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发表于 2021-05-17 jet lore diapers

Around 2003, after forays into banking, baseball cards, and—believe it or not—bobsledding, Marc Lore landed on an idea for an e-commerce business: a website to …

diapers.com: Marc Lore. The ecommerce visionary who lost to Amazon but still made billions (2021)

发表于 2026-03-23 lore ecommerce diapers

Back in the early days of ecommerce, Marc Lore took a classic retail loss leader–diapers– and turned it into a DTC giant– Diapers.com. It did so well that it at…

Antitrust in America (classic)

发表于 2023-11-02 planet antitrust classic

Earlier this fall, the Federal Trade Commission filed a high-stakes lawsuit against Amazon. In that suit, the FTC claims Amazon is a monopoly, and it accuses th…

FTC Chair Lina Khan on Antitrust in the age of Amazon

发表于 2023-11-04 argued ftc antitrust

When Lina Khan was in law school back in 2017, she wrote a law review article called 'Amazon's Antitrust Paradox,' that went kinda viral in policy circles. In i…

The little pet fish that saved a town in the Amazon

发表于 2026-03-18 pet planet town

The cardinal tetra is one of the most popular pet fish in the world. They look like little red and blue sequins. You've almost certainly seen them at the pet st…

Chris Anderson and the Long Tail

发表于 2006-08-07 1890s anderson 1990s

Russ Roberts talks with Chris Anderson of Wired Magazine about the ideas in his new book, The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More. Top…

Susan Athey on Machine Learning, Big Data, and Causation

发表于 2016-09-12 techniques causation athey

Can machine learning improve the use of data and evidence for understanding economics and public policy? Susan Athey of Stanford University talks with EconTalk …

Matt Stoller on Modern Monopolies

发表于 2017-12-25 commercial monopolies stoller

Matt Stoller of the Open Market Institute talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the growing influence of Google, Facebook, and Amazon on commercial and po…

Michael Munger on Antitrust

发表于 2022-04-26 dive antitrust dangerous

Are tech giants such as Google, Amazon, or Facebook dangerous? Do they have too much power? Dive into the murky waters of antitrust as Michael Munger of Duke Un…

Learning to Think Like Someone Else (with David Marquet)

发表于 2025-08-12 someone marquet thinking

Former submarine commander David Marquet joins EconTalk's Russ Roberts to explore how distancing--thinking like someone else, somewhere else, or sometime else--…