EconTalk Archives, 2009
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Winston on Market Failure and Government Failure
Published: Dec. 28, 2009, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 17 seconds
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Hamilton on Debt, Default, and Oil
Published: Dec. 21, 2009, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 3 seconds
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Kling on Prosperity, Poverty, and Economics 2.0
Published: Dec. 14, 2009, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 58 minutes 21 seconds
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McArdle on Debt and Self-Restraint
Published: Dec. 7, 2009, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 18 minutes 2 seconds
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Boettke on Elinor Ostrom, Vincent Ostrom, and the Bloomington School
Published: Nov. 30, 2009, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 18 seconds
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Reinhart on Financial Crises
Published: Nov. 23, 2009, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 17 seconds
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Posner on the Financial Crisis
Published: Nov. 16, 2009, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 20 seconds
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Sumner on Monetary Policy
Published: Nov. 9, 2009, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 2 seconds
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Heller on Gridlock and the Tragedy of the Anticommons
Published: Nov. 2, 2009, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 58 minutes 44 seconds
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Calomiris on the Financial Crisis
Published: Oct. 26, 2009, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 28 minutes 27 seconds
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Munger on Shortages, Prices, and Competition
Published: Oct. 19, 2009, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes
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Willingham on Education, School, and Neuroscience
Published: Oct. 12, 2009, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes
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Gary Stern on Too Big to Fail
Published: Oct. 5, 2009, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 24 seconds
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Cohan on the Life and Death of Bear Stearns
Published: Sept. 28, 2009, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 8 seconds
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Buchheit on Google, Friendfeed, and Start-ups
Published: Sept. 21, 2009, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 37 seconds
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Nye on the Great Depression, Political Economy, and the Evolution of the State
Published: Sept. 14, 2009, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 58 minutes 4 seconds
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Cowen on Culture, Autism, and Creating Your Own Economy
Published: Sept. 7, 2009, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 56 minutes 48 seconds
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Munger on Cultural Norms
Published: Aug. 31, 2009, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 58 minutes 33 seconds
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Brady on Health Care Reform, Public Opinion, and Party Politics
Published: Aug. 24, 2009, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes 30 seconds
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Hitchens on Orwell
Published: Aug. 17, 2009, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 11 seconds
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Hanushek on Test-based Accountability, Federal Funding, and School Finance
Published: Aug. 10, 2009, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 9 seconds
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Graham on Start-ups, Innovation, and Creativity
Published: Aug. 3, 2009, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 56 seconds
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Peter Henry on Growth, Development, and Policy
Published: July 27, 2009, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 37 seconds
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John Taylor on the Financial Crisis
Published: July 20, 2009, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 57 minutes 30 seconds
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Justin Fox on the Rationality of Markets
Published: July 13, 2009, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 58 minutes 8 seconds
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Collier on Democracy and Violence
Published: July 6, 2009, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 46 seconds
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Helprin on Copyright
Published: June 29, 2009, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 52 seconds
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Munger on Franchising, Vertical Integration, and the Auto Industry
Published: June 22, 2009, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 57 minutes 16 seconds
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Platt on Working at Wal-Mart
Published: June 15, 2009, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 59 minutes 43 seconds
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Rebonato on Risk Management and the Crisis
Published: June 8, 2009, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 22 seconds
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Epstein on the Rule of Law
Published: June 1, 2009, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 29 seconds
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Klein on The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Episode 6--A Discussion of Parts VI and VII, and Summary
Published: May 27, 2009, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 36 minutes 47 seconds
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Leeson on Pirates and the Invisible Hook
Published: May 25, 2009, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 12 minutes 14 seconds
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Boldrin on Intellectual Property
Published: May 18, 2009, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 19 minutes 34 seconds
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Klein on The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Episode 5--A Discussion of Parts III (cont.), IV, and V
Published: May 13, 2009, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes 31 seconds
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Wolfe on Liberalism
Published: May 11, 2009, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 53 minutes 45 seconds
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Leamer on Macroeconomic Patterns and Stories
Published: May 4, 2009, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 2 seconds
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Klein on The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Episode 4--A Discussion of Part III
Published: April 29, 2009, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 34 minutes 12 seconds
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Reis on Keynes, Macroeconomics, and Monetary Policy
Published: April 27, 2009, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 57 seconds
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Klein on The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Episode 3--A Discussion of Part II
Published: April 22, 2009, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 30 seconds
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Roberts on Wealth, Growth, and Economics as a Science
Published: April 20, 2009, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 51 minutes 18 seconds
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Klein on The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Episode 2--A Discussion of Part I
Published: April 15, 2009, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 29 minutes 18 seconds
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Don Boudreaux on Macroeconomics and Austrian Business Cycle Theory
Published: April 13, 2009, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 30 seconds
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Klein on The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Episode 1--An Overview
Published: April 6, 2009, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 23 minutes 28 seconds
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Brink Lindsey on the Age of Abundance
Published: March 30, 2009, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 26 seconds
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Taleb on the Financial Crisis
Published: March 23, 2009, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 56 minutes 22 seconds
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Klein on Truth, Bias, and Disagreement
Published: March 16, 2009, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 4 seconds
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Wales on Wikipedia
Published: March 9, 2009, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 41 minutes 38 seconds
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Zywicki on Debt and Bankruptcy
Published: March 2, 2009, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 44 seconds
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Meltzer on Inflation
Published: Feb. 23, 2009, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 40 seconds
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Bhide on Outsourcing, Uncertainty, and the Venturesome Economy
Published: Feb. 16, 2009, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 34 seconds
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Acemoglu on the Financial Crisis
Published: Feb. 9, 2009, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 14 minutes 12 seconds
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Cochrane on the Financial Crisis
Published: Feb. 2, 2009, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 13 minutes 44 seconds
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Roberts (and Hanson) on Truth and Economics
Published: Jan. 26, 2009, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 14 minutes 23 seconds
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Eric Raymond on Hacking, Open Source, and the Cathedral and the Bazaar
Published: Jan. 19, 2009, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 5 seconds
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Fazzari on Keynesian Economics
Published: Jan. 12, 2009, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 53 seconds
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Boettke on the Austrian Perspective on Business Cycles and Monetary Policy
Published: Jan. 5, 2009, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 26 seconds
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