EconTalk at GMU

EconTalk at GMU

78 episodes

EconTalk is an award-winning weekly talk show about economics in daily life. Featured guests include renowned economics professors, Nobel Prize winners, and exciting speakers on all kinds of topical matters related to economic thought. Topics include health care, business cycles, economic growth, free trade, education, finance, politics, sports, book reviews, parenting, and the curiosities of everyday decision-making. Russ Roberts, of the Library of Economics and Liberty (econlib.org) and George Mason U., draws you in with lively guests and creative repartee. Look for related readings and the complete archive of previous shows at EconTalk.org, where you can also comment on the podcasts and ask questions.

Podcasts

Boudreaux on Coase

Published: Oct. 28, 2013, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 13 minutes 21 seconds

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Calvo on the Crisis, Money, and Macro

Published: Oct. 21, 2013, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 39 seconds

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Winston on Transportation

Published: Oct. 14, 2013, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 47 seconds

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Oster on Pregnancy, Causation, and Expecting Better

Published: Oct. 7, 2013, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 58 seconds

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Tyler Cowen on Inequality, the Future, and Average is Over

Published: Sept. 30, 2013, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 59 minutes 55 seconds

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David Epstein on the Sports Gene

Published: Sept. 23, 2013, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 56 seconds

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David Laidler on Money

Published: Sept. 16, 2013, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 39 seconds

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Taleb on Skin in the Game

Published: Sept. 9, 2013, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 47 seconds

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Capitalism, Government, and the Good Society

Published: Sept. 4, 2013, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 58 minutes 38 seconds

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Munger on Milk

Published: Sept. 2, 2013, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 59 seconds

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Hanushek on Education and Prosperity

Published: Aug. 26, 2013, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 59 seconds

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Bhagwati on India

Published: Aug. 19, 2013, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 2 seconds

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Weingast on the Violence Trap

Published: Aug. 5, 2013, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 7 seconds

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Pindyck on Climate Change

Published: Aug. 5, 2013, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 55 seconds

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Narlikar on Fair Trade and Free Trade

Published: July 29, 2013, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 21 seconds

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Michael Lind on Libertarianism

Published: July 22, 2013, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 50 seconds

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Clemens on Aid, Migration, and Poverty

Published: July 15, 2013, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes 49 seconds

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Morris Fiorina on Polarization, Stability, and the State of the Electorate

Published: July 8, 2013, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 59 minutes 25 seconds

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Munger on Sports, Norms, Rules, and the Code

Published: July 1, 2013, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 47 seconds

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Stevenson and Wolfers on Happiness, Growth, and the Reinhart-Rogoff Controversy

Published: June 24, 2013, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 55 seconds

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Pallotta on Charity and the Culture of the Non-Profit Sector

Published: June 17, 2013, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 59 minutes

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Schneier on Power, the Internet, and Security

Published: June 10, 2013, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 30 seconds

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Kling on the Three Languages of Politics

Published: June 3, 2013, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 35 seconds

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Jim Manzi on the Oregon Medicaid Study, Experimental Evidence, and Causality

Published: May 27, 2013, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 5 seconds

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Epstein on the Constitution

Published: May 20, 2013, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 30 seconds

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Frakt on Medicaid and the Oregon Medicaid Study

Published: May 13, 2013, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 7 seconds

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Bernstein on Communication, Power and the Masters of the Word

Published: May 6, 2013, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 33 seconds

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Galbraith on Inequality

Published: April 29, 2013, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 28 seconds

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Glaeser on Cities

Published: April 22, 2013, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 47 seconds

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Sachs on the Crisis, the Recovery, and the Future

Published: April 15, 2013, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 45 seconds

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Admati on Bank Regulation and the Bankers' New Clothes

Published: April 8, 2013, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 5 seconds

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Topol on the Creative Destruction of Medicine

Published: April 1, 2013, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 32 seconds

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Sumner on Money, Business Cycles, and Monetary Policy

Published: March 25, 2013, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 36 seconds

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Burgin on Hayek, Friedman, and the Great Persuasion

Published: March 18, 2013, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 4 seconds

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Searls on the Intention Economy

Published: March 11, 2013, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 59 seconds

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Leigh Steinberg on Sports, Agents, and Athletes

Published: March 4, 2013, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes 57 seconds

