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Michael Munger on Obedience to the Unenforceable EconTalk: Russ Roberts, Librar
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Michael Munger on Obedience to the Unenforceable

Civilization and the pleasantness of everyday life depend on unwritten rules. Early in the 20th...

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Rebecca Struthers on Watches, Watchmaking, and the Hands of Time EconTalk: Russ Roberts, Librar
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Rebecca Struthers on Watches, Watchmaking, and the Hands of Time

Called "a poem in clockwork," the self-winding Breguet watch made for Marie Antionette was meant...

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Les Snead on Risk, Decisions, and Football EconTalk: Russ Roberts, Librar
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Les Snead on Risk, Decisions, and Football

After nearly 12 years as general manager for the L.A. Rams, Les Snead has learned the power of...

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Luca Dellanna on Risk, Ruin, and Ergodicity EconTalk: Russ Roberts, Librar
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Luca Dellanna on Risk, Ruin, and Ergodicity

Author and consultant Luca Dellanna talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the importance of...

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Casey Mulligan on Vaccines, the Pandemic, and the FDA EconTalk: Russ Roberts, Librar
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Casey Mulligan on Vaccines, the Pandemic, and the FDA

When there's no vaccine on the market, people will look for other ways to be safe, including...

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Tyler Cowen on the Risks and Impact of Artificial Intelligence EconTalk: Russ Roberts, Librar
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Tyler Cowen on the Risks and Impact of Artificial Intelligence

Economist Tyler Cowen of George Mason University talks with EconTalk's Russ Roberts about the...

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Eliezer Yudkowsky on the Dangers of AI EconTalk: Russ Roberts, Librar
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Eliezer Yudkowsky on the Dangers of AI

Eliezer Yudkowsky insists that once artificial intelligence becomes smarter than people, everyone...

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Patrick House and Itzhak Fried on the Brain's Mysteries EconTalk: Russ Roberts, Librar
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Patrick House and Itzhak Fried on the Brain's Mysteries

While operating on a 16-year-old girl who suffered from severe seizures, neurosurgeon Itzhak...

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Michael Munger on the Perfect vs. the Good EconTalk: Russ Roberts, Librar
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Michael Munger on the Perfect vs. the Good

Is the perfect really the enemy of the good? Or is it the other way around? In 2008, Duke...

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Dana Gioia on Poetry, Death and Mortality EconTalk: Russ Roberts, Librar
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Dana Gioia on Poetry, Death and Mortality

When he was a child, poet Dana Gioia's mother would come home from a long day of work and recite...

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Daniel Gordis on Israel and Impossible Takes Longer EconTalk: Russ Roberts, Librar
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Daniel Gordis on Israel and Impossible Takes Longer

As Israel turns 75, has it fulfilled the promise of its founders? Daniel Gordis of Shalem College...

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Erik Hoel on the Threat to Humanity from AI EconTalk: Russ Roberts, Librar
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Erik Hoel on the Threat to Humanity from AI

They operate according to rules we can never fully understand. They can be unreliable,...

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Kevin Kelly on Advice, AI, and Technology EconTalk: Russ Roberts, Librar
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Kevin Kelly on Advice, AI, and Technology

Photographer, author, and visionary Kevin Kelly talks about his book Excellent Advice for Living...

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Megan McArdle on the Oedipus Trap EconTalk: Russ Roberts, Librar
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Megan McArdle on the Oedipus Trap

When physician Walter Freeman died in 1972, he still believed that lobotomies were the best...

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Zach Weinersmith on Beowulf and Bea Wolf EconTalk: Russ Roberts, Librar
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Zach Weinersmith on Beowulf and Bea Wolf

Tolkien read it as a tale about mortality. The poet David Whyte said it was a metaphor for the...

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Omer Moav on the Emergence of the State EconTalk: Russ Roberts, Librar
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Omer Moav on the Emergence of the State

Since at least Adam Smith, the common wisdom has been that the transition from hunter-gathering...

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Paul Bloom on Psych, Psychology, and the Human Mind EconTalk: Russ Roberts, Librar
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Paul Bloom on Psych, Psychology, and the Human Mind

Do psychologists know anything? Psychologist Paul Bloom says yes--but not the things that you...

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Marco Ramos on Misunderstanding Mental Illness EconTalk: Russ Roberts, Librar
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Marco Ramos on Misunderstanding Mental Illness

When psychiatrist Marco Ramos of Yale University prescribes antidepressants to patients in...

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Adam Mastroianni on Peer Review and the Academic Kitchen EconTalk: Russ Roberts, Librar
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Adam Mastroianni on Peer Review and the Academic Kitchen

Psychologist Adam Mastroianni says peer review has failed. Papers with major errors make it...

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Sam Harris on Meditation, Mindfulness, and Morality EconTalk: Russ Roberts, Librar
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Sam Harris on Meditation, Mindfulness, and Morality

According to neuroscientist and philosopher Sam Harris, rationality is the key to safeguarding...

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