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1,073 EPISODES · 28 TOPICS · 2006–2026

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The latest 100 EconTalk episodes

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