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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.

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Erik Hoel on the Threat to Humanity from AI

April 03, 2023 10:30 - 1 hour - 78 MB

They operate according to rules we can never fully understand. They can be unreliable, uncontrollable, and misaligned with human values. They're fast becoming as intelligent as humans--and they're exclusively in the hands of profit-seeking tech companies. "They," of course, are the latest versions of AI, which herald, according to neuroscientist and writer Erik Hoel, a species-level threat to humanity. Listen as he tells EconTalk's Russ Roberts why we need to treat AI as an existential threa...

Kevin Kelly on Advice, AI, and Technology

March 27, 2023 10:30 - 1 hour - 79.5 MB

Photographer, author, and visionary Kevin Kelly talks about his book Excellent Advice for Living with EconTalk's Russ Roberts. His advice includes how to have a deep conversation, why it's better to control time than money--and whether, in the end, we should give advice in the first place. Other topics of discussion include the right object of our aspirations, the reason for optimism when it comes to technology, and why Kelly is not worried about AI.

Megan McArdle on the Oedipus Trap

March 20, 2023 10:30 - 1 hour - 68.6 MB

When physician Walter Freeman died in 1972, he still believed that lobotomies were the best treatment for mental illness. A pioneer in the method, he was a deeply confident and charismatic man who eagerly spread the technique in America, long after the rise of alternative treatments that were less destructive. Listen as journalist Megan McArdle and EconTalk's Russ Roberts discuss what McArdle calls the "Oedipus Trap": mistakes that no one can live with, even if they were innocently made, and...

Zach Weinersmith on Beowulf and Bea Wolf

March 13, 2023 10:30 - 1 hour - 58.1 MB

Tolkien read it as a tale about mortality. The poet David Whyte said it was a metaphor for the psychological demons deep in our minds. And that, insists the cartoonist and writer Zach Weinersmith, is precisely Beowulf's appeal: Its richness opens the door to endless interpretation. Listen as the author of Bea Wolf, a graphic novel for children based on the Old English poem, speaks with EconTalk's Russ Roberts about poetry in general, Beowulf in particular, whether we should require students ...

Omer Moav on the Emergence of the State

March 06, 2023 11:30 - 1 hour - 57.1 MB

Since at least Adam Smith, the common wisdom has been that the transition from hunter-gathering to farming allowed the creation of the State. Farming, so went the theory, led to agricultural surplus, and that surplus is the prerequisite for taxation and a State. But economist Omer Moav of the University of Warwick and Reichman University argues that it wasn't farming but the farming of a particular kind of crop (but not others) that led to hierarchy and the State. Moav explains to EconTalk h...

Paul Bloom on Psych, Psychology, and the Human Mind

February 27, 2023 11:30 - 1 hour - 67.7 MB

Do psychologists know anything? Psychologist Paul Bloom says yes--but not the things that you might think. Bloom discusses his book Psych with EconTalk's Russ Roberts and what the field of psychology can teach us about human intelligence, consciousness, and unhelpful instincts. They also discuss just how far psychology is from a true understanding of the human mind, and why, according to Bloom, that might not be such a bad thing.

Marco Ramos on Misunderstanding Mental Illness

February 20, 2023 11:30 - 1 hour - 81.5 MB

When psychiatrist Marco Ramos of Yale University prescribes antidepressants to patients in distress and they ask him how they work, Ramos admits: We don't really know. And too often, they don't work at all. Despite decades of brain research and billions of dollars spent, psychiatry has made little progress in understanding mental illness. Listen as Ramos explains to EconTalk's Russ Roberts how the myth of the biological basis for mental illness began, why it stubbornly persists, and why hone...

Adam Mastroianni on Peer Review and the Academic Kitchen

February 13, 2023 11:30 - 1 hour - 61.3 MB

Psychologist Adam Mastroianni says peer review has failed. Papers with major errors make it through the process. The ones without errors often fail to replicate. One approach to improve the process is better incentives. But Mastroianni argues that peer review isn't fixable. It's a failed experiment. Listen as he makes the case to EconTalk host Russ Roberts for a new approach to science and academic research.

