All Episodes

Ranked #1 of all time: O'Donohoe on Potato Chips and Salty Snacks

Ranked #2 of all time: Rachel Laudan on the History of Food and Cuisine

Ranked #3 of all time: Hitchens on Orwell

Ranked #4 of all time: Weingast on Violence, Power and a Theory of Nearly Everything

Ranked #5 of all time: Bent Flyvbjerg on Megaprojects

Ranked #6 of all time: Philip Tetlock on Superforecasting

Ranked #7 of all time: Thomas Piketty on Inequality and Capital in the 21st Century

Ranked #8 of all time: Bruce Bueno de Mesquita on the Spoils of War

Ranked #9 of all time: Munger on Exchange, Exploitation and Euvoluntary Transactions

Ranked #10 of all time: Gregory on Politics, Murder, and Love in Stalin's Kremlin

Ranked #11 of all time: Sebastian Junger on Tribe

Gerd Gigerenzer on Gut Feelings

Keith Smith on Free Market Health Care

Michele Gelfand on Rule Makers, Rule Breakers

Anja Shortland on Kidnap

Alain Bertaud on Cities, Planning, and Order Without Design

Emily Oster on Cribsheet

Robin Feldman on Drugs, Money, and Secret Handshakes

Daniel Hamermesh on Spending Time

A.J. Jacobs on Thanks a Thousand

Ran Abramitzky on the Mystery of the Kibbutz

Yoram Hazony on the Virtue of Nationalism

Glen Weyl on Radical Markets

Beth Redbird on Licensing

Elizabeth Anderson on Worker Rights and Private Government

John Ioannidis on Statistical Significance, Economics, and Replication

Brink Lindsey and Steven Teles on the Captured Economy

Rachel Laudan on Food Waste

John McWhorter on the Evolution of Language and Words on the Move

Lant Pritchett on Poverty, Growth, and Experiments

Paul Bloom on Empathy

George Borjas on Immigration and We Wanted Workers

Chris Blattman on Sweatshops

Susan Athey on Machine Learning, Big Data, and Causation

Munger on Slavery and Racism

Yuval Levin on The Fractured Republic

Jayson Lusk on Food, Technology, and Unnaturally Delicious

Noah Smith on Whether Economics is a Science

Tina Rosenberg on the Kidney Market in Iran

Alvin Roth on Matching Markets

Morten Jerven on African Economic Growth

Martin Weitzman on Climate Change

Michael O'Hare on Art Museums

Michael Munger on Choosing in Groups

Alex Tabarrok on Private Cities

Joshua Greene on Moral Tribes, Moral Dilemmas, and Utilitarianism

Emily Oster on Infant Mortality

Luigi Zingales on Incentives and the Potential Capture of Economists by Special Interests

Yuval Levin on Burke, Paine, and the Great Debate

Bryan Caplan on College, Signaling and Human Capital

Jeffrey Sachs on the Millennium Villages Project

Velasquez-Manoff on Autoimmune Disease, Parasites, and Complexity

Weingast on the Violence Trap

Clemens on Aid, Migration, and Poverty

Schneier on Power, the Internet, and Security

Kling on the Three Languages of Politics

Jim Manzi on the Oregon Medicaid Study, Experimental Evidence, and Causality

Glaeser on Cities

Admati on Bank Regulation and the Bankers' New Clothes

Jerven on Measuring African Poverty and Progress

Cochrane on Health Care

Nosek on Truth, Science, and Academic Incentives

Scott Atlas on American Health Care

Zingales on Capitalism and Crony Capitalism

Acemoglu on Why Nations Fail

Fama on Finance

Avent on Cities, Urban Regulations, and Growth

Admati on Financial Regulation

Easterly on Benevolent Autocrats and Growth

Caplan on Parenting

Rodrik on Globalization, Development, and Employment

Acemoglu on Inequality and the Financial Crisis

Hanson on the Technological Singularity

Abdallah on Hair and Running a Small Business

Quiggin on Zombie Economics

Leamer on the State of Econometrics

Romer on Charter Cities

Reinhart on Financial Crises

Posner on the Financial Crisis

Sumner on Monetary Policy

Graham on Start-ups, Innovation, and Creativity

Acemoglu on the Financial Crisis

Patri Friedman on Seasteading

Shiller on Housing and Bubbles

Bueno de Mesquita on Iran and Threats to U.S. Security

Barro on Disasters

Munger on Fair Trade and Free Trade

Hanson on Health

Boudreaux on the Economics of "Buy Local"

Munger on Price Gouging

Richard Thaler on Libertarian Paternalism

The Economics of Organ Donation