List of EconTalk episodes
This is a list of the episodes of EconTalk, a weekly podcast hosted by Russ Roberts at George Mason University. Roberts interviews a guest on topics in economics.[1] EconTalk is hosted by the Library of Economics and Liberty (sponsored by the Liberty Fund). A list of episodes is given below, including several Nobel Prize laureates on EconTalk.
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Episodes
2006
No. | Title | Guest | Air date |
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1 | "The Economics of Parenting" | Donald Cox | March 16, 2006 |
Don Cox of Boston College talks about parenting and incentive compatibility. | |||
2 | "Ticket Scalping and Opportunity Cost" | Michael Munger | April 4, 2006 |
Michael Munger of Duke University talks about the economics of ticket scalping, examining our reactions to free and found goods, gifts, e-Bay, value in use vs. value in exchange, and opportunity costs. | |||
3 | "The Economics of Sports" | Raymond D. Sauer | April 18, 2006 |
Skip Sauer of Clemson University talks about the economic impact of sports stadiums, how to create incentives in baseball, football and soccer, and the virtues and failings of socialism in sports. | |||
4 | "The Economics of Inheritance" | Donald Cox | May 4, 2006 |
Don Cox of Boston College discusses the economics of inheritance, estates and the family. He looks at how parents divide their time and money between their children and our concerns for what people think of us after we are gone. | |||
5 | "The Economics of Medical Malpractice" | Alex Tabarrok | May 30, 2006 |
Alex Tabarrok of George Mason University talks about medical malpractice, why insurance premiums vary by state, price gouging by insurance companies, the politics of being a judge and an idea for a new TV show using a tried-and-true formula: American Victim. | |||
6 | "The Economics of Organ Donations" | Richard Epstein | June 5, 2006 |
Richard Epstein, law professor at the University of Chicago, discusses the market for kidneys. Should people be allowed to buy and sell kidneys? How might a market for kidneys actually work in practice? Should mercenary motives be allowed to trump altruism? | |||
7 | "Intermittent Explosive Disorder: Mental Illness or Made-Up Malady?" | Russ Roberts | June 16, 2006 |
Russ Roberts himself looks at the economics and science of intermittent explosive disorder – violent rage out of proportion to its cause. Was the recent study that discovered this problem good science or unreliable? Was the media coverage of the study accurate? How do state insurance regulations create incentives for intellectual dishonesty? | |||
8 | "Giving Away Money: An Economist's Guide to Political Life" | Michael Munger | June 23, 2006 |
Mike Munger of Duke University talks about the economics of politics, rent-seeking, lobbying and the sometimes perverse incentives of the political world. | |||
9 | "An Interview with Gary Becker" | Gary Becker* | July 10, 2006 |
Gary Becker talks about the challenges of being an intellectual maverick, the economic approach to human behavior, the influences of Adam Smith and Alfred Marshall on his work and his optimism for the future of economics. | |||
10 | "Barro on Growth" | Robert Barro | July 17, 2006 |
Robert Barro, Harvard University Professor and Hoover Institution Senior Fellow, talks about the economics of growth, what the developed world can do to help poor people around the world, and the role of US assets and the dollar in world finance. | |||
11 | "Making Schools Better: A Conversation with Rick Hanushek" | Eric Hanushek | July 24, 2006 |
Rick Hanushek, of Stanford University, talk about why the standard reforms such as more spending or better educated teachers have failed and what needs to be done in the future. | |||
12 | "Cogan on Improving the Health Care System" | John F. Cogan | July 31, 2006 |
Stanford University's John Cogan talks about what's wrong with America's health care system and how to make it right. He also discusses economics of health care, the tax treatment of employer-provided insurance, the role of state-mandated insurance requirements and the political economy of health care reform. | |||
13 | "Chris Anderson and the Long Tail" | Chris Anderson | August 7, 2006 |
Chris Anderson of Wired Magazine talks about the ideas in his book, The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More. Topics include the weird world of internet distribution and production, how the Sears catalog of the 1890s was the predecessor to Amazon books in the 1990s, the economics of choice and the role of filters, and the challenges of wrapping our minds around emergent phenomena. | |||
14 | "The Political Economy of Power" | Bruce Bueno de Mesquita | August 14, 2006 |
Hoover Institution and NYU political scientist Bruce Bueno de Mesquita talks about his theory of political power – how dictators and democratically elected leaders respond to the political forces that keep them in office. The conversation covers topics such as the evil political genius of Lenin, the dark side of US foreign aid, the sinister machinations of Leopold II of Belgium, the natural resource curse, the British monarchy in the 11th century, term limits and the inevitable failure of the standard methods of fighting world poverty. | |||
