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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   Daniel Botkin

   Daniel Botkin on Nature, the Environment and Global Warming · Nov 2007

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   Daniel Gordis

   From the Second Intifada to October 7th (with Daniel Gordis) · 2 episodes

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   Daniel Hamermesh

   Daniel Hamermesh on Spending Time · Mar 2019

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   Daniel Haybron

   Daniel Haybron on Happiness · Nov 2020

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   Daniel Klein

   Daniel Klein on Honest Income · Jan 2020

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   Daniel Okrent

   Daniel Okrent on Prohibition and His Book, Last Call · Jun 2010

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   Daniel Sumner

   Daniel Sumner on the Political Economy of Agriculture · Feb 2015

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   Darius Lakdawalla

   Darius Lakdawalla on the Economics of Obesity · Sep 2006

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   David Beckworth

   David Beckworth on Money, Monetary Policy, and the Great Recession · May 2016

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    David Bessis

    Nature, Nurture, and Identical Twins (with David Bessis) · 2 episodes

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    David Boaz

    David Boaz, P.J. O'Rourke, and George Will on the State of Liberty · May 2017

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    David Brady

    David Brady on the 2012 US Election · 4 episodes

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    David Deppner

    David Deppner on Leadership, Confidence, and Humility · Sep 2019

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    David Gelernter

    David Gelernter on Consciousness, Computers, and the Tides of Mind · Nov 2016

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    David Henderson

    David Henderson on the Essential UCLA School of Economics · 2 episodes

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    David Laidler

    David Laidler on Money · Sep 2013

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    David Marquet

    Learning to Think Like Someone Else (with David Marquet) · Aug 2025

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    David Meltzer

    David Meltzer on the Doctor-Patient Relationship · Aug 2018

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    David Mindell

    David Mindell on Our Robots, Ourselves · Nov 2015

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    David Rose

    David Rose on the Moral Foundations of Economic Behavior · Jan 2012

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    David Schmidtz

    David Schmidtz on Rawls, Nozick, and Justice · May 2012

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    David Skarbek

    David Skarbek on Prison Gangs and the Social Order of the Underworld · Mar 2015

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    David Skeel

    David Skeel on Bankruptcy and the Auto Industry Bailout · Jul 2011

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    David Weinberger

    David Weinberger on Too Big to Know · 2 episodes

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    David Wyatt

    Hemingway, Love, and War (with David Wyatt) · Aug 2025

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    David Zetland

    David Zetland on Water · Mar 2015

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    Dean Baker

    Dean Baker on the Crisis · Jan 2012

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    Dean Ball

    Claude, War, and the State of the Republic (with Dean Ball) · Apr 2026

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    Deborah Gordon

    Deborah Gordon on Ants, Humans, the Division of Labor and Emergent Order · Aug 2007

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    Debra Satz

    Debra Satz on Markets · Aug 2011

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    Deirdre McCloskey

    Deirdre McCloskey on Capitalism and the Bourgeois Virtues · Mar 2008

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    Diana Schaub

    Lessons from Lincoln, Then and Now (with Diana Schaub) · Jul 2024

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    Diane Coyle

    Diane Coyle on Cogs, Monsters, and Better Economics · 4 episodes

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    Diane Ravitch

    Diane Ravitch on Slaying Goliath · 2 episodes

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    Dick Carpenter

    Dick Carpenter on Bottleneckers · Jan 2018

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    Doc Searls

    Doc Searls on the Intention Economy · Mar 2013

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    Don Boudreaux

    Don Boudreaux on the Pandemic · 15 episodes

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    Don Cox

    Don Cox on the Economics of Inheritance · 2 episodes

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    Donald Shoup

    Donald Shoup on the Economics of Parking · Jun 2021

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    Doug Irwin

    The Economics of Tariffs and Trade (with Doug Irwin) · May 2025

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