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Michael Munger on Desires, Morality, and Self-Interest

Economist and author Michael Munger of Duke University talks about human wants and desires with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Human beings have desires about our...

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John Cochrane on the Pandemic

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Alvin Rabushka

Rabushka on the Flat Tax

Public Choice Apr 23 2007

Vincent Rajkumar

Vincent Rajkumar on the High Price of Cancer Drugs

Family and Self-Help Apr 9 2018

Valerie Ramey

Ramey on Stimulus and Multipliers

Business Cycles, Recessions, and the Great Depression Oct 24 2011

Venkatesh Rao

Venkatesh Rao on Waldenponding

Information and Technology Nov 4 2019

Dennis Rasmussen

Dennis Rasmussen on Hume and Smith and The Infidel and the Professor

Adam Smith Nov 6 2017

Jonathan Rauch

Rauch on the Volt, Risk, and Corporate Culture

Marketing, Management, Strategy, and Leadership Sep 1 2008

Eric Rauchway

Rauchway on the Great Depression and the New Deal

History Dec 1 2008

Joshua Rauh

Joshua Rauh on Public Pensions

Public Choice Nov 5 2012

Diane Ravitch

Diane Ravitch on Slaying Goliath

Books Jun 15 2020

Ravitch on Education

Books Apr 12 2010

Eric Raymond

Eric Raymond on Hacking, Open Source, and the Cathedral and the Bazaar

Information and Technology Jan 19 2009

Azra Raza

Azra Raza on The First Cell

Books Mar 23 2020

Riccardo Rebonato

Rebonato on Risk Management and the Crisis

Finance Jun 8 2009

Beth Redbird

Beth Redbird on Licensing

Education Mar 19 2018

Rob Reich

Rob Reich on Foundations and Philanthropy

Political Science Sep 4 2017

Carmen Reinhart

Reinhart on Financial Crises

Trade and Exchange Nov 23 2009

Vincent Reinhart

Vincent Reinhart on Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, and the Financial Crisis

Regulation Mar 28 2011

Richard Reinsch

Richard Reinsch on the Enlightenment, Tradition, and Populism

History Jun 18 2018

Ricardo Reis

Reis on Keynes, Macroeconomics, and Monetary Policy

Philosophy and Methodology Apr 27 2009

Glenn Reynolds

Glenn Reynolds on Politics, the Constitution, and Technology

The Media Feb 18 2013

Thomas Ricks

Thomas Ricks on Churchill and Orwell

Books Jun 19 2017

Matt Ridley

Matt Ridley on How Innovation Works

Books Aug 31 2020

Matt Ridley on the Evolution of Everything

Theory of Markets Feb 22 2016

Matt Ridley on Climate Change

Data and Evidence Jun 29 2015

Ridley on Trade, Growth, and the Rational Optimist

Books Oct 18 2010

Jessica Riskin

Jessica Riskin on Life, Machinery, and the Restless Clock

Artificial Intelligence Feb 11 2019

Barry Ritholtz

Ritholtz on Bailouts, the Fed, and the Crisis

Money, Banking, Monetary Policy Mar 1 2010

Doug Rivers

Rivers on polling

Information and Technology Jul 21 2008

Richard Robb

Richard Robb on Willful

Family and Self-Help Feb 24 2020

Russ Roberts

Rob Wiblin and Russ Roberts on Charity, Science, and Utilitarianism

Altruism and Charity Nov 2 2020

Russ Roberts on the Information Revolution, Politics, Yeats, and Yelling

Information and Technology Jul 16 2018

Don Boudreaux, Michael Munger, and Russ Roberts on Emergent Order

Law and Institutions Jun 12 2017

Russ Roberts and Mike Munger on How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life

Adam Smith Oct 13 2014

Roberts on the Crisis

Philosophy and Methodology May 17 2010

Roberts on Smith, Ricardo, and Trade

Adam Smith Feb 8 2010

Roberts on Wealth, Growth, and Economics as a Science

The Media Apr 20 2009

Roberts (and Hanson) on Truth and Economics

Philosophy and Methodology Jan 26 2009

Roberts on the Price of Everything

Books Aug 25 2008

Roberts on the Least Pleasant Jobs

Trade and Exchange Apr 21 2008

Ticket Prices and Scalping

Entrepreneurship Jul 16 2007

Intermittent Explosive Disorder: Mental Illness or Made-Up Malady?

Health Jun 16 2006

Andrew Roberts

Andrew Roberts on Churchill and the Craft of Biography

Biography, Intellectual History Aug 26 2019

Paul Robinson

Paul Robinson on Cooperation, Punishment and the Criminal Justice System

Altruism and Charity Aug 31 2015

Jonathan Rodden

Rodden on the Geography of Voting

Public Choice Oct 22 2012

Dani Rodrik

Dani Rodrik on Neoliberalism

Income Inequality Sep 23 2019

Rodrik on Globalization, Development, and Employment

Trade and Exchange Apr 11 2011

Paul Romer

Paul Romer on the COVID-19 Pandemic

Family and Self-Help May 15 2020

Paul Romer on Growth, Cities, and the State of Economics

City Formation, Urban Issues Apr 22 2019

Paul Romer on Urban Growth

City Formation, Urban Issues Mar 16 2015

Romer on Charter Cities

City Formation, Urban Issues Apr 26 2010

Romer on Growth

Favorites Aug 27 2007

Frank Rose

Frank Rose on Storytelling and the Art of Immersion

Books Oct 10 2011

David Rose

David Rose on the Moral Foundations of Economic Behavior

Books Jan 23 2012

Alex Rosenberg

Rosenberg on the Nature of Economics

Happiness and Behavioral Economics Sep 26 2011

Tina Rosenberg

Tina Rosenberg on the Kidney Market in Iran

Health Sep 19 2015

Phil Rosenzweig

Phil Rosenzweig on Leadership, Decisions, and Behavioral Economics

Books Apr 13 2015

Alvin Roth

Alvin Roth on Matching Markets

Education Jul 6 2015

Ariel Rubinstein

Rubinstein on Game Theory and Behavioral Economics

Happiness and Behavioral Economics Apr 25 2011

Abby Smith Rumsey

Abby Smith Rumsey on Remembering, Forgetting, and When We Are No More

Books Jun 13 2016

Thomas Rustici

Rustici on Smoot-Hawley and the Great Depression

Books Jan 4 2010