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发表于 2007-04-24 1981 rabushka alvin

Alvin Rabushka of Stanford University's Hoover Institution lays out the case for the flat tax, a reform of the current system that would replace the 66,000 page…

Doc Searls on the Intention Economy

发表于 2013-03-11 advertise sellers buyers

Doc Searls, author of The Intention Economy and head of Project VRM at Harvard University's Berkman Center talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the how t…

Marina Krakovsky on the Middleman Economy

发表于 2016-03-21 roles middlemen marina

Why would anyone want to hire a middleman, like a wedding planner, especially if you have time to take care of the planning yourself? Marina Krakovsky, author o…

Michael Munger on the Basic Income Guarantee

发表于 2017-01-16 guarantee adult affect

Michael Munger of Duke University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the virtues and negatives of a basic guaranteed income--giving every American adul…

Andrew Gelman on Social Science, Small Samples, and the Garden of the Forking Paths

发表于 2017-03-20 larger forking gelman

Statistician, blogger, and author Andrew Gelman of Columbia University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the challenges facing psychologists and econo…

Glen Weyl on Radical Markets

发表于 2018-05-21 weyl radical self

Economist Glen Weyl of Microsoft Research New England and Visiting Senior Research Scholar at Yale University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his bo…

John Cochrane on the Pandemic

发表于 2021-02-23 cochrane pandemic approaches

Would the impact of the pandemic have been different if government and policymakers had been more open to more market-based responses and less committed to a to…

Agnes Callard on Meaning, the Human Quest, and the Aims of Education

发表于 2022-11-15 quest agnes callard

Suppose all of humanity was infected by a virus that left us all infertile--no one will come along after us. How would you react to such a world? Agnes Callard …

Seeking Immortality (with Paul Bloom)

发表于 2024-04-23 abomination simulation loved

Would an AI simulation of your dead loved one be a blessing or an abomination? And if you knew that after your own death, your loved ones would create a simulat…

The Man Who Would Be King of Saudi Arabia (with Karen Elliott House)

发表于 2026-02-24 prince crown karen

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has been dragging Saudi Arabia into the modern world over the last decade. Journalist and author Karen Elliott House lays out t…