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.
Episodes
Showing 20 of 107- Can a Phone Be a Cow? (with Philip Auerswald)6/22/20261 hr 20 min
- The Case for Sunshine (with Rowan Jacobsen)6/15/20261 hr 6 min
- The Self, the Crowd, and Social Contagion (with Luke Burgis)6/8/20261 hr 11 min
- Making Your 80,000 Hours Count (with Benjamin Todd)6/1/20261 hr 7 min
- Facing Death (with Sebastian Junger)5/25/20261 hr 7 min
- Tom Cruise's Body of Work (with Aled Maclean-Jones)5/18/20261 hr 8 min
- Thinking Inside the Box (with David Epstein)5/11/20261 hr 11 min
- Golfing Alone (with Gary Belsky)5/4/20261 hr
- Claude, War, and the State of the Republic (with Dean Ball)4/27/20261 hr 17 min
- Adam Smith's Warning About Wealth, Fame, and Status (with Ross Levine)4/20/20261 hr 4 min
- The Man Who Built NVIDIA (with Stephen Witt)4/13/20261 hr 4 min
- The Unseen Work: Stewart Brand on Maintenance and Civilization4/6/20261 hr 27 min
- AI, Employment, and Education (with Tyler Cowen)3/30/20261 hr 2 min
- The Match That Lit the Flame: Hannah Senesh and the Creation of Modern Israel (with Matti Friedman)3/23/20261 hr 10 min
- The Economics of Scarcity and the UNC-Duke Basketball Game (with Michael Munger)3/16/20261 hr 6 min
- How We Tamed Ourselves and Invented Good and Evil (with Hanno Sauer)3/9/20261 hr 14 min
- The Power of Introverts (with Susan Cain)3/2/20261 hr 8 min
- The Man Who Would Be King of Saudi Arabia (with Karen Elliott House)2/23/20261 hr 17 min
- Seiko, Swatch, and the Swiss Watch Industry (with Aled Maclean-Jones)2/16/20261 hr 1 min
- A Military Analysis of Israel's War in Gaza (with Andrew Fox)2/9/20261 hr 8 min