Ranked #1
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
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1hr 4mins
Ranked #2
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
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1hr 2mins
Ranked #3
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
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1hr 8mins
Ranked #4
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
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1hr 8mins
Ranked #5
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
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1hr 9mins
Ranked #6
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
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1hr 8mins
Ranked #7
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
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58mins
Ranked #8
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
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1hr
Ranked #9
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
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1hr 2mins
Ranked #10
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
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1hr 4mins
Ranked #11
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
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1hr 8mins
Ranked #12
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
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1hr 24mins
Ranked #13
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
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1hr 2mins
Ranked #14
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
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1hr 12mins
Ranked #15
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
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59mins
Ranked #16
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
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1hr 4mins
Ranked #17
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
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1hr 1min
Ranked #18
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
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1hr 2mins
Ranked #19
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
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1hr 3mins
Ranked #20
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
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1hr 11mins