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EconTalk

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Russ Roberts

EconTalk: Conversations for the Curious is an award-winning weekly podcast hosted by Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford's Hoover Institution. The eclectic guest list includes authors, doctors, psychologists, historians, philosophers, economists, and more. Learn how the health care system really works, the serenity that comes from humility, the challenge of interpreting data, how potato chips are made, what it's like to run an upscale Manhattan restaurant, what caused the 2008 financial crisis, the nature of consciousness, the conflicts and history of the Middle East, and more. EconTalk has been taking the Monday out of Mondays since 2006. All 1000+ episodes are available in the archive. Go to EconTalk.org for transcripts, related resources, and comments.

#1052

Making Your 80,000 Hours Count (with Benjamin Todd)

If you want to change the world, how you spend your 80,000 working hours may be the most i... more

Yesterday

1 HR 07 MINS

1:07:02

Yesterday

#1051

Facing Death (with Sebastian Junger)

What does a lifelong atheist do when his dead father appears above him in the emergency ro... more

25 May 2026

1 HR 06 MINS

1:06:33

25 May 2026

#1050

Tom Cruise's Body of Work (with Aled Maclean-Jones)

What can Tom Cruise's last impossible mission teach us about usefulness in the digital age... more

18 May 2026

1 HR 08 MINS

1:08:28

18 May 2026

#1049

Thinking Inside the Box (with David Epstein)

What do the inventor of the periodic table, the novelist Isabel Allende, and the almost-cr... more

11 May 2026

1 HR 10 MINS

1:10:49

11 May 2026

#1048

Golfing Alone (with Gary Belsky)

No rush, no noise, no one else on the golf course: solo golf is an entirely different game... more

04 May 2026

59 MINS

59:45

04 May 2026

#1047

Claude, War, and the State of the Republic (with Dean Ball)

The Department of War wanted to deploy Anthropic's Claude for "all lawful use." What begin... more

27 Apr 2026

1 HR 17 MINS

1:17:23

27 Apr 2026

#1046

Adam Smith's Warning About Wealth, Fame, and Status (with Ross Levine)

What can Adam Smith teach us today? In this conversation between Ross Levine of Stanford's... more

20 Apr 2026

1 HR 03 MINS

1:03:46

20 Apr 2026

#1045

The Man Who Built NVIDIA (with Stephen Witt)

He arrived in America as a child with no English. He was mistakenly sent to a school for j... more

13 Apr 2026

1 HR 04 MINS

1:04:25

13 Apr 2026

#1044

The Unseen Work: Stewart Brand on Maintenance and Civilization

What does a lone sailor circling the globe have to do with the fall of empires, the Model ... more

06 Apr 2026

1 HR 27 MINS

1:27:08

06 Apr 2026

#1043

AI, Employment, and Education (with Tyler Cowen)

Tyler Cowen is bullish on the integration of AI into higher education. He's also not worri... more

30 Mar 2026

1 HR 02 MINS

1:02:13

30 Mar 2026

#1042

The Match That Lit the Flame: Hannah Senesh and the Creation of Modern Israel (with Matti Friedman)

Why would a group of young Jews who escaped the Holocaust choose to parachute back into Na... more

23 Mar 2026

1 HR 10 MINS

1:10:19

23 Mar 2026

#1041

The Economics of Scarcity and the UNC-Duke Basketball Game (with Michael Munger)

Duke University leaves millions of dollars on the table every year by giving away free tic... more

16 Mar 2026

1 HR 06 MINS

1:06:08

16 Mar 2026

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