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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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Paul Sabin

Paul Sabin on Ehrlich, Simon and the Bet

Books Feb 10 2014

Jeffrey Sachs

Jeffrey Sachs on the Millennium Villages Project

Agriculture and Food Mar 17 2014

Sachs on the Crisis, the Recovery, and the Future

Books Apr 15 2013

Erica Sandberg

Erica Sandberg on Homelessness and Downtown Streets Team

Altruism and Charity Apr 10 2017

Sally Satel

Sally Satel on Organ Donation

Altruism and Charity Jul 24 2017

Debra Satz

Satz on Markets

Theory of Markets Aug 8 2011

Skip Sauer

The Economics of Moneyball

Books Oct 23 2006

The Economics of Sports

Sports Apr 18 2006

John Ralston Saul

John Ralston Saul on Reason, Elites, and Voltaire's Bastards

Philosophy and Methodology Nov 4 2013

David Schmidtz

Schmidtz on Rawls, Nozick, and Justice

Philosophy and Methodology May 7 2012

Bruce Schneier

Schneier on Power, the Internet, and Security

Public Choice Jun 10 2013

George Schultz

George Shultz on Economics, Human Rights and the Fall of the Soviet Union

History Sep 3 2007

Doc Searls

Searls on the Intention Economy

Theory of Markets Mar 11 2013

Louis Michael Seidman

Seidman on the Constitution

Public Choice Feb 4 2013

George Selgin

George Selgin on Monetary Policy and the Great Recession

Business Cycles, Recessions, and the Great Depression Dec 14 2015

Selgin on the Fed

Business Cycles, Recessions, and the Great Depression Dec 6 2010

Selgin on Free Banking

Finance Nov 17 2008

Catherine Semcer

Catherine Semcer on Poaching, Preserves, and African Wildlife

Agriculture and Food Feb 18 2019

Robert Service

Robert Service on Trotsky

Books Jul 26 2010

Gary Shiffman

Gary Shiffman on the Economics of Violence

Books Jan 18 2021

Robert Shiller

Robert Shiller on Narrative Economics

Books Feb 3 2020

Shiller on Housing and Bubbles

Books Sep 15 2008

Clay Shirky

Shirky on Coase, Collaboration and Here Comes Everybody

Altruism and Charity Oct 20 2008

Amity Shlaes

Shlaes on the Great Depression

Books Jun 4 2007

Anja Shortland

Anja Shortland on Kidnap

Books Jun 17 2019

Peter Singer

Peter Singer on The Life You Can Save

Altruism and Charity Feb 17 2020

David Skarbek

David Skarbek on Prison Gangs and the Social Order of the Underworld

Books Mar 30 2015

David Skeel

Skeel on Bankruptcy and the Auto Industry Bailout

Finance Jul 4 2011

Robert Skidelsky

Capitalism, Government, and the Good Society

Government Budgets and Taxation Sep 4 2013

Robert Skidelsky on Money, the Good Life, and How Much is Enough

Books Oct 1 2012

Jonathan Skinner

Jonathan Skinner on Health Care Costs, Technology, and Rising Mortality

Family and Self-Help Jul 11 2016

Vernon Smith

Vernon Smith and James Otteson on Adam Smith

Adam Smith Apr 6 2015

Vernon Smith on Adam Smith and the Human Enterprise

Adam Smith Nov 17 2014

Vernon Smith on Rationality in Economics

Books Mar 3 2008

Vernon Smith on Markets and Experimental Economics

Theory of Markets May 21 2007

Noah Smith

Noah Smith on Worker Compensation, Co-determination, and Market Power

Finance Oct 1 2018

Noah Smith on Whether Economics is a Science

Philosophy and Methodology Dec 28 2015

Keith Smith

Keith Smith on Free Market Health Care

Entrepreneurship Nov 18 2019

Robert Solow

Robert Solow on Growth and the State of Economics

Growth Oct 27 2014

Thomas Sowell

Sowell on Economic Facts and Fallacies

Books Feb 25 2008

Michael Spence

Spence on Growth

Political Science Jan 25 2010

George Srour

Srour on Education, African Schools, and Building Tomorrow

Altruism and Charity Dec 22 2008

Jacob Stegenga

Jacob Stegenga on Medical Nihilism

Books Apr 1 2019

Benn Steil

Benn Steil on the Battle of Bretton Woods

Books Feb 16 2015

Leigh Steinberg

Leigh Steinberg on Sports, Agents, and Athletes

Health Mar 4 2013

Gary Stern

Gary Stern on Too Big to Fail

Money, Banking, Monetary Policy Oct 5 2009

Betsey Stevenson

Stevenson and Wolfers on Happiness, Growth, and the Reinhart-Rogoff Controversy

Data and Evidence Jun 24 2013

Joseph Stiglitz

Stiglitz on Inequality

Books Jul 9 2012

Matt Stoller

Matt Stoller on Modern Monopolies

Information and Technology Dec 25 2017

Scott Sumner

Scott Sumner on Interest Rates

Growth Apr 20 2015

Sumner on Money, Business Cycles, and Monetary Policy

Business Cycles, Recessions, and the Great Depression Mar 25 2013

Sumner on Money and the Fed

Business Cycles, Recessions, and the Great Depression Jan 2 2012

Sumner on Growth and Economic Policy

Growth Jun 21 2010

Sumner on Monetary Policy

Business Cycles, Recessions, and the Great Depression Nov 9 2009

Daniel Sumner

Daniel Sumner on the Political Economy of Agriculture

Agriculture and Food Feb 9 2015

Cass Sunstein

Cass Sunstein on #Republic

Philosophy and Methodology May 15 2017

Sunstein on Worst-case Scenarios

Happiness and Behavioral Economics Nov 19 2007

Sunstein on Infotopia, Information and Decision-Making

Books May 14 2007

Rory Sutherland

Rory Sutherland on Alchemy

Books Nov 11 2019