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Jan 8, 2025 | 
econlib.org | Kevin Corcoran |Gary Becker |Pierre Lemieux |Scott Sumner
Here’s a personal tidbit about me – I’m a bit of a true crime buff. I often listen to true crime podcasts and audio essays while unwinding at the end of the day, or during my time in the gym.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
econtalk.org | Daniel Kahneman |Adam Smith |Gary Becker
0:37Intro. [Recording date: September 3, 2024.]Russ Roberts: Today is September 3rd, 2024. My guest is cultural psychologist and author Michael Morris of Columbia University. His latest book and the subject of today's conversation is Tribal: How the Cultural Instincts that Divide Us Can Help Bring Us Together. Michael, welcome to EconTalk. Michael Morris: Thanks so much. It's really an honor to be here.
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May 15, 2024 | 
econlib.org | Art Carden |Gary Becker |Kevin Corcoran |Pierre Lemieux
I live in Alabama, where college football is the major religion. The two major denominations are the University of Alabama Crimson Tide and the Auburn University Tigers. They have fought a storied and ludicrously overwrought since 1893, except for the four-decade gap between 1907 and 1948 when they didn’t play one another because the two schools hated each other so much. Suffice it so say Alabama fans (like me) don’t go out of their way to shop for Auburn merchandise and vice versa.
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Mar 22, 2024 | 
adamsmithworks.org | Gary Becker
Giandomenica Becchio is a professor of economics and the history of economic thought at the University of Torino. Today, she tells us about feminist economics and why it’s an important criticism of neoclassical economics. Without understanding the role of typical gender and family roles, we cannot correctly understand or think about the true division of labor between genders in the workforce and in the home.
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Feb 13, 2024 | 
oll.libertyfund.org | Ramon DeGennaro |Gary Becker |Wilfred Reilly |Claudia Williamson Kramer
Response Essay Systemic Racism in the Housing Market Introduction: The Challenge of Defining Systemic RacismHow do we begin to discuss systemic racism? Often these discussions have a confusing overlap of different definitions, with unspoken assumptions about how the world works. Economists often avoid these discussions because the discussions can swing from the external world (laws, programs, and regulations) to the internal (thoughts, beliefs and values) within the same conversation.
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Nov 27, 2023 | 
econtalk.org | Kenneth J. Arrow |Gary Becker |Milton Friedman |John Maynard Keynes
0:37Intro. [Recording date: October 30, 2023.]Russ Roberts: Today is October 30th, 2023 and my guest is Tyler Cowen. This is Tyler's 18th appearance on the program. He was last here in May of 2023, talking about artificial intelligence. Our topic for today is his latest book, GOAT: Who is the Greatest Economist of all Time, and Why Does it Matter? I want to let listeners listening with children know that this may contain adult themes. Tyler, welcome back to EconTalk.
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Sep 4, 2023 | 
econtalk.org | Gary Becker |Kenneth J. Arrow
0:37Intro. [Recording date: July 26, 2023.]Russ Roberts: Today is July 26, 2023, and my guest is economist Roland Fryer of Harvard University. He was last here in October of 2022 discussing educational reform. Roland, welcome back to EconTalk. Roland Fryer: Thanks for having me, Russ. It's great to see you. 0:57Russ Roberts: Our topic for today is diversity, affirmative action, racial disparities.
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Jul 3, 2023 | 
econlib.org | Rosolino A. Candela |Gary Becker |Adam Smith’s
Since at least the publication of Paul Ehrlich’s The Population Bomb in 1968, the narrative that has gripped both academicians and the popular audience has been one of a world that is overpopulated.
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Jul 3, 2023 | 
econtalk.org | Adam Smith |Gary Becker
James Rebanks's family has raised sheep in the same small English village for at least four centuries. There are records of people with his same last name going back a few hundred more. Even his sheep are rooted in place: their DNA is from Viking times. It's enough to make anyone feel insignificant--and according to Rebanks, that's a wonderful thing.
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Feb 27, 2023 | 
econlib.org | Adam Smith |David Ricardo |Gary Becker |George Akerlof
Mancur Olson was an American economist who had pathbreaking insights about collective action, the rise and decline of national economies, and the fortunes of Communist and post-Communist countries. The Logic of Collective ActionOlson’s first major work, The Logic of Collective Action, published in 1965, examined what is required for collective action to succeed when the number of people in the “collective” is large.
