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The latest 100 EconTalk episodes

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