Tim Harford on Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy

Sridhar Ramaswamy on Google, Search, and Neeva

Former Google ads boss Sridhar Ramaswamy says that we live in a world that seems to give out free content when we use a search engine. But that…

Post date Jun 13, 2022
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Taleb on Skin in the Game

Nassim Taleb of NYU-Poly talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his recent paper (with Constantine Sandis) on the morality and effectiveness of "skin in the game." When…

Post date Sep 09, 2013
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Don Boudreaux on Public Choice

Don Boudreaux of George Mason University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about public choice: the application of economics to the political process. Boudreaux argues that political competition…

Post date Mar 15, 2010
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Daniel Sumner on the Political Economy of Agriculture

Daniel Sumner of the University of California talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about agricultural subsidies in the United States, the winners and losers from those subsidies, and…

Post date Feb 09, 2015
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Hanson on the Technological Singularity

Robin Hanson of GMU talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the idea of a technological singularity–a sudden, large increase in the rate of growth due to technological…

Post date Jan 03, 2011
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Katy Milkman on How to Change

Behavioral scientist Katy Milkman of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania talks about her book How to Change with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. What can we…

Post date May 03, 2021
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Angell on Big Pharma

Marcia Angell of Harvard Medical School and the author of The Truth About the Drug Companies talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the impact of pharmaceutical companies…

Post date Nov 26, 2012
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