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About EconTalk
EconTalk is a podcast with 1,063 episodes in the PodLexicon database, each accompanied by a full searchable transcript and AI-generated summary. 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... PodLexicon indexes every episode of EconTalk and turns each one into a searchable AI summary — find the episode that covers a topic, track how that topic evolved over time, or compare what different guests said about it.
Topics Covered on EconTalk
Defining Wild Problems Becoming vs. Deciding Critique of Utilitarian Decision Rules Transformative Uncertainty in Commitments Choosing by Principle and Virtue Search Limits and Matching Algorithms Motivated Reasoning and Cognitive Dissonance Limits of Fact-Based Persuasion
Notable Guests on EconTalk
Recent Episodes
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