Podcasts by EconTalk Archives, 2012
EconTalk is an award-winning weekly talk show about economics in daily life. Featured guests include renowned economics professors, Nobel Prize winners, and exciting speakers on all kinds of topical matters related to economic thought. Topics include health care, business cycles, economic growth, free trade, education, finance, politics, sports, book reviews, parenting, and the curiosities of everyday decision-making. Russ Roberts, of the Library of Economics and Liberty and George Mason U., draws you in with lively guests and creative repartee. Look for related readings and the complete archive of previous shows at EconTalk.org, where you can also comment on the podcasts and ask questions.
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Lisa Turner on Organic Farming from 2012-12-24T06:30
Lisa Turner of Laughing Stock Farm talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about life as a small organic farmer. She describes her working day, the challenges of farming, the role of the U.S. Departm...
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Boudreaux on Reading Hayek from 2012-12-17T06:30
Don Boudreaux of George Mason University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the work of F. A. Hayek, particularly his writings on philosophy and political economy. Boudreaux provides an au...
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Chris Anderson on Makers and Manufacturing from 2012-12-10T06:30
Chris Anderson, author of Makers: The New Industrial Revolution, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his new book--the story of how technology is transforming the manufacturing business. An...
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Mulligan on Redistribution, Unemployment, and the Labor Market from 2012-12-03T06:30
Casey Mulligan of the University of Chicago and the author of The Redistribution Recession, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in the book. Mulligan argues that increases in the ...
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Cochrane on Health Care from 2012-11-19T06:30
John Cochrane of the University of Chicago and Stanford University's Hoover Institution talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about how existing regulations distort the market for health care. Coch...
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Munger on John Locke, Prices, and Hurricane Sandy from 2012-11-12T06:30
Mike Munger of Duke University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the gas shortage following Hurricane Sandy and John Locke's view of the just price. Drawing on a short, obscure essay of L...
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Joshua Rauh on Public Pensions from 2012-11-05T06:30
Joshua Rauh, Professor of Finance at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business and a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about t...
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Hanke on Hyperinflation, Monetary Policy, and Debt from 2012-10-29T06:30
Steve Hanke of Johns Hopkins and the Cato Institute talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about hyperinflation and the U.S. fiscal situation. Hanke argues that despite the seemingly aggressive poli...
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Rodden on the Geography of Voting from 2012-10-22T06:30
Jonathan Rodden, political science professor at Stanford and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution speaks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the geography of voting. The main focus is on the...
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Kling on Education and the Internet from 2012-10-15T06:30
Arnold Kling, economist and teacher, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about recent technological innovations in education and Kling's forecast for their impact on learning and how they might a...
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Garett Jones on Fisher, Debt, and Deflation from 2012-10-08T06:30
Garett Jones of George Mason University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas of Irving Fisher on debt and deflation. In a book, Booms and Depressions and in a 1933 Econometrica art...
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Robert Skidelsky on Money, the Good Life, and How Much is Enough from 2012-10-01T06:30
Robert Skidelsky, noted biographer of John Maynard Keynes and author (with his son Edward) of the recently published How Much is Enough, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about materialism, gro...
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Frank and Roberts on Infrastructure from 2012-09-24T06:30
Robert Frank of Cornell University and EconTalk host Russ Roberts debate the merits of a large increase of infrastructure spending. In the summer of 2012, Frank and Roberts were interviewed by Alex...
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Paul Tough on How Children Succeed from 2012-09-17T06:30
Paul Tough, author of How Children Succeed, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about why children succeed and fail in school and beyond school. He argues that conscientiousness--a mixture of sel...
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Nosek on Truth, Science, and Academic Incentives from 2012-09-10T06:30
Brian Nosek of the University of Virginia talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about how incentives in academic life create a tension between truth-seeking and professional advancement. Nosek argu...
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Barofsky on Bailouts from 2012-09-03T06:30
Neil Barofsky, author of Bailout and the former Special Inspector General for the TARP program, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his book and the government bailouts by the Bush and Obam...
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Roger Noll on the Economics of Sports from 2012-08-27T06:30
Roger Noll of Stanford University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the economics of sports. Noll discusses the economic effects of stadium subsidies, the labor market for athletes, the b...
