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The Doyen Of Economics Podcasting On Death, Lockdown, And The Art Of Socratic Dialogue - Russ Roberts

The Joe Walker Podcast

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The Importance of Narrative Economics

Adam Smith is the most important economist for people to know. Milton Friedman had a big impact on me, but I think more Friedman is a philosopher than as an economist. If you pick up the Wealth of Nations or the theory of moral sentiments, you might put it right back down because it's not written for you. It's written for somebody in the 18th century. And other pages, if you pick the right page, you go, that's really, that's a great sentence.

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