Ranked #1
Shiller on Housing and Bubbles
Shiller on Housing and Bubbles
Robert Shiller of Yale University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the current housing mess and related finan... Read more
15 Sep 2008
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1hr
Ranked #2
Sowell on Economic Facts and Fallacies
Sowell on Economic Facts and Fallacies
Thomas Sowell of Stanford University's Hoover Institution talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in his n... Read more
25 Feb 2008
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1hr 6mins
Ranked #3
Ellis on American Creation and the Founding
Ellis on American Creation and the Founding
Joseph Ellis, of Mt. Holyoke College and author of American Creation, talks about the triumphs and tragedies of the foun... Read more
8 Sep 2008
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1hr 7mins
Ranked #4
Kling on Credit Default Swaps, Counterparty Risk, and the Political Economy of Financial Regulation
Kling on Credit Default Swaps, Counterparty Risk, and the Political Economy of Financial Regulation
Arnold Kling of EconLog talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the role of credit default swaps and counterparty ri... Read more
10 Nov 2008
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1hr 3mins
Ranked #5
Munger on the Political Economy of Public Transportation
Munger on the Political Economy of Public Transportation
Michael Munger of Duke University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about Munger's recent trip to Chile and the chan... Read more
7 Jul 2008
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56mins
Ranked #6
Karol Boudreaux on Wildlife, Property, and Poverty in Africa
Karol Boudreaux on Wildlife, Property, and Poverty in Africa
Karol Boudreaux, Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, talks with EconTalk host Russ... Read more
22 Sep 2008
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57mins
Ranked #7
Richard Epstein on Happiness, Inequality, and Envy
Richard Epstein on Happiness, Inequality, and Envy
Richard Epstein of the University of Chicago talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the relationship between happin... Read more
3 Nov 2008
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56mins
Ranked #8
Hanushek on Education and School Finance
Hanushek on Education and School Finance
Eric Hanushek of Stanford University's Hoover Institution talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the strange evolut... Read more
14 Jul 2008
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1hr 7mins
Ranked #9
Rauch on the Volt, Risk, and Corporate Culture
Rauch on the Volt, Risk, and Corporate Culture
Jonathan Rauch, of the Brookings Institution and the Atlantic Monthly, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the e... Read more
1 Sep 2008
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58mins
Ranked #10
Hanson on Signalling
Hanson on Signalling
Robin Hanson of George Mason University talks about the phenomenon of signalling--the ways people spend resources to con... Read more
26 May 2008
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1hr 25mins
Ranked #11
Varian on Technology
Varian on Technology
Hal Varian, Google's Chief Economist and University of California at Berkeley professor, talks with Russ Roberts about G... Read more
28 Jul 2008
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39mins
Ranked #12
Meltzer on the Fed, Money, and Gold
Meltzer on the Fed, Money, and Gold
Allan Meltzer of Carnegie Mellon University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about what the Fed really does and the... Read more
19 May 2008
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1hr 20mins
Ranked #13
Munger on Subsidies and Externalities
Munger on Subsidies and Externalities
Mike Munger of Duke University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the economics of subsidies. What is the econo... Read more
24 Mar 2008
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1hr 2mins
Ranked #14
McKenzie on Prices
McKenzie on Prices
Richard McKenzie of the University California, Irvine and the author of Why Popcorn Costs So Much at the Movies and Othe... Read more
23 Jun 2008
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1hr 15mins
Ranked #15
McCloskey on Capitalism and the Bourgeois Virtues
McCloskey on Capitalism and the Bourgeois Virtues
Deirdre McCloskey of the University of Illinois at Chicago and the author of The Bourgeois Virtues talks with EconTalk h... Read more
31 Mar 2008
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59mins
Ranked #16
Cowen on Monetary Policy
Cowen on Monetary Policy
Tyler Cowen of George Mason University and Marginal Revolution talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about money, inflat... Read more
17 Mar 2008
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1hr 8mins
Ranked #17
Don Boudreaux on Energy Prices
Don Boudreaux on Energy Prices
Don Boudreaux of George Mason University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the recent surge in energy prices. ... Read more
16 Jun 2008
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1hr 3mins
Ranked #18
Don Boudreaux on Globalization and Trade Deficits
Don Boudreaux on Globalization and Trade Deficits
Don Boudreaux, of George Mason University, talks about the ideas in his book, Globalization. He discusses comparative ad... Read more
21 Jan 2008
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1hr 19mins
Ranked #19
Nye on Wine, War and Trade
Nye on Wine, War and Trade
John Nye of George Mason University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his book, War, Wine, and Taxes. The conv... Read more
5 May 2008
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1hr 4mins
Ranked #20
Rivers on Polling
Rivers on Polling
Doug Rivers of Stanford University and YouGov.com talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the world of political pol... Read more
21 Jul 2008
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1hr 8mins