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Varoufakis on Valve, Spontaneous Order, and the European Crisis

Published: Feb. 25, 2013, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 21 seconds

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Glenn Reynolds on Politics, the Constitution, and Technology

Published: Feb. 18, 2013, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 59 minutes 48 seconds

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Cathy O'Neil on Wall St and Occupy Wall Street

Published: Feb. 11, 2013, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 51 seconds

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Seidman on the Constitution

Published: Feb. 4, 2013, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 3 seconds

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Boettke on Living Economics

Published: Jan. 28, 2013, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 19 seconds

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Kelly on the Future, Productivity, and the Quality of Life

Published: Jan. 21, 2013, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 58 minutes 34 seconds

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Esther Dyson on the Attention Economy and the Quantification of Everything

Published: Jan. 14, 2013, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 52 seconds

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Jerven on Measuring African Poverty and Progress

Published: Jan. 7, 2013, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 8 seconds

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Pettit on the Prison Population, Survey Data and African-American Progress

Published: Dec. 31, 2012, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 51 seconds

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Lisa Turner on Organic Farming

Published: Dec. 24, 2012, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 23 seconds

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Boudreaux on Reading Hayek

Published: Dec. 17, 2012, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 13 minutes 2 seconds

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Chris Anderson on Makers and Manufacturing

Published: Dec. 10, 2012, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 15 seconds

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Mulligan on Redistribution, Unemployment, and the Labor Market

Published: Dec. 3, 2012, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 24 seconds

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Angell on Big Pharma

Published: Nov. 26, 2012, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 59 minutes 59 seconds

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Cochrane on Health Care

Published: Nov. 19, 2012, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 59 minutes 16 seconds

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Munger on John Locke, Prices, and Hurricane Sandy

Published: Nov. 12, 2012, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 58 seconds

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Joshua Rauh on Public Pensions

Published: Nov. 5, 2012, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 19 seconds

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Hanke on Hyperinflation, Monetary Policy, and Debt

Published: Oct. 29, 2012, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 35 seconds

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Rodden on the Geography of Voting

Published: Oct. 22, 2012, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 57 minutes 37 seconds

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Kling on Education and the Internet

Published: Oct. 15, 2012, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 59 seconds

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Garett Jones on Fisher, Debt, and Deflation

Published: Oct. 8, 2012, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 20 seconds

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Robert Skidelsky on Money, the Good Life, and How Much is Enough

Published: Oct. 1, 2012, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 36 seconds

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Frank and Roberts on Infrastructure

Published: Sept. 24, 2012, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 57 minutes 51 seconds

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Paul Tough on How Children Succeed

Published: Sept. 17, 2012, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 55 minutes 19 seconds

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Nosek on Truth, Science, and Academic Incentives

Published: Sept. 10, 2012, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 56 minutes 28 seconds

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Barofsky on Bailouts

Published: Sept. 3, 2012, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 50 seconds

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Roger Noll on the Economics of Sports

Published: Aug. 27, 2012, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 57 seconds

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Ohanian on the Great Recession and the Labor Market

Published: Aug. 20, 2012, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 14 minutes 23 seconds

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Frisby on Tax Reform

Published: Aug. 13, 2012, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 5 seconds

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Ober on the Ancient Greek Economy

Published: Aug. 6, 2012, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 16 seconds

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Scott Atlas on American Health Care

Published: July 30, 2012, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 42 seconds

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Brady on the 2012 US Election

Published: July 23, 2012, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 47 seconds

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Taubes on Why We Get Fat

Published: July 16, 2012, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes 1 second

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Stiglitz on Inequality

Published: July 9, 2012, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 29 seconds

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Zingales on Capitalism and Crony Capitalism

Published: July 2, 2012, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 58 seconds

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Manzi on Knowledge, Policy, and Uncontrolled

Published: June 18, 2012, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 50 seconds

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Jonah Lehrer on Creativity and Imagine

Published: June 11, 2012, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes 11 seconds

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Yong on Science, Replication, and Journalism

Published: June 4, 2012, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes 22 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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Munger on Price Gouging

Published: Jan. 8, 2007, 5:15 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 8 seconds

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Friedman on Capitalism and Freedom

Published: Sept. 4, 2006, 12:25 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 3 seconds

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Milton Friedman on Money

Published: Aug. 28, 2006, 12:30 p.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 4 seconds

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