Azra Raza on The First Cell
Author and oncologist Azra Raza talks about her book The First Cell with EconTalk host…
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Conversation and Society
We live in an age of competing monologues. We talk, but we do not listen.…
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Adam Smith, Loneliness, and the Limits of Mainstream Economics
Big data is all the rage. We have become increasingly obsessed in economics and in…
The Search for the Weaver of Dreams
This talk is my attempt to explain emergent order in economics, what I consider the…
It’s a Wonderful Loaf
A whimsical animated short film based on Russ Roberts’s poem about emergent order and the…
The Numbers Game: Let’s Party Like It’s 1973!
Measuring economic progress requires an accurate measure of inflation. But measuring inflation is harder than…
Emily Oster on Cribsheet
Economist and author Emily Oster of Brown University talks about her book Cribsheet with EconTalk host Russ Roberts.…
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The Three Blind Spots of Politics
One of the shortest, simplest yet deepest books I have read on politics is The…