Russ Roberts
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EconTalk Book Club on the Iliad (with Ido Hevroni)
Ego, pride, wrath, fear, gods, superheroes, mortals, and lots of killing.
Do Less, Heal More: The Case for Medical Conservatism (with John Mandrola)
What if the surgery that fixed your knee did no better than fake surgery? EconTalk host Russ Roberts speaks with Dr.
Can a Phone Be a Cow? (with Philip Auerswald)
Can a phone be a cow? It could in 1990s Bangladesh.
The Case for Sunshine (with Rowan Jacobsen)
Skin cancer comes from the sun. But so do many good things, according to author Rowan Jacobsen.
The Self, the Crowd, and Social Contagion (with Luke Burgis) - Econlib
Finding community can be difficult. But author Luke Burgis thinks the real challenge begins once we’ve found it and we’re subject to social pressures to conform.
Making Your 80,000 Hours Count (with Benjamin Todd)
If you want to change the world, how you spend your 80,000 working hours may be the most important decision you can make.
Facing Death (with Sebastian Junger)
What does a lifelong atheist do when his dead father appears above him in the emergency room?
Tom Cruise's Body of Work (with Aled Maclean-Jones) - Econlib
What can Tom Cruise’s last impossible mission teach us about usefulness in the digital age?
Thinking Inside the Box (with David Epstein)
What do the inventor of the periodic table, the novelist Isabel Allende, and the almost-creators of the iPhone have in common?