1022 Episodes

  1. Jim Epstein on Bitcoin, the Blockchain, and Freedom in Latin America

    Published: 2/13/2017

  2. Gary Taubes on the Case Against Sugar

    Published: 2/6/2017

  3. George Borjas on Immigration and We Wanted Workers

    Published: 1/30/2017

  4. Sam Quinones on Heroin, the Opioid Epidemic, and Dreamland

    Published: 1/23/2017

  5. Michael Munger on the Basic Income Guarantee

    Published: 1/16/2017

  6. Robert Hall on Recession, Stagnation, and Monetary Policy

    Published: 1/9/2017

  7. Mark Warshawsky on Compensation, Health Care Costs, and Inequality

    Published: 1/2/2017

  8. Chris Blattman on Sweatshops

    Published: 12/26/2016

  9. Terry Anderson on Native American Economics

    Published: 12/19/2016

  10. Bruce Bueno de Mesquita on the Spoils of War

    Published: 12/12/2016

  11. Thomas Leonard on Race, Eugenics, and Illiberal Reformers

    Published: 12/5/2016

  12. Doug Lemov on Reading

    Published: 11/28/2016

  13. Erik Hurst on Work, Play, and the Dynamics of U.S. Labor Markets

    Published: 11/21/2016

  14. Tim Harford on the Virtues of Disorder and Messy

    Published: 11/14/2016

  15. David Gelernter on Consciousness, Computers, and the Tides of Mind

    Published: 11/7/2016

  16. Judith Donath on Signaling, Design, and the Social Machine

    Published: 10/31/2016

  17. Casey Mulligan on Cuba

    Published: 10/24/2016

  18. Chris Arnade on the Mexican Crisis, TARP, and American Poverty

    Published: 10/17/2016

  19. Angus Deaton on Inequality, Trade, and the Robin Hood Principle

    Published: 10/10/2016

  20. Cathy O'Neil on Weapons of Math Destruction

    Published: 10/3/2016

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