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Michael Munger on Free Markets
Author and economist Michael Munger of Duke University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about…
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Anja Shortland on Kidnap
Anja Shortland of King’s College London talks about her book Kidnap with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Kidnapping is relatively…
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Emergent Order Podcast
On the first episode of the Emergent Order podcast, John Papola interviews economist, author, and…
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Alain Bertaud on Cities, Planning, and Order Without Design
Urbanist and author Alain Bertaud of NYU talks about his book Order without Design with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Bertaud…
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A.J. Jacobs on Thanks a Thousand
Journalist and author A. J. Jacobs talks about his book, Thanks a Thousand, with EconTalk…
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Economist Glen Weyl of Microsoft Research New England and Visiting Senior Research Scholar at Yale…
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Matt Stoller of the Open Market Institute talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the…
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Why does tipping persist? Despite the efforts of some restaurants to stop tipping, it remains…
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How did bad come to mean good? Why is Shakespeare so hard to understand? Is…
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An Introduction to It’s a Wonderful Loaf
Understanding Emergent Order in Our Daily Lives We have desires we achieve through taking action.…
Don Boudreaux, Michael Munger, and Russ Roberts on Emergent Order
Why is it that people in large cities like Paris or New York City people…
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A whimsical animated short film based on Russ Roberts’s poem about emergent order and the…
The Morality of Surge Pricing — II
In part I of this morality tale I looked at some of the effects of Uber’s surge…
The Morality of Surge Pricing
When Uber puts surge pricing in place on a Saturday night, say, two things happen.…
The Real Invisible Hand: Hayek, Smith, and Emergent Order
Russ Robert delivers a lecture titled “The Real Invisible Hand: Hayek, Smith, and Emergent Order,”…
Matt Ridley on the Evolution of Everything
Matt Ridley talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his latest book, The Evolution of…
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How many pairs of sneakers do you own? Josh Luber of Campless and StockX talks…
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David Skarbek of King’s College London and author of The Social Order of the Underworld: How Prison…
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