Sam Harris on Meditation, Mindfulness, and Morality

February 06, 2023 11:30 - 1 hour - 102 MB

According to neuroscientist and philosopher Sam Harris, rationality is the key to safeguarding everything we cherish, and its only true enemy is dogmatic inflexibility. Harris speaks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the views that have made Harris famous, teasing out the often mind-blowing subtleties of his religious and cultural critiques. They discuss what Harris has learned as a podcaster and author, and how ecstasy launched his spiritual journey. Finally, they move on to the power o...

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

January 30, 2023 11:30 - 1 hour - 63.6 MB

Oncologist and epidemiologist Vinay Prasad argues that too many very expensive drugs get approved by the FDA that have very limited impact on the lives of patients. Prasad explains the incentives that distort the current system. The general problem, he explains to EconTalk host Russ Roberts, is the death of duty--too many players in the health care landscape and elsewhere stay quiet or do the wrong thing in order to serve themselves.

Dwayne Betts on Beauty, Prison, and Redaction

January 23, 2023 11:30 - 1 hour - 76.2 MB

Dwayne Betts was a 16-year-old in solitary confinement when a fellow inmate slid a book of poetry under his cell door. What happened next is an astounding story of transformation: from desperation to the discovery of beauty, even behind bars. Listen as the lawyer, prison reform advocate, and award-winning poet explains to EconTalk host Russ Roberts why he's on a mission to bring books--and beauty--into prisons. They also discuss Betts's latest book, Redaction, a collaboration with the artist...

Tiffany Jenkins on Plunder, Museums, and Marbles

January 16, 2023 11:30 - 1 hour - 66.8 MB

Should the British Museum return the Elgin Marbles, taken from the Parthenon in Athens about 200 years ago? What should be the purpose of museums, education or social justice? Listen as Tiffany Jenkins, author of Keeping Their Marbles, discusses these questions and more with EconTalk host Russ Roberts.

Ian Leslie on Being Human in the Age of AI

January 09, 2023 11:30 - 57 minutes - 52.7 MB

When OpenAI launched its conversational chatbot this past November, author Ian Leslie was struck by the humanness of the computer's dialogue. Then he realized that he had it exactly backward: In an age that favors the formulaic and generic to the ambiguous, complex, and unexpected, it's no wonder that computers can sound eerily lifelike. Leslie tells EconTalk host Russ Roberts that we should worry less about the lifelike nature of AI and worry more that human beings are being more robotic an...

Hannah Ritchie on Eating Local

January 02, 2023 11:30 - 1 hour - 55.8 MB

Having completed several degrees in environmental science, Hannah Ritchie nearly left the field out of helplessness and frustration, worried she would never make a real difference. Today, she's a passionate advocate for changing climate messaging, replacing what she believes are paralyzing--and often false--claims with empowering arguments that people can embrace. Listen as the head of research at Our World in Data talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about food emissions, low-carbon techno...

Judge Glock on Zoning and Local Government

December 26, 2022 11:30 - 1 hour - 55.7 MB

Economic historian Judge Glock talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about zoning and the housing market. Glock argues the impact on zoning on housing affordability is small and that we should learn to love property taxes as long as they're administered properly. The conversation includes a discussion of the environmental impact of urban sprawl--Glock argues sprawl has certain environmental benefits.

Arnold Kling on Twitter, FTX, and ChatGPT

December 19, 2022 11:30 - 1 hour - 27.8 MB

Economist and author Arnold Kling talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the recent drama in the tech world--Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter, the collapse of FTX, and the appearance of ChatGPT. Underlying topics discussed include the potential for price discrimination to make social media profitable, whether you could tell Jeff Bezos from Sam Bankman-Fried early on, and the role of human beings in the world of artificial intelligence.

Monica Guzman on Curiosity and Conversation in Contentious Times

December 12, 2022 11:30 - 1 hour - 64.7 MB

In our highly polarized times, everyone seems obsessed with the truth: what is it, who has it, and which side's got it all wrong. What we don't seem to care about, says journalist Monica Guzman, is the truth behind perspectives other than our own. Listen as Guzman and host Russ Roberts discuss Guzman's book I Never Thought of It That Way, a call to get interested in the people behind the positions, and the experiences, hopes, and fears that lead to their beliefs. Guzman and Roberts also disc...

