
#137 Life as Conversation - Russ Roberts on his relationship with his father, starting the EconTalk podcast in 2006, Adam Smith, why people want to be "lovely", aiming high, why it's hard to have fun, misunderstandings of the academic world, and moving to Israel in his 60's
The Pathless Path with Paul Millerd
Teaching a Course Not for Credit, Not for Pay
"I can't tell you how moved I am by it. It happens more than once that the students go to a faculty member they love and say, could you teach us a class on X," she says. "To have faculty members who live to try to satisfy that curiosity, it's just the best." She will be teaching Fooled by Randomness by an Assemblyman Nicholas Taleb next semester.
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