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501

Vanessa Williamson on Taxes and Read My Lips

502

Jason Barr on Building the Skyline and the Economics of Skyscrapers

503

Andrew Gelman on Social Science, Small Samples, and the Garden of the Forking Paths

504

Robert Whaples on the Economics of Pope Francis

505

Nicholas Crafts, Luis Garicano, and Luigi Zingales on the Economic Future of Europe

506

Paul Bloom on Empathy

507

Tom Wainwright on Narconomics

508

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

509

Gary Taubes on the Case Against Sugar

510

George Borjas on Immigration and We Wanted Workers

511

Sam Quinones on Heroin, the Opioid Epidemic, and Dreamland

512

Michael Munger on the Basic Income Guarantee

513

Robert Hall on Recession, Stagnation, and Monetary Policy

514

Mark Warshawsky on Compensation, Health Care Costs, and Inequality

515

Chris Blattman on Sweatshops

516

Terry Anderson on Native American Economics

517

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita on the Spoils of War

518

Thomas Leonard on Race, Eugenics, and Illiberal Reformers

519

Doug Lemov on Reading

520

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

521

Tim Harford on the Virtues of Disorder and Messy

522

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

523

Judith Donath on Signaling, Design, and the Social Machine

524

Casey Mulligan on Cuba

525

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

526

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

527

Cathy O'Neil on Weapons of Math Destruction

528

John Cochrane on Economic Growth and Changing the Policy Debate

529

Eric Wakin on Archiving, Preservation, and History

530

Susan Athey on Machine Learning, Big Data, and Causation

531

Terry Moe on the Constitution, the Presidency, and Relic

532

Leo Katz on Why the Law is So Perverse

533

Michael Munger on Slavery and Racism

534

Chuck Klosterman on But What If We're Wrong

535

Adam D'Angelo on Knowledge, Experimentation, and Quora

536

Matthew Futterman on Players and the Business of Sports

537

Angela Duckworth on Grit

538

Ryan Holiday on Ego is the Enemy

539

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

540

Yuval Levin on The Fractured Republic

541

Richard Epstein on Cruises, First-Class Travel, and Inequality

542

Kevin Kelly on the Inevitable

543

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

544

Jason Zweig on Finance and the Devil's Financial Dictionary

545

David Beckworth on Money, Monetary Policy, and the Great Recession

546

James Bessen on Learning by Doing

547

Leif Wenar on Blood Oil

548

Pedro Domingos on Machine Learning and the Master Algorithm

549

Arnold Kling on Specialization and Trade

550

Alberto Alesina on Fiscal Policy and Austerity

551

Gary Belsky on the Origins of Sports

552

Robert Frank on Success and Luck

553

Richard Jones on Transhumanism

554

Jayson Lusk on Food, Technology, and Unnaturally Delicious

555

Marina Krakovsky on the Middleman Economy

556

David Autor on Trade, China, and U.S. Labor Markets

557

Will Davies on the Economics, Economists, and the Limits of Neoliberalism

558

Alison Wolf on Women, Inequality and the XX Factor

559

Matt Ridley on the Evolution of Everything

560

Adam Cifu on Ending Medical Reversal

561

Adam Ozimek on the Power of Econometrics and Data

562

Timothy Taylor on Government vs. Business

563

James Heckman on Facts, Evidence, and the State of Econometrics

564

Josh Luber on Sneakers, Sneakerheads, and the Second-hand Market

565

Greg Ip on Foolproof

566

Robert Frank on Dinner Table Economics

567

Noah Smith on Whether Economics is a Science

568

Philip Tetlock on Superforecasting

569

George Selgin on Monetary Policy and the Great Recession

570

Canice Prendergast on How Prices Can Improve a Food Fight (and Help the Poor)

571

David Mindell on Our Robots, Ourselves

572

Michael Munger on EconTalk's 500th Episode

573

Brian Nosek on the Reproducibility Project

574

Robert Aronowitz on Risky Medicine

575

Michael Matheson Miller on Poverty, Inc

576

Cesar Hidalgo on Why Information Grows

577

Yuval Harari on Sapiens

578

Peter Boettke on Katrina, Ten Years After

579

Tim O'Reilly on Technology and Work

580

Pete Geddes on the American Prairie Reserve

581

Tina Rosenberg on the Kidney Market in Iran

582

Mitch Weiss on the Business of Broadway

583

William MacAskill on Effective Altruism and Doing Good Better

584

Paul Robinson on Cooperation, Punishment and the Criminal Justice System

585

Jesse Ausubel on Agriculture, Technology, and the Return of Nature

586

Rachel Laudan on the History of Food and Cuisine

587

Summer Brennan on Wilderness, Politics and the Oyster War

588

Roger Berkowitz on Fish, Food, and Legal Sea Foods

589

Eric Hanushek on the Education, Skills, and the Millennium Development Goals

590

Wences Casares on Bitcoin and Xapo

591

Lee Ohanian, Arnold Kling, and John Cochrane on the Future of Freedom, Democracy, and Prosperity

592

Alvin Roth on Matching Markets

593

Matt Ridley on Climate Change

594

Morten Jerven on African Economic Growth

595

Adam Davidson on Hollywood and the Future of Work

596

Nathaniel Popper on Bitcoin and Digital Gold

597

Martin Weitzman on Climate Change

598

Bent Flyvbjerg on Megaprojects

599

Nicholas Vincent on the Magna Carta

600

Eric Topol on the Power of Patients in a Digital World