15 | "Milton Friedman on Money" | Milton Friedman* | August 28, 2006 |
Russ Roberts talks with Milton Friedman about his research and views on inflation, the Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan and Ben Bernanke, and what the future holds. | |||
16 | "Friedman on Capitalism and Freedom" | Milton Friedman* | September 4, 2006 |
Part two of a conversation with Milton Friedman about the radical ideas he put forward almost 50 years ago in Capitalism and Freedom. | |||
17 | "Legislators vs. Wal-Mart" | Richard Epstein | September 11, 2006 |
Richard Epstein discusses the attempts to use legislation to handicap Wal-Mart. He also discusses the evolution of the union movement and the constitutionality of various legislative attacks on Wal-Mart. | |||
18 | "The Economics of Paternalism" | Edward Glaeser | September 18, 2006 |
Economist Ed Glaeser of Harvard University talks about the dangers of soft paternalism – various forms of government regulation that fall short of outright bans or taxes but that are meant to correct alleged flaws in the choices we make. Glaeser argues that while individuals do inevitably make mistakes, so do politicians, and the concentration of power in the hands of the few makes government "benevolence" particularly dangerous. | |||
19 | "The Economics of Obesity" | Darius Lakdawalla | September 25, 2006 |
Darius Lakdawalla of RAND and the National Bureau of Economic Research talks about the economics of obesity, how much fatter are Americans and why. How much is due to the spread of fast food vs. the falling price of food and the change in the U.S. workplace? | |||
20 | "Private vs. Public Risk-Taking" | Michael Munger | October 3, 2006 |
Mike Munger discusses the differences between public and private risk-taking. Their conversation includes the history of Honda, the Apple computer and even the use of turkey carcasses as an energy source. He also discusses why the public is skeptical of good new ideas but often embraces bad new ideas. | |||
21 | "The Economics of Religion" | Larry Iannaccone | October 9, 2006 |
Larry Iannaccone of George Mason University talks about the economics of religion. Iannaccone explains why Americans are more religious than Europeans, why Americans became more religious after the colonies became the United States and why it can be rational and rewarding to make religious sacrifices. | |||
22 | "Walter Williams on Life, Liberty and Economics" | Walter E. Williams | October 16, 2006 |
Professor, Radio Host, and Syndicated Columnist Walter Williams of George Mason University talks about his early days as an economist, his controversial view of the Civil War, the insights of Adam Smith and Friedrich Hayek, and some deep but simple economic principles. | |||
23 | "The Economics of Moneyball" | Skip Sauer | October 23, 2006 |
Skip Sauer of Clemson University discusses the economics of Michael Lewis's Moneyball. (Lewis claims that the Oakland Athletics [A's] found an undervalued asset – the ability of a baseball player to draw a walk – and used that insight to succeed while spending less money than their rivals.) Asking whether this is true, Sauer tries and answer the question and lots of others along the way. How competitive is the baseball industry? Why do some baseball skills get more attention than others? How important is defensive ability? He also discusses why Kevin Youkilis is a good lead-off hitter and some of the peculiar incentives facing baseball teams and owners. | |||
24 | "Clint Bolick Defends Judicial Activism" | Clint Bolick | October 31, 2006 |
Clint Bolick, co-founder of the Institute for Justice and President of the Alliance for School Choice makes the case for judicial activism. He discusses school choice, interstate wine sales, the Kelo eminent domain case and the roles that the Supreme Court and the Constitution can and should play in securing economic liberty. | |||
25 | "Richard Thaler on Libertarian Paternalism" | Richard Thaler | November 6, 2006 |
Richard Thaler of the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business defends the idea of libertarian paternalism – how government might use the insights of behavioral economics to help citizens make better choices. Host Roberts accepts the premise that individuals make imperfect choices but challenges Thaler on the likelihood that government, in practice, will improve matters. They also discuss the design of Sweden's social security system, organ donations and whether professors at Cornell University are more or less like everyday people. | |||
26 | "Peltzman on Regulation" | Sam Peltzman | November 13, 2006 |
Sam Peltzman of the University of Chicago talks about his views on safety, regulation, unintended consequences and the political economy of bad regulation. The focus is on his studies of automobile safety and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) pharmaceutical regulation and the perverse incentives that even good intentions can produce. | |||
27 | "Engerman on Slavery" | Stanley Engerman | November 21, 2006 |
Stanley Engerman of the University of Rochester talks about slavery throughout world history, the role it played (or didn't play) in the Civil War and the incentives facing slaves and slave owners. Engerman is the co-author of Time on the Cross (with Robert Fogel) and Slavery, Emancipation, and Freedom (LSU Press, 2007). | |||
