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EconTalk Archives, 2008

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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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

1hr

Ranked #2

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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

1hr 6mins

Ranked #3

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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

1hr 7mins

Ranked #4

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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

1hr 3mins

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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

56mins

Ranked #6

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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

57mins

Ranked #7

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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

56mins

Ranked #8

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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

1hr 7mins

Ranked #9

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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

58mins

Ranked #10

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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

1hr 25mins

Ranked #11

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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

39mins

Ranked #12

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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

1hr 20mins

Ranked #13

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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

1hr 2mins

Ranked #14

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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

1hr 15mins

Ranked #15

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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

59mins

Ranked #16

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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

1hr 8mins

Ranked #17

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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

1hr 3mins

Ranked #18

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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

1hr 19mins

Ranked #19

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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

1hr 4mins

Ranked #20

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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

1hr 8mins

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