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Ohanian on the Great Recession and the Labor Market from 2012-08-20T06:30
Lee Ohanian of UCLA talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the recession, the recovery, and the state of labor market. Ohanian describes the unusual aspects of this recession and recovery in t...
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Frisby on Tax Reform from 2012-08-13T06:30
Tammy Frisby of Stanford University's Hoover Institution talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the likelihood of U.S. tax reform in the near future. Frisby reviews the changes in tax policy o...
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Ober on the Ancient Greek Economy from 2012-08-06T06:30
Josiah Ober of Stanford University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the economy of ancient Greece, particularly Athens. Ober notes that the standard view of ancient Greece is that it was...
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Scott Atlas on American Health Care from 2012-07-30T06:30
Scott Atlas, Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and author of In Excellent Health, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the U.S. health care system. Atlas argues that ...
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Brady on the 2012 US Election from 2012-07-23T06:30
David Brady, Professor of Political Science and the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University and a senior fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts abo...
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Taubes on Why We Get Fat from 2012-07-16T06:30
Gary Taubes, author of Why We Get Fat, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about why we get fat and the nature of evidence in a complex system. The current mainstream view is that we get fat beca...
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Stiglitz on Inequality from 2012-07-09T06:30
Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz of Columbia University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in his recent book, The Price of Inequality. Stiglitz argues that the American economy is...
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Zingales on Capitalism and Crony Capitalism from 2012-07-02T06:30
Luigi Zingales of the University of Chicago and author of A Capitalism for the People talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in his book. Zingales argues that the financial sector ha...
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Moretti on Jobs, Cities, and Innovation from 2012-06-25T06:30
Enrico Moretti of the University of California, Berkeley and the author of the New Geography of Jobs talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in his book. Moretti traces how the economic...
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Manzi on Knowledge, Policy, and Uncontrolled from 2012-06-18T06:30
Jim Manzi, author of Uncontrolled, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the reliability of science and the ideas in his book. Manzi argues that unlike science, which can produce useful resul...
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Jonah Lehrer on Creativity and Imagine from 2012-06-11T06:30
Jonah Lehrer, staff writer for The New Yorker and author of Imagine: How Creativity Works, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the science of creativity. They discuss focusing vs. ignoring ...
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Yong on Science, Replication, and Journalism from 2012-06-04T06:30
Ed Yong, science writer and blogger at "Not Exactly Rocket Science" at Discover Magazine, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the challenges of science and science journalism. Yong was rece...
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Larry White on the Clash of Economic Ideas from 2012-05-28T06:30
Lawrence H. White of George Mason University and author of The Clash of Economic Ideas talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the economists and their ideas of the past one hundred years. They d...
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Coase on Externalities, the Firm, and the State of Economics from 2012-05-21T06:30
Nobel Laureate Ronald Coase of the University of Chicago talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his career, the current state of economics, and the Chinese economy. Coase, born in 1910, reflec...
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Owen on Parenting, Money, and the First National Bank of Dad from 2012-05-14T06:30
David Owen, author of The First National Bank of Dad, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about how to educate our children about money and finance. Owen explains how he created his own savings a...
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Schmidtz on Rawls, Nozick, and Justice from 2012-05-07T06:30
David Schmidtz of the University of Arizona talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the work of John Rawls and Robert Nozick. The conversation covers the basic ideas of Rawls and Nozick on ineq...
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Taylor on Rules, Discretion, and First Principles from 2012-04-30T06:30
John Taylor of Stanford University's Hoover Institution talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his new book, First Principles: Five Keys to Restoring America's Prosperity. Taylor argues that w...
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Taylor on Rules, Discretion, and First Principles from 2012-04-30T06:30
John Taylor of Stanford University's Hoover Institution talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his new book, First Principles: Five Keys to Restoring America's Prosperity. Taylor argues that w...
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Taylor on Rules, Discretion, and First Principles from 2012-04-30T06:30
John Taylor of Stanford University's Hoover Institution talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his new book, First Principles: Five Keys to Restoring America's Prosperity. Taylor argues that w...
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