28 | "Postrel on Style" | Virginia Postrel | November 27, 2006 |
Author and journalist Virginia Postrel talks about how business competes for customers using style and beauty, going beyond price and the standard measures of quality. She looks at the role of appearance in our daily lives and the change from earlier times when style and beauty were luxuries accessible only to the wealthy. She also talks about her donation of a kidney to a friend and how that affected the intensity of her feelings about the policies surrounding organ donations. | |||
29 | "Caplan on Discrimination and Labor Markets" | Bryan Caplan | December 4, 2006 |
Bryan Caplan discusses the economics of discrimination and government's regulation of labor markets. Topics include the role of the profit motive in reducing or eliminating discrimination and the role of government, particularly in European labor markets. When does government regulation reduce or enforce discrimination? How do other labor market regulations affect employment and unemployment? What is the impact on the European and American standard of living? Does money buy happiness? Does it depend on whether it is earned or received as welfare? | |||
30 | "Boudreaux on Law and Legislation" | Donald J. Boudreaux | December 11, 2006 |
Don Boudreaux of George Mason University talks about the fundamental principles of economics and civilization: spontaneous order and law. Drawing on volume one of Friedrich Hayek's classic, Law, Legislation and Liberty, Boudreaux talks about the distinction between law and legislation, the appropriate role of judges, and how the fulfillment of our expectations allows us to pursue our goals and dreams. | |||
31 | "Boettke on Katrina and the Economics of Disaster" | Peter Boettke | December 18, 2006 |
Pete Boettke of George Mason University talks about the role of government and voluntary efforts in relieving suffering during and after a crisis such as Katrina. Drawing on field research he is directing into the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Boettke talks about the role of what he calls "civil society" – the informal, voluntary associations we make as individuals with each other to create community. |
2007
No. | Title | Guest | Air date |
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32 | "Munger on Price Gouging" | Michael Munger | January 8, 2007 |
Mike Munger of Duke University recounts the harrowing (and fascinating) experience of being in the path of a hurricane and the economic forces that were set in motion as a result. One of the most important is the import of urgent supplies when thousands of people are without electricity. Should prices be allowed to rise freely or should the government restrict prices? | |||
33 | "Bruce Yandle on Bootleggers and Baptists" | Bruce Yandle | January 15, 2007 |
Bruce Yandle of Clemson University talks about why politics makes such strange bedfellows and the often peculiar alliance of self-interested special interests with more altruistic motives. He explains some of the seemingly perverse but politically understandable effects of the Clean Air Act, the tobacco settlement and other regulation. | |||
34 | "Greg Mankiw on Gasoline Taxes, Keynes and Macroeconomics" | Greg Mankiw | January 22, 2007 |
Greg Mankiw of Harvard University and Greg Mankiw's Blog talks about the state of modern macroeconomics and Keynes vs. the Chicago School. He defends his proposal to raise gasoline taxes and discusses the politics of tax policy. | |||
35 | "Michael Lewis on the Hidden Economics of Baseball and Football" | Michael Lewis | January 29, 2007 |
Michael Lewis talks about the economics of sports – the financial and decision-making side of baseball and football – and books on baseball and football: Moneyball and The Blind Side. He also discusses the implications of Moneyball for the movie business and other industries, the peculiar ways that Moneyball influenced the strategies of baseball teams, the corruption of college football, and the challenge and tragedy of kids who live on the streets with little education or prospects for success. | |||
36 | "Lucas on Growth, Poverty and Business Cycles" | Robert Lucas* | February 5, 2007 |
Bob Lucas, Nobel Laureate and professor of economics at the University of Chicago talks about wealth and poverty, what affects living standards around the world and over time, the causes of business cycles and the role of the money in our economy. He also talks about Jane Jacobs, immigration, and Milton Friedman's influence on his career. | |||
37 | "Bruce Bueno de Mesquita on Democracies and Dictatorships" | Bruce Bueno de Mesquita | February 12, 2007 |
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita of NYU and Stanford University's Hoover Institution talks about the incentives facing dictators and democratic leaders. Both have to face competition from rivals. Both try to please their constituents and cronies to stay in power. He applies his views to foreign aid, the Middle East, Venezuela, the potential for China's evolution to a more democratic system, and Cuba. He also talks about why true democracy is more than just elections – it depends crucially on freedom of assembly and freedom of the press. | |||
38 | "Richard Epstein on Property Rights and Drug Patents" | Richard Epstein | February 19, 2007 |
