EconTalk Archives, 2007
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Duggan on Strategic Intuition
Published: Dec. 24, 2007, 11:15 a.m.Duration: 55 minutes 30 seconds
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Karol Boudreaux on Property Rights and Incentives in Africa
Published: Dec. 17, 2007, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 27 seconds
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Boettke on Austrian Economics
Published: Dec. 10, 2007, 11 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 17 minutes 54 seconds
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Munger on Fair Trade and Free Trade
Published: Dec. 3, 2007, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 58 minutes 58 seconds
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Botkin on Nature, the Environment and Global Warming
Published: Nov. 26, 2007, 11 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 18 seconds
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Sunstein on Worst-case Scenarios
Published: Nov. 19, 2007, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 36 seconds
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Henry Aaron on Health Care Costs
Published: Nov. 15, 2007, 11:40 a.m.Duration: 39 minutes 35 seconds
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Waldfogel on Markets, Choice, and the Tyranny of the Market
Published: Nov. 12, 2007, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 51 minutes 41 seconds
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Arnold Kling on the Economics of Health Care and the Crisis of Abundance
Published: Nov. 5, 2007, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 58 minutes 53 seconds
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Yandle on the Tragedy of the Commons and the Implications for Environmental Regulation
Published: Oct. 29, 2007, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 24 minutes 32 seconds
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Ayres on Super Crunchers and the Power of Data
Published: Oct. 22, 2007, 11 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 44 seconds
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Robert Frank on Economics Education and the Economic Naturalist
Published: Oct. 15, 2007, 11 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 3 seconds
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McCraw on Schumpeter, Innovation, and Creative Destruction
Published: Oct. 8, 2007, noonDuration: 1 hour 6 minutes 43 seconds
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Boudreaux on Market Failure, Government Failure and the Economics of Antitrust Regulation
Published: Oct. 1, 2007, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 33 seconds
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Grab Bag: Munger and Roberts on Recycling, Peak Oil and Steroids
Published: Sept. 24, 2007, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 19 seconds
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Epstein on Property Rights, Zoning and Kelo
Published: Sept. 17, 2007, 12:45 p.m.Duration: 41 minutes 29 seconds
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Cowen on Your Inner Economist
Published: Sept. 10, 2007, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 58 minutes 23 seconds
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George Shultz on Economics, Human Rights and the Fall of the Soviet Union
Published: Sept. 3, 2007, 11 a.m.Duration: 35 minutes 48 seconds
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Romer on Growth
Published: Aug. 27, 2007, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 17 minutes 8 seconds
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Gordon on Ants, Humans, the Division of Labor and Emergent Order
Published: Aug. 21, 2007, 4:15 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 9 seconds
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Weingast on Violence, Power and a Theory of Nearly Everything
Published: Aug. 13, 2007, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 22 seconds
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Hanushek on Educational Quality and Economic Growth
Published: Aug. 6, 2007, 11 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 9 seconds
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Henderson on Disagreeable Economists
Published: July 30, 2007, 11 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 10 seconds
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Bueno de Mesquita on Reagan, Yeltsin, and the Strategy of Political Campaigning
Published: July 23, 2007, 11 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 3 seconds
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Ticket Prices and Scalping
Published: July 16, 2007, 11:45 a.m.Duration: 40 minutes 29 seconds
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Leamer on Outsourcing and Globalization
Published: July 9, 2007, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 9 seconds
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Munger on Recycling
Published: July 2, 2007, 10:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 30 seconds
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Caplan on the Myth of the Rational Voter
Published: June 25, 2007, 11:45 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 21 minutes 9 seconds
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Weinberger on Everything is Miscellaneous and the Wonderful World of Digital Information
Published: June 18, 2007, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 14 minutes 52 seconds
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Dan Pink on How Half Your Brain Can Save Your Job
Published: June 11, 2007, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 13 seconds
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Shlaes on the Great Depression
Published: June 4, 2007, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 30 seconds
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Hanson on Health
Published: May 28, 2007, 10:45 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 12 minutes 16 seconds
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Vernon Smith on Markets and Experimental Economics
Published: May 21, 2007, 11 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 13 seconds
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Sunstein on Infotopia, Information and Decision-Making
Published: May 14, 2007, 10:45 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 4 seconds
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Allison on Strategy, Profits, and Self-Interest
Published: May 7, 2007, 12:30 p.m.Duration: 57 minutes 11 seconds
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Taleb on Black Swans
Published: April 30, 2007, 12:30 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 23 minutes 30 seconds
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Rabushka on the Flat Tax
Published: April 23, 2007, 1:45 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 16 seconds
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Boudreaux on the Economics of "Buy Local"
Published: April 16, 2007, 10:45 a.m.Duration: 55 minutes 51 seconds
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Bogle on Investing
Published: April 9, 2007, 12:15 p.m.Duration: 58 minutes 30 seconds
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Mike Munger on the Division of Labor
Published: April 2, 2007, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 37 seconds
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Kevin Kelly on the Future of the Web and Everything Else
Published: March 26, 2007, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 53 seconds
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David Leonhardt on the Media
Published: March 19, 2007, noonDuration: 57 minutes 43 seconds
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Cowen on Liberty, Art, Food and Everything Else in Between
Published: March 12, 2007, 12:15 p.m.Duration: 55 minutes 31 seconds
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Easterbrook on the American Standard of Living
Published: March 5, 2007, 11:15 a.m.Duration: 55 minutes 22 seconds
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Viviana Zelizer on Money and Intimacy
Published: Feb. 26, 2007, noonDuration: 54 minutes 58 seconds
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Richard Epstein on Property Rights and Drug Patents
Published: Feb. 19, 2007, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 12 seconds
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Bruce Bueno de Mesquita on Democracies and Dictatorships
Published: Feb. 12, 2007, 11:15 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 55 seconds
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Lucas on Growth and Poverty
Published: Feb. 5, 2007, 12:15 p.m.Duration: 48 minutes 14 seconds
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Michael Lewis on the Hidden Economics of Baseball and Football
Published: Jan. 29, 2007, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes 56 seconds
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Greg Mankiw on Gasoline Taxes, Keynes and Macroeconomics
Published: Jan. 22, 2007, 11:15 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 24 seconds
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Bruce Yandle on Bootleggers and Baptists
Published: Jan. 15, 2007, 1:10 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 47 seconds
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Munger on Price Gouging
Published: Jan. 8, 2007, 5:15 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 8 seconds
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