EconTalk Archives, 2014
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James Tooley on Private Schools for the Poor and the Beautiful Tree
Published: Dec. 29, 2014, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 13 seconds
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Joshua Angrist on Econometrics and Causation
Published: Dec. 22, 2014, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 31 seconds
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Gary Marcus on the Future of Artificial Intelligence and the Brain
Published: Dec. 15, 2014, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 58 minutes 16 seconds
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James Otteson on the End of Socialism
Published: Dec. 8, 2014, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 47 seconds
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Nick Bostrom on Superintelligence
Published: Dec. 1, 2014, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 35 seconds
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Emily Oster on Infant Mortality
Published: Nov. 24, 2014, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 59 minutes 31 seconds
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Vernon Smith on Adam Smith and the Human Enterprise
Published: Nov. 17, 2014, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 2 seconds
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Becky Liddicoat Yamarik on Palliative Care and End-of-Life Medical Issues
Published: Nov. 10, 2014, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 11 seconds
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Daron Acemoglu on Inequality, Institutions, and Piketty
Published: Nov. 3, 2014, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 6 seconds
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Robert Solow on Growth and the State of Economics
Published: Oct. 27, 2014, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 6 seconds
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Luigi Zingales on Incentives and the Potential Capture of Economists by Special Interests
Published: Oct. 20, 2014, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 6 seconds
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Russ Roberts and Mike Munger on How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life
Published: Oct. 13, 2014, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 23 seconds
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David Autor on the Future of Work and Polanyi's Paradox
Published: Oct. 6, 2014, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 24 seconds
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Martha Nussbaum on Creating Capabilities and GDP
Published: Sept. 29, 2014, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 15 seconds
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Thomas Piketty on Inequality and Capital in the 21st Century
Published: Sept. 22, 2014, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 43 seconds
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Elizabeth Green on Education and Building a Better Teacher
Published: Sept. 15, 2014, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 26 seconds
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Paul Pfleiderer on the Misuse of Economic Models
Published: Sept. 8, 2014, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 32 seconds
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Nathan Blecharczyk on Airbnb and the Sharing Economy
Published: Sept. 1, 2014, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 59 minutes 13 seconds
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Daphne Koller on Education, Coursera, and MOOCs
Published: Aug. 25, 2014, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 26 seconds
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Terry Anderson on the Environment and Property Rights
Published: Aug. 18, 2014, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 36 seconds
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Barry Weingast on Law
Published: Aug. 11, 2014, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 2 seconds
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Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha on LinkedIn and The Alliance
Published: Aug. 4, 2014, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 44 seconds
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Sam Altman on Start-ups, Venture Capital, and the Y Combinator
Published: July 28, 2014, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 41 seconds
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Chris Blattman on Cash, Poverty, and Development
Published: July 21, 2014, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes 4 seconds
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D. G. Myers on Cancer, Dying, and Living
Published: July 14, 2014, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 29 seconds
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Michael Munger on the Sharing Economy
Published: July 7, 2014, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 4 seconds
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Hansen on Risk, Ambiguity, and Measurement
Published: June 30, 2014, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 17 seconds
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Gregory Zuckerman on the Frackers and the Energy Revolution
Published: June 23, 2014, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 59 seconds
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William Easterly on the Tyranny of Experts
Published: June 16, 2014, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 21 seconds
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Edward Lazear on Becker
Published: June 9, 2014, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 6 seconds
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McAfee, McArdle, and Ohanian on the Future of Work
Published: June 2, 2014, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 19 minutes 33 seconds
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Yuval Levin on Burke, Paine, and the Great Debate
Published: May 26, 2014, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 35 seconds
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Marc Andreessen on Venture Capital and the Digital Future
Published: May 19, 2014, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 46 seconds
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Charles Marohn on Strong Towns, Urban Development, and the Future of American Cities
Published: May 12, 2014, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 30 seconds
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Gavin Andresen on the Present and Future of Bitcoin
Published: May 5, 2014, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 10 seconds
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Diane Coyle on GDP
Published: April 28, 2014, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 58 minutes 47 seconds
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McArdle on Failure, Success, and the Up Side of Down
Published: April 21, 2014, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 44 seconds
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Steven Teles on Kludgeocracy
Published: April 14, 2014, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 18 seconds
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Bryan Caplan on College, Signaling and Human Capital
Published: April 7, 2014, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 59 seconds
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Cochrane on Education and MOOCs
Published: March 31, 2014, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 28 seconds
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John Christy and Kerry Emanuel on Climate Change
Published: March 24, 2014, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 50 seconds
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Jeffrey Sachs on the Millennium Villages Project
Published: March 17, 2014, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 24 minutes 3 seconds
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Richard Epstein on Classical Liberalism, Libertarianism, and Lochner
Published: March 10, 2014, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 42 seconds
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Velasquez-Manoff on Autoimmune Disease, Parasites, and Complexity
Published: March 3, 2014, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 12 minutes 55 seconds
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Robert Frank on Coase
Published: Feb. 24, 2014, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 47 seconds
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Calomiris and Haber on Fragile by Design
Published: Feb. 17, 2014, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 17 minutes 1 second
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Paul Sabin on Ehrlich, Simon and the Bet
Published: Feb. 10, 2014, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 29 seconds
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Brynjolfsson on the Second Machine Age
Published: Feb. 3, 2014, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 59 minutes 42 seconds
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Nina Munk on Poverty, Development, and the Idealist
Published: Jan. 27, 2014, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 38 seconds
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Jonathan Haidt on the Righteous Mind
Published: Jan. 20, 2014, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 1 second
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Laurence Kotlikoff on Debt, Default, and the Federal Government's Finances
Published: Jan. 13, 2014, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 33 seconds
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Anthony Gill on Religion
Published: Jan. 6, 2014, 11:30 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 8 seconds
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