Richard Epstein of the University of Chicago and Stanford University's Hoover Institution talks about property rights, drug patents, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the ideas in his book, Overdose: How Excessive Government Regulation Stifles Pharmaceutical Innovation. | |||
39 | "Viviana Zelizer on Money and Intimacy" | Viviana Zelizer | February 26, 2007 |
Viviana Zelizer, Princeton University sociologist, talks about the ideas in her book, The Purchase of Intimacy. Does money ruin intimacy? Does intimacy ruin our commercial transactions? Zelizer and host Russ Roberts have a conversation on the sometimes contentious border between economics and sociology. | |||
40 | "Easterbrook on the American Standard of Living" | Gregg Easterbrook | March 5, 2007 |
Author Gregg Easterbrook talks about the ideas in his book, The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse. Questions concern: How has life changed in America over the last century? Is the average person getting ahead or are the rich taking all the gains? Easterbrook argues that life is better for the average American in almost every dimension. The paradox is that despite those gains, we don't seem much happier. | |||
41 | "Cowen on Liberty, Art, Food and Everything Else in Between" | Tyler Cowen | March 12, 2007 |
Tyler Cowen, co-blogger (with Alex Tabarrok) at MarginalRevolution.com, talks about liberty, global warming, using the courts vs. regulation to protect people, the challenges of leading a country out of poverty, the political economy of cuisine, and a quick overview of the Washington, D.C. art museum scene. | |||
42 | "David Leonhardt on the Media" | David Leonhardt | March 19, 2007 |
David Leonhardt, of the New York Times, about media bias, competition between old and new media, global warming, and the role of information as an incentive to provide better health care. | |||
43 | "Kevin Kelly on the Future of the Web and Everything Else" | Kevin Kelly | March 26, 2007 |
Author Kevin Kelly talks about the role of technology in our lives, the future of the web, how to time travel, the wisdom of the hive, the economics of reputation, the convergence of the biological and the mechanical, and his impact on the movies The Matrix and Minority Report. | |||
44 | "Mike Munger on the Division of Labor" | Michael Munger | April 2, 2007 |
Mike Munger, of Duke University, about specialization, the role of technology in aiding specialization and how the division of labor creates wealth. | |||
45 | "Bogle on Investing" | John C. Bogle | April 9, 2007 |
John Bogle, founder of the Vanguard Group and creator of the index mutual fund, talks about the Great Depression, the riskiness of bond funds, how he created the Index 500 mutual fund (now the largest single mutual fund in the world), how the study of economics changed his life and ours, and Sarbanes-Oxley. At the end of the conversation, he reflects on his life and career. | |||
46 | "Boudreaux on the Economics of "Buy Local"" | Donald J. Boudreaux | April 16, 2007 |
Proponents of buying local argue that it is better to buy from the local hardware store owner and nearby farmer than from the Big Box chain store or the grocery store headquartered out of town because the money from the purchase is more likely to "stay in the local economy." Don Boudreaux of George Mason University talks about the economics of this idea. Is it better to buy local than from a seller based out of town? Is it better to buy American than to buy foreign products? Does the money matter? In this conversation, Boudreaux and Roberts pierce through the veil of money to discuss what trade, whether local, national, or international, really accomplishes. |
2007 (continued)
- April
- Alvin Rabushka on The Flat Tax (4/23)
- Nassim Taleb on Black Swans (4/30)
- May
- John Allison on Strategy, Profits, and Self-Interest (5/7)
- Cass Sunstein on Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge (5/14)
- Vernon L. Smith* on Markets and Experimental Economics (5/21)
- Robin Hanson on Health (5/28)
- June
- Amity Shlaes on The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression (6/4)
- Daniel H. Pink on A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future (6/11)
- David Weinberger on Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder (6/18)
- Bryan Caplan on The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies (6/25)
- July
- Michael Munger on Recycling (7/2)
- Ed Leamer on Outsourcing and Globalization (7/9)
- Ticket Prices and Scalping (7/16)
- Bruce Bueno de Mesquita on The Strategy of Campaigning: Lessons from Ronald Reagan and Boris Yeltsin (7/23)
- David R. Henderson on Disagreeable Economists (7/30)
- August
- Eric Hanushek on Educational Quality and Economic Growth (8/7)
- Barry Weingast on A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History (8/13)
- Deborah M. Gordon on Ants at Work: How an Insect Society is Organized (8/20)
- Paul Romer on Growth (8/27)
- September
- George Schultz on Economics, Human Rights and the Fall of the Soviet Union (9/3)
- Tyler Cowen on Discover Your Inner Economist: Use Incentives to Fall in Love, Survive Your Next Meeting, and Motivate Your Dentist (9/10)
- Richard Epstein on Property rights, Zoning and Kelo v. City of New London (9/17)
- Michael Munger and Russ Roberts on Recycling, Peak Oil and Steroids (9/24)
