EconTalk Archives, 2008
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.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 65 minutes
- Episodes
- 51
- Years Active
- 2008
Barro on Disasters
Robert Barro of Harvard University and Stanford University's Hoover Institution talks about disasters--significant national and international catastrophes such as the Great Depression, war, and the f…
01:04:31 |
Mon 04 Aug 2008
Varian on Technology
Hal Varian, Google's Chief Economist and University of California at Berkeley professor, talks with Russ Roberts about Google, the role of technology in our everyday lives, the unintended paths of in…
00:39:34 |
Mon 28 Jul 2008
Rivers on Polling
Doug Rivers of Stanford University and YouGov.com talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the world of political polling. Rivers explains why publicly provided margins of error overstate the reli…
01:08:17 |
Mon 21 Jul 2008
Hanushek on Education and School Finance
Eric Hanushek of Stanford University's Hoover Institution talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the strange evolution of school finance in the last four decades. In particular, the courts have …
01:07:18 |
Mon 14 Jul 2008
Munger on the Political Economy of Public Transportation
Michael Munger of Duke University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about Munger's recent trip to Chile and the changes Chile has made to Santiago's bus system. What was once a private decentrali…
00:56:07 |
Mon 07 Jul 2008
Kling on Hospitals and Health Care
Arnold Kling of EconLog talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the death of his father and the lessons to be learned for how hospitals treat patients and our health care system treats hospitals.
00:59:26 |
Mon 30 Jun 2008
McKenzie on Prices
Richard McKenzie of the University California, Irvine and the author of Why Popcorn Costs So Much at the Movies and Other Pricing Puzzles, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about a wide range of …
01:15:54 |
Mon 23 Jun 2008
Don Boudreaux on Energy Prices
Don Boudreaux of George Mason University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the recent surge in energy prices. They talk about why prices have risen, the implications for America's standard …
01:03:21 |
Mon 16 Jun 2008
Cole on the Market for New Cars
Steve Cole, the Sales Manager at Ourisman Honda of Laurel in Laurel, Maryland talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the strange world of new car pricing. They talk about dealer markup, the role…
01:12:01 |
Mon 09 Jun 2008
Gene Epstein on Gold, the Fed, and Money
Gene Epstein, Barron's economics editor, talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the virtues of the gold standard relative to fiat money. Epstein argues that privately issued money, backed by gold,…
01:07:23 |
Mon 02 Jun 2008
Hanson on Signalling
Robin Hanson of George Mason University talks about the phenomenon of signalling--the ways people spend resources to convey information about ourselves to others. It begins with Hanson revisiting his…
01:25:23 |
Mon 26 May 2008
Meltzer on the Fed, Money, and Gold
Allan Meltzer of Carnegie Mellon University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about what the Fed really does and the political pressures facing the Chair of the Fed. He describes and analyzes som…
01:20:15 |
Mon 19 May 2008
Chris Anderson on Free
Chris Anderson talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his next book project based on the idea that many delightful things in the world are increasingly free--internet-based email with infinite s…
01:11:44 |
Mon 12 May 2008
Nye on Wine, War and Trade
John Nye of George Mason University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his book, War, Wine, and Taxes. The conversation covers the history of Britain and France's trade policy, why the Briti…
01:04:21 |
Mon 05 May 2008
Bernstein on the History of Trade
William Bernstein talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the history of trade. Drawing on the insights from his recent book, A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World, Bernstein talks abou…
01:10:26 |
Mon 28 Apr 2008
Roberts on the Least Pleasant Jobs
EconTalk host Russ Roberts talks about the claim that for capitalism to succeed there have to be people at the bottom to do the unpleasant tasks and that the rich thrive because of the suffering of t…
01:03:39 |
Mon 21 Apr 2008
Coyle on the Soulful Science
Diane Coyle talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in her new book, The Soulful Science: What Economists Really Do and Why it Matters. The discussions starts with the issue of growth--…
01:04:15 |
Mon 14 Apr 2008
Coyne on Exporting Democracy after War
Christopher Coyne of West Virginia University and George Mason University's Mercatus Center talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his book, After War: The Political Economy of Exporting Democra…
01:19:44 |
Mon 07 Apr 2008
McCloskey on Capitalism and the Bourgeois Virtues
Deirdre McCloskey of the University of Illinois at Chicago and the author of The Bourgeois Virtues talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about capitalism and whether markets make people more ethical …
00:59:59 |
Mon 31 Mar 2008
Munger on Subsidies and Externalities
Mike Munger of Duke University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the economics of subsidies. What is the economic argument for subsidies? What is the history of the economic argument and wh…
01:02:18 |
Mon 24 Mar 2008
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