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Douglas Irwin on the Great Depression and the Gold Standard

发表于 2010-10-11 standard douglas deflation

Douglas Irwin of Dartmouth College talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the role the gold standard played in the Great Depression. Irwin argues that Fran…

Robert Townsend on Development, Poverty, and Financial Institutions

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Robert Townsend of MIT and the Consortium on Financial Systems and Poverty talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about development and the role of financial ins…

David Autor on the Future of Work and Polanyi's Paradox

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David Autor of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the future of work and the role that automation and smart m…

Greg Page on Food, Agriculture, and Cargill

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Greg Page, former CEO of Cargill, the largest privately-held company in America, talks to EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the global food supply and the challe…

Arnold Kling on Economics for the 21st Century

发表于 2018-03-12 blogger 21st arnold

Economist, blogger, and author Arnold Kling talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the state of economics in the 21st century. Kling argues that economics …

Peter Boettke on Public Administration, Liberty, and the Proper Role of Government

发表于 2018-05-20 proper liberty boettke

Peter Boettke of George Mason University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the proper role of the state in the economy. This is a wide-ranging convers…

Mariana Mazzucato on the Value of Everything

发表于 2018-12-24 mazzucato appreciate argues

Economist and author Mariana Mazzucato talks about her book The Value of Everything with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Mazzucato argues that economists have misme…

Sam Quinones on Meth, Fentanyl, and the Least of Us

发表于 2021-10-12 meth fentanyl sam

Author and journalist Sam Quinones talks about his book, The Least of Us , with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Quinones focuses on the devastation caused by metham…

Niall Ferguson on Free Speech and Kissinger's Role in the Middle East

发表于 2023-12-12 niall kissinger ferguson

How can we create a radically different atmosphere at American universities? Easy, says historian Niall Ferguson of Stanford University's Hoover Institution--ha…

Twenty Years of Freakonomics (with Stephen Dubner)

发表于 2025-10-21 levitt freakonomics dubner

Quantitative, contrarian, and nuanced: these are the hallmarks of the Freakonomics approach. Hear journalist and podcaster Stephen Dubner speak with EconTalk's …