- October
- Donald J. Boudreaux on Market Failure, Government failure and the Economics of Antitrust Regulation (10/1)
- Thomas K. McCraw on Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction (10/8)
- Robert H. Frank on Economics Education and The Economic Naturalist: In Search of Solutions to Everyday Enigmas (10/15)
- Ian Ayres on Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart (10/22)
- Bruce Yandle on the Tragedy of the Commons and the Implications for Environmental Regulation (10/29)
- November
- Arnold Kling on Crisis of Abundance: Rethinking How We Pay for Health Care (11/5)
- Joel Waldfogel on Markets, Choice, and The Tyranny of the Market (11/12)
- Henry J. Aaron on Health Care Costs (11/15)
- Cass Sunstein on Worst-Case Scenarios (11/19)
- Daniel Botkin on Discordant Harmonies: A New Ecology for the Twenty-first Century and No Man's Garden: Thoreau and a New Vision for Civilization and Nature (11/26)
- December
- Michael Munger on Fair Trade and Free Trade (12/3)
- Peter Boettke on Austrian Economics (12/10)
- Karol Boudreaux on Property rights and Incentives in Africa (12/17)
- William Duggan on Strategic Intuition: The Creative Spark in Human Achievement (12/24)
2008
- January
- Edward Castronova on Exodus to the Virtual World: How Online Fun Is Changing Reality (1/7)
- Michael Munger on the Nature of the Firm (1/14)
- Donald J. Boudreaux on Globalization and Trade Deficits (1/21)
- Paul Collier on The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It (1/28)
- February
- Daniel B. Klein on Coordination and Cooperation (2/4)
- William Easterly on The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good and The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics (2/11)
- Timothy Brook on Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World (2/18)
- Thomas Sowell on Economic Facts and Fallacies (2/25)
- March
- Vernon L. Smith* on Rationality in Economics: Constructivist and Ecological Forms (3/3)
- Stephen Marglin on The Dismal Science: How Thinking Like an Economist Undermines Community (3/10)
- Tyler Cowen on Monetary Policy (3/17)
- Michael Munger on Subsidies and Externalities (3/25)
- Deirdre McCloskey on Capitalism and The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce (3/31)
- April
- Christopher Coyne on After War: The Political Economy of Exporting Democracy (4/7)
- Diane Coyle on The Soulful Science: What Economists Really Do and Why it Matters (4/14)
- Russ Roberts on the Least Pleasant Jobs (4/21)
- William J. Bernstein on A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World (4/28)
- May
- John Nye on War, Wine, and Taxes: The Political Economy of Anglo-French Trade, 1689-1900 (5/5)
- Chris Anderson on Free: The Future of a Radical Price (5/12)
- Allan H. Meltzer on the Fed, Money, and Gold (5/19)
- Robin Hanson on Signalling (5/26)
- June
- Gene Epstein on Gold, the Fed, and Money (6/2)
- Steve Cole on the market for new cars (6/9)
- Donald J. Boudreaux on Energy Prices (6/16)
- Richard McKenzie on Why Popcorn Costs So Much at the Movies and Other Pricing Puzzles (6/23)
- Arnold Kling on Crisis of Abundance: Rethinking How We Pay for Health Care (6/30)
- July
- Michael Munger on the Political Economy of Public Transportation (7/7)
- Eric Hanushek on Courting Failure: How School Finance Lawsuits Exploit Judges' Good Intentions and Harm Our Children (7/14)
- Doug Rivers on polling (7/21)
- Hal Varian on Technology (7/28)
- August
- Robert Barro on Disasters (8/4)
- Bruce Bueno de Mesquita on Iran and threats to U.S. security (The Logic of Political Survival) (8/11)
- John Taylor on Monetary Policy (8/18)
- Russ Roberts on The Price of Everything (8/25)
- September
- Jonathan Rauch on the Chevrolet Volt, Risk, and Corporate Culture (9/1)
- Joseph Ellis on American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic (9/8)
- Robert J. Shiller on The Subprime Solution: How Today's Global Financial Crisis Happened, and What to Do About It and Macro Markets: Creating Institutions for Managing Society's Largest Economic Risks (9/15)
- Karol Boudreaux on Wildlife, Property, and Poverty in Africa (9/22)
- Arnold Kling on Freddie and Fannie and the Recent History of the U.S. Housing Market (9/29)
- October
- William J. Bernstein on Inequality (10/6)
- Patri Friedman on Seasteading (10/13)
- Clay Shirky on Coase, Collaboration and Here Comes Everybody (10/20)
- Michael Munger on Middlemen (10/27)
- November
- Richard Epstein on Happiness, Inequality, and Envy (11/3)
- Arnold Kling on Credit Default Swaps, Counterparty Risk, and the Political Economy of Financial Regulation (11/10)
- George Selgin on The Theory of Free Banking: Money Supply under Competitive Note Issue (11/17)
- Thomas Hazlett on Telecommunications(11/24)
- December
- Eric Rauchway on The Great Depression and the New Deal: A Very Short Introduction (12/1)
- Steven Lipstein on Hospitals (12/8)
- Robert Higgs on Depression, War, and Cold War (12/15)
- George Srour on Education, African Schools, and Building Tomorrow (12/22)
2009
- January
- Peter Boettke on the Austrian Perspective on Business Cycles and Monetary Policy (1/5)
- Steve Fazzari on Keynesian Economics (1/12)
- Eric Raymond on Hacking, Open Source, and The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary (1/19)
- Russ Roberts on Truth and Economics (with Robin Hanson as host) (1/26)
