EconTalk Archives, 2007
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, free trade, economic growth, 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.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 62 minutes
- Episodes
- 52
- Years Active
- 2007
Weingast on Violence, Power and a Theory of Nearly Everything
Barry Weingast, Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and the Ward C. Krebs Family Professor in the Department of Political Science at Stanford University, talks about the ideas i…
01:05:22 |
Mon 13 Aug 2007
Hanushek on Educational Quality and Economic Growth
Eric Hanushek, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, talks about his research on the impact of educational quality on economic growth. Past efforts to increase the economic growth rate of poor cou…
01:03:09 |
Mon 06 Aug 2007
Henderson on Disagreeable Economists
David Henderson, editor of the Concise Encyclopedia of Economics and a research fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about when and why economists disagree. …
01:00:10 |
Mon 30 Jul 2007
Bueno de Mesquita on Reagan, Yeltsin, and the Strategy of Political Campaigning
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, NYU and the Hoover Institute, talks about the political economy of political campaigns and his forthcoming book, The Strategy of Campaigning: Lessons from Ronald Reagan and B…
01:07:03 |
Mon 23 Jul 2007
Ticket Prices and Scalping
EconTalk host Russ Roberts talks about scalping and visits AT&T Park hours before Major League Baseball's All-Star Game to talk with a scalper, a merchandiser, a fan, and the police about prices, tic…
00:40:29 |
Mon 16 Jul 2007
Leamer on Outsourcing and Globalization
Is outsourcing good for America? How does foreign competition affect wages in the United States? Ed Leamer, professor of economics at UCLA, talks about the effects of outsourcing on wages, jobs, and …
01:05:09 |
Mon 09 Jul 2007
Munger on Recycling
Mike Munger, professor of economics and political science at Duke University and frequent guest of EconTalk, talks with host Russ Roberts about the economics and politics of recycling. Munger argues …
01:02:30 |
Mon 02 Jul 2007
Caplan on the Myth of the Rational Voter
Bryan Caplan, of George Mason University and blogger at EconLog, talks about his book, The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies. Caplan argues that democracies work well in…
01:21:09 |
Mon 25 Jun 2007
Weinberger on Everything is Miscellaneous and the Wonderful World of Digital Information
Author David Weinberger, a fellow at Harvard's Berkman Institute for Internet and Society, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in his latest book, Everything is Miscellaneous: The P…
01:14:52 |
Mon 18 Jun 2007
Dan Pink on How Half Your Brain Can Save Your Job
Author Dan Pink, talks about the ideas in his book, A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future. He argues that the skills of the right side of the brain--skills such as creativity, emp…
01:07:13 |
Mon 11 Jun 2007
Shlaes on the Great Depression
Amity Shlaes, Bloomberg columnist and visiting senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, talks about her new book, The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression. She and EconTalk …
01:05:30 |
Mon 04 Jun 2007
Hanson on Health
Robin Hanson, of George Mason University, argues that health care is different, but not in the usual ways people claim. He describes a set of paradoxical empirical findings in the study of health car…
01:12:16 |
Mon 28 May 2007
Vernon Smith on Markets and Experimental Economics
Vernon Smith, Professor of Economics at George Mason University and the 2002 Nobel Laureate in Economics, talks about experimental economics, markets, risk, behavioral economics and the evolution of …
01:06:13 |
Mon 21 May 2007
Sunstein on Infotopia, Information and Decision-Making
Cass Sunstein of the University of Chicago talks about the ideas in his latest book, Infotopia. What are the best ways to get the information needed to make wise decisions when that information is sp…
01:05:04 |
Mon 14 May 2007
Allison on Strategy, Profits, and Self-Interest
John Allison, CEO of BB and T Bank, lays out his business philosophy arguing for the virtues of profits, self-interest and production. His definition of justice, one of the core values of his firm, i…
00:57:11 |
Mon 07 May 2007
Taleb on Black Swans
Nassim Taleb talks about the challenges of coping with uncertainty, predicting events, and understanding history. This wide-ranging conversation looks at investment, health, history and other areas w…
01:23:30 |
Mon 30 Apr 2007
Rabushka on the Flat Tax
Alvin Rabushka of Stanford University's Hoover Institution lays out the case for the flat tax, a reform of the current system that would replace the 66,000 page U.S. tax code with a single rate and n…
01:04:16 |
Mon 23 Apr 2007
Boudreaux on the Economics of "Buy Local"
Proponents of buying local argue that it is better to buy from the local hardware store owner and nearby farmer than from the Big Box chain store or the grocery store headquartered out of town becaus…
00:55:51 |
Mon 16 Apr 2007
Bogle on Investing
The legendary John Bogle, founder of the Vanguard Group and creator of the index mutual fund, talks about the Great Depression, the riskiness of bond funds, how he created the Index 500 mutual fund--…
00:58:30 |
Mon 09 Apr 2007
Mike Munger on the Division of Labor
Mike Munger of Duke University and EconTalk host Russ Roberts talk about specialization, the role of technology in aiding specialization and how the division of labor creates wealth.
01:01:37 |
Mon 02 Apr 2007
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