1009 Episodes

  1. Vanessa Williamson on Taxes and Read My Lips

    Published: 4/3/2017
  2. Jason Barr on Building the Skyline and the Economics of Skyscrapers

    Published: 3/27/2017
  3. Andrew Gelman on Social Science, Small Samples, and the Garden of the Forking Paths

    Published: 3/20/2017
  4. Robert Whaples on the Economics of Pope Francis

    Published: 3/13/2017
  5. Crafts, Garicano, and Zingales on the Economic Future of Europe

    Published: 3/6/2017
  6. Paul Bloom on Empathy

    Published: 2/27/2017
  7. Tom Wainwright on Narconomics

    Published: 2/20/2017
  8. Jim Epstein on Bitcoin, the Blockchain, and Freedom in Latin America

    Published: 2/13/2017
  9. Gary Taubes on the Case Against Sugar

    Published: 2/6/2017
  10. George Borjas on Immigration and We Wanted Workers

    Published: 1/30/2017
  11. Sam Quinones on Heroin, the Opioid Epidemic, and Dreamland

    Published: 1/23/2017
  12. Michael Munger on the Basic Income Guarantee

    Published: 1/16/2017
  13. Robert Hall on Recession, Stagnation, and Monetary Policy

    Published: 1/9/2017
  14. Mark Warshawsky on Compensation, Health Care Costs, and Inequality

    Published: 1/2/2017
  15. Chris Blattman on Sweatshops

    Published: 12/26/2016
  16. Terry Anderson on Native American Economics

    Published: 12/19/2016
  17. Bruce Bueno de Mesquita on the Spoils of War

    Published: 12/12/2016
  18. Thomas Leonard on Race, Eugenics, and Illiberal Reformers

    Published: 12/5/2016
  19. Doug Lemov on Reading

    Published: 11/28/2016
  20. Erik Hurst on Work, Play, and the Dynamics of U.S. Labor Markets

    Published: 11/21/2016

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