Rob Wiblin's top recommended EconTalk episodes v0.2 Feb 2020

Nov 30 2020 66 mins 108
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Rob Wiblin's favourite 100 episodes of EconTalk — the award-winning weekly talk show about economics in daily life: http://econtalk.org A selection of the 'top 11' have modified release dates so they show up at the top when you choose to show the most recent first. The rest are then listed by release date. A selection of the 'top 11' have modified release dates so they show up at the top when you choose to show the most recent first. The rest are then listed by release date. Rob Wiblin's personal website: http://robwiblin.com

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Ranked #1 of all time: O'Donohoe on Potato Chips and Salty Snacks

Nov 30 2020 89 mins  
Brendan O'Donohoe of Frito-Lay talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about how potato chips and other salty snacks get made, distributed, and marketed. The interview follows an hour-long tour of a local supermarket where O'Donohoe showed Roberts some of the ways that chips and snacks get displayed and marketed in a modern supermarket. The conversation is a window into a world that

Ranked #2 of all time: Rachel Laudan on the History of Food and Cuisine

Nov 29 2020 66 mins  
Rachel Laudan, visiting scholar at the University of Texas and author of Cuisine and Empire, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the history of food. Topics covered include the importance of grain, the spread of various styles of cooking, why French cooking has elite status, and the reach of McDonald's. The conversation concludes with a discussion of the appeal of local foo

Ranked #3 of all time: Hitchens on Orwell

Nov 28 2020 69 mins  
Christopher Hitchens talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about George Orwell. Drawing on his book Why Orwell Matters, Hitchens talks about Orwell's opposition to imperialism, fascism, and Stalinism, his moral courage, and his devotion to language. Along the way, Hitchens makes the case for why Orwell matters. Actually released 17 Aug 2009.

Ranked #4 of all time: Weingast on Violence, Power and a Theory of Nearly Everything

Nov 27 2020 65 mins  
Barry Weingast, Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution and the Ward C. Krebs Family Professor in the Department of Political Science at Stanford University, talks about the ideas in his forthcoming book with Doug North and John Wallis, A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History. Weingast talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about how violence

Ranked #5 of all time: Bent Flyvbjerg on Megaprojects

Nov 26 2020 64 mins  
Bent Flyvbjerg of Oxford University speaks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the political economy of megaprojects--massive investments of a billion dollars or more in infrastructure or technology. Flyvbjerg argues that such projects consistently end up costing more with smaller benefits than projected and almost always end up with costs that exceed the benefits. Flyvbjerg expl

Ranked #6 of all time: Philip Tetlock on Superforecasting

Nov 25 2020 59 mins  
Can you predict the future? Or at least gauge the probability of political or economic events in the near future? Philip Tetlock of the University of Pennsylvania and author of Superforecasting talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his work on assessing probabilities with teams of thoughtful amateurs. Tetlock finds that teams of amateurs trained in gathering information and t

Ranked #7 of all time: Thomas Piketty on Inequality and Capital in the 21st Century

Nov 24 2020 68 mins  
Thomas Piketty of the Paris School of Economics and author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century talks to Econtalk host Russ Roberts about the book. The conversation covers some of the key empirical findings of the book along with a discussion of their significance. Actually released 22 Sep 2014.

Ranked #8 of all time: Bruce Bueno de Mesquita on the Spoils of War

Nov 23 2020 75 mins  
There is a fascinating and depressing positive correlation between the reputation of an American president and the number of people dying in wars while that president is in office. Political scientist Bruce Bueno de Mesquita of NYU and co-author of The Spoils of War talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about how presidents go to war. Bueno de Mesquita argues that the decision of h

Ranked #9 of all time: Munger on Exchange, Exploitation and Euvoluntary Transactions

Nov 22 2020 62 mins  
Mike Munger of Duke University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the psychology, sociology, and economics of buying and selling. Why are different transactions that seemingly make both parties better off frowned on and often made illegal? In theory, all voluntary transactions should make both parties better off. But Munger argues that some transactions are more voluntary

Ranked #10 of all time: Gregory on Politics, Murder, and Love in Stalin's Kremlin

Nov 21 2020 62 mins  
Paul Gregory of the University of Houston and a Research Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about Nikolai Bukharin's power struggle with Stalin and Bukharin's romance with Anna Larina, who was 26 years younger than Bukharin. Based on Gregory's book, Politics, Murder, and Love in Stalin's Kremlin, the conversation explores the ca