- February
- John Cochrane on the Financial Crisis (2/2)
- Daron Acemoğlu on the Financial Crisis (2/9)
- Amar Bhide on The Venturesome Economy: How Innovation Sustains Prosperity in a More Connected World (2/16)
- Allan H. Meltzer on A History of the Federal Reserve, Volume 1: 1913-1951 and Keynes's Monetary Theory: A Different Interpretation (2/23)
- March
- Todd Zywicki on Debt and Bankruptcy (3/2)
- Jimmy Wales on Wikipedia (3/9)
- Dan Klein on Truth, Bias, and Disagreement (3/16)
- Nassim Taleb on the Financial Crisis (3/23)
- Brink Lindsey on The Age of Abundance: How Prosperity Transformed America's Politics and Culture (3/30)
- April
- Daniel Klein on The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Episode 1 – An Overview (4/6)
- Donald J. Boudreaux on Macroeconomics and Austrian Business Cycle Theory (4/13)
- Daniel Klein on The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Episode 2 – A Discussion of Part I (4/15)
- Russ Roberts on Wealth, Growth, and Economics as a Science (4/20)
- Daniel Klein on The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Episode 3 – A Discussion of Part II (4/22)
- Ricardo Reis on Keynes, Macroeconomics, and Monetary Policy (4/27)
- Daniel Klein on The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Episode 4 – A Discussion of Part III (4/29)
- May
- Ed Leamer on Macroeconomic Patterns and Stories: A Guide for MBAs (5/4)
- Alan Wolfe on The Future of Liberalism(5/11)
- Daniel Klein on The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Episode 5 – A Discussion of Parts III (cont.), IV, and V (5/13)
- Michele Boldrin on Against Intellectual Monopoly (5/18)
- Peter Leeson on The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates (5/25)
- Daniel B. Klein on The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Episode 6 – A Discussion of Parts VI and VII, and Summary (5/27)
- June
- Richard Epstein on the Rule of Law (6/1)
- Riccardo Rebonato on Plight of the Fortune Tellers—Why We Need to Manage Financial Risk Differently (6/8)
- Charles Platt on Working at Wal-Mart (6/15)[2]
- Michael Munger on Franchising, Vertical Integration, and the Auto Industry (6/22)
- Mark Helprin on Digital Barbarism: A Writer's Manifesto (6/29)
- July
- Paul Collier on Wars, Guns, and Votes: Democracy in Dangerous Places (7/6)
- Justin Fox on The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street (7/13)
- John Taylor on Getting Off Track: How Government Actions and Interventions Caused, Prolonged, and Worsened the Financial Crisis (7/20)
- Peter Henry on Growth, Development, and Policy (7/27)
- August
- Paul Graham on Start-ups, Innovation, and Creativity (8/3)
- Eric Hanushek on Schoolhouses, Courthouses, and Statehouses: Solving the Funding-Achievement Puzzle in America's Public Schools (8/10)
- Christopher Hitchens on Why [George] Orwell Matters (8/17)
- David Brady on Health Care Reform, Public Opinion, and Party Politics (8/24)
- Michael Munger on Cultural Norms (8/31)
- September
- Tyler Cowen on Create Your Own Economy: The Path to Prosperity in a Disordered World (9/7)
- John Nye on The Depression and the Failure of Impersonal Trust: What Have We Really Learned from the Great Depression (9/14)
- Paul Buchheit on Google, Friendfeed, and Start-ups (9/21)
- William D. Cohan on House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street, a history of Bear Stearns (9/28)
- October
- Gary H. Stern on Too Big to Fail (10/5)
- Daniel Willingham on Why Don't Students Like School?: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom (10/12)
- Michael Munger on Shortages, Prices, and Competition (10/19)
- Charles Calomiris on the Financial Crisis (10/26)
- November
- Michael Heller on The Gridlock Economy: How Too Much Ownership Wrecks Markets, Stops Innovation, and Costs Lives and Tragedy of the Anticommons (11/2)
- Scott Sumner on Monetary Policy (11/9)
- Richard Posner on A Failure of Capitalism: The Crisis of '08 and the Descent into Depression (11/16)
- Carmen Reinhart on This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly (11/23)
- Peter Boettke on Challenging Institutional Analysis and Development: The Bloomington School (Elinor Ostrom and Vincent Ostrom) (11/30)
- December
- Megan McArdle on Debt and Self-Restraint (12/7)
- Arnold Kling on From Poverty to Prosperity: Intangible Assets, Hidden Liabilities and The Lasting Triumph over Scarcity (12/14)
- James Hamilton on Debt, Default, and Oil (12/21)
- Clifford Winston on Government Failure Versus Market Failure: Microeconomics Policy Research and Government Performance (12/28)
2010
- January
- Thomas Rustici on Smoot-Hawley and Lessons from the Great Depression (1/4)
- Michael Belongia on the Fed (1/11)
- Michael Munger on Many Things (1/18)
- Michael Spence on Growth (1/25)
- February
- Lawrence White on Hayek and Money (2/1)
- Russ Roberts on Smith, Ricardo, and Trade (2/8)
- Edmund Phelps* on Unemployment and the State of Macroeconomics (2/15)
- Garett Jones on Macro and Twitter (2/22)
- March
- Barry Ritholtz on Bailout Nation: How Greed and Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World Economy (3/1)
- Katherine Newman on Chutes and Ladders: Navigating the Low-Wage Labor Market (3/8)
- Donald J. Boudreaux on Public Choice (3/15)
- Steve Meyer (record producer) on the Music Industry and the Internet (3/22)
