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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   Stanley Engerman

   Stanley Engerman on Slavery · Nov 2006

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   Stephen Haber
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   Stephen Marglin

   Stephen Marglin on Markets and Community · Mar 2008

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   Stephen Witt

   The Man Who Built NVIDIA (with Stephen Witt) · Apr 2026

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   Steve Cole

   Steve Cole on the Market for New Cars · Jun 2008

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   Steve Fazzari

   Steve Fazzari on Stimulus and Keynes · 2 episodes

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   Steve Meyer

   Steve Meyer on the Music Industry and the Internet · Mar 2010

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   Steven Levitt

   Steven Levitt on Freakonomics and the State of Economics · Nov 2020

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   Steven Lipstein

   Steven Lipstein on Hospitals · Dec 2008

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    Steven Teles

    Steven Teles on Kludgeocracy · Apr 2014

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    Summer Brennan

    Summer Brennan on Wilderness, Politics and the Oyster War · Aug 2015

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    Susan Houseman

    Susan Houseman on Manufacturing · Oct 2019

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    Susan Mayer

    Susan Mayer on What Money Can't Buy · Nov 2019

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    Tamar Haspel

    Tamar Haspel on First-Hand Food · 2 episodes

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    Tammy Frisby

    Tammy Frisby on Tax Reform · Aug 2012

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    Teppo Felin

    When Prediction Is Not Enough (with Teppo Felin) · 2 episodes

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    Terry Anderson

    Terry Anderson on Native American Economics · 2 episodes

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    Terry Moe

    Terry Moe on Educational Reform, Katrina, and Hidden Power · 2 episodes

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    Thomas Hazlett

    Thomas Hazlett on Apple vs. Google · 2 episodes

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    Thomas Leonard

    Thomas Leonard on Race, Eugenics, and Illiberal Reformers · Dec 2016

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    Thomas McCraw

    Thomas McCraw on Schumpeter, Innovation, and Creative Destruction · Oct 2007

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    Thomas Piketty

    Thomas Piketty on Inequality and Capital in the 21st Century · Sep 2014

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    Thomas Ricks

    Thomas Ricks on Churchill and Orwell · Jun 2017

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    Thomas Rustici

    Thomas Rustici on Smoot-Hawley and the Great Depression · Jan 2010

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    Thomas Sowell

    Thomas Sowell on Economic Facts and Fallacies · Feb 2008

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    Tiffany Jenkins

    The Past and Present of Privacy and Public Life (with Tiffany Jenkins) · 2 episodes

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    Timothy Brook

    Timothy Brook on Vermeer's Hat and the Dawn of Global Trade · Feb 2008

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    Timothy Taylor

    Timothy Taylor on Government vs. Business · Feb 2016

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    Tina Rosenberg

    Tina Rosenberg on the Kidney Market in Iran · Sep 2015

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    Todd Buchholz

    Todd Buchholz on Competition, Stress, and the Rat Race · Jun 2011

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    Todd Zywicki

    Todd Zywicki on Debt and Bankruptcy · Mar 2009

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    Tom Wainwright

    Tom Wainwright on Narconomics · Feb 2017

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    Valerie Ramey

    Valerie Ramey on Stimulus and Multipliers · Oct 2011

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    Vanessa Williamson

    Vanessa Williamson on Taxes and Read My Lips · Apr 2017

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    Vernon Smith

    Vernon Smith and James Otteson on Adam Smith · 4 episodes

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    Vincent Rajkumar

    Vincent Rajkumar on the High Price of Cancer Drugs · Apr 2018

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    Vincent Reinhart

    Vincent Reinhart on Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, and the Financial Crisis · Mar 2011

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    Viviana Zelizer

    Viviana Zelizer on Money and Intimacy · Feb 2007

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    Wafaya Abdallah

    Wafaya Abdallah on Hair and Running a Small Business · Dec 2010

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    Wally Thurman

    Wally Thurman on Bees, Beekeeping, and Coase · Dec 2013

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