Podcasts de econlib

Roland Fryer on Educational Reform

The good news about educational reform, says Harvard economist Roland Fryer, is that we know what...

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Devon Zuegel on Inflation, Argentina, and Crypto

Devon Zuegel talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the crazy world of money and finance in...

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Ryan Holiday on Discipline Is Destiny

Author Ryan Holiday talks about his book, Discipline Is Destiny, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts....

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Michael Munger on Industrial Policy

Economist and political scientist Michael Munger of Duke University talks about industrial policy...

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Agnes Callard on Meaning, the Human Quest, and the Aims of Education

Suppose all of humanity was infected by a virus that left us all infertile--no one will come...

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Johnathan Bi on Mimesis and René Girard

When the 20-year-old overachiever Johnathan Bi's first startup crashed and burned, he headed to a...

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Patrick House on Consciousness

How does the mind work? What makes us sad? What makes us laugh? Despite advances in neuroscience,...

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Monica Guzman on Curiosity and Conversation in Contentious Times

In our highly polarized times, everyone seems obsessed with the truth: what is it, who has it,...

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Arnold Kling on Twitter, FTX, and ChatGPT

Economist and author Arnold Kling talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the recent drama in...

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Judge Glock on Zoning and Local Government

Economic historian Judge Glock talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about zoning and the housing...

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Hannah Ritchie on Eating Local

Having completed several degrees in environmental science, Hannah Ritchie nearly left the field...

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Ian Leslie on Being Human in the Age of AI

When OpenAI launched its conversational chatbot this past November, author Ian Leslie was struck...

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Tiffany Jenkins on Plunder, Museums, and Marbles

Should the British Museum return the Elgin Marbles, taken from the Parthenon in Athens about 200...

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Dwayne Betts on Beauty, Prison, and Redaction

Dwayne Betts was a 16-year-old in solitary confinement when a fellow inmate slid a book of poetry...

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Vinay Prasad on Pharmaceuticals, the FDA, and the Death of Duty

Oncologist and epidemiologist Vinay Prasad argues that too many very expensive drugs get approved...

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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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Marco Ramos on Misunderstanding Mental Illness

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

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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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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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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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