Patrick House on Consciousness

December 05, 2022 11:30 - 1 hour - 81 MB

How does the mind work? What makes us sad? What makes us laugh? Despite advances in neuroscience, the answers to these questions remain elusive. Neuroscientist Patrick House talks about these mysteries and about his book Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. House's insights illuminate not just what we know and don't know about our minds--he also helps us understand what it means to be human.

Annie Duke on the Power of Quitting

November 28, 2022 11:30 - 1 hour - 75.6 MB

Annie Duke is angry that quitting gets such a bad rap. Instead of our relentless focus on grit and "going for it," the former professional poker player, decision strategist, and author of Quit wants us to recognize the costs associated with sticking to a losing outcome. Listen as she explains to EconTalk host Russ Roberts how society's conflation of grit with character has made quitting unnecessarily hard, and why our desire for certainty harms our decision-making ability. Additional topics ...

Johnathan Bi on Mimesis and René Girard

November 21, 2022 11:30 - 1 hour - 66 MB

When the 20-year-old overachiever Johnathan Bi's first startup crashed and burned, he headed to a Zen retreat in the Catskills to "debug himself." He discovered René Girard and his mimetic theory--the idea that imitation is a key and often unconscious driver of human behavior. Listen as entrepreneur and philosopher Bi shares with EconTalk host Russ Roberts what he learned from Girard and Girard's insights into how we meet our primal need for money, fame, and power. The conversation includes ...

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

November 14, 2022 11:30 - 1 hour - 74.6 MB

Suppose all of humanity was infected by a virus that left us all infertile--no one will come along after us. How would you react to such a world? Agnes Callard of the University of Chicago says she would be filled with despair. But why does this seem worse than our own inevitable deaths? Callard speaks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the meaning of life, and what exactly about the end of humanity is so demoralizing. The conversation concludes with a discussion of whether humanity is ma...

Jessica Todd Harper on Beauty, Family, and Photography

November 07, 2022 11:30 - 1 hour - 75.6 MB

When everyone is carrying a camera in their pocket, what raises the act of taking pictures to the level of fine art photography? Jessica Todd Harper, the award-winning portrait photographer, says that it's equal parts mindset and technique--and lots of setting the stage to seize that perfect light. Listen as Harper speaks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about her desire to capture the complexity of life in a single image, why family relationships and home life are her chosen subjects, and th...

Michael Munger on Industrial Policy

October 31, 2022 10:30 - 1 hour - 64 MB

Economist and political scientist Michael Munger of Duke University talks about industrial policy with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Munger argues that in a democracy, the default outcome for industrial policy is crony capitalism--attempts to improve on that outcome either by appointing experts or eliminating cronyism are going to fail for political reasons. The conversation concludes with a discussion of the reliability of Munger's claim and what options are left for dissatisfied reformers.

Ryan Holiday on Discipline Is Destiny

October 24, 2022 10:30 - 1 hour - 65.3 MB

Author Ryan Holiday talks about his book, Discipline Is Destiny, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Holiday discusses the mentor who taught him discipline, the self-control of Queen Elizabeth, the world-champion boxer who counseled the man who defeated him in the ring, and the forgotten Roman emperor who helped make Marcus Aurelius the man he would become.

Devon Zuegel on Inflation, Argentina, and Crypto

October 17, 2022 10:30 - 1 hour - 58.7 MB

Devon Zuegel talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the crazy world of money and finance in Argentina. When inflation is often high and unpredictable, people look for unusual ways to hold their savings. And when banks are unreliable because of public policy, people look for unusual ways to keep their savings safe and to make financial transactions. Welcome to Argentina, where Zuegel finds surprising applications of cryptocurrency for solving problems.

Roland Fryer on Educational Reform

October 10, 2022 10:30 - 1 hour - 67.3 MB

The good news about educational reform, says Harvard economist Roland Fryer, is that we know what it takes to turn a school around. The bad news is that it's hard work--and implementing it won't win you any popularity contests. Listen as the MacArthur Genius Award Winner and John Bates Clark medalist speaks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about how pizza parties revealed the potential of incentives to improve students' test scores, and why he's far more concerned about closing the racial ach...

Sonat Birnecker Hart on Whiskey

October 03, 2022 10:30 - 1 hour - 81.8 MB

Scholar and distiller Sonat Birnecker Hart of the Koval Distillery talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about her career move from academia to whiskey-making. She explains that the heart is the key to great flavor--when making whiskey, and when making the right choices in life.

