Rob Wiblin's top recommended EconTalk episodes v0.2 Feb 2020
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Rob Wiblin's top recommended EconTalk episodes v0.2 Feb 2020
Rob Wiblin's favourite 100 episodes of EconTalk — the award-winning weekly talk show about economics in daily life: http://econtalk.org A selection of the 'top 11' have modified release dates so they show up at the top when you choose to show the most recent first. The rest are then listed by relea...
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Ranked #1 of all time: O'Donohoe on Potato Chips and Salty Snacks
Brendan O'Donohoe of Frito-Lay talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about how potato chips and other salty snacks get made, distributed, and marketed...
Ranked #2 of all time: Rachel Laudan on the History of Food and Cuisine
Rachel Laudan, visiting scholar at the University of Texas and author of Cuisine and Empire, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the history o...
Ranked #3 of all time: Hitchens on Orwell
Christopher Hitchens talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about George Orwell. Drawing on his book Why Orwell Matters, Hitchens talks about Orwell's...
Ranked #4 of all time: Weingast on Violence, Power and a Theory of Nearly Everything
Barry Weingast, Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and the Ward C. Krebs Family Professor in the Department of Political Scienc...
Ranked #5 of all time: Bent Flyvbjerg on Megaprojects
Bent Flyvbjerg of Oxford University speaks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the political economy of megaprojects--massive investments of a billi...
Ranked #6 of all time: Philip Tetlock on Superforecasting
Can you predict the future? Or at least gauge the probability of political or economic events in the near future? Philip Tetlock of the University of...
Ranked #7 of all time: Thomas Piketty on Inequality and Capital in the 21st Century
Thomas Piketty of the Paris School of Economics and author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century talks to Econtalk host Russ Roberts about the book....
Ranked #8 of all time: Bruce Bueno de Mesquita on the Spoils of War
There is a fascinating and depressing positive correlation between the reputation of an American president and the number of people dying in wars whil...
Ranked #9 of all time: Munger on Exchange, Exploitation and Euvoluntary Transactions
Mike Munger of Duke University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the psychology, sociology, and economics of buying and selling. Why are dif...
Ranked #10 of all time: Gregory on Politics, Murder, and Love in Stalin's Kremlin
Paul Gregory of the University of Houston and a Research Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts abou...
Ranked #11 of all time: Sebastian Junger on Tribe
Journalist and author Sebastian Junger talks about his book Tribe with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Junger explores the human need to be needed and the...
Gerd Gigerenzer on Gut Feelings
Psychologist and author Gerd Gigerenzer of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development talks about his book Gut Feelings with EconTalk host Russ Ro...
Keith Smith on Free Market Health Care
Entrepreneur and Anesthesiologist Keith Smith of the Surgery Center of Oklahoma talks with host Russ Roberts about what it's like to run a surgery cen...
Michele Gelfand on Rule Makers, Rule Breakers
Psychologist Michele Gelfand talks about her book, Rule Makers, Rule Breakers, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Gelfand distinguishes between loose cu...
Anja Shortland on Kidnap
Anja Shortland of King's College London talks about her book Kidnap with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Kidnapping is relatively common in parts of the w...
Alain Bertaud on Cities, Planning, and Order Without Design
Urbanist and author Alain Bertaud of NYU talks about his book Order Without Design with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Bertaud explores the role of zonin...
Emily Oster on Cribsheet
Economist and author Emily Oster of Brown University talks about her book Cribsheet with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Oster explores what the data and...
Robin Feldman on Drugs, Money, and Secret Handshakes
Law professor and author Robin Feldman of UC Hastings College of the Law talks about her book Drugs, Money, and Secret Handshakes with EconTalk host R...
Daniel Hamermesh on Spending Time
Economist and author Daniel Hamermesh of Barnard College and the Institute for the Study of Labor talks about his latest book, Spending Time, with Eco...
A.J. Jacobs on Thanks a Thousand
Journalist and author A. J. Jacobs talks about his book, Thanks a Thousand, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Jacobs thanked a thousand different peopl...
Ran Abramitzky on the Mystery of the Kibbutz
Economist and author Ran Abramitzky of Stanford University talks about his book, The Mystery of the Kibbutz, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Abramitz...
Yoram Hazony on the Virtue of Nationalism
Yoram Hazony discusses his book, The Virtue of Nationalism, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Hazony argues that nationalism, for all its flaws, is a b...
Glen Weyl on Radical Markets
Economist Glen Weyl of Microsoft Research New England and Visiting Senior Research Scholar at Yale University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts ab...
Beth Redbird on Licensing
Economists often oppose the expansion of licensing in America in recent years because it makes it harder for people with low skills to get access to o...
Elizabeth Anderson on Worker Rights and Private Government
Philosopher Elizabeth Anderson of the University of Michigan and author of Private Government talks about her book with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. An...
John Ioannidis on Statistical Significance, Economics, and Replication
John Ioannidis of Stanford University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his research on the reliability of published research findings. They...
Brink Lindsey and Steven Teles on the Captured Economy
Brink Lindsey of the Niskanen Center and Steven Teles of the Niskanen Center and Johns Hopkins University talk with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about t...
Rachel Laudan on Food Waste
Historian Rachel Laudan talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about food waste. Laudan argues that there are tradeoffs in preventing food waste--in re...
John McWhorter on the Evolution of Language and Words on the Move
How did bad come to mean good? Why is Shakespeare so hard to understand? Is there anything good about "like" and "you know?" Author and professor John...
Lant Pritchett on Poverty, Growth, and Experiments
How should we think about growth and poverty? How important is the goal of reducing the proportion of the world's population living on less than a dol...
Paul Bloom on Empathy
Psychologist Paul Bloom of Yale University talks about his book Against Empathy with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Bloom argues that empathy--the abilit...
George Borjas on Immigration and We Wanted Workers
George Borjas of Harvard University and author of We Wanted Workers talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about immigration and the challenges of meas...
Chris Blattman on Sweatshops
If you were a poor person in a poor country, would you prefer steady work in a factory or to be your own boss, buying and selling in the local market?...
Susan Athey on Machine Learning, Big Data, and Causation
Can machine learning improve the use of data and evidence for understanding economics and public policy? Susan Athey of Stanford University talks with...
Munger on Slavery and Racism
Michael Munger of Duke University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about how attitudes in the American South toward slavery evolved over time and...
Yuval Levin on The Fractured Republic
Yuval Levin, author and editor of National Affairs, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in his latest book, The Fractured Republic....
Jayson Lusk on Food, Technology, and Unnaturally Delicious
How bad is pink slime? Are free-range chickens happier? Can robots cook? Jayson Lusk of Oklahoma State University and the author of Unnaturally Delici...
Noah Smith on Whether Economics is a Science
Noah Smith of Stony Brook University and writer at Bloomberg View talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about whether economics is a science in some s...
Tina Rosenberg on the Kidney Market in Iran
There is only one country in the world where a person can sell a kidney to another citizen who buys it. That country is Iran. Tina Rosenberg of The Ne...
Alvin Roth on Matching Markets
Nobel Laureate Alvin Roth of Stanford University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his work on matching markets. Examples include marriage,...