- Arthur De Vany on Steroids, Baseball, and Evolutionary Fitness (3/29)
- April
- Yochai Benkle on Net Neutrality, Competition, and the Future of the Internet (4/5)
- Diane Ravitch on The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education (4/12)
- Michael Munger on Love, Money, Profits, and Non-profits (4/19)
- Paul Romer on Charter Cities (4/26)
- May
- Nassim Taleb on Black Swans, Fragility, and Mistakes (5/3)
- Ed Leamer on the State of Econometrics (5/10)
- Russ Roberts on the Crisis (5/17)
- Gary Belsky on Journalism, Editing, and Trivia (5/24)
- Louis Menand on Psychiatry (5/31)
- June
- Daniel Okrent on Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition (6/7)
- Johanna Blakley on Fashion and Intellectual Property (6/14)
- Scott Sumner on Growth and Economic Policy (6/21)
- Bryan Caplan on Hayek, Richter, and Socialism (6/28)
- July
- Arnold Kling on the Unseen World of Banking, Mortgages, and Government (7/5)
- Paul Gregory on Politics, Murder, and Love in Stalin's Kremlin: The Story of Nikolai Bukharin and Anna Larina (7/12)
- John B. Taylor on the State of the Economy (7/19)
- Robert Service on Trotsky: A Biography (7/26)
- August
- David Brady on the State of the Electorate (8/2)
- Robert B. Laughlin on the Future of Carbon and Climate (8/9)
- David Kennedy on Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 (8/16)
- Michael Munger on Private and Public Rent-Seeking (and Chilean Buses) (8/23)
- Daniel H. Pink on Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us (8/30)
- September
- Arnold Kling on Unchecked and Unbalanced: How the Discrepancy Between Knowledge and Power Caused the FInancial Crisis and Threatens Democracy (9/6)
- Alain de Botton on The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work (9/13)
- Richard Epstein on Regulation (9/20)
- Gary Greenberg on The Noble Lie: When Scientists Give the Right Answers for the Wrong Reasons and Manufacturing Depression: The Secret History of a Modern Disease (9/27)
- October
- Bryan Caplan on Immigration (10/4)
- Douglas Irwin on the Great Depression and the Gold Standard (10/11)
- Matt Ridley on The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves (10/18)
- Thomas Hazlett on Apple vs. Google (10/25)
- November
- John Quiggin on Zombie Economics: How Dead Ideas Still Walk among Us (11/1)
- Donald J. Boudreaux on China, Currency Manipulation, and Trade Deficits (11/8)
- Robert H. Frank on Inequality and Choosing the Right Pond: Human Behavior and the Quest for Status (11/15)
- Nicholas Phillipson on Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life (11/22)
- Kevin Kelly on What Technology Wants (11/29)
- December
- George Selgin` on the Fed (12/6)
- Wafaya Abdallah on Hair and Running a Small Business (12/13)
- Joe Nocera on All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis (12/20)
- Peter Boettke on Mises (12/27)
2011
- January
- Robin Hanson on the Technological Singularity (1/3)
- Bruce Caldwell on Hayek's Challenge: An Intellectual Biography of F.A. Hayek (1/10)
- Donald J. Boudreaux on Monetary Misunderstandings (1/17)
- Steve Fazzari on Stimulus and Keynes (1/24)
- Brian Deer on Autism, Vaccination, and Scientific Fraud (1/31)
- February
- Arnold Kling on Patterns of Sustainable Specialization and Trade (2/7)
- Tyler Cowen on The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All The Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better (2/14)
- Daron Acemoğlu on Inequality and the Financial Crisis (2/21)
- George Will on America, Politics, and Baseball (2/28)
- March
- Vincent Reinhart on Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, and the Financial Crisis (3/28)
- Diane Coyle on The Economics of Enough: How to Run the Economy as If the Future Matters (3/21)
- Robert M. Townsend on Development, Poverty, and Financial Institutions (3/14)
- Freeman Dyson on Heresy, Climate Change, and Science (3/7)
- April
- Gavin Andresen on BitCoin and Virtual Currency (4/4)
- Dani Rodrik on Globalization, Development, and Employment (4/11)
- Michael Munger on Microfinance, Savings, and Poverty (4/18)
- Ariel Rubinstein on Game Theory and Behavioral Economics (4/25)
- May
- John Papola on the Keynes Hayek Rap Videos (5/2)
- Bryan Caplan on Parenting (5/9)
- William P. Byers on The Blind Spot: Science, and the Crises of Uncertainty (5/16)
- Tim Harford on Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure (5/23)
- William Easterly on Benevolent Autocrats and Growth (5/30)
- June
- Barry Eichengreen on the Dollar and International Finance (6/6)
- Todd G. Buchholz on Rush: Why You Need and Love the Rat Race (6/13)
- Michael Munger on Exchange, Exploitation and Euvoluntary Transactions (6/20)
- James Otteson on Adam Smith (6/27)
- July
- David Skeel on Bankruptcy and the Auto Industry Bailout (7/4)
- Abhijit Banerjee on Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (7/11)
- John B. Taylor on Fiscal and Monetary Policy (7/18)
- Keith Hennessey on the Debt Ceiling and the Budget Process (7/25)
- August
- Anat Admati on Financial Regulation (8/1)
- Debra Satz on Why Some Things Should Not Be For Sale: The Moral Limits of the Market (8/8)
- David Brady on the Electorate and the Elections of 2010 and 2012 (8/15)
- Brendan O'Donohoe on Potato Chips and Salty Snacks (8/22)
- Eric Hanushek on Teachers (8/29)
- September
