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The latest 100 EconTalk episodes

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  1. Hubris, Humility, and the AI Revolution with Walter Isaacson
  2. Revisiting the China Shock with Joseph Francis
  3. How Your Situation Shapes You with Angela Duckworth
  4. Lives Wasted and Well-Lived: David Wolpe on The Death of Ivan Ilyich
  5. The Great Fertility Collapse with Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde
  6. Addiction, Faith, and the Limits of Willpower with Meghan O'Gieblyn
  7. Public Choice and Politics Without Romance with Mike Munger
  8. The Death of Reading with James Marriott
  9. Incentives Are for Losers with Adam Mastroianni
  10. Meritocracy, Exams, and the Knowledge That Matters with Daisy Christodoulou
  11. Hamas and the Future of Gaza with Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib
  12. Are We Alone? Cosmic Loneliness and the Longing to Believe with Adam Kirsch
  13. The Hidden Cause of the Industrial Revolution with Ben Southwood
  14. Ben Sasse on Faith, Family, and Facing Death
  15. The Political Economy of Palestine with Hussein Aboubakr Mansour
  16. Savage Landscapes with Cal Flyn
  17. Dwayne Betts on the Iliad
  18. From Sawdust to Paw Patrol: The Spin Master Story with Ronnen Harary
  19. EconTalk Book Club on the Iliad with Ido Hevroni
  20. Do Less, Heal More: The Case for Medical Conservatism with John Mandrola
  21. Can a Phone Be a Cow? with Philip Auerswald
  22. The Case for Sunshine with Rowan Jacobsen
  23. The Self, the Crowd, and Social Contagion with Luke Burgis
  24. Making Your 80,000 Hours Count with Benjamin Todd
  25. Facing Death with Sebastian Junger
  26. Tom Cruise's Body of Work with Aled Maclean-Jones
  27. Thinking Inside the Box with David Epstein
  28. Golfing Alone with Gary Belsky
  29. Claude, War, and the State of the Republic with Dean Ball
  30. Adam Smith's Warning About Wealth, Fame, and Status with Ross Levine
  31. The Man Who Built NVIDIA with Stephen Witt
  32. The Unseen Work: Stewart Brand on Maintenance and Civilization with The Unseen Work: Stewart Brand
  33. AI, Employment, and Education with Tyler Cowen
  34. The Match That Lit the Flame: Hannah Senesh and the Creation of Modern Israel with Matti Friedman
  35. The Economics of Scarcity and the UNC-Duke Basketball Game with Michael Munger
  36. How We Tamed Ourselves and Invented Good and Evil with Hanno Sauer
  37. The Power of Introverts with Susan Cain
  38. The Man Who Would Be King of Saudi Arabia with Karen Elliott House
  39. Seiko, Swatch, and the Swiss Watch Industry with Aled Maclean-Jones
  40. A Military Analysis of Israel's War in Gaza with Andrew Fox
  41. How to Flourish with Daniel Coyle
  42. Zionism, the Melting Pot, and the Galveston Project with Rachel Cockerell
  43. Nature, Nurture, and Identical Twins with David Bessis
  44. The Mattering Instinct with Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
  45. Conversation, Interintellect, and Arcadia with Anna Gát
  46. In Defense of Intuition with Gerd Gigerenzer
  47. David Deutsch on the Pattern with David Deutsch
  48. Free Will Is Real with Kevin Mitchell
  49. Colonialism, Slavery, and Foreign Aid with William Easterly
  50. The Perfect Tuba: How Band, Grit, and Community Build a Better Life with Sam Quinones
  51. The Status Game with Will Storr
  52. The Wonder of the Emergent Mind with Gaurav Suri
  53. Shampoo, Property Rights, and Civilization with Anthony Gill
  54. Primal Intelligence with Angus Fletcher
  55. A Mind-Blowing Way of Looking at Math with David Bessis
  56. Twenty Years of Freakonomics with Stephen Dubner
  57. The Magic of Tokyo with Joe McReynolds
  58. The Invisible Hierarchies that Rule Our World with Toby Stuart
  59. Eating with Intelligence with Julia Belluz
  60. Steven Pinker on Common Knowledge with Steven Pinker
  61. How Did America Build the Arsenal of Democracy? with Brian Potter
  62. How Teams Succeed with Colin Fisher
  63. Humans Are Overrated with Christine Webb
  64. Hemingway, Love, and War with David Wyatt
  65. Tim Ferriss on Tim Ferriss (and much much more) with Tim Ferriss
  66. Learning to Think Like Someone Else with David Marquet
  67. Let Me Be Forgotten with Lowry Pressly
  68. Read Like a Champion with Doug Lemov
  69. James Marriott on Reading with James Marriott
  70. How to Walk the World with Chris Arnade
  71. What Is Capitalism? with Mike Munger
  72. The Deceptive Power of Maps with Paulina Rowinska
  73. How to Be a Super Ager with Eric Topol
  74. Leon Kass on the Wisdom of Rousseau with Leon Kass
  75. Two Cheers for Libertarianism and Econ 101 with Noah Smith
  76. EconTalk #1000 with Russ Roberts
  77. Nature vs. Nurture with Paul Bloom
  78. Inside the Mysterious World of Credit Cards with Patrick McKenzie
  79. The Past and Present of Privacy and Public Life with Tiffany Jenkins
  80. The Economics of Tariffs and Trade with Doug Irwin
  81. The Past and Future of AI with Dwarkesh Patel
  82. Why Christianity Needs to Help Save Democracy with Jonathan Rauch
  83. Rational and Religious with Ross Douthat
  84. The Music and Magic of John and Paul with Ian Leslie
  85. Do All Creatures, Great and Small, and Made From Silicon, Have Rights? with Jeff Sebo
  86. Bird Brains, Bird Sex, and All Kinds of Beauty with Matt Ridley
  87. How Better Feedback Can Revolutionize Education with Daisy Christodoulou
  88. Will Guidara on Unreasonable Hospitality with Will Guidara
  89. The Unusual World of Israeli Democracy with Rachel Gur
  90. The Struggle That Shaped the Middle East with James Barr
  91. Who Won the Socialist Calculation Debate with Peter Boettke
  92. Minimalists and Hoarders with Michael Easter
  93. Coase, the Rules of the Game, and the Costs of Perfection with Daisy Christodoulou
  94. Why AI Is Good for Humans with Reid Hoffman
  95. Weep, Shudder, Die: The Secret of Opera Revealed with Dana Gioia
  96. Will DOGE and Musk Make a Difference? with Michael Munger
  97. Understanding the Settler Colonialism Movement with Adam Kirsch
  98. The Power of Nuance: Lessons for Public Health with Emily Oster
  99. Fixing Sick Cities with Alain Bertaud
  100. Is This War With Lebanon Different? with Matti Friedman
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