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Arnold Kling on Specialization and Trade

发表于 2016-05-02 macroeconomics differences specialization

Arnold Kling, economist and author, speaks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his latest book, Specialization and Trade: A Reintroduction to Economics. Kling…

James Bessen on Learning by Doing

发表于 2016-05-23 bessen adapt argues

Are workers being left behind when the economy grows? Is technology making the human workforce obsolete? James Bessen, author of Learning by Doing, talks with E…

Yuval Levin on The Fractured Republic

发表于 2016-07-04 fractured yuval levin

Yuval Levin, author and editor of National Affairs, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in his latest book, The Fractured Republic. Levin argu…

Leo Katz on Why the Law is So Perverse

发表于 2016-08-29 analogous ambiguities perverse

Leo Katz, professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his book, Why the Law Is So Perverse. Katz argues that…

Cathy O'Neil on Weapons of Math Destruction

发表于 2016-10-03 cathy neil advertising

Cathy O'Neil, data scientist and author of Weapons of Math Destruction talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in her book. O'Neil argues that the…

Judith Donath on Signaling, Design, and the Social Machine

发表于 2016-10-31 signaling judith donath

Judith Donath, author of The Social Machine, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the ideas in her book--an examination of signaling, online identity, an…

Tim Harford on the Virtues of Disorder and Messy

发表于 2016-11-14 virtues solutions disorder

Tim Harford, journalist and author, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his latest book, Messy. Harford argues that we have a weakness for order and nea…

Gary Taubes on the Case Against Sugar

发表于 2017-02-06 taubes sugar argues

Sugar appears to have no nutritional value. But is it more than just empty calories? Is it actually bad for us? Author and journalist Gary Taubes talks with Eco…

Paul Bloom on Empathy

发表于 2017-02-27 charitable paul bloom

Psychologist Paul Bloom of Yale University talks about his book Against Empathy with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Bloom argues that empathy--the ability to feel …

Rana Foroohar on the Financial Sector and Makers and Takers

发表于 2017-04-17 takers rana foroohar

Journalist and author Rana Foroohar of the Financial Times talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about her book, Makers and Takers. Foroohar argues that finance…