- Clifford Winston on First Thing We Do, Let's Deregulate All the Lawyers (9/5)
- Robert H. Frank on The Darwin Economy (9/12)
- Garett Jones on Stimulus (9/19)
- Alex Rosenberg on the nature of economics (9/26)
- October
- Bruce Meyer on the middle class, poverty, and inequality (10/3)
- Frank Rose on The Art of Immersion: How the Digital Generation Is Remaking Hollywood, Madison Avenue, and the Way We Tell Stories (10/10)
- Nicholas Wapshott on Keynes Hayek: The Clash That Defined Modern Economics (10/17)
- Valerie Ramey on stimulus and multipliers (10/24)
- Ryan Avent on cities, urban regulations, and growth (The Gated City) (10/31)
- November
- Steven Kaplan on inequality and the Top 1% (11/7)
- Roy Baumeister on Is There Anything Good About Men: How Cultures Flourish by Attacking Men (11/14)
- Gary Taubes on Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health (11/21)
- Simon Johnson on 13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown (11/28)
- December
- Tyler Cowen on the European Crises (12/5)
- Michael Munger on profits, entrepreneurship, and storytelling (12/12)
- Daniel B. Klein on Knowledge and Coordination: A Liberal Interpretation (12/19)
- Alex Tabarrok on Launching the Innovation Renaissance: A New Path to Bring Smart Ideas to Market Fast (12/26)
2012
- January
- Scott Sumner on money and the Fed (1/2)
- Dean Baker on the financial crisis of 2008 (1/9)
- Nassim Taleb on Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (1/16)
- David Rose on The Moral Foundation of Economic Behavior (1/23)
- Eugene Fama on the financial crises of 2008 (1/30)
- February
- William K. Black on financial fraud (The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One) (2/6)
- David Owen on the environment, unintended consequences, and the conundrum (2/13)
- Adam Davidson on manufacturing (2/20)
- David Weinberger on Too Big to Know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room (2/27)
- March
- Charles Calomiris on capital requirements, leverage, and financial regulation (3/5)
- Emanuel Derman on Models. Behaving. Badly: Why Confusing Illusion with Reality Can Lead to Disaster, on Wall Street and in Life (3/12)
- Daron Acemoğlu on Why Nations Fail (3/19)
- Donald J. Boudreaux on public debt (3/26)
- April
- Eugene White on bank regulation (4/2)
- Richard Burkhauser on the middle class (4/9)
- David Autor on disability (4/16)
- Tyler Cowen on An Economist Gets Lunch: New Rules for Everyday Foodies (4/23)
- John Taylor on First Principles: Five Keys to Restoring America's Prosperity (4/30)
- May
- David Schmidtz on Rawls, Nozick, and Justice (5/7)
- David Owen on Parenting, Money, and the First National Bank of Dad (The Conundrum: How Scientific Innovation, Increased Efficiency, and Good Intentions Can Make Our Energy and Climate Problems Worse) (5/14)
- Ronald Coase on Externalities, the Firm, and the State of Economics (5/21)
- Larry White on the Clash of Economic Ideas (5/28)
- June
- Ed Yong on Science, Replication, and Journalism (6/4)
- Jonah Lehrer on Creativity and Imagine: How Creativity Works (6/11)
- Jim Manzi on Uncontrolled: The Surprising Payoff of Trial-and-Error for Business, Politics, and Society (6/18)
- Enrico Moretti on The New Geography of Jobs (6/25)
- July
- Luigi Zingales on A Capitalism for the People: Recapturing the Lost Genius of American Prosperity (7/2)
- Joseph Stiglitz* on The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future (7/9)
- Gary Taubes on Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It (7/16)
- David Brady on the 2012 US Election (7/23)
- Scott Atlas on In Excellent Health: Setting the Record Straight on America's Health Care (7/30)
- August
- Josiah Ober on the Ancient Greek Economy (8/6)
- Tammy Frisby on Tax Reform (8/13)
- Lee E. Ohanian[3] on the Great Recession and the Labor Market (8/20)
- Roger Noll on the Economics of Sports (8/27)
- September
- Neil Barofsky on Bailout: An Inside Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street (9/3)
- Brian Nosek on Truth, Science, and Academic Incentives (9/10)
- Paul Tough on How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character (9/17)
- Robert H. Frank and Roberts on Infrastructure (9/24)
- October
- Robert Skidelsky on How Much Is Enough? Money and the Good Life (10/1)
- Garett Jones on Fisher, Debt, and Deflation (10/8)
- Arnold Kling on Education and the Internet (10/15)
- Johnathan Rodden on the Geography of Voting (10/22)
- Steve Hanke on Hyperinflation, Monetary Policy, and Debt (10/29)
- November
- Joshua Rauh on Public Pensions (11/5)
- Mike Munger on John Locke and his essay "Venditio", Prices, and Hurricane Sandy (11/12)
- John H. Cochrane on Health Care (11/19)
- Marcia Angell on The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What To Do About It (11/26)
- December
- Casey Mulligan on The Redistribution Recession: How Labor Market Distortions Contracted the Economy (12/3)
- Chris Anderson on Makers: The New Industrial Revolution (12/10)
- Donald J. Boudreaux on Reading Hayek (12/17)
- Lisa Turner on Organic Farming (12/24)
* denotes a Nobel Prize winner.
References
- ↑ EconTalk Archives
- ↑ Platt, Charles (February 7, 2009). "Fly on the Wall". New York Post. NYP Holdings. Retrieved December 20, 2012.
- ↑ Hoover Institution: Senior Fellow Bio: Lee Ohanian
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