EconTalk Archives, 2011
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
- 52
- Years Active
- 2011
Coyle on the Economics of Enough
Diane Coyle, author of The Economics of Enough, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the future and the ideas in her book. Coyle argues that the financial crisis, the entitlement crisis, and c…
00:58:45 |
Mon 21 Mar 2011
Townsend on Development, Poverty, and Financial Institutions
Robert Townsend of MIT and the Consortium on Financial Systems and Poverty talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about development and the role of financial institutions in growth. Drawing on his res…
01:09:59 |
Mon 14 Mar 2011
Dyson on Heresy, Climate Change, and Science
Freeman Dyson of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about science, his career, and the future. Dyson argues for the importance of what he calls heresy…
01:06:05 |
Mon 07 Mar 2011
George Will on America, Politics, and Baseball
Author and syndicated columnist George Will talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the state of the country, the nature of politics, and at the end, a little about baseball. The conversation beg…
01:02:03 |
Mon 28 Feb 2011
Acemoglu on Inequality and the Financial Crisis
Daron Acemoglu of MIT talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the role income inequality may have played in creating the financial crisis. Raghuram Rajan in his book, Fault Lines, argues that gro…
01:03:41 |
Mon 21 Feb 2011
Cowen on the Great Stagnation
Tyler Cowen of George Mason University and author of the e-book The Great Stagnation talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in the book. Cowen argues that in the last four decades, the…
01:00:35 |
Mon 14 Feb 2011
Kling on Patterns of Sustainable Specialization and Trade
Arnold Kling of EconLog talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about a new paradigm for thinking about macroeconomics and the labor market. Kling calls it PSST--patterns of sustainable specialization …
01:09:22 |
Mon 07 Feb 2011
Deer on Autism, Vaccination, and Scientific Fraud
Investigative journalist Brian Deer talks with EconTalk
host Russ Roberts about Deer's seven years of reporting and legal issues
surrounding the 1998 article in The Lancet claiming that the MMR vac…
01:04:59 |
Mon 31 Jan 2011
Fazzari on Stimulus and Keynes
Steve Fazzari of Washington University in St. Louis talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the economics of Keynesian stimulus. They discuss the stimulus package passed in February 2009 and whet…
01:00:45 |
Mon 24 Jan 2011
Boudreaux on Monetary Misunderstandings
Don Boudreaux of George Mason University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts on some of the common misunderstandings people have about prices, money, inflation and deflation. They discuss what is h…
01:04:48 |
Mon 17 Jan 2011
Caldwell on Hayek
Bruce Caldwell of Duke University and the General Editor of the Collected Works of F. A. Hayek, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about Hayek, his life, his ideas, his books, and articles. The co…
01:15:21 |
Mon 10 Jan 2011
Hanson on the Technological Singularity
Robin Hanson of GMU talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the idea of a technological singularity--a sudden, large increase in the rate of growth due to technological change. Hanson argues that…
01:37:00 |
Mon 03 Jan 2011
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