Erik Hoel on Effective Altruism, Utilitarianism, and the Repugnant Conclusion

September 26, 2022 10:30 - 1 hour - 70.8 MB

Neuroscientist Erik Hoel talks about why he is not an "effective altruist" with EconTalk host, Russ Roberts. Hoel argues that the utilitarianism that underlies effective altruism--a movement co-founded by Will MacAskill and Peter Singer--is a poison that inevitably leads to repugnant conclusions and thereby weakens the case for the strongest claims made by effective altruists.

Kieran Setiya on Midlife

September 19, 2022 10:30 - 1 hour - 91.6 MB

John Stuart Mill's midlife crisis came at 20 when he realized that if he got what he desired he still wouldn't be happy. Art and poetry (and maybe love) saved the day for him. In this week's episode, philosopher Kieran Setiya of MIT talks about his book Midlife with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Setiya argues we can learn from Mill to help deal with the ennui to which so many midlifers succumb--along with regrets for roads not taken and wistfulness for what could have been. Setiya argues that ...

David McRaney on How Minds Change

September 12, 2022 10:30 - 1 hour - 81.1 MB

To the Founding Fathers it was free libraries. To the 19th century rationalist philosophers it was a system of public schools. Today it's access to the internet. Since its beginnings, Americans have believed that if facts and information were available to all, a democratic utopia would prevail. But missing from these well-intentioned efforts, says author and journalist David McRaney, is the awareness that people's opinions are unrelated to their knowledge and intelligence. In fact, he explai...

Will MacAskill on Longtermism and What We Owe the Future

September 05, 2022 10:30 - 1 hour - 70.2 MB

Philosopher William MacAskill of the University of Oxford and a founder of the effective altruism movement talks about his book What We Owe the Future with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. MacAskill advocates "longtermism," giving great attention to the billions of people who will live on into the future long after we are gone. Topics discussed include the importance of moral entrepreneurs, why it's moral to have children, and the importance of trying to steer the future for better outcomes.

Amor Towles on A Gentleman in Moscow and the Writer's Craft

August 29, 2022 10:30 - 1 hour - 73.3 MB

Author Amor Towles talks about his book, A Gentleman in Moscow, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Along the way they discuss the craft of writing, the wellsprings of persistence, and Towles's reading habits.

Raj Chetty on Economic Mobility

August 22, 2022 10:30 - 1 hour - 72.8 MB

Economist Raj Chetty of Harvard University talks about his work on economic mobility with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. The focus is on Chetty's recent co-authored study in Nature where he finds that poor people in America who are only connected to other poor people do dramatically worse financially than poor people who are connected to a wider array of economic classes. The discussion includes the policy implications of this result as well as a discussion of Chetty's earlier work on the Ameri...

Tyler Cowen on Talent

August 15, 2022 10:30 - 1 hour - 56.7 MB

How do you hone your craft on an everyday basis? It could be writing, meeting with experts, even listening to podcasts, just so long, argues economist and blogger Tyler Cowen, as it makes you better at what you already do. Perhaps more than anything else, he believes, it's practice that divides middle managers from founders, and mere good hires from the creative obsessives who end up transforming the world. Join Cowen and EconTalk host Russ Roberts for a conversation about Talent, Cowen's ne...

Russ Roberts and Mike Munger on Wild Problems

August 08, 2022 10:30 - 1 hour - 71 MB

Waze and Google Maps tell us the best way to get to where we're going. But no app or algorithm can tell us whether we should head there in the first place. To economist Russ Roberts, the reason is simple: Humans are dynamic and aspirational beings. When it comes to making life's big decisions, from what to study to whom to marry or whether to have a child, it's not always us doing the deciding, he argues, but rather the people we want to be. Join the host of EconTalk, the president of Shalem...

Gerd Gigerenzer on How to Stay Smart in a Smart World

August 01, 2022 10:30 - 1 hour - 63 MB

IBM's super-computer Watson was a runaway success on Jeopardy! But it wasn't nearly as good at diagnosing cancer. This came as no surprise to Max Planck Institute psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer, who argues that when it comes to life-and-death decisions, we'll always need real, not artificial, brains. Listen as the author of How to Stay Smart in a Smart World tells EconTalk host Russ Roberts why computers aren't nearly as smart as we think. But, Gigerenzer says, human beings need to get smarter...

