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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, and more. EconTalk has been taking the Monday out of Mondays since 2006. All 900+ episodes are available in the archive. Go to EconTalk.org for transcripts, related resources, and comments.

Recent Episodes

Give Away a Kidney? Are You Crazy? (with filmmaker Penny Lane)
NOV 4, 2024
Give Away a Kidney? Are You Crazy? (with filmmaker Penny Lane)
After filmmaker Penny Lane decided to donate a kidney to a stranger, it took three years and a complex, often infuriating, sometimes terrifying process to make it happen. Along the way, being a filmmaker, she eventually decided to chronicle her experience and explore the question: How can a choice that seems so obvious to the donor seem so strange to everyone else? Listen as she tells EconTalk's Russ Roberts what she learned, what's still a mystery, and what she hopes we'll all take away from her story.
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81 MIN
Susan Cain on Bittersweet and the Happiness of Melancholy
OCT 28, 2024
Susan Cain on Bittersweet and the Happiness of Melancholy
Why do we like sad music or that poignant feeling that comes from attending a funeral? Author Susan Cain talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about her book Bittersweet and the seductive and sometimes deeply satisfying power of melancholy.
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65 MIN
Why Housing Is Artificially Expensive and What Can Be Done About It (with Bryan Caplan)
OCT 21, 2024
Why Housing Is Artificially Expensive and What Can Be Done About It (with Bryan Caplan)
Housing is artificially expensive. Bryan Caplan of George Mason University and the author of Build, Baby, Build talks with EconTalk's Russ Roberts about the causes behind high housing prices and what can be done to bring prices down.
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66 MIN
Misinformation and the Three Languages of Politics (with Arnold Kling)
OCT 14, 2024
Misinformation and the Three Languages of Politics (with Arnold Kling)
How big a problem is misinformation for a democracy? How do we arrive at the truth? Listen as economist and author Arnold Kling talks with EconTalk's Russ Roberts about how we should think about truth-seeking. The conversation also revisits Kling's classic work, The Three Languages of Politics, and the relevance of its framework for the current moment.
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62 MIN
Reclaiming Tribalism (with Michael Morris)
OCT 7, 2024
Reclaiming Tribalism (with Michael Morris)
Is tribalism destroying democracy? According to cultural psychologist Michael Morris of Columbia University, just the opposite may be the case. As he explains in his new book, Tribal, our tribal instincts can also be the source of our success--in politics, society, business, and even professional sports. Listen as Morris and EconTalk's Russ Roberts discuss real examples of how smart leaders pulled tribal levers to improve performance, solve stubborn problems, and create positive change.
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82 MIN