EconTalk Archives, 2008
Education Podcasts
EconTalk is an award-winning weekly talk show about economics in daily life. Featured guests include renowned economics professors, Nobel Prize winners, and exciting speakers on all kinds of topical matters related to economic thought. Topics include health care, business cycles, economic growth, free trade, education, finance, politics, sports, book reviews, parenting, and the curiosities of everyday decision-making. Russ Roberts, of the Library of Economics and Liberty and George Mason U., draws you in with lively guests and creative repartee. Look for related readings and the complete archive of previous shows at EconTalk.org, where you can also comment on the podcasts and ask questions.
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United States
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EconTalk is an award-winning weekly talk show about economics in daily life. Featured guests include renowned economics professors, Nobel Prize winners, and exciting speakers on all kinds of topical matters related to economic thought. Topics include health care, business cycles, economic growth, free trade, education, finance, politics, sports, book reviews, parenting, and the curiosities of everyday decision-making. Russ Roberts, of the Library of Economics and Liberty and George Mason U., draws you in with lively guests and creative repartee. Look for related readings and the complete archive of previous shows at EconTalk.org, where you can also comment on the podcasts and ask questions.
Language:
English
Srour on Education, African Schools, and Building Tomorrow
Duration:00:55:24
Higgs on the Great Depression
Duration:01:07:08
Lipstein on Hospitals
Duration:01:05:17
Rauchway on the Great Depresson and the New Deal
Duration:01:03:00
Hazlett on Telecommunications
Duration:01:03:42
Selgin on Free Banking
Duration:01:13:16
Kling on Credit Default Swaps, Counterparty Risk, and the Political Economy of Financial Regulation
Duration:01:03:43
Richard Epstein on Happiness, Inequality, and Envy
Duration:00:56:51
Munger on Middlemen
Duration:01:12:34
Shirky on Coase, Collaboration and Here Comes Everybody
Duration:01:05:26
Patri Friedman on Seasteading
Duration:00:48:16
Bernstein on Inequality
Duration:00:56:30
Kling on Freddie and Fannie and the Recent History of the U.S. Housing Market
Duration:01:37:10
Karol Boudreaux on Wildlife, Property, and Poverty in Africa
Duration:00:57:57
Shiller on Housing and Bubbles
Duration:01:00:58
Ellis on American Creation and the Founding
Duration:01:07:33
Rauch on the Volt, Risk, and Corporate Culture
Duration:00:58:00
Roberts on the Price of Everything
Duration:01:03:47
John Taylor on Monetary Policy
Duration:00:54:29
Bueno de Mesquita on Iran and Threats to U.S. Security
Duration:01:01:13