John List on Scale, Uber, and the Voltage Effect

July 25, 2022 10:30 - 1 hour - 56 MB

Economist John List of the University of Chicago talks about his book, The Voltage Effect, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. He discusses what determines scalability and argues that the only good ideas that count are those that scale. Along the way, he draws on his experiences as chief economist of Uber and Lyft to peer inside the black box of ride sharing.

Vinay Prasad on the Pandemic

July 18, 2022 10:30 - 1 hour - 80.1 MB

When it comes to the COVID-19 vaccination, is the risk of myocarditis greater than the benefit to a healthy male teen? Is natural immunity really better than vaccination--and were we right to mask the kids? Dr. Vinay Prasad of the University of California San Francisco talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about what we learned and didn't learn from COVID so far and how we should handle a pandemic going forward.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb on the Nations, States, and Scale

July 11, 2022 10:30 - 1 hour - 60 MB

A language, a flag, a national anthem and shared history—like a heart that has to pump harder to support a heavier body, the bigger a nation gets, the harder to curate an identity. Nassim Nicholas Taleb talks about scale and governance with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Taleb sings the virtues of smaller relative to larger and decentralized as much as possible relative to centralized. Along the way, he provides a framework for Russia's war against Ukraine and explains why the United States has...

Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan on Immigration Then and Now

July 04, 2022 10:30 - 1 hour - 67.9 MB

Immigration to the United States, say Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan, is more novel than short story: It takes decades for new immigrants to catch up economically. But their kids on average thrive economically and have higher rates of upward mobility than American-born kids. Abramitzky and Boustan talk about their book Streets of Gold with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Using an extraordinary data set of millions of Americans, Boustan and Abramitzky find that today's immigrants and their child...

A.J. Jacobs on Solving Life's Puzzles

June 27, 2022 10:30 - 1 hour - 63.1 MB

How much of life can be solved by algorithms, and how much just can't be solved? Listen as A.J. Jacobs, author of The Puzzler, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the lessons he learned from solving every kind of puzzle imaginable, including the biggest stumper of all: what it really means to be a human being.

Roosevelt Montás on Rescuing Socrates

June 20, 2022 10:30 - 1 hour - 73.8 MB

How do books change our lives? Educator and author Roosevelt Montás of Columbia University talks about his book Rescuing Socrates with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Drawing on his own educational and life journey, Montás shows how great books don't just teach us stuff--they get inside us and make us who we are.

Sridhar Ramaswamy on Google, Search, and Neeva

June 13, 2022 10:30 - 1 hour - 56.1 MB

Former Google ads boss Sridhar Ramaswamy says that we live in a world that seems to give out free content when we use a search engine. But that world comes with a hidden cost--search results that distort what we find and serve advertisers rather than searchers. Ramaswamy talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about how Google works and why he started a new search engine, Neeva, with a different business model.

Matti Friedman on Leonard Cohen and the Yom Kippur War

June 06, 2022 10:30 - 1 hour - 63.4 MB

In October 1973, an unhappy Leonard Cohen was listening to the radio on his Greek island home when he heard that Israel was at war. He headed to Tel Aviv, exchanging a personal and creative crisis for a national one. Absent a plan and even a guitar, Cohen wound up serenading Israeli soldiers at the front. Journalist Matti Friedman talks about his book Who by Fire with EconTalk host Russ Roberts and explains how a songwriter and a nation were transformed in the crucible of war.

Ian Leslie on Curiosity

May 30, 2022 10:30 - 1 hour - 61.6 MB

Why are some people incurious? Is curiosity a teachable thing? And why, if all knowledge can be googled, is curiosity now the domain of a small elite? Listen as Ian Leslie, author of Curious, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts why curiosity is a critical virtue, why it's now in dangerous decline, and why, when it comes to what sustains long-term fascination, mysteries beat puzzles every time.

Diane Coyle on Cogs, Monsters, and Better Economics

May 23, 2022 10:30 - 1 hour - 57.7 MB

Mainstream economics, says author Diane Coyle, keeps treating people like cogs: self-interested, rational agents. But in the digital economy, we're less sophisticated consumer and more monster under the influece of social media. Listen as the economist and former UK Treasury advisor tells EconTalk host Russ Roberts how, for economics to remain relevant, it needs both more diverse methodologies and more engagement with the broader issues of the day.

