Podcast Episodes featuring Russ Roberts

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Russ Roberts and Tyler on COVID-19

Conversations with Tyler - March 19, 2020 12:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratings
Tyler and Russ Roberts joined forces for a special livestreamed conversation on COVID-19, including how both are adjusting to social isolation, private versus public responses to the pandemic, the challenge of reforming scrambled organization capital, the implications for Trump’s reelection, app...

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#138 - Russ Roberts

Y Combinator - August 07, 2019 09:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 159 ratings
Russ Roberts is the host of the podcast EconTalk (iTunes, RSS, and YouTube), a research fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, and the author of several books, including How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life. You can find Russ on Twitter @econtalker. The YC podcast is hosted by Craig Cannon. ...

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Russ Roberts on Life as an Economics Educator

Conversations with Tyler - June 05, 2019 12:17 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 2.1K ratings
What are the virtues of forgiveness? Are we subject to being manipulated by data? Why do people struggle with prayer? What really motivates us? How has the volunteer army system changed the incentives for war? These are just some of the questions that keep Russ Roberts going as he constantly ana...

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ChinaEconTalk with special guest Russ Roberts

ChinaTalk - March 06, 2019 22:17 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 11 ratings
This week's guest is Russ Roberts. He's a research fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution and the host of the EconTalk podcast, a weekly interview-based show that’s vaguely about economics but that has, over time, evolved into an extended meditation on the human condition. Its diverse topics in ...

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ChinaEconTalk with special guest Russ Roberts

ChinaTalk - March 06, 2019 22:17 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 56 ratings
This week's guest is Russ Roberts. He's a research fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution and the host of the EconTalk podcast, a weekly interview-based show that’s vaguely about economics but that has, over time, evolved into an extended meditation on the human condition. Its diverse topics in ...

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Russ Roberts, and 7 Principles to Win Against Outrage Culture

Mission Daily - July 31, 2018 21:04 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 220 ratings
Prime your mind against outrage culture! Today’s guest is Russ Roberts, a fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution and the host of the EconTalk podcast.   If you’re tired of echo chambers, negative social media, and a 24 hour news cycle that peddles fear, uncertainty, and doubt, you’ll want to l...

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EconTalk, Intellectual Honesty, and Adam Smith with Russ Roberts

Economics Detective Radio - February 23, 2018 17:18 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 61 ratings
Today's guest is Russ Roberts, host of the quintessential economics podcast EconTalk. (If you haven't heard EconTalk, go subscribe to it right now, because it is excellent!) We discuss EconTalk's role in the economics profession, the things Russ has learned in the course of making it, the imp...

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Ep 301 - Talking Economics With Adam Smith: Russ Roberts Enters The Dojo

Mixed Mental Arts - January 08, 2018 00:10 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 341 ratings
For the last eleven years, Russ Roberts has hosted the Econ Talk podcast from Stanford’s Hoover Institute. He is a founding father of Podcasts. In addition, he’s the author of the excellent book How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life about the insights contained in the other book of Adam Smith. Alt...

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Resilient Performance Podcast with Dr. Russ Roberts

Resilient Performance Podcast - June 07, 2017 07:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratings
Dr. Russ Roberts is the John and Jean De Nault Research Fellow at Standford University's Hoover Institution. Roberts hosts the weekly podcast EconTalk--hour-long conversations with authors, and thought leaders in economics and beyond. Past guest include Milton Friedman, Thomas Piketty, Nassim...

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104: Russ Roberts on How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life and the Theory of Moral Sentiments

Economic Rockstar - September 22, 2016 04:30 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 135 ratings
Russ Roberts is Associate Editor, founder and host of the popular and much loved podcast EconTalk, and founding advisory board member of the Library of Economics and Liberty. Russ is the John and Jean De Nault Research Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. His two rap videos on...

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PPP 124 | How Adam Smith Can Make You a Better Project Manager, with guest Russ Roberts

People and Projects Podcast: Project Management Podcast - November 16, 2014 03:30 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 152 ratings
Adam Smith, Project Manager If you studied economics at some point you most likely learned about Adam Smith. He's often revered as the Father of Modern Economics, but could it be that project managers could learn more than economics from Adam Smith? Is it possible that his lesser known book Th...

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Russ Roberts

Smart People Podcast - July 14, 2014 01:34 - 48 minutes ★★★★ - 700 ratings
Russ Roberts - Our guest this week is the host of the extremely popular EconTalk podcast.  In this episode talk economics, education, passion, and more! Although sometimes Economics can seem dry and boring, Russ has made a living out of making it understandable and bringing it to the masses. Russ...

Books written by Russ Roberts

The Invisible Heart: An Economic Romance
Russell Roberts, Russ Roberts

282 pages - ★★★★ - 586 ratings