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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   Nicholas Wapshott

   Nicholas Wapshott on Samuelson and Friedman · 2 episodes

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   Nina Kraus

   Nina Kraus on Hearing, Noise, and Of Sound Mind · Nov 2021

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   Nina Munk

   Nina Munk on Poverty, Development, and the Idealist · Jan 2014

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   Omer Moav

   Omer Moav on the Emergence of the State · Mar 2023

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   P.J. O'Rourke
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   Patri Friedman

   Patri Friedman on Seasteading · Oct 2008

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   Paul Collier

   Paul Collier on Democracy and Violence · 2 episodes

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   Paul Graham

   Paul Graham on Start-ups, Innovation, and Creativity · Aug 2009

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   Paul Gregory

   Paul Gregory on Politics, Murder, and Love in Stalin's Kremlin · Jul 2010

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    Paul Niehaus
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    Paul Pfleiderer

    Paul Pfleiderer on the Misuse of Economic Models · Sep 2014

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    Paul Robinson

    Paul Robinson on Cooperation, Punishment and the Criminal Justice System · Aug 2015

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    Paul Sabin

    Paul Sabin on Ehrlich, Simon and the Bet · Feb 2014

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    Paulina Rowinska

    The Deceptive Power of Maps (with Paulina Rowinska) · Jun 2025

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    Penny Lane

    Give Away a Kidney? Are You Crazy? (with filmmaker Penny Lane) · 2 episodes

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    Pete Geddes

    Pete Geddes on the American Prairie Reserve · Sep 2015

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    Peter Berkowitz

    Peter Berkowitz on Locke, Liberty, and Liberalism · Dec 2018

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    Peter Boettke

    Who Won the Socialist Calculation Debate (with Peter Boettke) · 9 episodes

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    Phil Rosenzweig

    Phil Rosenzweig on Leadership, Decisions, and Behavioral Economics · Apr 2015

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    Philip Auerswald

    Can a Phone Be a Cow? (with Philip Auerswald) · 2 episodes

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    Rachel Cockerell

    Zionism, the Melting Pot, and the Galveston Project (with Rachel Cockerell) · Jan 2026

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    Rachel Gur

    The Unusual World of Israeli Democracy (with Rachel Gur) · Mar 2025

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    Rachel Laudan

    Rachel Laudan on Food Waste · 2 episodes

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    Ran Abramitzky

    Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan on Immigration Then and Now · 2 episodes

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    Rana Foroohar

    Rana Foroohar on the Financial Sector and Makers and Takers · Apr 2017

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    Rebecca Henderson

    Rebecca Henderson on Reimagining Capitalism · Jun 2020

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    Rebecca Newberger Goldstein

    The Mattering Instinct (with Rebecca Newberger Goldstein) · Jan 2026

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    Rebecca Struthers

    Rebecca Struthers on Watches, Watchmaking, and the Hands of Time · Jun 2023

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    Ricardo Reis

    Ricardo Reis on Keynes, Macroeconomics, and Monetary Policy · Apr 2009

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    Riccardo Rebonato

    Riccardo Rebonato on Risk Management and the Crisis · Jun 2009

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    Richard Burkhauser

    Richard Burkhauser on the Middle Class · Apr 2012

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    Richard Davies

    Richard Davies on Extreme Economies · Mar 2020

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    Richard Epstein

    Richard Epstein on Cruises, First-Class Travel, and Inequality · 10 episodes

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    Richard Fisher

    Richard Fisher on Too Big to Fail and the Fed · Dec 2013

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    Richard Gunderman

    Richard Gunderman on Greed, Adam Smith, and Leo Tolstoy · Apr 2022

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    Richard Jones

    Richard Jones on Transhumanism · Apr 2016

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    Richard McKenzie

    Richard McKenzie on Prices · Jun 2008

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    Richard Posner

    Richard Posner on the Financial Crisis · Nov 2009

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    Richard Reinsch

    Richard Reinsch on the Enlightenment, Tradition, and Populism · Jun 2018

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    Richard Robb

    Richard Robb on Willful · Feb 2020

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