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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   Angela Duckworth

   Angela Duckworth on Character · 2 episodes

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   Jennifer Ackerman

   The Mysterious World of Owls (with Jennifer Ackerman) · Sep 2024

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   Ed Yong

   Ed Yong on Science, Replication, and Journalism · Jun 2012

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   Cathy O'Neil

   Cathy O'Neil on Weapons of Math Destruction · 2 episodes

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   A.J. Jacobs

   Living with the Constitution (with A.J. Jacobs) · 3 episodes

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   Daniel Pink

   Daniel Pink on Drive, Motivation, and Incentives · 2 episodes

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   Jeffrey Sachs

   Jeffrey Sachs on the Millennium Villages Project · 2 episodes

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   Edward Glaeser

   Edward Glaeser on Joblessness and the War on Work · 3 episodes

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   Brian Potter

   How Did America Build the Arsenal of Democracy? (with Brian Potter) · Sep 2025

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    David Deutsch

    David Deutsch on the Pattern · Dec 2025

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    Alex Tabarrok

    Alex Tabarrok on Private Cities · 3 episodes

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    Adam Davidson

    Adam Davidson on Hollywood and the Future of Work · 2 episodes

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    Betsey Stevenson

    Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers on Happiness, Growth, and the Reinhart-Rogoff Controversy · Jun 2013

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    Brian Nosek

    Brian Nosek on the Reproducibility Project · 2 episodes

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    David Autor

    David Autor on Trade, China, and U.S. Labor Markets · 3 episodes

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    David Leonhardt

    David Leonhardt on the Media · Mar 2007

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    Dennis Rasmussen

    Dennis Rasmussen on Hume and Smith and The Infidel and the Professor · Nov 2017

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    Emily Oster

    The Power of Nuance: Lessons for Public Health (with Emily Oster) · 6 episodes

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    Jennifer Pahlka

    Jennifer Pahlka on Code for America · May 2017

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    Joel Mokyr

    Joel Mokyr on Growth, Innovation, and Stagnation · Nov 2013

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    John List

    John List on Scale, Uber, and the Voltage Effect · Jul 2022

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    Joshua Angrist

    Joshua Angrist on Econometrics and Causation · Dec 2014

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    Katy Milkman

    Katy Milkman on How to Change · May 2021

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    Leah Boustan
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    Mariana Mazzucato

    Mariana Mazzucato on the Value of Everything · Dec 2018

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    Marty Makary

    What Modern Medicine Gets Wrong (with Marty Makary) · 2 episodes

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    Pano Kanelos

    Pano Kanelos on Education and UATX · Mar 2022

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    Patrick Deneen

    Patrick Deneen on Why Liberalism Failed · Jul 2018

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    Paul Tough

    Paul Tough on How Children Succeed · Sep 2012

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    Richard Thaler

    Richard Thaler on Libertarian Paternalism · Nov 2006

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    Roland Fryer

    Roland Fryer on Race, Diversity, and Affirmative Action · 2 episodes

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    Steven Kaplan

    Steven Kaplan on the Inequality and the Top 1% · Nov 2011

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    Venkatesh Rao

    Venkatesh Rao on Waldenponding · Nov 2019

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    Andrew McAfee

    Andrew McAfee on the Geek Way · 3 episodes

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    Anne Applebaum

    Anne Applebaum on the Twilight of Democracy · Oct 2020

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    Cass Sunstein

    Cass Sunstein on #Republic · 3 episodes

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    Daron Acemoglu

    Daron Acemoglu on Innovation and Shared Prosperity · 6 episodes

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    Gary Marcus

    Gary Marcus on the Future of Artificial Intelligence and the Brain · Dec 2014

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    Gary Taubes

    Gary Taubes on the Case Against Sugar · 3 episodes

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    Haviv Rettig Gur

    Terrorism, Israel, and Dreams of Peace (with Haviv Rettig Gur) · 2 episodes

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