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David McRaney on How Minds Change EconTalk: Russ Roberts, Librar
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David McRaney on How Minds Change

To the Founding Fathers it was free libraries. To the 19th century rationalist philosophers it...

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Will MacAskill on Longtermism and What We Owe the Future EconTalk: Russ Roberts, Librar
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Will MacAskill on Longtermism and What We Owe the Future

Philosopher William MacAskill of the University of Oxford and a founder of the effective altruism...

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Amor Towles on A Gentleman in Moscow and the Writer's Craft EconTalk: Russ Roberts, Librar
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Amor Towles on A Gentleman in Moscow and the Writer's Craft

Author Amor Towles talks about his book, A Gentleman in Moscow, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts....

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Raj Chetty on Economic Mobility EconTalk: Russ Roberts, Librar
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Raj Chetty on Economic Mobility

Economist Raj Chetty of Harvard University talks about his work on economic mobility with...

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Tyler Cowen on Talent EconTalk: Russ Roberts, Librar
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Tyler Cowen on Talent

How do you hone your craft on an everyday basis? It could be writing, meeting with experts, even...

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Russ Roberts and Mike Munger on Wild Problems EconTalk: Russ Roberts, Librar
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Russ Roberts and Mike Munger on Wild Problems

Waze and Google Maps tell us the best way to get to where we're going. But no app or algorithm...

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Gerd Gigerenzer on How to Stay Smart in a Smart World EconTalk: Russ Roberts, Librar
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Gerd Gigerenzer on How to Stay Smart in a Smart World

IBM's super-computer Watson was a runaway success on Jeopardy! But it wasn't nearly as good at...

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John List on Scale, Uber, and the Voltage Effect EconTalk: Russ Roberts, Librar
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John List on Scale, Uber, and the Voltage Effect

Economist John List of the University of Chicago talks about his book, The Voltage Effect, with...

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Vinay Prasad on the Pandemic EconTalk: Russ Roberts, Librar
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Vinay Prasad on the Pandemic

When it comes to the COVID-19 vaccination, is the risk of myocarditis greater than the benefit to...

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb on the Nations, States, and Scale EconTalk: Russ Roberts, Librar
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb on the Nations, States, and Scale

A language, a flag, a national anthem and shared history—like a heart that has to pump harder to...

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Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan on Immigration Then and Now EconTalk: Russ Roberts, Librar
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Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan on Immigration Then and Now

Immigration to the United States, say Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan, is more novel than short...

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A.J. Jacobs on Solving Life's Puzzles EconTalk: Russ Roberts, Librar
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A.J. Jacobs on Solving Life's Puzzles

How much of life can be solved by algorithms, and how much just can't be solved? Listen as A.J....

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Roosevelt Montás on Rescuing Socrates EconTalk: Russ Roberts, Librar
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Roosevelt Montás on Rescuing Socrates

How do books change our lives? Educator and author Roosevelt Montás of Columbia University talks...

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Sridhar Ramaswamy on Google, Search, and Neeva EconTalk: Russ Roberts, Librar
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Sridhar Ramaswamy on Google, Search, and Neeva

Former Google ads boss Sridhar Ramaswamy says that we live in a world that seems to give out free...

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Matti Friedman on Leonard Cohen and the Yom Kippur War EconTalk: Russ Roberts, Librar
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Matti Friedman on Leonard Cohen and the Yom Kippur War

In October 1973, an unhappy Leonard Cohen was listening to the radio on his Greek island home...

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Ian Leslie on Curiosity EconTalk: Russ Roberts, Librar
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Ian Leslie on Curiosity

Why are some people incurious? Is curiosity a teachable thing? And why, if all knowledge can be...

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Diane Coyle on Cogs, Monsters, and Better Economics EconTalk: Russ Roberts, Librar
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Diane Coyle on Cogs, Monsters, and Better Economics

Mainstream economics, says author Diane Coyle, keeps treating people like cogs: self-interested,...

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Marc Andreessen on Software, Immortality, and Bitcoin EconTalk: Russ Roberts, Librar
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Marc Andreessen on Software, Immortality, and Bitcoin

What's the single best thing happening in technology right now? According to entrepreneur and...

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Chris Blattman on Why We Fight EconTalk: Russ Roberts, Librar
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Chris Blattman on Why We Fight

It's tempting to explain Russia's invasion of Ukraine with Putin's megalomania. Economist Chris...

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Dwayne Betts on Ellison, Levi, and Human Suffering EconTalk: Russ Roberts, Librar
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Dwayne Betts on Ellison, Levi, and Human Suffering

In his memoir of his time in Auschwitz, Primo Levi describes Jewish prisoners bathing in freezing...

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