EconTalk Archives, 2008
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Srour on Education, African Schools, and Building Tomorrow
Published: Dec. 22, 2008, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 55 minutes 25 seconds
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Higgs on the Great Depression
Published: Dec. 15, 2008, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 9 seconds
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Lipstein on Hospitals
Published: Dec. 8, 2008, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 17 seconds
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Rauchway on the Great Depresson and the New Deal
Published: Dec. 1, 2008, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes
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Hazlett on Telecommunications
Published: Nov. 24, 2008, 1:30 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 43 seconds
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Selgin on Free Banking
Published: Nov. 17, 2008, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 13 minutes 16 seconds
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Kling on Credit Default Swaps, Counterparty Risk, and the Political Economy of Financial Regulation
Published: Nov. 10, 2008, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 43 seconds
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Richard Epstein on Happiness, Inequality, and Envy
Published: Nov. 3, 2008, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 56 minutes 52 seconds
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Munger on Middlemen
Published: Oct. 27, 2008, 1:40 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 12 minutes 35 seconds
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Shirky on Coase, Collaboration and Here Comes Everybody
Published: Oct. 20, 2008, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 27 seconds
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Patri Friedman on Seasteading
Published: Oct. 13, 2008, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 48 minutes 17 seconds
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Bernstein on Inequality
Published: Oct. 6, 2008, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 56 minutes 31 seconds
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Kling on Freddie and Fannie and the Recent History of the U.S. Housing Market
Published: Sept. 29, 2008, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 37 minutes 11 seconds
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Karol Boudreaux on Wildlife, Property, and Poverty in Africa
Published: Sept. 22, 2008, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 57 minutes 58 seconds
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Shiller on Housing and Bubbles
Published: Sept. 15, 2008, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 59 seconds
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Ellis on American Creation and the Founding
Published: Sept. 8, 2008, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 33 seconds
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Rauch on the Volt, Risk, and Corporate Culture
Published: Sept. 1, 2008, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 58 minutes 1 second
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Roberts on the Price of Everything
Published: Aug. 25, 2008, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 47 seconds
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John Taylor on Monetary Policy
Published: Aug. 18, 2008, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 54 minutes 30 seconds
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Bueno de Mesquita on Iran and Threats to U.S. Security
Published: Aug. 11, 2008, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 14 seconds
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Barro on Disasters
Published: Aug. 4, 2008, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 31 seconds
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Varian on Technology
Published: July 28, 2008, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 39 minutes 34 seconds
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Rivers on Polling
Published: July 21, 2008, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 17 seconds
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Hanushek on Education and School Finance
Published: July 14, 2008, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 18 seconds
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Munger on the Political Economy of Public Transportation
Published: July 7, 2008, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 56 minutes 7 seconds
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Kling on Hospitals and Health Care
Published: June 30, 2008, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 59 minutes 26 seconds
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McKenzie on Prices
Published: June 23, 2008, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes 54 seconds
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Don Boudreaux on Energy Prices
Published: June 16, 2008, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 21 seconds
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Cole on the Market for New Cars
Published: June 9, 2008, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 12 minutes 1 second
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Gene Epstein on Gold, the Fed, and Money
Published: June 2, 2008, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 23 seconds
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Hanson on Signalling
Published: May 26, 2008, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 25 minutes 23 seconds
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Meltzer on the Fed, Money, and Gold
Published: May 19, 2008, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes 15 seconds
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Chris Anderson on Free
Published: May 12, 2008, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes 44 seconds
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Nye on Wine, War and Trade
Published: May 5, 2008, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 21 seconds
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Bernstein on the History of Trade
Published: April 28, 2008, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes 26 seconds
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Roberts on the Least Pleasant Jobs
Published: April 21, 2008, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 39 seconds
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Coyle on the Soulful Science
Published: April 14, 2008, 11:45 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 15 seconds
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Coyne on Exporting Democracy after War
Published: April 7, 2008, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 19 minutes 44 seconds
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McCloskey on Capitalism and the Bourgeois Virtues
Published: March 31, 2008, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 59 minutes 59 seconds
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Munger on Subsidies and Externalities
Published: March 24, 2008, noonDuration: 1 hour 2 minutes 18 seconds
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Cowen on Monetary Policy
Published: March 17, 2008, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 50 seconds
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Marglin on Markets and Community
Published: March 10, 2008, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 27 seconds
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Vernon Smith on Rationality in Economics
Published: March 3, 2008, 11 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 3 seconds
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Sowell on Economic Facts and Fallacies
Published: Feb. 25, 2008, 11 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 22 seconds
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Brook on Vermeer's Hat and the Dawn of Global Trade
Published: Feb. 19, 2008, 9 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 2 seconds
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Easterly on Growth, Poverty, and Aid
Published: Feb. 11, 2008, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 38 seconds
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Dan Klein on Coordination and Cooperation
Published: Feb. 4, 2008, 11:15 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 53 seconds
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Collier on the Bottom Billion
Published: Jan. 28, 2008, 11:15 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 47 seconds
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Don Boudreaux on Globalization and Trade Deficits
Published: Jan. 21, 2008, 11:15 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 19 minutes 54 seconds
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Munger on the Nature of the Firm
Published: Jan. 14, 2008, 11:15 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 23 seconds
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Edward Castronova on the Exodus to the Virtual World
Published: Jan. 7, 2008, 12:30 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes 44 seconds
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