EconTalk

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, the conflicts and history of the Middle East, and more. EconTalk has been taking the Monday out of Mondays since 2006. All 1000+ episodes are available in the archive. Go to EconTalk.org for transcripts, related resources, and comments.

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Every guest on EconTalk

656 guests, ranked by how many people never want them back.

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   George Selgin

   George Selgin on Monetary Policy and the Great Recession · 3 episodes

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   George Shultz

   George Shultz on Economics, Human Rights and the Fall of the Soviet Union · Sep 2007

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   George Srour

   George Srour on Education, African Schools, and Building Tomorrow · Dec 2008

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   Gerd Gigerenzer

   In Defense of Intuition (with Gerd Gigerenzer) · 3 episodes

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   Gillian Hadfield

   Gillian Hadfield on Law and Rules For a Flat World · Sep 2017

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   Glen Weyl

   Glen Weyl on Antitrust, Capitalism, and Radical Reform · 2 episodes

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   Glenn Reynolds

   Glenn Reynolds on Politics, the Constitution, and Technology · Feb 2013

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   Greg Ip

   Greg Ip on Foolproof · Jan 2016

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   Greg Mankiw

   Greg Mankiw on Gasoline Taxes, Keynes and Macroeconomics · Jan 2007

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    Greg Page

    Greg Page on Food, Agriculture, and Cargill · Jan 2015

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    Gregg Easterbrook

    Gregg Easterbrook on the American Standard of Living · Mar 2007

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    Gregory Zuckerman

    Gregory Zuckerman on the Crazy Race to Create the COVID Vaccine · 2 episodes

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    Guillermo Calvo

    Guillermo Calvo on the Crisis, Money, and Macro · Oct 2013

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    Hal Varian

    Hal Varian on Technology · Jul 2008

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    Hanno Sauer

    How We Tamed Ourselves and Invented Good and Evil (with Hanno Sauer) · Mar 2026

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    Henry Aaron

    Henry Aaron on Health Care Costs · Nov 2007

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    Hillel Cohen

    Year Zero of the Arab-Israeli Conflict (with Hillel Cohen) · Feb 2024

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    Hussein Aboubakr Mansour

    The Political Economy of Palestine (with Hussein Aboubakr Mansour) · Aug 2026

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    Ian Ayres

    Ian Ayres on Super Crunchers and the Power of Data · Oct 2007

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    Ian Leslie

    The Music and Magic of John and Paul (with Ian Leslie) · 4 episodes

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    Ido Hevroni

    EconTalk Book Club on the Iliad (with Ido Hevroni) · Jul 2026

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    Itzhak Fried
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    J. Doyne Farmer

    Chaos and Complexity Economics (with J. Doyne Farmer) · Aug 2024

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    Jacob Howland

    Jacob Howland on the Hidden Human Costs of AI · Jun 2023

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    Jacob Stegenga

    Jacob Stegenga on Medical Nihilism · Apr 2019

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    Jacob Vigdor

    Jacob Vigdor on the Seattle Minimum Wage · Mar 2019

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    Jagdish Bhagwati

    Jagdish Bhagwati on India · Aug 2013

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    James Barr

    The Struggle That Shaped the Middle East (with James Barr) · Feb 2025

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    James Bessen

    James Bessen on Learning by Doing · May 2016

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    James Galbraith

    James Galbraith on Inequality · Apr 2013

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    James Hamilton

    James Hamilton on Debt, Default, and Oil · Dec 2009

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    James Marriott

    James Marriott on Reading · Jul 2025

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    James Otteson

    James Otteson on the End of Socialism · 2 episodes

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    James Salzman
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    James Tooley

    James Tooley on Private Schools for the Poor and the Beautiful Tree · Dec 2014

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    Janet Golden

    Janet Golden on Babies Made Us Modern · Jun 2018

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    Janine Barchas

    Janine Barchas on the Lost Books of Jane Austen · Jan 2020

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    Jason Barr

    Jason Barr on Building the Skyline and the Economics of Skyscrapers · Mar 2017

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    Jason Riley

    Jason Riley on Race in America · May 2021

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    Jayson Lusk

    Jayson Lusk on Food, Technology, and Unnaturally Delicious · Mar 2016

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