Marc Andreessen on Software, Immortality, and Bitcoin

May 16, 2022 10:30 - 1 hour - 67.8 MB

What's the single best thing happening in technology right now? According to entrepreneur and venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, it's the ability to live in rural Wisconsin but still earn a Silicon Valley salary. Andreessen also explains to EconTalk host Russ Roberts why software is still eating the world, why he's an optimist, and why he's still bullish on Bitcoin and the blockchain.

Chris Blattman on Why We Fight

May 09, 2022 10:30 - 1 hour - 63 MB

It's tempting to explain Russia's invasion of Ukraine with Putin's megalomania. Economist Chris Blattman of the University of Chicago talks about his book Why We Fight with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Blattman explains why only a fraction of rivalries ever erupt into violence, the five main reasons adversaries can't arrive at compromise, and the problem with trying to get into Putin's head (and why it's not all about Putin. Really).

Dwayne Betts on Ellison, Levi, and Human Suffering

May 02, 2022 10:30 - 1 hour - 76.8 MB

In his memoir of his time in Auschwitz, Primo Levi describes Jewish prisoners bathing in freezing water without soap--not because they thought it would make them cleaner, but because it helped them hold on to their dignity. For poet and author Dwayne Betts, Levi's description of his fellow inmates' suffering, much like the novelist Ralph Ellison's portrayal of early twentieth-century black life in America, is much more than bearing witness to the darkest impulses of mankind. Rather, Betts te...

Michael Munger on Antitrust

April 25, 2022 10:30 - 1 hour - 75.7 MB

Are tech giants such as Google, Amazon, or Facebook dangerous? Do they have too much power? Dive into the murky waters of antitrust as Michael Munger of Duke University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about monopoly, antitrust policy, and competition in the 21st century.

Guests

Tyler Cowen
5 Episodes
Chris Anderson
3 Episodes
Ryan Holiday
3 Episodes
Adam Davidson
2 Episodes
Cathy O'Neil
2 Episodes
David Autor
2 Episodes
David Epstein
2 Episodes
Emily Oster
2 Episodes
Eric Topol
2 Episodes
Kevin Kelly
2 Episodes
Matt Ridley
2 Episodes
Paul Bloom
2 Episodes
Paul Romer
2 Episodes
Tim Harford
2 Episodes
Adam Smith
1 Episode
A.J. Jacobs
1 Episode
Alan Lightman
1 Episode
Alex Tabarrok
1 Episode
Amy Webb
1 Episode
Andrew McAfee
1 Episode
Angela Duckworth
1 Episode
Arthur Brooks
1 Episode
Bjorn Lomborg
1 Episode
Cass Sunstein
1 Episode
Chuck Klosterman
1 Episode
Daniel Pink
1 Episode
Dan Pink
1 Episode
Daphne Koller
1 Episode
David Meltzer
1 Episode
Gabriel Zucman
1 Episode
Gary Becker
1 Episode
Gary Greenberg
1 Episode
Gene Epstein
1 Episode
Hulk Hogan
1 Episode
Iain McGilchrist
1 Episode
James Lindsay
1 Episode
Jennifer Pahlka
1 Episode
Joe Posnanski
1 Episode
John Gray
1 Episode
John Horgan
1 Episode
John McWhorter
1 Episode
Jonathan Haidt
1 Episode
Jordan Peterson
1 Episode
Josh Luber
1 Episode
Kelly Weinersmith
1 Episode
Leo Tolstoy
1 Episode
Margaret Heffernan
1 Episode
Mariana Mazzucato
1 Episode
Michael Lewis
1 Episode
Michael Pollan
1 Episode
Nick Bostrom
1 Episode
Patrick Collison
1 Episode
P.J. O'Rourke
1 Episode
Rana Foroohar
1 Episode
Reid Hoffman
1 Episode
Richard Thaler
1 Episode
Rick Hanushek
1 Episode
Robert Wright
1 Episode
Rodney Brooks
1 Episode
Rory Sutherland
1 Episode
Sally Satel
1 Episode
Sebastian Junger
1 Episode
Thomas Piketty
1 Episode
William Black
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William Easterly
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