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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   Jenny Schuetz

   Jenny Schuetz on Land Regulation and the Housing Market · Mar 2020

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   Jill Lepore

   Jill Lepore on Nationalism, Populism, and the State of America · Apr 2019

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   Joe Nocera

   Joe Nocera on the Crisis and All the Devils Are Here · Dec 2010

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   Les Snead

   Les Snead on Risk, Decisions, and Football · Jun 2023

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   Margaret Heffernan

   Margaret Heffernan on Uncharted · Sep 2020

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   Martha Nussbaum

   Martha Nussbaum on Alexander Hamilton · 2 episodes

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   Martin Gurri

   Martin Gurri on the Revolt of the Public · May 2020

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   Matt Stoller

   Matt Stoller on Modern Monopolies · Dec 2017

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   Matthew Futterman

   Matthew Futterman on Players and the Business of Sports · Aug 2016

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    Maxine Clark

    Maxine Clark on Building the Build-a-Bear Workshop · Mar 2022

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    Michael McCullough

    Michael McCullough on the Kindness of Strangers · Feb 2021

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    Michael Oren

    Should Israel Depend on the US? (with Michael Oren) · Feb 2024

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    Nassim Nicholas Taleb

    Nassim Nicholas Taleb on the Nations, States, and Scale · 10 episodes

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    Nathan Blecharczyk

    Nathan Blecharczyk on Airbnb and the Sharing Economy · Sep 2014

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    Paul Romer

    Paul Romer on the COVID-19 Pandemic · 5 episodes

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    Pedro Domingos

    Pedro Domingos on Machine Learning and the Master Algorithm · May 2016

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    Peter Henry

    Peter Henry on Growth, Development, and Policy · Jul 2009

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    Peter Leeson

    Peter Leeson on Pirates and the Invisible Hook · May 2009

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    Philip Tetlock

    Philip Tetlock on Superforecasting · Dec 2015

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    Raj Chetty

    Raj Chetty on Economic Mobility · Aug 2022

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    Robert Shiller

    Robert Shiller on Narrative Economics · 2 episodes

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    Ronnen Harary

    From Sawdust to Paw Patrol: The Spin Master Story (with Ronnen Harary) · Jul 2026

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    Steve Hanke

    Steve Hanke on Hyperinflation, Monetary Policy, and Debt · Oct 2012

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    Stewart Brand

    The Unseen Work: Stewart Brand on Maintenance and Civilization · Apr 2026

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    Susan Athey

    Susan Athey on Machine Learning, Big Data, and Causation · Sep 2016

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    Tim O'Reilly

    Tim O'Reilly on What's the Future · 2 episodes

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    Vinay Prasad

    The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of the Covid Vaccine (with Vinay Prasad) · 5 episodes

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    Virginia Postrel

    Virginia Postrel on Textiles and the Fabric of Civilization · 2 episodes

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    Vivian Lee

    Vivian Lee on The Long Fix · Jun 2020

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    Wences Casares

    Wences Casares on Bitcoin and Xapo · Jul 2015

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    Yoram Hazony

    Yoram Hazony on the Virtue of Nationalism · Sep 2018

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    Yuval Levin

    How the Constitution Can Bring Us Together (with Yuval Levin) · 4 episodes

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    Abby Smith Rumsey

    Abby Smith Rumsey on Remembering, Forgetting, and When We Are No More · Jun 2016

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    Adam Cifu

    What's Happening Inside Your Doctor's Head and Heart (with Adam Cifu) · 3 episodes

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    Adam D'Angelo

    Adam D'Angelo on Knowledge, Experimentation, and Quora · Aug 2016

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    Adam Kirsch

    Are We Alone? Cosmic Loneliness and the Longing to Believe (with Adam Kirsch) · 2 episodes

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    Adam Minter

    Adam Minter on Secondhand · Jan 2020

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    Adam Ozimek

    Adam Ozimek on the Power of Econometrics and Data · Feb 2016

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    Ahmed Alkhatib

    Voices from Gaza (with Ahmed Alkhatib) · Mar 2024

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    Alain Bertaud

    Fixing Sick Cities (with Alain Bertaud) · 2 episodes

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