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发表于 2010-11-15 delves cornell argues

Robert Frank of Cornell University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about inequality. Is there a role for public policy in mitigating income inequality? Is…

Robert Townsend on Development, Poverty, and Financial Institutions

发表于 2011-03-14 townsend accumulation poverty

Robert Townsend of MIT and the Consortium on Financial Systems and Poverty talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about development and the role of financial ins…

Robert Frank on Competition, Government, and Darwin

发表于 2011-09-12 darwin conclusions argues

Robert Frank of Cornell University and author of The Darwin Economy talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about competition, government and the relevance of Dar…

Robert Frank and Russ Roberts on Infrastructure

发表于 2012-09-24 planet cheap roberts

Robert Frank of Cornell University and EconTalk host Russ Roberts debate the merits of a large increase of infrastructure spending. In the summer of 2012, Frank…

Robert Skidelsky on Money, the Good Life, and How Much is Enough

发表于 2012-10-01 skidelsky argues robert

Robert Skidelsky, noted biographer of John Maynard Keynes and author (with his son Edward) of the recently published How Much is Enough, talks with EconTalk hos…

Robert Pindyck on Climate Change

发表于 2013-08-06 doubt pindyck policy

Robert Pindyck of MIT talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the challenges of global warming for policy makers. Pindyck argues that while there is little …

Robert Frank on Coase

发表于 2014-02-24 cigarette implications assessing

Robert Frank of Cornell University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the implications of Ronald Coase's views on externalities. Drawing on his book, T…

Robert Solow on Growth and the State of Economics

发表于 2014-10-27 solow accumulation robert

Robert Solow, Professor Emeritus at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Nobel Laureate, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his hugely influential…

Robert Aronowitz on Risky Medicine

发表于 2015-11-09 reduction risky aronowitz

Should women get routine mammograms? Should men get regular PSA exams? Robert Aronowitz of the University of Pennsylvania and the author of Risky Medicine talks…

Robert Frank on Dinner Table Economics

发表于 2016-01-04 dinner puzzles robert

How can you learn to think like an economist? One way is to think about what might be called dinner table economics--puzzles or patterns that arise in everyday …