EconTalk

By: Russ Roberts
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  • EconTalk: Conversations for the Curious is an award-winning weekly podcast hosted by Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford's Hoover Institution. The eclectic guest list includes authors, doctors, psychologists, historians, philosophers, economists, and more. Learn how the health care system really works, the serenity that comes from humility, the challenge of interpreting data, how potato chips are made, what it's like to run an upscale Manhattan restaurant, what caused the 2008 financial crisis, the nature of consciousness, and more. EconTalk has been taking the Monday out of Mondays since 2006. All 900+ episodes are available in the archive. Go to EconTalk.org for transcripts, related resources, and comments.
    Copyright 2006-2023
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Episodes
  • Is This War With Lebanon Different? (with Matti Friedman)

    Is This War With Lebanon Different? (with Matti Friedman)
    Dec 16 2024

    Is Israel's war with Lebanon going to end differently from past attempts to secure Israel's northern border? Journalist Matti Friedman, who recounted his experience as a soldier in Lebanon in his book Pumpkinflowers, reflects on that experience in light of current events and looks to the future in this conversation with EconTalk's Russ Roberts.
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    1 hr and 10 mins
  • Why Industrial Policy Is (Almost) Always a Bad Idea (with Scott Sumner)

    Why Industrial Policy Is (Almost) Always a Bad Idea (with Scott Sumner)
    Dec 9 2024

    Tariffs are in the air. Will they help or hurt Americans? Listen as economist Scott Sumner makes the case against tariffs and various other forms of government intervention that go by the name of industrial policy. Along the way he looks at some of the history of worrying about the economic and military dangers posed by foreign countries.
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    1 hr and 29 mins
  • Translating Life and Fate (with Robert Chandler)

    Translating Life and Fate (with Robert Chandler)
    Dec 2 2024

    What does it take to translate a 900-page Russian novel written before the fall of the Soviet Union? For Robert Chandler it meant living in a seaside cottage for four months to immerse himself completely in the characters' lives and to meet his publisher's deadline. Listen as Chandler, the translator of Vasily Grossman's masterpiece Life and Fate and many of his other works, speaks with EconTalk's Russ Roberts about Grossman, the art of translation, and the challenges of bringing a sprawling Russian classic to English-speaking readers.
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    1 hr and 18 mins

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Fantastic and unbiased

This is the only economics podcast that is both interesting and unbiased. I would highly recommend it to people on both sides of the political spectrum.

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