Last month, after years of you people begging us, we finally had on the great Russ Roberts—author, educator, and proprietor of the phantasmagorically influential podcast EconTalk. The extremely wide-ranging conversation, whose pre-Pivot-to-Video video is available to Never Fly Coach subscribers, one of the most could you please unpaywall this so I can share it? episodes in recent memory, and so here we are.
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* Russ’s drinks by the pool with Hitchens
* How potato chips are made. And what it tells us about economics
* Backwards towards “artisanal”
* How will a NatCon economy perform?
* It ain’t all doom and gloom (surprisingly)
* Do academic economists matter?
* Russ talks to Milton Friedman
* Do long-term economic trends tells us anything??
* On moving to Israel
* On returning to a (relatively) calm America
* Notes from Russ’s father
* A TikTok war
* Was Moneyball wrong? Or do people just not understand Moneyball?
* The Close Encounters mashed potato mountain
* And much, much more
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