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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   Doug Lemov

   Read Like a Champion (with Doug Lemov) · 3 episodes

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   Doug Rivers

   Doug Rivers on Polling · Jul 2008

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   Douglas Irwin

   Douglas Irwin on the Great Depression and the Gold Standard · Oct 2010

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   Dwayne Betts

   Dwayne Betts on the Iliad · 5 episodes

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   Ed Dolan

   Ed Dolan on Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance · Jan 2019

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   Ed Leamer

   Ed Leamer on Manufacturing, Effort, and Inequality · 4 episodes

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   Edmund Phelps

   Edmund Phelps on Mass Flourishing · 2 episodes

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   Edward Castronova

   Edward Castronova on the Exodus to the Virtual World · Jan 2008

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   Edward Lazear

   Edward Lazear on Becker · Jun 2014

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    Elie Hassenfeld

    Elie Hassenfeld on GiveWell · Oct 2023

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    Elizabeth Anderson

    Elizabeth Anderson on Worker Rights and Private Government · Feb 2018

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    Elizabeth Green

    Elizabeth Green on Education and Building a Better Teacher · Sep 2014

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    Elizabeth Pape

    Elizabeth Pape on Manufacturing and Selling Women's Clothing and Elizabeth Suzann · Apr 2017

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    Emanuel Derman

    Emanuel Derman on Theories, Models, and Science · Mar 2012

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    Emiliana Simon-Thomas

    Emiliana Simon-Thomas on Happiness · Apr 2021

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    Enrico Moretti

    Enrico Moretti on Jobs, Cities, and Innovation · Jun 2012

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    Eric Hanushek

    Eric Hanushek on the Education, Skills, and the Millennium Development Goals · 6 episodes

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    Eric Jacobus

    Eric Jacobus on the Art and Science of Violence · Nov 2021

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    Eric Rauchway

    Eric Rauchway on the Great Depresson and the New Deal · Dec 2008

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    Eric Raymond

    Eric Raymond on Hacking, Open Source, and the Cathedral and the Bazaar · Jan 2009

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    Eric Wakin

    Eric Wakin on Archiving, Preservation, and History · Sep 2016

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    Erica Sandberg

    Erica Sandberg on Homelessness and Downtown Streets Team · Apr 2017

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    Erik Hurst

    Erik Hurst on Work, Play, and the Dynamics of U.S. Labor Markets · Nov 2016

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    Esther Dyson

    Esther Dyson on the Attention Economy and the Quantification of Everything · Jan 2013

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    Eugene Fama

    Eugene Fama on Finance · Jan 2012

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    Eugene Kontorovich

    Is Israel Occupying the West Bank? (with Eugene Kontorovich) · Jul 2024

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    Eugene White

    Eugene White on Bank Regulation · Apr 2012

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    Frank Rose

    Frank Rose on Internet Narratives · 2 episodes

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    Franklin Zimring

    Franklin Zimring on When Police Kill · Aug 2020

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    Freeman Dyson

    Freeman Dyson on Heresy, Climate Change, and Science · Mar 2011

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    Gabriel Zucman

    Gabriel Zucman on Inequality, Growth, and Distributional National Accounts · Sep 2017

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    Gary Becker

    An Interview with Gary Becker · Jul 2006

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    Gary Belsky

    Golfing Alone (with Gary Belsky) · 3 episodes

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    Gary Greenberg

    Gary Greenberg on the Placebo Effect · 2 episodes

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    Gary Shiffman

    Gary Shiffman on the Economics of Violence · Jan 2021

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    Gary Stern

    Gary Stern on Too Big to Fail · Oct 2009

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    Gaurav Suri

    The Wonder of the Emergent Mind (with Gaurav Suri) · Nov 2025

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    Gavin Andresen

    Gavin Andresen on the Present and Future of Bitcoin · 2 episodes

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    Gene Epstein

    Gene Epstein on Gold, the Fed, and Money · Jun 2008

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    George Borjas

    George Borjas on Immigration and We Wanted Workers · Jan 2017

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