins

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Daron Acemoglu on Inequality, Institutions, and Piketty

Daron Acemoglu on Inequality, Institutions, and Piketty

Daron Acemoglu, the Elizabeth and James Killian Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, talks with EconT... Read more

3 Nov 2014

1hr 9mins

Ranked #6

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Richard Epstein on Classical Liberalism, Libertarianism, and Lochner

Richard Epstein on Classical Liberalism, Libertarianism, and Lochner

Richard Epstein, of New York University and Stanford University's Hoover Institution, talks with EconTalk host Russ Robe... Read more

10 Mar 2014

1hr 8mins

Ranked #7

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Diane Coyle on GDP

Diane Coyle on GDP

Diane Coyle, author of GDP: A Brief but Affectionate History, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the history of... Read more

28 Apr 2014

58mins

Ranked #8

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Hansen on Risk, Ambiguity, and Measurement

Hansen on Risk, Ambiguity, and Measurement

Lars Peter Hansen of the University of Chicago and Nobel Laureate in economics, talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts abou... Read more

30 Jun 2014

1hr

Ranked #9

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Robert Solow on Growth and the State of Economics

Robert Solow on Growth and the State of Economics

Robert Solow, Professor Emeritus at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Nobel Laureate, talks with EconTalk host R... Read more

27 Oct 2014

1hr 2mins

Ranked #10

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John Christy and Kerry Emanuel on Climate Change

John Christy and Kerry Emanuel on Climate Change

John Christy of the University of Alabama in Huntsville and Kerry Emanuel of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology t... Read more

24 Mar 2014

1hr 4mins

Ranked #11

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Vernon Smith on Adam Smith and the Human Enterprise

Vernon Smith on Adam Smith and the Human Enterprise

Nobel Laureate Vernon L. Smith of Chapman University talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about how Adam Smith's book, Th... Read more

17 Nov 2014

1hr 8mins

Ranked #12

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Jeffrey Sachs on the Millennium Villages Project

Jeffrey Sachs on the Millennium Villages Project

Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University and the Millennium Villages Project talks with EconTalk host about poverty in Afric... Read more

17 Mar 2014

1hr 24mins

Ranked #13

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Steven Teles on Kludgeocracy

Steven Teles on Kludgeocracy

Steven Teles of Johns Hopkins talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about kludgeocracy, a term Teles coined in a Nationa... Read more

14 Apr 2014

1hr 2mins

Ranked #14

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Velasquez-Manoff on Autoimmune Disease, Parasites, and Complexity

Velasquez-Manoff on Autoimmune Disease, Parasites, and Complexity

Moises Velasquez-Manoff, author of An Epidemic of Absence, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his book--a discu... Read more

3 Mar 2014

1hr 12mins

Ranked #15

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Emily Oster on Infant Mortality

Emily Oster on Infant Mortality

Emily Oster of the University of Chicago talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about why U.S. infant mortality is twice ... Read more

24 Nov 2014

59mins

Ranked #16

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Charles Marohn on Strong Towns, Urban Development, and the Future of American Cities

Charles Marohn on Strong Towns, Urban Development, and the Future of American Cities

Charles Marohn, President of Strong Towns, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts urban development and what makes a stro... Read more

12 May 2014

1hr 4mins

Ranked #17

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Gregory Zuckerman on the Frackers and the Energy Revolution

Gregory Zuckerman on the Frackers and the Energy Revolution

Gregory Zuckerman of the Wall Street Journal and author of The Frackers: The Outrageous Inside Story of the New Billiona... Read more

23 Jun 2014

1hr 1min

Ranked #18

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Luigi Zingales on Incentives and the Potential Capture of Economists by Special Interests

Luigi Zingales on Incentives and the Potential Capture of Economists by Special Interests

Luigi Zingales of the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about Zinga... Read more

20 Oct 2014

1hr 2mins

Ranked #19

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Michael Munger on the Sharing Economy

Michael Munger on the Sharing Economy

Mike Munger of Duke University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the sharing economy--companies like Uber, Air... Read more

7 Jul 2014

1hr 3mins

Ranked #20

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Chris Blattman on Cash, Poverty, and Development

Chris Blattman on Cash, Poverty, and Development

Chris Blattman of Columbia University talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about a radical approach to fighting poverty i... Read more

21 Jul 2014

1hr 11mins

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