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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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    Walter Williams

    Walter Williams on Life, Liberty and Economics · Oct 2006

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    Will Davies

    Will Davies on the Economics, Economists, and the Limits of Neoliberalism · Mar 2016

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    Willaim Cohan

    Willaim Cohan on the Life and Death of Bear Stearns · Sep 2009

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    William Bernstein

    William Bernstein on Communication, Power and the Masters of the Word · 3 episodes

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    William Black

    William Black on Financial Fraud · Feb 2012

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    William Byers

    William Byers on the Blind Spot, Science, and Uncertainty · May 2011

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    William Duggan

    William Duggan on Strategic Intuition · Dec 2007

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    William Easterly

    Colonialism, Slavery, and Foreign Aid (with William Easterly) · 4 episodes

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    Yanis Varoufakis

    Yanis Varoufakis on Valve, Spontaneous Order, and the European Crisis · Feb 2013

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    Yochai Benkler

    Yochai Benkler on Net Neutrality, Competition, and the Future of the Internet · Apr 2010

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    Yossi Klein Halevi

    Yossi Klein Halevi on the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict · Dec 2023

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    Zach Weinersmith

    Zach Weinersmith on Space Settlement and A City on Mars · 2 episodes

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    Zena Hitz

    Zena Hitz on Lost in Thought · Oct 2020

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    Zvi Mowshowitz

    Zvi Mowshowitz on AI and the Dial of Progress · Aug 2023

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    Alvin E. Roth

    Alvin Roth on Matching Markets · Jul 2015

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    Yuval Noah Harari

    Yuval Harari on Sapiens · Oct 2015

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